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by squidlogic 10y ago
Good luck to them. After helping make a slack-style client-side encrypted productivity app ( https://balboa.io ) that has been on life-support for the last 2 months, I have a lot of respect for people that attempt to make this spa
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by squidlogic 10y ago
In the mid-90s it was a place for upper middle class kids to go party. The riots wiped that out. In the late-00s it became a place for upper middle class kids to live. Largely do to the efforts of 3CDC. Lot of money being spent to renovat
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by squidlogic 10y ago
Sometimes that fear can be a good thing. It means you are trying to do things just outside of your comfort zone, which can help you grow. If you are always 100% confident that you can do something, then that means you may be at a plateau in
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by squidlogic 10y ago
The article doesn't seem to go into the actual physics too much. It instead links to a blog post [0] and another article [1] that go into more detail. I recommend reading these over the gizmodo one. [0] http://blogs.scientif
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by squidlogic 10y ago
Hmm ... I think you could make a stronger point if you had used the example of the brand of Islam espoused by Islamic terrorists in the US vs. Falun Gong in China. Both are religions or at least quasi-religions, both are hunted and suppres
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by squidlogic 10y ago
Wow, I knew Cisco helped with the GFW, but didn't know they made a module specifically designed to find and capture Falun Gong participants[0]. Thats ... pretty messed up. [0] https://www.eff.org/files/2016/01&
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Does anyone know if WhatsApp still stores your master key? I assume you can still reset your password. If so, kind of makes you wonder what you really buy by adding the axolotl protocol. Thoughts?
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Try Balboa. End to end encrypted. Has video calls too. Also has faster file transfer speed. Targeted towards international NGOs operating in rough areas, but works for other business too. Not free though. Seems security comes at a premium.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
I thought they already did this, but I have no proof. It seems reasonable because Google got evicted from China for not playing ball, so I find it hard to believe that Apple would get a free pass.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
The creator of ZeroTier, a super easy way to set up virtual networks. Connects all your devices and encrypts the traffic by default. Pretty slick stuff. We use it in our backend to keep our microservices topology simple.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Probably not to TLS, but TLS is typically solving a different problem than the one people are trying to solve using JS crypto. One valid use, I think, could be around ensuring you don't pollute your backend with user data to avoid liab
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Going to miss these guys. They wrote some beautiful clojure.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Interesting thought, "rolling your own crypto" seems to be something of an accordion term. I took it to mean creating your own crypto primitives, but I guess there are plenty of opportunities to mess up security while writing cod
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Emscripten and ClojureScript: Transpiling to Avoid Rolling Your Own Crypto(blog.balboa.io)
45 points by squidlogic 11y ago|23 comments
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by squidlogic 11y ago
I thought this article was interesting because the author talked about how encryption can be used to "delete" data from distributed systems instantly, by just removing the key. Not really a new idea, I don't think, but not on
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Client-Side Encryption: The Right Security Model for the Cloud(blog.balboa.io)
82 points by squidlogic 11y ago|27 comments
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by squidlogic 11y ago
As a user you probably don't need more push notifications in your life. As a developer, my app benefits from higher user interaction if I have push notifications. In my opinion, the onus is on the user to be responsible with their tim
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by squidlogic 11y ago
That's a good way of putting it, I think. Revenue is obviously very important, but there are other values that an enterprise may be concerned with as well.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
As someone who is bootstrapping without a lot of personal capital to fuel operations, I have a hard time relating to this post. I almost want to invent another category for bootstrapped startups that have access to large amounts of personal
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Model Aggregation for Distributed Content Anomaly Detection(academiccommons.columbia.edu)
2 points by squidlogic 11y ago|0 comments
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by squidlogic 11y ago
You are also correct. There is a beautiful simplicity to business interactions when you tell them up front: hey, I'm only going to tell you the truth, I'm not going to buy you gifts and alcohol and prostitutes. I'm just going
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Everyone is brought up under a certain value system. I don't think the traditional label of 'religious' is very informative. Which religion? Which sect of that religion? For that matter, which non-religious value system? The
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Everything you say resonates with my experience too. And not to contradict myself but on the plus side for business in China, I found the expat entrepreneurs there to be pretty close-knit and more than happy to collaborate and help you out.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Agreed. The difference is that with ransomware the act has already been done. You can think of it as negotiating with kidnappers vs. paying off the mob to not rough up your shop.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Doing business in China is definitely doing it in 'hard mode' from my experience. If you can become successful there, where contracts mean nothing and guanxi with people in power is everything, you will probably plow right through
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Social connection has such a big impact on physical health (isolation is more deadly than obesity).[0] In my experience it is becoming harder and harder to form relationships, and one of the factors seems to be our housing choices[1]. [0] h
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Good point, you're right that gaining root/admin isn't the only way to ruin someone's day.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Keeping everyone on mission is incredibly valuable, but there is a finite amount of work you can and should extract from your employees. Employers have a disproportionate amount of influence over the lives of the people under their employ.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Skype is not blocked in China. That alone should tell you a lot.
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by squidlogic 11y ago
Unlike a lot of other malware out there, crypto lockers don't require privlidge escalation to be effective. Got to hand it to them, its actually a pretty cool attack vector.

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