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by peeters 10y ago
They are (at least according to rule 5 here: http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/Eng/forIndustry/publications/Laws... ). Not sure why I haven't seen it in practice; maybe the regulation is new like the American e
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by peeters 10y ago
In Canada, most CC agreements with merchants do not allow the merchant to pass the fee on to the consumer. You can't charge $102.04 for a $100 product if the customer is paying with Visa. Thus the total cost to consumers is completel
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by peeters 10y ago
> The insurance would cost more than the expected cost of the litigation which is of course how insurance works. The key with the patent system is that you have to pay millions to defend yourself, but it's exceptionally rare to be a
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by peeters 10y ago
It being unique goes most of the way, you're right (though hopefully it actually is unique!). I was being dramatic when I said "not nearly as good". But making the salt easily guessable does allow an attacker to precomput
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by peeters 10y ago
> In our case, we use an immutable attribute of each user as their hash. I assume you mean "as their salt". And even then, why the half-measure? Just laziness? Sure, a guessable/computable salt is better than no salt, b
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by peeters 10y ago
I'm not too familiar with this library, but on inspection this approach seems to have a couple of drawbacks that libraries like bcrypt solve for you: 1) You need to store the salt alongside the password. 2) If you want to futureproof t
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by peeters 10y ago
I don't disagree with any of those numbered points, but this statement is completely irrelevant: > Just giving money will not work, see Saudi Arabia. They have all the money they can dream of and did not evolve. There are so many re
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by peeters 11y ago
When you are laying charges, evidence comes first, then the charge. To collect the evidence you conduct interviews and subpoena documents. This is part of the evidence gathering phase that establishes whether the government has a case, pr
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by peeters 11y ago
> The other was a forensic examiner who testified that it was his "best guess" that child pornography was on the drives I'm curious how on Earth one arrives at that "guess" for an encrypted drive other than reaso
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by peeters 11y ago
That's an interesting read. I think the emphasis there isn't whether it's a pseudoscience or even a useful tool, but whether it should have an absolute veto w.r.t. employment. I had to take a polygraph for a job myself, and
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by peeters 11y ago
What am I missing? When I Google "blackberry pin to pin encryption" , the first result is this article: > Canadian government warns BBM PIN-to-PIN messaging is ‘most vulnerable method of communicating on a BlackBerry’ http:&#
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by peeters 11y ago
What interesting questions does it raise?
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by peeters 11y ago
> Or you could just count the number of times their names are mentioned "Hodor"
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by peeters 11y ago
Another is his math. > I’m the “shit talker” for boggling at the idea that people are going to be happy about waiting around for half an hour to forty-five minutes to get back on the road again? We’re talking waits-to-get-going that are
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by peeters 11y ago
You're being needlessly combative. This isn't about feeling good about myself. Of course I put protecting innocent life near the top of the priority list. But that doesn't mean I think it's right (or ever justifiable)
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by peeters 11y ago
I won't grant that it has utility, but that's from my ignorance. It might have utility; I don't know and am not qualified to say. The argument used matters to me, because if tomorrow it's proven that torture works, I st
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by peeters 11y ago
It might be evil (or better, ethically unjustifiable) in some in ethical frameworks, but it's certainly not in mine. There is not a universally correct ethical framework. Even within the utilitarian framework (where "the ends mi
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by peeters 11y ago
Wow, I had no idea how creepily awesome Google's 3D imagery had gotten. It used to only be skyscrapers in main cities. Now I can basically see in my own window.
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by peeters 11y ago
Yes, think of the stage as a Coke can. It takes orders of magnitude more force to crumple it by pushing on the top of the can than by pushing on the side. The first stage is the same way; it is designed to withstand forces along the longit
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by peeters 11y ago
I would argue the Surface was the first device that can actually bridge both form factors. I have a stock HP laptop with a touchscreen and Windows 10, and yeah, I don't really use the touchscreen. But my mother has a Surface and split
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by peeters 11y ago
> I don't think it's fair to expect Apple to support 32-bit processors anymore. It might not be fair to expect it, but it's absolutely fair to count it against how Apple supports their customers.
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by peeters 11y ago
I don't get why people are seeing this as egregious clickbait. It's taking well known saying "going back to school" and using it in a figurative, instead of literal, sense. He IS "revisiting" high school, in a
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by peeters 11y ago
> "Tell me about a time in which you..." works very well. These types of questions probably cause me more stress than any other. Being asked to think of a situation where you felt a certain emotion or had a certain mental expe
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by peeters 11y ago
Google Docs lets you lock rows so that they always show up. It'd be really helpful if that were done for the headers.
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by peeters 11y ago
How good of a computer user do you have to be to sort by modified date? :P
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by peeters 11y ago
Your reply does nothing to justify why "backdoor" and "vulnerability" should be considered synonyms. What you say is true of "vulnerability", I've never heard someone call a buffer overflow vulnerability
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by peeters 11y ago
> The problem is that once created, it would be easier for future warrants to ask Apple to simply re-perform the same trick it's done in the past. That's not a problem at all. The issue is how the existence of the tool affects
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by peeters 11y ago
> The point is there currently is no backdoor. FBI wants Apple to create (and sign) an OS update with a backdoor and install it onto the suspect's phone. If this is possible without the owner's permission, then the update mecha
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by peeters 11y ago
I guess that's my question...is there really no way to get the secret off of the hardware so that the function can be reproduced "offline".
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by peeters 11y ago
Yeah I've got the same question. Is there some hardware safeguard that prevents copying the memory itself? You'd think the first rule of crypto forensics is to work on a copy.

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