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rasengan
7y ago
This was designed to give a fair chance to all names. Each name is released on a release schedule where you can take the hash of the name % 52 to determine which week it will be released. All names will be released within a year. When it’s
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rasengan
7y ago
This service is a POC for accountless web and dns hosting using only signed messages for name and ownership verification. To get a Handshake TLD, you will need to buy one on the handshake blockchain [1]. If you lose your key, unfortunately,
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rasengan
7y ago
SS: Handshake names have addresses (and keys) associated with them. Because of this, it provides a unique method of authenticating against ownership of a domain without any interaction other than the blockchain and signature verification.
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Show HN: Free web hosting for handshake TLDs, no account required
(github.com)
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rasengan
7y ago
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Show HN: Free Handshake TLD Hosting, no account required
(github.com)
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rasengan
7y ago
This is a very impressive story and equally impressive work! Keep it up!
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rasengan
7y ago
Rather than trust a search engine and what it does with data, private search [1] never gets identifiable information, period. [1] https://private.sh
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rasengan
7y ago
We need to take this as a lesson and build redundant networks from mesh to satellite and so on. I can’t even imagine having no internet for 7 months.
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A vuln in NordVPN's payments platform allowed anyone to view users’ info
(theregister.co.uk)
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rasengan
7y ago
> explanation for what Handshake is Handshake is a decentralized naming and certificate authority [1]. It decentralizes the DNS root and allows for the people of the internet to own names instead of leasing from a TLD provider like Veri
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rasengan
7y ago
Encryption is a form of free speech [1]. [1] https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/04/remembering-case-estab...
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rasengan
7y ago
That's really impressive. Thanks for sharing!
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rasengan
7y ago
> I set something similar up to mail me PDFs while I am in federal prison. That's amazing. I would love to hear more.
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rasengan
7y ago
Anyone that gets in the way of you reaching your goals is not your teammate.
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rasengan
7y ago
That’s over 10pct! It’s still very impressive! Great job, and thank you so much!
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rasengan
7y ago
Stats[1] indicate about 1.5-1.7 [2] websites exist. This would mean letsencrypt certificates make up more 2/3 of the internet! [1] https://www.websitehostingrating.com/internet-statistics-fac... [2] https://
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rasengan
7y ago
All countries owned by “her majesty” are anti encryption. Look up the Queen of New Zealand - many know but I’m sure some will be surprised. Sadly, that same world leader is the strongest anti encryption and censorship advocate.
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rasengan
7y ago
> Do I think it's possible PayPal had an incomplete fix or had a regression or an organizational screwup of some kind? Absolutely, that is possible. Great! You’re in agreement!
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rasengan
7y ago
> This seems curiously confident given that just about every single one of your many comments on the other story was inaccurate or a misinterpretation. So you don’t think that sending a bug bounty reward a year ago to a security research
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rasengan
7y ago
I’m wondering, is the US a phased roll out or is this in light of government mandated censorship in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, China, etc.?
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rasengan
7y ago
> having “no plans” to enable this outside the USA seems a bit disingenuous. Other countries have censorship (China, UK, New Zealand, etc) whereas there is none in the US. I wonder if that’s why?
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rasengan
7y ago
From the article: “ “Will you take a corporate check which I promise to put in the mail?” She was sure this wouldn’t work. “You will?!” ” ————————- What if a check was never sent?
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rasengan
7y ago
From the article: “We reported this in February 2019 to PayPal via HackerOne,” they say. “After an initial rejection and several discussions, PayPal paid a bug bounty of $4,400.” The pair have not heard from PayPal, they say, since April 20
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rasengan
7y ago
Same difference. Anti account take over and account authentication, because similar methods would be deployed (i.e., multifactor authentication, heuristic, etc.)
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rasengan
7y ago
> This feature is not 2FA > anti-ATO ATO [1] is authentication by definition, but again, depending on how it's implemented, not usually the best form. [1] https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/authorizatio
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rasengan
7y ago
> No. Please explain which parts of my comment are false? Thank you.
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rasengan
7y ago
> They are getting access to the accounts of people who do not have 2FA enabled and whose credentials have been stolen. Ok, first, and foremost, don't you think it's a problem if there are stolen accounts? Wouldn't it mak
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7y ago
The former; the author's report (short of seeing what was intentionally left out for proper disclosure reason) is credible, and Paypal's failure to respond/remediate the issue is improper. Getting access in this way to users&
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rasengan
7y ago
> 1. They can suppress a new-computer login challenge (they call this "2FA", but this is a risk-based login or anti-ATO feature, not 2FA). 2FA means 2 Factor Authentication. This works by forcing one to use two different forms
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rasengan
7y ago
> Paypal has one of the larger application security teams in SFBA. It's not the size that matters, but how you use it that counts.
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