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by schlowmo 10y ago
Original HN discussion from three years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6936539
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> The group of individuals handling this data are more than likely to be bureaucratically appointed rather than democratically elected. Exactly what I was going to reply. There is no need for any conspiracy theories to acknowledge that i
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by schlowmo 10y ago
This is only partly true for telegram and the fact that people repeatedly get it wrong is more harmful than if Telegram wasn't encrypted at all and everybody would know it. Telegram use end-to-end encryption only on so called "Sec
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by schlowmo 10y ago
[little spoiler warning] I wouldn't call it "this exact topic", since the primary attack vector in the story are smart meters, but still can second your recommendation. The book is highly based on a study founded by the germa
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Leaving the crypto protocol aside, it's also important to know that only "Secret Chats" using End-to-End encryption.[0] [0] https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Can't second that ;). While my Freerunner was indeed able to do phone calls on day zero, it also turned in hands-free talking automagically without any possibility to turn it off. This was a lot "fun" especially in public pla
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "but I haven't found anything better than IRC for chat" If IRC was your best bet so far, you might want to have a look at good ol' XMPP aka Jabber. If you're into Android, with Conversations [0] there's a
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Old, but still so true: "Why I Believe Printers Were Sent From Hell To Make Us Miserable" http://theoatmeal.com/comics/printers Had this one printed out (oh that irony) and taped it to our office wall when we
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One VR – Low-cost, DIY, end-to-end 360/VR video solution concept(github.com)
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "It may be isolated incidents" Yes, "it may". German agencies are famous for "isolated incidents". It's only a matter of definition what's to be called "isolated". Those isolated incide
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by schlowmo 10y ago
If you look at the media coverage of this topic in Germany so far one could come to the conclusion that those mass-surveillance operations which reach the public are considered more harmful when they are carried out by foreign agencies (Sur
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Does anyone know if rclone preserves Linux File Permissions regardless of the cloud storage? It's not in the feature list and my guess is that this would be hard to implement if you can't take assumptions of the underlying file sy
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Looks promising, but I'm not sure about the crypto-part. Can someone give some notes about the security of NaCl Secretbox using Poly1305 as authenticator and XSalsa20 for encryption? Is it justified to assume that this is adequate cryp
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by schlowmo 10y ago
If their own FAQ is correct, then definitively NO. Q: So how do you encrypt data? We support two layers of secure encryption. Server-client encryption is used in Cloud Chats (private and group chats), Secret Chats use an additional layer o
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by schlowmo 10y ago
TL;DR The researchers claim this is a new memory forensic method to gather information from recently used apps from Android devices. Instead of extracting GUI-data from memory images, they extract app-internal data from them (which persists
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Spatial-Temporal Recreation of Android App Displays from Memory Images [pdf](usenix.org)
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by schlowmo 10y ago
While I second this recommendation I would also think that it doesn't make much sense that most HR people would prefer a "classic" resume over such a piece. It tells you a lot more about a person WHY and HOW he/she start
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "How does phishing like this scale?" I assume that the thief which actually steals the phone isn't the same guy which puts this kind of scam on. And if you're the one which buys the stolen phones at larger scale (e.
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by schlowmo 10y ago
When I first heard of Passport Please I was reminded of "Neal Stephenson - Error": the story contains a MMORPG which is used to "automate" stupid security tasks like screening people at an airport by "mapping"
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by schlowmo 10y ago
While you find reciprocity in many visa-agreements, it's not mandatory. If you look at the example from the parent comment: Germans can enter Vietnam visa-free, while Vietnamese can't enter Germany visa-free. You find those one-si
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by schlowmo 10y ago
I think this is a result of "visa agreements on EU/Schengen level" vs. "bilateral visa agreements". Why some EU-countries have bilateral agreements and some not could have different reasons, two I can think of (warn
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by schlowmo 10y ago
I wasn't aware of Lightsquared. But it seems like they were a "new player". If you look at the winning bids of the "Digitale Dividene (= digital dividend) I" and "Digitale Dividende II" in Germany it'
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by schlowmo 10y ago
There's possibly one reason why carriers (and probably vendors) haven't much interest in FM radios which the article and (if I don't overlooked) no comment mention: digital dividend. At least here in Germany carriers awaiting
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "But also directly opposite of what you'd expect from a "cult compound", which people go more to escape what is most popular, than to experience what is most popular." Agreed, I thought of this point while send
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Kind of, but you can only "opt-in" by using so called "secure chats". From their FAQ at https://telegram.org/faq#q-so-how-do-you-encrypt-data : "We support two layers of secure encryption. Server-cli
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Never heard "cult compound" in this context so far and by thinking about it I really think it better fits then "walled garden". "Walled garden" sounds like you go there because of its beauty or for getting the
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by schlowmo 10y ago
> "This word of caution is likely to get lost among the noise." Not any longer ;). I didn't have the stats for helpful-votes on this review before it was posted on HN, but now with over 600 votes it's #1. (How many po
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by schlowmo 10y ago
Here is a good reading from the Electronic Frontier Foundation on domains like that: "Avoiding Gripes About Your Gripe (or Parody) Site": https://www.eff.org/wp/tips-shutting-down-g
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by schlowmo 10y ago
They always provided free "personal" certifcates with a validity of one year. But they market the "Start Encrypt" thing like you now get wildcard and EV certificates for free (which isn't true). Talking about scummy
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by schlowmo 10y ago
In this case x86 means both 32bit x86 (also referred as IA-32) and x86_64. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Active_Management_Techno... "The Management Engine (ME) is an isolated and protected coproce

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