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1. 2761.▲
   by rdl 12y ago

   I'm sure there will be a financial innovation to address that. Like Reserved Instances, but more so.
2. 2762.▲
   by rdl 12y ago

   Would you be willing to run Fastmail.is or Fastmail.com.au or something for some premium over general US fastmail?
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   by rdl 12y ago

   There's also a language barrier -- a lot of engineers in Chinese companies aren't as fluent in English as would be necessary to have a good or productive time at DEF CON, so it would have to be more senior/management type peo
4. 2764.▲
   by rdl 12y ago

   Plenty of commercial security people from China would attend, too (Huawei engineers, etc.) Not just academics.
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   by rdl 12y ago

   8-12 months, most likely. I guess the most plausible situation would be a split con, with most of it still in Las Vegas, but live VTC stream to a parallel con elsewhere. Black Hat would not move; Defcon and Blackhat hate each other now, bu
6. 2766.▲
   by rdl 12y ago

   If they do this, Defcon 23 will be in Mexico or Canada, I suspect. (I'm speaking AT DC22, but I can't speak for Defcon, but I've been going since DC7 and I'm pretty familiar with how they think.) Montreal would rock.
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   by rdl 12y ago

   Before the green card lottery , I don't remember any commercial spam; the worst thing was stupid cross posts (easy to kill) and specific moron posters (kill files). The biggest problem I had was a lot of content which didn't make
8. 2768.▲
   by rdl 12y ago

   It's kind of amazing that no forum or other communications system developed in the past 20 years has been as good as USENET (either in the late 1980s, or with a good client with killfiles, global cancels, etc.).
9. 2769.▲
   by rdl 12y ago

   Wouldn't a server compromise allow someone to "lie" to the web client only, while continuing to give correct answers to the standalone client? Seems like that would be very difficult to catch. (or, just hack the web client s
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    End the Lavabit lie(blog.simplejustice.us)

    3 points by rdl 12y ago|0 comments
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    How to lie, cheat and steal like Snapchat – all the way to the bank(zdnet.com)

    3 points by rdl 12y ago|0 comments
12. 2772.▲
    by rdl 12y ago

    Not even post-9/11; Post-Snowden. Post-9/11 post Snowden, you could still make a solid argument for "these tools are to keep you safe from Evil Chinese Hackers, criminals, etc." It's patriotic to defend US "c
13. 2773.▲
    by rdl 12y ago

    Kind of amazing that Danger's VC partner knew more about cellular networks than the founders did. I wonder who he was and which firm.
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    by rdl 12y ago

    I just use a 16GB Mac laptop and have a 48GB non-mac workstation at home, and bigger RAM stuff in colo. What I really want is an office with 10GE on nLayer to the colo or something.
15. 2775.▲
    by rdl 12y ago

    Seems easier to just delete my account.
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    by rdl 12y ago

    They do in that the organizations involved clearly dissociate themselves from running critical operational infrastructure, or getting involved with the potentially-illegal activities enabled by their tools. If Tor Project ran a large number
17. 2777.▲
    by rdl 12y ago

    Sending big files (inherently an asynchronous thing) through a small network which is inherently connection oriented seems like a bad idea. It is a useful tool based on what components are available right now, but this is the wrong way to
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    by rdl 12y ago

    It's hard for anything but policy to protect against denial of service (legal attacks against the company). Even if you have technical security which prevents compromise of data, they can shut the business down. CALEA means you are
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    by rdl 12y ago

    Plenty of people moved from Linux and BSD to OSX for a wide variety of reasons, especially for laptops. I'd consider a non-mac workstation for serious desktop use, and OSX for servers is essentially insane (I actually have one min
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    by rdl 12y ago

    I get really bad, out of sync video streaming performance from them (from CloudFront, on Comcast Business 30M); it's weird because it's only an SD stream. (Sad because their content is amazing; I guess I'll find a torrent, a
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    by rdl 12y ago

    Google builds amazing security technology, but also amasses huge amounts of information which wouldn't otherwise be centralized and retained. That's a lot better than people who only amass lots of data but don't build decent
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    by rdl 12y ago

    For a completely average US citizen, I don't think NSA spying has a practical impact today, at least directly -- it's almost all future risk. It's very serious future risk, that NSA will start to use its capabilities for e
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    by rdl 12y ago

    Virtually all startups are dysfunctional in a variety of new and surprising ways, but I think you can clearly identify the main dysfunctions (or at least, things which won't be addressed) in 50-500 person companies, and figure out how
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    by rdl 12y ago

    I went to school in Boston and would basically hate being in Boston if not directly attached to a university. NY has big positives and big negatives; nowhere else in New England has super strong positives, but a lot of them have less serio
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    by rdl 12y ago

    Seems like an easy scam to defer most of your compensation/take high equity at a startup, then do this. I assume the average 200k market rate tech employee remains more capable of successfully completing paperwork even when making 60k
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    by rdl 12y ago

    It has the high density/high cost thing I dislike, and shitty weather. But has a lot of smart people, sane immigration policy, etc. (I would probably ignore a Toronto if it were in the US and otherwise the same, but Canada is a win fo
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    by rdl 12y ago

    First choice: HK or Singapore. Within the Bay Area: Santa Clara, Mountain View, Palo Alto, Menlo Park, Atherton, Woodside, Los Altos, Cupertino, and most of San Mateo County overall. Otherwise: Seattle, Berlin, non-Berlin Germany, Portland
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    by rdl 12y ago

    I hate San Francisco (and NYC and DC, and to a somewhat lesser extent, the non-SF SFBA cities). Unfortunately, it really is the best place for tech company employment, at least in a 15-500 person company. You need to have enough companies
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    by rdl 12y ago

    I think it's absolutely fair to say he wasn't adequately represented legally -- good counsel would have warned him away from some things which ultimately screwed him, even if they respected his wishes to push the limits as much as
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    by rdl 12y ago

    I'm interested in the technology they use for this -- record on-site, requiring someone in the country maintain a pretty decent hard disk farm, or send every call back to the US over expensive bandwidth? For the Bahamas, you could clea