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by piracy1 7y ago
Ya, I think the key bit of spook that can be derived from the title is that they're using the CPUs to do this, maybe like they're baking it into Intel ME. That's what I first thought until I read the article. It's just i
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by piracy1 7y ago
They're getting there. We have PKE in the form of chips.
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by piracy1 7y ago
No. The play store does not check very well and is pretty easy to bypass. Up until recently you could just download .dex (android equivalent of .jar) files into your apps resources at run time then call the classloader. Then for their runti
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by piracy1 7y ago
OP, did you make this?
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by piracy1 8y ago
Also, not logistically possible to be addicted really. There's a big tolerance response almost instantly.
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by piracy1 8y ago
good bit to ask tho.
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by piracy1 8y ago
It looks like his domain name expired and was squatted. Someone should try to buy it back and rehost the original site. If someone trustworthy undertook that project I'd contribute like $50
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by piracy1 8y ago
What account?
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by piracy1 8y ago
Except, ya know, trustless currency. :p
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by piracy1 8y ago
did not know that. 8:00 UTC
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by piracy1 8y ago
Thanks for the recommendation. For me, making it wasn't the hard part, the procrastination was.
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by piracy1 8y ago
Central Daylight Time, Eastern Daylight Time, Pacific Standard Time.
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by piracy1 8y ago
" As in, people may assume you can drain accounts with 51% control" This is categorically incorrect. I'll make sure to mention that.
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by piracy1 8y ago
Generally, an attacker would deposit money in an exchange, exchange that money, withdraw it, then overwrite the transaction. I don't plan to do this. I'll either just do the overwriting part or just deposit like a dollar and not e
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by piracy1 8y ago
There are some ways to fix it and it's a fairly interesting problem. But yes, many are potentially dysfunctional due to this and it brings up some points about inherent weaknesses of small blockchains as they presently exist.
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by piracy1 8y ago
^ This. Also, I agree that it's fairly trivial. That is the point, I want to show people how easy it is and maybe prompt developers to implement mitigations. I also just want to talk about 51% attacks because I think they're neat.
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by piracy1 8y ago
Bytecoin would take maybe a thousand, 4 or 5 if we want to get a transaction confirmed in an exchange. I'll do the biggest coin I can I'll put in $50 of my own money If anyone wants to donate you can: bitcoin:18YvVAxEMYxowSYEmWVtY
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by piracy1 8y ago
A great site. I made a version of it in python a while back and wanted to turn it into a website but never got around to it. Glad they did it for me but a lil sad I never got the media attention it got :(
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by piracy1 8y ago
I'm not 100% sure what coin i'll attack. If people donate I might try for Vertcoin which will be $300-500 to attack. But if I stick with Einsteinium it will be very cheap, maybe $20-40. They could hardfork but I doubt they will. I
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by piracy1 8y ago
Feel free to ask me any questions, I'll try to answer them all.
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Tell HN: Executing a 51% attack on a real live CryptoCurrency, livestream
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by piracy1 8y ago
Out of curriousity, what does your company do?
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by piracy1 8y ago
One of the bigger factors is how much they can dump before they hit diminishing returns on price.
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by piracy1 8y ago
What do you think of the way things like ZCash and Monero solve that problem? They use hashing algorithms that are more or less immune to ASICS. This is especially true in the case of Monero which just tweaked their PoW algo in order to set
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by piracy1 8y ago
Electricity into security
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by piracy1 8y ago
Microdosing LSD. I know some people who say it works wonders for them but it seems a relatively untested area. There is evidence that LSD increases cross-talk in the brain which would potentially help you with creative problem-solving. But
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by piracy1 8y ago
I've never heard of it. What makes it so bad? Edit: Ah, it seems to be people transitioning but doing so without the aid of a doctor. I mean, you shouldn't do it for obvious safety reasons but if you've decided you're do
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by piracy1 8y ago
The onion domain should be fine because tor has it's own encryption/verification scheme built into their DNS. The domain is the public key (a derivative of it) and the private key is used to sign data.
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by piracy1 8y ago
What's so great about going to uni to learn to solve the same problems in the same way as everyone else? That doesn't seem like a way to achieve anything new or interesting. Also, tons of people graduate without even being able t
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by piracy1 8y ago
https://github.com/johnno1962/injectionforxcode for IOS apps. I'd submit a pull request but i'm lazy.

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