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   by setrofim_ 15y ago

   This is full disclosure[1] principle in action, and why security experts actually like "hackers" like Anonymous[2]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Full_disclosure [2] http://risky.biz/lulzsec
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   by setrofim_ 15y ago

   "but other alternatives (for example, hiring a thousand engineers and building a thousand planes a year) would have found the same answer" Before MacCready came along, there were a thousand (well, a large number) of engineers building a t
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   by setrofim_ 15y ago

   Things will certainly get more difficult for these "middle men", but not by all that much. There is no need for them to replicate the retina/fingerprint scans or do anything hi-tech/expensive like that. The poor will still need to exchange
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   by setrofim_ 15y ago

   There is "generalizing", and then there is "over-generalizing". The problem pointed out by the author of the article is that we're often doing the latter instead of the former. Something that is a good practice for a "compiler writer" or a