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by reirob 13y ago
Thank you for providing your insights, it is important to know that the data on the disks is encrypted. I know about the encryption (https) between the browsers and Google's services - Google was one of the first actually to switch the
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by reirob 13y ago
"Of course, this is still just guessing about the NSA's capabilities. As it turns out, the newer Elliptical keys may turn out to be relatively easier to crack than people thought, meaning that the older software may in fact be mor
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by reirob 13y ago
Can you provide some insights why the connections between Google's data centers was NOT encrypted until now?
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by reirob 13y ago
Thanks for pointing out. It is good to have the option with Linux. But except of this detail this laptop does not fit any of my requirements: * It has no trackpoint - the biggest deal breaker. But even if it would have one (I used Dell Lati
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by reirob 13y ago
I do NOT need a desktop, but I would immediately support a startup building a good Linux developers laptop with crucial criteria being: * Excellent keyboard for fast typist and programmers, must be better than the Thinkpad keyboards * Abili
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by reirob 13y ago
Last sentence of the article: "Random numbers are used everywhere in cryptography, for both short- and long-term security. And, as we've seen here, security flaws in random number generators are really easy to accidently create an
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by reirob 13y ago
Wow just tried it out in Ubuntu, installed the free calculator and guess where you find the installed app? In the Dash. I did not imagine the integration is so great. I definitely will look into Firefox apps now more closely.
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by reirob 13y ago
Thank you for the link. I find it very explanatory for me and a nice resource to explain to others what TOR and HTTPS can protect from. I understand that using HTTPS through Tor can provide to NSA your rough location (entry node) and the si
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by reirob 13y ago
It is a Thinkpad Yoga as it says under the picture: "The ThinkPad Yoga is a bendy laptop that means business". And yes it has a stylus.
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by reirob 13y ago
The Tinkpad Yoga has a stylus [1]. It can have the resolution "only" up to 1920×1080 though. The other positive thing is that you have an additional precise pointing device: the trackpoint (I admit it takes more time to get produc
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by reirob 13y ago
I agree about the battery with you. However not so much about extra cost. The computer is my main tool, I am using it the whole day - I stare at it the whole day, I type on it the whole day. For me the keyboard, the trackpoint, the ergonomy
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by reirob 13y ago
The Thinkpad Yoga has actually a mechanical solution by raising keyboard plate to the level of the keyboard buttons [1]. The Yoga Pro, while not having a mechanical solution will disable the keyboard electronically, so even if a key is pres
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by reirob 13y ago
How comes that the non-Thinkpad Yoga has a higher resolution than the Thinkpad Yoga? I thought that Thinkpad is the brand that is targeted to the PROfessionals!? I agree about the battery with you. However not so much about extra cost. The
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by reirob 13y ago
In Germany it is definitely CCC - Chaos Computer Club. Not in the sense of necessarily kicking off legal processes, but in the sense of expressing their expert opinions about security and privacy in public. For me as an IT person it is defi
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by reirob 13y ago
I like the syntax, maybe because my first productive language was Pascal. Does Nimrod support Unicode?
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by reirob 13y ago
I almost agree. I personally though NEED the trackpoint. I agree on that getting of everything else including numpad and windows keys is what will make a good keyboard.
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by reirob 13y ago
This might be, but at the same time the problem is not resolved and contained as it was in Chernobyl. "We have three 100-ton melted fuel blobs underground, but where exactly they are located, no one knows. Whatever 'barriers'
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by reirob 13y ago
I guess this does not include all the radiation that we are still going to have, for decades and possible bigger damages yet to come: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104
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by reirob 13y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104
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by reirob 13y ago
Strange, how comes that Youtube deactivated the rating for this song? This can be interpreted as a kind of censorship, which is really not a good sign for Google.
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NSA song(youtube.com)
2 points by reirob 13y ago|1 comments
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by reirob 13y ago
I enjoyed the article very much. Please continue with your journey of explaining Rust to programmers that are looking for new alternatives to C.
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Just have found another article that might give some more details. It is again a German article, so I hope that German speaking community will step in again (the last Google translation was really bad) and provide its interpretation. The ar
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by reirob 13y ago
I just have looked up on www.xoticpc.com for a Thinkpad X1 Carbon and there is NO possibility to get it without Windows. So at least for them it is not true.
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by reirob 13y ago
Your second point is exactly what the German government is afraid of according to the article. According to the article there seem to be security vulnerabilities on 3 levels in TPM 2.0, which might be used by intelligence agencies - the art
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by reirob 13y ago
This leads to a German article. Sorry I did not find any English article on this topic yet. So here the short summary (actually my translations of selected passages): [German] government experts warn, Windows 8 is an unacceptable security r
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German government warns Windows 8 is a security risk(zeit.de)
172 points by reirob 13y ago|119 comments
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I loved the comment: "Friends don't let friends use cleartext," my friend Marcus Povey writes. I'd argue that friends don't let friends put their trust in algorithms that can be backdoored, socially engineered and
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by reirob 13y ago
Very detailed article about the next task to remove 1,300 fuel rods from Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan and how it could lead to a series of cascading failures with an apocalyptic outcome. Many details that I did not know yet. Howev
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Fukushima apocalypse(rt.com)
8 points by reirob 13y ago|11 comments

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