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by pogue 13y ago
Did anybody give this a thorough read and can give a cliff notes on the results? How did Truecrypt do - good/bad/indifferent?
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by pogue 13y ago
Any of the encryption algorithms used by TrueCrypt would be fine. The real security lies in the strength of your password. http://xkcd.com/538/ EDIT: Thought OP said Twofish
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All these theories... It's obviously at the bottom of the ocean. If not, it's here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzlG28B-R8Y
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by pogue 13y ago
Well, you may not remember Kazaa Lite. But, basically, all you would need to do is unpack the installer with a tool that creates installer programs. You would basically need to decompress it, strip out all the adware or anything else you d
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by pogue 13y ago
I'd revoke access to the app on Twitter also, and reauthorize it back when its fixed. http://mypermissions.org/
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I'm surprised someone is trying to distribute a "uTorrent Light" with all the adware and bloat stripped out.
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Quite right. Still, I think this whole libertarian concept is probably based on the idea of _someone_ making some money somewhere along the lines. :) I assume the mediators would need to be paid, at the bare minimum, probably moderators to
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by pogue 13y ago
Sounds interesting, but I'd have to see it work in a live practice. There's a lot of neat and interesting protocols out there that look good on paper, but in a real world setting completely fail. That's why we've seen
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If you don't force companies to comply with regulations for the benefit of society, they will simply cut corners to increase the profit margins to the themselves and their shareholders. This is essentially true for any industry where
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by pogue 13y ago
>Remember that post-Snowden Congress had the ability to put a stop to the NSA program and didn't, and the public outcry (outside of HN) was fairly muted. I don't see the public outcry as muted at all, but I suppose it depends o
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by pogue 13y ago
Here here!
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If that is the case of the author, thats probably true. I viewed this more as a discussion in the theoretical of what could be accomplished. Post a paper about how it could be done, and perhaps some more inclined (and anonymous) individua
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by pogue 13y ago
I've been thinking a lot about this lately and I can't come up with a clear and fully appropriate medium to actually challenge government overreach in a significant way. It seems to me, viewing history as an example, it used to be
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Somebody has to pay to host the thing, run it and so forth.
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Obviously that's correct. But, my point being is that the law is wrong and we should attempt to challenge government instead of simply trying to evade it over and over.
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How was that done?* *Hypothetically asking
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I see the problem with Silk Road not essentially being with the currency or the network mode itself, those both seem effective and appear to have been functioning properly at the time of its shut down (in so far as we know). I think the ma
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That may be a very accurate prediction. With the rest of the world afraid of using the US's cloud services for fear of NSA monitoring, something is going to crop up to take its place. First it will be some kind of personal usage, lik
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I see this as more of a discussion of the politics of _why_ a black market should exist, more than recognizing that it does and people want it. There is never going to be a completely deregulated marketplace for everyone. A SilkRoad 2.0 i
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by pogue 13y ago
This is absurd. We have to stop trying to run from our own government, we've run out of places to go. I've been hearing arguments for years that we need to place anything that's even a theory of committing an illegal act on