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by sigmar 9y ago
Anyone else find it funny that Intel's first CPU with the SHA-1 instruction set is going to be released about a year after SHA-1 was broken? (Yes, there are still certain uses for SHA-1. But the timing is still hilarious)
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by sigmar 9y ago
The comments about the "attention" detail make it sound like they have tested this extensively with diverse groups. But I've wondered if they had anyone "red team" to see if they could fool it. Faces are less privat
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by sigmar 9y ago
While bunnie is great and this is interesting research, I have a few issues with it: -Slightly ridiculous threat model (trust should be achieved at the silicon and work its way up, not the reverse). If you don't trust your phone's
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by sigmar 9y ago
My understanding is no, this is legal. But this would be illegal if a U.S. political campaign knew about and facilitated these ad buys, as then it would be a contribution. Source: https://transition.fec.gov/pages/brochu
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Let's say I believe the good Senator from NH, that Kaspersky is evil. This isn't what she wrote.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>FSB hasn't used as many contractors and hasn't had as many leakers in Snowden-like positions. FSB has lots of contractors leak though. They just disappear and are never heard from again. Such as Ruslan Stoyanov.
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by sigmar 9y ago
Why do you assume that quote refers to formal education (instead of any form of education that leads to one becoming a software engineer)?
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by sigmar 9y ago
You are dead on. The problem is incentives. There is no technical solution to solve the issue of OEMs not wanting to spend time/resources on updating older phones. Treble will help out LineageOS, CopperheadOS, and XDA devs. But it won&
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by sigmar 9y ago
>I just cannot see the difference between banning those 'far right' groups while allowing 'far left' which are basically the same. Can I ask what websites/pages you are speaking of specifically? I think any group
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Damore didn't fail at providing citations. You did apparently fail at reading the original document, however. Maybe read the medium post he linked to? (The irony of your comment is killing me). If Wikipedia, The Atlantic, and the N
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by sigmar 9y ago
Meant to add the 'your' as a way to generalize the statement. It's fine if English is not his first language, that's why you have others proof read before publishing. If there wasn't much effort to edit, I tend to p
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Making a bock is time consuming and the system of qBitcoin is based on a quantum chain, instead of blocks A typo in the abstract makes it pretty unlikely that I'll read your proposal.
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by sigmar 9y ago
I was just pointing out that specific statement. I've got thoughts, but no specific perspective on the rest of the article. It definitely raises interesting questions.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>If we ask these small companies to take on content removal obligations, we should not expect nuanced decision-making or robust appeal processes. We should expect legal and important sites from across the political spectrum to go down be
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by sigmar 9y ago
lol, great points. You are saying it is not common to image drives? The google results for disk+imaging+in+forensics disagrees
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by sigmar 9y ago
A few points: >Not well respected Did you criticize Crowdstike before the 2016 election? Because they're very highly regarded. >You are taking crowdstrike at their word. You don't have to trust Crowdstrike, as there are othe
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by sigmar 9y ago
It's insane that this is still being discussed. But I guess stuff gets obfuscated when it becomes politicized. I've got a (non-comprehensive) chronological list of public reports on this hack and its attribution- Croudstrike (Jun
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by sigmar 9y ago
Have a source for any of those claims? Project Veritas lies a lot. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_O%27Keefe
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by sigmar 9y ago
He doesn't cite any science so it is hard to appreciate that any of it is based on quality research. Seems like a lot of stereotypes mixed in with hedging. For example: suggesting that women are too emotional to "reason about the
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by sigmar 9y ago
>The VIX is generally consistantly low (10 - 15) until it isn't. To get a sense of what a crisis would look like, we can compare to a few historical values. What's the point of using a metric that can turn on a dime in a predic
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by sigmar 9y ago
That doesn't matter. Lying during a business deal is still fraud.
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by sigmar 9y ago
It's not fraud if investors make money? Someone better tell Madoff that he's getting out.
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by sigmar 9y ago
> It's pretty disgusting to hear WaPo hand-wring over rape culture WaPo isn't making the comparison. The author of the Buzzfeed piece is- >“Gawker came up in a lot of those conversations,” DeRogatis said
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by sigmar 9y ago
Countries charge foreign nationals of crimes all the time. The fact that this is surprising to many people in these comments is horrifying.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>Perhaps topics being hotly debated indicates that there is generally no easy answer one way or the other. Questions that are difficult to answer are debated by many, but not all questions that are debated by many are difficult to answer
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by sigmar 9y ago
>a whois on my public IP revealed that it belongs to the original ISP, not whatever local ISP I was using did you do other checks to see if your traffic was being censored? a whois of your public ip says nothing about whether your traffi
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by sigmar 9y ago
how many people are live streaming a concert at a given moment? maybe 5-10 on periscope, in addition to maybe 2x that number on facebook. definitely not 15k.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>20k is actually not that many people as far as these things go 20k people in close proximity uploading and downloading constantly without breaks? What specific event is that comparable to? Music festivals don't have all attendees c
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by sigmar 9y ago
Summary of the post: SHA-3 is slow, but check out these other recently proposed parallelized variants of Keccak, they could be much faster.
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by sigmar 9y ago
>where the money might arguably be more effectively used or sorely needed. Malcolm Gladwell did a great podcast episode on this very topic: http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/06-my-little-hundred-... Highly reco

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