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by simik 10y ago
Link to full paper: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/3010178/Volkswage...
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by simik 10y ago
SHA-512 would be just 7-8 times slower. Not much of an improvement. Check hashcat's page for performance figures: https://hashcat.net/oclhashcat/#performance
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by simik 10y ago
4 letters + 6 digits PSK, roughly 39 bits of entropy, about 730 hours to exhaust the search space on a single GTX 970/R9 290X. EDIT: I'm surprised it costs 1,000 GBP to cloud-hack a PSK of this length, considering there are lots o
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by simik 10y ago
No, not that ignore-security-until-too-late type of laziness. More of a automate-manual-tasks laziness.
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by simik 10y ago
What would you call a politician's maximum job performance?
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by simik 10y ago
What's the point of ECC RAM in consumer PCs?
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by simik 10y ago
There are a quite a few "no more diabetes" stories in /r/keto, ketogenic diet subreddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/keto/comments/437lyj/nsv_take_that_... https://www.reddit.
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by simik 11y ago
Some sort of subscription (a daily digest?) for new tasks in a category would be nice.
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by simik 11y ago
I found that in such cases it's actually more productive to close my eyes while typing.
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Web Framework Benchmarks – Round 11 Results(techempower.com)
4 points by simik 11y ago|0 comments
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PHP static code analysis vs. ~1000 top wordpress plugins = 103 vulnerable plugins(blog.cinu.pl)
8 points by simik 11y ago|0 comments
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by simik 11y ago
If the fabric is made of proteins, can you eat it?
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by simik 11y ago
There you go: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9793555
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by simik 11y ago
Same principle of SSL hijacking, yes. Probably used to scan your traffic for XSS attacks, JS and Flash-related vulnerabilities, and stuff like that. http://www.pcworld.com/article/2889692/some-bitdefender-prod...
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ISS Symphony – Timelapse of Earth from International Space Station in 4K(youtube.com)
3 points by simik 11y ago|0 comments
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by simik 11y ago
> your fat cells will only release fat when your blood sugar level is low Nope, it's low insulin that unlocks fat cells, not low blood sugar.
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by simik 12y ago
Small UX nitpick. You can't select the miniLock ID by double-clicking it. I think it was one of the reasons bitcoin used Base58 encoding.
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by simik 12y ago
Deface different websites with chapters of the book? Each chapter being about a defect in crypto implementation that allowed you to deface that particular website.
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by simik 13y ago
Patiently waiting in a trash field for a future entrepreneur genius who would devise a way to extract on the cheap anything and everything useful from it.
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by simik 13y ago
They should make a movie out of it.
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by simik 13y ago
Have you tried to control your diabetes with a ketogenic diet? Dr. Bernstein, a type 1 diabetic since 1946, is successfully managing his condition with it, and wrote a book about it. http://www.diabetes-book.com/book/my
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by simik 13y ago
And, for good measure, a recent ABCTV documentary on the bad science of cholesterol-heart hypothesis and statins: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTkyS5yV82Q
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by simik 13y ago
Knowledge is not binary. Knowing more about what your phone is doing is better than knowing less.
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by simik 13y ago
Indeed, gull wings doors are dorky, that's why Tesla X has FALCON wings doors!