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by omh 11y ago
This type of system looks like somewhere that a blockchain could be genuinely useful. Each of the trusted banks could be given access to the blockchain (rather than needing proof-of-work) and it would work as a distributed ledger without th
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by omh 11y ago
Modern password crackers combine different words from their dictionaries But the XKCD cartoon is working on the assumption that this is exactly what the attacker is doing. Despite that, they would have to do more work than to crack the &q
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by omh 11y ago
My own password generator simply uses /usr/share/dict/words On my system /usr/share/dict/words has ~45k words. That's 15 bits of entropy per word, significantly more than XKCD (which assumes 11
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by omh 11y ago
That's remarkably close but NZ edges it. I make it about: Wales: 250s/km NZ: 330s/km
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by omh 11y ago
If we consider Wales separately then I think it would beat NZ on density. A quick search suggests 8.9M sheep in Wales[1], around 430s/km^2 , NZ is only about 120s/km^2. Per capita though NZ beats Wales, and probably any other coun
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by omh 11y ago
I suspect a modern version would have more discontinuities. Areas near airports would be fast to reach, but onward travel from the airports wouldn't be so much faster than 100 years ago. And the oceans would look different - it still t
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Blythe Masters Tells Banks the Blockchain Changes Everything(bloomberg.com)
8 points by omh 11y ago|0 comments
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by omh 11y ago
High end firewalls will monitor ICMP and can restrict the size of the payload. They'd probably also notice the large number of ICMP packets. Big corporate places can completely restrict things and prevent any traffic from internal host
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by omh 11y ago
The proposal (as I understand it, from media reports) is that ISPs will be the ones required to intercept and log the data. So it's unlikely that they will store anything more than required, if only for cost reasons.
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Financial Times: Banks seek the key to blockchain(ft.com)
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by omh 11y ago
As a Type 1 diabetic I've been watching these hackers with interest. There's clearly some great opportunities for linking continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pumps, particularly for young children. Compared to old-school clo
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by omh 11y ago
From what I can see this uses the same public/private key for everyone using the service. So it would be easy to MITM any HTTPS connection using this if you're a network admin or hostile WiFi etc. I don't think this is a prob
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by omh 11y ago
This is an interesting buy for Cisco. The corporate/small business tier of OpenDNS looks like a good fit with some of their products. But do they have any other freemium services like the personal/family tiers of OpenDNS? I can&#x
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by omh 11y ago
Link via Google, to avoid paywall: http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&url=http://www.w...
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by omh 11y ago
Seems like these machines are kept very busy I believe that many of them are actually single-use. Some (or perhaps all?) of the Crossrail TBMs are being buried at the end of their tunnel. Apparently the effort of removing them isn't
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by omh 12y ago
Not directly via AD. But you can add it to the certificate database in the template Firefox profile.
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by omh 12y ago
When I visit the ICO site I also get a "civicCookieControl" cookie which you don't list. I guess that this is probably coming from javascript and your site isn't processing this?
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by omh 12y ago
This virtualisation is just for running ARM guests, so you can't run Windows. There will apparently be an ARM version of Windows 10 for the pi, but that's a cut down version for internet of things type apps. You can emulate x86 on
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by omh 12y ago
Interestingly, that quote is from almost 17 years ago and they don't quite seem to have figured out how to "collect" yet.
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by omh 12y ago
Glacier have additional fees depending on how fast you retrieve the data. Honestly I'm not sure what they are because I've never had to use it, but my impression is that these fees could be quite high.
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by omh 12y ago
The detailed pricing is at https://cloud.google.com/storage/pricing#nearline-pricing In short, if I'm understanding correctly: $0.01 per GB per month storage $0.01 per GB retrieval Normal egress fees on to
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by omh 12y ago
I think that a PPP adjustment is required here to produce a reasonable analysis This article is in response to the recent Oxfam report which talked about the wealth of the global 1%. So in that context the absolute wealth, in the way that
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by omh 12y ago
Yes, they'll only get the nominal amount back. Although there has been a huge amount of inflation since then you'd expect that the interest payments have more than made up for this.
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by omh 12y ago
Based on the IBM pages at http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst/us/en/mobilefirst-for-ios.htm... these don't look like full apps that you could use right now. I guess that IBM are planning to use this as a fram
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by omh 12y ago
It's not clear what those proposals really mean. But even if Vodafone were sending a constant stream of IP->subscriber mappings to GCHQ then GCHQ would have to send them on to Facebook/Google/Yahoo etc. in close to real ti
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by omh 12y ago
The full report[1] has a number of interesting details about how the UK intelligence agencies monitor people. The "DIFFICULTIES ACCESSING COMMUNICATIONS CONTENT" section, from p139, mentions things like how GCHQ monitors backbone
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by omh 12y ago
If IBM is trying to show their aptitude for designing frustrating user interfaces This is basically the latest version of Lotus Notes. The UI might not be great, but anything is an improvement over the old versions.
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by omh 12y ago
It isn't clear from that page, but this is actually the latest version of IBM Domino, i.e. the server for Lotus Notes. IBM still have a large number of corporate customers on Notes/Domino and they've been talking for a while
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by omh 12y ago
Do the stats include bonus? If you're a Goldman VP then your salary might be mediocre but your bonus will be significant
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by omh 12y ago
Windows XP is old, but to call it 13 years old is somewhat misleading. XP was the newest possible version of Windows as recently as 2007, and since most people ignored Vista it was the default install for many (most?) people up until Window

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