snakeanus

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by snakeanus 9y ago
> it's just deliberately not easy And thus crippled and useless against state attackers. I fail to see the reason why my browser refuses to let me "pin" a CA only for certain sites for example.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
I would assume that more than 0.001% of the people use the Tor browser.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
It would be nice if they would drop the account system and just let the users post their comments signed by their private key if they want to associate a comment with themselves or their persona. It would also be nice if they supported NNTP
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US “explodes” after Kaspersky closes “CIA Backdoor” embedded in all MS Software(theunhivedmind.com)
61 points by snakeanus 9y ago|12 comments
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by snakeanus 9y ago
He also played a big part in ITS, the lisp machines and published multiple papers on Lisp, AI, and CS. Unlike Jobs and Gates he made actual contributions to the whole field.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> RMS? really? Yes, Jobs and Gates can't even compare to him.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Code style How is that an issue in this day and age? Just run astyle or indent.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
The characters are supposed to grow along with the audience in the Harry Potter to my knowledge.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> But a backdoor is not necessary > the company gets an all-access pass to every corner of a user’s computer network, including all applications, files and emails. Isn't that a possible definition of a backdoor? > is waging a
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Nobody sane would ever trust a non-FOSS security software and expect it not to have backdoors.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
If they did that because they lost trust in the reddit administration then I think that a distributed approach would be much more fitting instead of making yet another reddit clone. In fact, NNTP would be probably exactly what they want.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
This is why we need microkernels.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Try using umatrix.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
DDoSing is not hacking by any definition.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
You were harmed in the real world by being robbed at gunpoint. This is nothing like what I am arguing.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> that the distribution of those images in itself causes harm. How do they know that the distribution of these images took place? How did that even affect them in their life? I honestly doubt that this is the case - and even then it woul
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> I can drain your bank accounts by hacking you, how is that not actual harm? One would need to be extremely irresponsible in order to let themselves be hacked. I would consider it as a punishment and a lesson more than anything. In any
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> So DDoSing a hospital is OK because the computers don't have feelings? No, we were talking about hacking, not things like DDoSing. I would support the stance that DDoSing should be illegal because it only causes harm and can'
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Countries like the UK and Canada already consider drawn pornography of characters that look underage illegal. Most Japanese anime and manga pornography (even extremely unrealistic hand-drawn instances of it) is already illegal in these coun
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> I'm able to hack you, therefore there's nothing wrong with doing so? Yes > What about in the physical world? Actions in the physical world actually harm people, something which is not true for the virtual world and can be
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> I overwhelming majority of child porn sites either require payment I honestly doubt that but even then the money would go to the site owners, not to child rapists directly. Anyhow, as I said in another post we could simply also hold ac
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> break into systems they don't own What is wrong with that? The owners of these systems should have made sure that they don't run shitty and (vulnerable/old versions of their) programs. > On the dark web, you've g
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Consuming a product whose manufacture involved coercion of participants is not a neutral moral choice. I would claim that it is as long as it harms nobody and as long as it does not benefit the creator.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> There are people who, knowing you are like them and enjoy that sort of thing, will make it for you. To make you happy. I doubt that anyone would make child pornography in order to satisfy someone else. I would be pretty sure that one w
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by snakeanus 9y ago
How so?
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by snakeanus 9y ago
There are a few GNU social instances which provide tor access. There are also a few legal imageboards and forums that one could use. As for email, is it possible to even send an email via tor? If so that would be really cool.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
The act of creating them is bad, the porn itself is not. It's just data that harms nobody.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
Only if you use the same keys.
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by snakeanus 9y ago
> Investigators said content stored on the encrypted hard drive matched file hashes for known child pornography content How on earth is this supposed to work? Unless they can decrypt the hard drives I am pretty sure that this is impossib
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by snakeanus 9y ago
What is wrong with UB? Just take it to mean "not allowed".

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