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by skuhn 12y ago
Makes sense to me, and I think this is the future of the web. HTTP will simply cease to be a viable option in the next 3-4 years if cert prices are reduced (or eliminated) and SNI becomes widely available. Good for Let's Encrypt in tak
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by skuhn 12y ago
Sorry, I meant the nature of the CA as a public benefits corporation that is more open than conventional CAs. Meaning maybe I personally trust them a bit more than Verisign -- although I haven't decided if I do, and really any CA will
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by skuhn 12y ago
I agree, this is not really breaking news. The reality is that any company that wants to operate within the confines of the law can be compelled to work against its purported customers -- no one wants to go to jail because of your website.
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by skuhn 12y ago
Not exactly distributed, but it is based on a somewhat different trust model than conventional CAs: https://letsencrypt.org/ It remains to be seen if it actually makes an impact upon launch. It certainly can't replace
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by skuhn 12y ago
I'm mainly responding to the first part: "As much as I dislike class action law-suit trolling", as in I don't like their methods but I like the results in this particular situation. I also don't see how I have simpl
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by skuhn 12y ago
The difference between Lenovo's use of Superfish and Ubuntu providing anonymized search data to Amazon is night and day in terms of "spyware". I don't like either, but Lenovo's actions were negligent to the point wh
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by skuhn 12y ago
I don't see this suit as trolling. There exists a large group of people who were sold a product which did not perform its primary function of "doing what its owner told it to do". It turns out that this was intentional on the
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by skuhn 12y ago
The classic manual method of cert pinning is not feasible for more than a handful of large sites, because each browser that supports it has to update its own pin list. Google adds a whitelist of public keys to Chrome upon request, only for
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by skuhn 12y ago
Sure. The newest subway line runs down Third Street right to Candlestick Point (about 5 miles away from downtown). It would take over an hour and requires walking a mile. Or you could take the single bus line, which cuts your walk down to h
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by skuhn 12y ago
> On the other side (first mile), the CDN then connects via a second SSL certificate (say, origin-www.destination.com) to the origin's datacenter(s) to retrieve the necessary data. Perhaps. Not all CDNs require TLS to be used to con
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by skuhn 12y ago
I'm not blaming them, as I mention the majority is likely acting within their rights. I agree that part of the solution is to create more housing -- but it's also too late for that solution to work before there is a downturn in th
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by skuhn 12y ago
I think that if you dig a bit deeper, real estate really is a major driver of the cost of doing business in San Francisco. Particularly now that companies and employees are more resistant to the process of migrating elsewhere after the star
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by skuhn 12y ago
Well you don't have to MITM SSL in order to proxy it, it can be done in other ways. They probably choose to do so in order to see the details of the request.
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by skuhn 12y ago
I can't see why it would matter, since literally every laptop is made in China already. Plus the vast majority of computer components.
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by skuhn 12y ago
I had no idea that Amazon was doing Sunday deliveries, until I started seeing my packages marked 'unable to be delivered' on Sundays. This seems like a lot of extra effort to go to and not inform the customer that you're doin
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by skuhn 12y ago
I don't think it's true that regular smoke detectors are inherently reliable. In newer apartment buildings that I've lived in, all of the units are hooked into a central fire alarm system. If a smoke detector goes off in one
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by skuhn 12y ago
There are 1 gig 48 port switches on Cumulus's HCL, they're around $2500 and $700/yr for Cumulus support. Unlike Cisco or Juniper, you must maintain support in order to continue using the product (legally). I can't imagin
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by skuhn 12y ago
No large scale breaches are known externally, but they have certainly have had their share of security incidents and poor practices. http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-icloud-hack-obvious-security-fl... http://www.dail
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by skuhn 12y ago
Untrue, S3 does (extremely rarely) lose objects.
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by skuhn 12y ago
He is presumably referring to this nonsense: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/07/18/359621/-Bush-declar... http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2007/230507martialla...
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by skuhn 12y ago
You're correct, I miscalculated their annual loss (but not from their expense line). The assets and liabilities are literally from these lines on their balance sheet: Total Assets 3,835.75 Total Liabilities 2,627.98 Per: http:/&
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by skuhn 12y ago
> it's not like anyone expects Barnes & Noble to go under any time soon Well actually... On 2014 revenue of $6.4bn they lost $1.6bn. Their total assets are $3.8bn and liabilities are $2.6bn, which means another yearly loss of $1
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by skuhn 12y ago
Title II regulation will not necessarily open up the copper wiring to your house to competitors. The FCC is expected to forebear a lot of the Title II rules, and that may well be one of them.
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by skuhn 12y ago
We like the way it is (or rather, the way it was 15 years ago), but the cat appears to be out of the bag. Comcast, Verizon, et. al. all have giant dying industries to support on the backs of our Internet access fees, and they are going to e
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by skuhn 12y ago
Internet access is already subject to tax, barring this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Tax_Freedom_Act
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by skuhn 12y ago
I had routinely given Uber drivers ratings between 3-5 stars (good, better, best), because service was always good enough that I didn't feel a need to dip lower. Then a driver mentioned that if a passenger gave him less than 5 stars, h
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by skuhn 12y ago
Bioshock Infinite doesn't purport to give the player more than the standard illusion of choice, but I think it's more interesting how choice is handled in the narrative. The characters think that they're making big, important
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by skuhn 12y ago
The existence of extinction events seem pretty likely to me, but I also think bad timing can explain a lot. Humanity has had an extremely small window of time in which it could observe non-visual signals from outer space. Radio waves were o
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by skuhn 12y ago
I guess someone confused 1989 and 1998. 486 was released in 1989, Grim came 9 years later. It's old, but nowhere near THAT old. If games like this were possible on 386's, it would have blown some minds. There's some other odd
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by skuhn 12y ago
The 1996 Telecom Act's competition requirements were gutted several years later, hence the near total elimination of competition in the DSL and phone service markets.

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