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by plorg 13y ago
Admittedly I'm only thinking of a single datapoint here, but in the case of Lavabit, the court order which was intended to grant metadata collection ability to the FBI specifically mentioned that "Subject" headers were to be
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by plorg 13y ago
iPod 4g, 6.1.5. Vulnerable.
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by plorg 13y ago
When xkcd's April Fools comic ran this year[1] I was doing some Real Work on a few of the engineering research servers at my university. When I noticed the jobs were going much slower than usual I popped open "top". Lo and be
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by plorg 13y ago
I joined in 2005, when you still needed to be part of a school which had a Facebook network. At that time the ID for most users was made up of a network number (which was in the 4-digit range by the time my school was added) and then a 5-di
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by plorg 13y ago
This includes new inductees (neophytes) who were ostensibly preparing and performing said skits to prove their worthiness to be inducted into such a fraternal group.
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by plorg 13y ago
I accessed over a vpn link into campus, signed-in by my user ID. The md5sum of the link provided above (and the others in the thread) are identical to the copy I downloaded from my campus IP block. Unless you're also on the campus of I
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by plorg 13y ago
and iOS 7 only. But I guess there aren't many others out there whose iDevices don't support the upgrade.
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by plorg 13y ago
I had Dr. Tesfatsion (from whose page this paper is hosted) for a Masters-level intro to macroeconomics course. This is a course that all first-semester graduate students in economics take at Iowa State, and Dr. Tesfatsion begins the course
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by plorg 13y ago
I do not know if it is still the case, but if you used the "Camera Upload" feature in the past you could get extra space at 500 MB for each 500 MB uploaded up to a certain capped amount. When the feature was in beta it was capped
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by plorg 13y ago
I suppose it's possible, but if I were the NSA I wouldn't bet on getting a signal past the neighborhood distribution transformer. There's often enough disturbance on a building-wide circuit to cause problems with powerline ne
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by plorg 13y ago
While this will, indeed, take away some information from email marketers, it may also give them more, different information. Now, instead of getting a lot of personally identifiable information from some users (some=the percentage which sti
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by plorg 13y ago
Ok, but then Google's still making a request to, here, a user-specific URL. The spammer may not know where you are, but they now know that your address exists.
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by plorg 13y ago
Nice adjective for the LTS.
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by plorg 13y ago
What if it was more like - You owe me $25 - I only keep my money in bitcoin - Well, I don't do that bitcoin thing, and I don't really want to set a whole thing just to transfer the money - OK, I could get it for you in cash, but y
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by plorg 13y ago
This assumes that it was printed with a high-dpi printer. From the reports I've read he intentionally chose a font that would be hard for a computer to read. There's also no evidence that he printed it on any special high-dpi prin
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by plorg 13y ago
Fair enough, but if I'm reading it correctly, >300 BTC (~$40,000) has been added to that wallet since the 'trolling' began - in one case 253 BTC was transferred from someone who strangely claims to support a bunch of thing
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by plorg 13y ago
I'm pretty sure Tor profiles against this as well. There's a presentation somewhere on YouTube addressing just this problem.
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by plorg 13y ago
That is a bad reason, yes. However, the prosecutor also objected to Levison's proposal to supply metadata, where he would wait until the 60 days were up, decrypt the stored messages (from which, to my knowledge, he could only read the