rrobukef

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by rrobukef 10y ago
It depends on how valuable the identity is. I check some characters, for additional security I check some in the middle until I am satisfied with security. The downside is security creep, but verified identities generally grow more secure
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by rrobukef 10y ago
Isn't one of the prerequisites of a patent also a 'new and novel idea'? Since the author did not base his work on the patent it is by definition not novel anymore. This is exacerbated by other implementations like libbruce (s
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by rrobukef 10y ago
By storing the public key of your unique debit card and you only have the PIN inside the chip. This limits attacks to physical access and trained professionals in chip deconstruction. This however needs a way to send your initial PIN over a
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by rrobukef 10y ago
My bank sent me a new card with the same PIN as my old card. Somewhere my bank has a backup of each and every PIN. Now, it may be encrypted (not during renewal) or hashed (10000 values, <1s verification) but neither gives any security. (
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by rrobukef 10y ago
Additional verification? Call the customer, email them, put a BIG RED notice at the top of e-banking for each login, delay the transaction a reasonable time(hell, it's probably only executed at midnight). Can't imagine that KYC on
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by rrobukef 10y ago
One of the most horrifying things I ever read was the first(second?) chapter of A Brave New World. The thought of not helping a person is bad. Fysically stunting someones growth makes me sick. To just do it to escape the ethical debate at a
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by rrobukef 10y ago
Belief has nothing to do with it. I can believe ZFC is inconsistent and the world will not change a bit. You can't prove me wrong. (It's almost a religious argument) If I believe the inconsistency of ZFC then I believe the machin
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by rrobukef 10y ago
They created a Turing machine that may run forever. However we can't prove that. It could stop the next second, or tomorrow, or the day after. They also proved however that you'll never see it halt. Because that would be a proof o
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by rrobukef 10y ago
Would you implement binary search? A feature like git-bisect could be usefull to find breaking changes.
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by rrobukef 11y ago
There are better ways to exclude the bad listings from a report. The generally accepted way is to include them at the beginning and explicitly excluding them for a number of stated reasons. This does however give an image that Airbnb is not