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by px43 5y ago
None of those services actually let you send money over the internet. All of them are custodial. You give them your money, they hold onto it, and when they feel like it, they might let you interact with other users within their closed ecosy
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by px43 5y ago
Those aren't payments, those are custodial services that offer users the ability to move around numbers within their respective closed ecosystems. There's a reason that every one of those services is now moving heavily into the cr
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by px43 5y ago
Maybe companies will start enabling MFA by then? Kind of frustrating how easy it still is to break into critical infrastructure. I do that sort of thing regularly as my day job. Companies who put a slight effort into security don't get
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by px43 5y ago
Sending money over the internet. If you don't understand why that's an critical utility for billions of people on this planet, then you're not worth arguing with.
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by px43 5y ago
Criminals will keep doing what works until it stops working. There are botnets that still do command and control over IRC.
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by px43 5y ago
That is exactly as dumb as trying to make the internet illegal. It would financially ruin any country who tried it and give a significant advantage to everyone else on the planet.
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by px43 5y ago
Agreed, same for crypto miners IMO. These consequences are significantly more benign than if real criminals had gotten into the system. It's essentially a decentralized bug bounty program that every large company who connects to the in
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by px43 5y ago
Heh, what? Ransomware existed long before cryptocurrencies. Money laundering via ACH, SWIFT, stolen credit cards, gift cards, and all sorts of online payment systems like PayPal are still huge, no cryptocurrencies required. Cryptocurrencies
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by px43 5y ago
I've heard that a bit recently too. I think it's more that people selling property testing tools are trying to sell them as fuzzing tools to unsuspecting suckers.
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by px43 5y ago
IMO Google and Facebook have their hands remarkably clean relative to the rest of the Adtech industry. I've heard some crazy shit about how much money comes from adtech to fund blackhat data brokers. Adtech buys hacked databases on und
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by px43 5y ago
Please don't shit on Tesla for being the first car company to actually fix bugs. I've worked in automotive infosec, and it SUUCKS. Before Tesla, security issues were dealt with by layers threatening to sue the shit out of anyone w
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by px43 5y ago
No no no. The reason you hear about security flaws in newer cars with OTA updates is because research on unpatchable cars is regularly silenced. Multiple friends of mine who thought it would be fun to look into bluetooth security in cars ha
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by px43 5y ago
I remember back where there were some code execution bugs in putty, a friend would pose as a naive Linux noob on IRC, go into hacking channels, and ask if people could help him fix some problem, and he would get shells on anyone who tried t
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by px43 5y ago
> Docker containers aren't provably secure. Not only are they not provably secure (very few things are), they are explicitly not intended for use as a security boundary. Their whole gimmick is lightweight containers you can use in
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by px43 5y ago
1. What's so bad about magic internet money? 2. What sectors are you invested in that are somehow immune to hype cycles?
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by px43 5y ago
Warren Buffett has, on several occasions, stated that he does not understand cryptocurrencies.
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by px43 5y ago
> Just FYI, 'conservative investors' do understand crypto, they just think it's a bad investment. That statement is demonstrably false. There are two reasons to not be invested in cryptocurrencies at this point in history.
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by px43 5y ago
Can you explain to me how you think certificate pinning would work in JavaScript? That doesn't make any sense. Client-side crypto (even in JavaScript) has its place, but certificate pinning is specifically a TLS thing, and IMO not rele
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by px43 5y ago
Imagine a world where the (signed) DNS response contains a root hash of the contents of the page you are visiting. If the page is dynamic, not everything can be linked into that hash, but paired with CSP you can 100% guarantee that any code
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by px43 5y ago
Those are browser features, not JavaScript features. This is an article about JavaScript.
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by px43 5y ago
Are you an art collector? Because I'm getting real tired of criticisms of NFTs that actually apply quite generally to the entire art collection space. I am not an art collector, but as I understand it, the most important thing that th
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by px43 5y ago
Pretty sure we had to do the "trusting trust" patch set as a homework assignment during my CS undergrad. It's not actually super complicated. Backdoor login.c when you see it, and backdoor GCC when you see it. Sounds like som
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by px43 6y ago
> SLAs -- something that a blockchain can't really offer. Hold on there, SLAs are actually something that blockchains are great at. Smart contracts provide cryptographic guarantees of service. In several of these types of systems, n
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by px43 6y ago
Not a lot, I think I had like 10 dollars in there, which is why I forgot about it, and it was up to a couple thousand. I did randomly find a few BTC in a paper wallet when cleaning out my office a couple years ago, that was fun.
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by px43 6y ago
Yo right here. What you got :-) Remember, fusors are losers. I wanna see lattice fusion with metallic hydrogen cores embedded in 3D printed diamonds or I'm out.
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by px43 6y ago
What's your bias? You seem to have created your HN account 8 months ago and comment almost exclusively about trying to get cryptocurrencies banned. We don't need a world with more Luddites trying to outlaw math. The future will be
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by px43 6y ago
Mining difficulty tends to be a lagging indicator of price, not the other way around. I doubt that a price increase in power would have much affect on the price of the currency itself. We 100% need massive carbon taxes right now. It's
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by px43 6y ago
Just to point out the obvious, the headline is heavily editorialized and misleading. Current HN headline: "Bitcoin miners are buying power plants" Actual headline: "A New Threat to New York’s Clean Energy Goals: Bitcoin Minin
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by px43 6y ago
I've needed support maybe four times in my 8 or so years using them, and each time they've resolved my problem quickly. The complaints I've seen about Coinbase support are usually people who withdraw coins to the wrong addres
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by px43 6y ago
Why are you so worried about cryptocurrencies, and seemingly not worried about energy companies who actually are the ones who are creating the carbon emissions? Using electricity and emitting CO2 are only loosely correlated, and in the case

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