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by packet_nerd 7y ago
The identification part is the key. The federal government should issue a nationally recognized identity card to every person which contains a digital certificate around which anyone (especially government services) can build their authenti
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
It's not hard to imagine him snapping a picture with his phone.. you know, just in case.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Besides acceleration at the moon side, wouldn't there need to be deceleration before entering the atmosphere? I'm thinking an IPBM traveling that fast would rip apart in the upper atmosphere and/or explode too high to cause a
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
This is awesome and helped me find it again! Thank you!
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Someone linked to an interesting site talking about how to make homemade hot sauce here on HNs. I partly read it and thought it was a great clean site and something I wanted to try. Later going back to find it again I literally spent hours
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I get what your saying, that the personal risk is low, especially compared with say driving or heart disease. Heck, I'm a middle aged heavy guy and couldn't care less who sees my nudes. But, I believe we (as technologists) have a
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
A quick search seems to turn up quite a few examples of webcam spying. I'd love to see actual numbers, but it doesn't seem to be "incredibly rare". https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-522
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I think groundwave propagation only happens reliably at the extreme low end of the HF spectrum, and is mostly associated with medium and long waves (160m ham band & AM radio for example). For most of the HF spectrum reflections off the
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Of course I wasn't suggesting that we should all give up and live in caves or something. It's not a binary choice. I refuse to believe that the way our world, society, and lives currently work is the best it could possibly be, bec
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
The question we should be asking is whether these complex systems are actually required. In absolute terms, our ancestors lived much much simpler lives and somehow managed to survive. So, it's not that we're required to have such
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Uniquely identifying wifi MAC addresses and Bluetooth IDs can usually be passively picked up from phones. Correlate those with the other fuzzy identifiers you mentioned for even better and more versatile tracking. I'm curious, are any
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
No, wrong incentive structure for ISPs. They're job is to deliver packets from point A to point B, and I want to pay them to do that well, and ditch them if they don't.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> browser based universal tip jar I like this idea, and would use it myself. I understand the Brave browser does this, essentially, and have been meaning to check it out. I wonder if a "tip" would be a better system for verifyi
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I'd always heard that dairy gets quite a lot of subsidies, including from advertising like the "Got milk?" ads. A quick search seems to support this. It'd be interesting to hear from someone who's dug into this a lo
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Or even an online search engine that was configurable where you could customize the search engine and assign custom weights to different aspects. I'd love to be able to configure rules like: +2 weight for clean HTML sites with minimal
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> What does encrypted/authenticated DNS gain you? Many things, here's three to start: * A measure of privacy - instead of every rando with ability to sniff packets (activities you have no way to ever know about, available to ma
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Meanwhile DNS, which is a precursor to almost every connection ever, is rarely encrypted or authenticated in practice. Standards like DNSSEC and DNS over TLS exist but seem to have lots of vocal opposition without any serious proposals for
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I came across backup appliances recently that work on this principal. They literally have TBs of unused disk space in the box in my datacenter, but require an additional license to activate. It makes me very angry!
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
What would it take to reverse engineer Widevine?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I keep seeing this come up, that it's practically impossible to write a brand new browser. This got me thinking, what would it take to make a better browser? A browser is something that 1 out of every 2 people on earth [1] use freque
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
What do you mean by this? Are you saying that a phishing attack can be executed against U2F/WebAuthen if the attacker controls DNS?
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
KeePassXC is fantastic, I especially like the good Yubikey integration. The one small feature I miss from the original KeePass was the password templates. I like all my passwords to follow a grouped pattern so its easier to type into a phon
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
KeePassXC works really well with Yubikey too. I use a Yubikey and a short pin for the password.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Unless DNS is compromised.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Most sites let you set up both the Yubikey and a Google auth style TOTP. I always set up both, with TOTP codes saved in KeePassXC and SFTP'd to a backup server.
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> theres no such thing as 1-way communication It's called a data diode. https://www.opswat.com/blog/why-data-diodes-are-essential-is... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unidirectional_network
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
I and I think most people would be happy to pay a small amount to each site we visit, but payments system to make the idea practical just doesn't exist. I for sure am not going to hand out my CC number everywhere; it's inconvenien
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Many IPs are shared by more than one endpoint, and hundreds or thousands of endpoints sometimes share a single IP. Say a home router is compromised on an ISP using CGNAT and you block by IP, you could potentially be blocking an entire neigh
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
Looking at the cable map [1] makes me wonder, what do they do when cables are crisscrossed over and under each other? [1] https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
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by packet_nerd 7y ago
> The world's first raspberry-picking robot The majority of raspberries are harvested by machine and have been for decades. Handpicking is only necessary for high quality fresh berries.

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