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by tga_d 12y ago
"It's trivially easy to detect this kind of TOS abuse, even if the traffic is encrypted." It is? How? How could you possibly differentiate traffic coming from a single household with high bandwidth usage and a single person
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by tga_d 12y ago
Both are open source For varying definitions of "open source" (a considerable amount of functionality is offloaded to binary blobs in many models). In terms of duplicating effort, in the page linked it specifically states it&#x2
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by tga_d 12y ago
4chan passes, they allow you to post without entering in captcha, and to avoid IP block bans. Otherwise the experience is identical.
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by tga_d 13y ago
Exactly the first thing I thought. There are plenty of side-channels in cryptographic code that require access to somewhat low-level hardware to fix (e.g. the acoustic attack on GPG that got plenty of press), and I don't see how you ca
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by tga_d 13y ago
The first thing you’ll notice about the design is that the screen opens “the wrong way”. This feature allows the computer to be usable as a wall-hanging unit when the screen is closed. It also solves a major problem I had with the original
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by tga_d 13y ago
You might want to take a look at this page: http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html In particular: Be civil. Don't say things you wouldn't say in a face to face conversation. When disagreeing, please reply t
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by tga_d 13y ago
Do you really expect the context and analysis to appear in the headline? No, I expect it in the page. (And presumably, so did they.) A link to a large bitcoin transaction with no explanation tells me nothing.
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by tga_d 13y ago
A simple Faraday cage, I would think. Hard part is making it look good.
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by tga_d 13y ago
Could be wrong, I interpreted the obesity and intelligent design comments as reflections of the culture. Unless you never leave your house, living in a place that promotes sedative lifestyles and intellectual crutches seems... draining.
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by tga_d 13y ago
While it smacks in the face of the joke I made elsewhere, altering the events of that day probably wouldn't have had that much effect on the over-arching tides of history. Pretty much everyone agrees that Europe was a proverbial powder
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by tga_d 13y ago
Forget killing Hitler to stop WWII, kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand to stop WWI! Oh, wait...
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by tga_d 13y ago
So much for a greater emphasis on security. How is this not one of the first things checked on? Providing encrypted messaging and permissions tuning on apps doesn't mean a whole lot if these sorts of bugs exist.
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by tga_d 13y ago
Nominally, the US isn't a police state, but practically... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_incarcera... Your view is probably skewed by personal experience, but the fact of the matter is most pe
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by tga_d 13y ago
They're using key-stretching to mitigate the use of bad passphrases, though reuse will still be an issue. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/AttachedServices/KeyServer... And RSA is deterministic.
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by tga_d 13y ago
Not true, there are plenty of key-derivation schemes. Basic idea for how one may work (not necessarily the one they will use, I'm still reading the wiki pages): data is encrypted locally with a hash of the user's passphrase, then
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by tga_d 13y ago
Historically, all data was encrypted locally before being sent to the other device. Now, by default, some data will be local-only encrypted, and some won't (the motivation being recovery services). There are plans though to have an opt
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by tga_d 13y ago
The Kolmogorov complexity is almost identical to the entropy (Kolmogorov complexity is applied to a given string, entropy applies to the thing producing it). The entropy estimates in the comic, if you prefer to think of it this way, assume
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by tga_d 13y ago
Yeah, this looks like exactly the type of software you avoid if you actually need cryptographic security. Non-library versions of cryptographic primitives is a serious WTF, that stuff is abstracted for a reason.
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by tga_d 13y ago
I don't know that the problem is so much "offence" as it is reinforcing what has historically been an exclusive culture. As has been pointed out, regardless of the intent of the name, it is going to put off some people. Imagi
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by tga_d 13y ago
That just makes them highly moralistic, not "good."
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by tga_d 13y ago
Is this supposed to be satire? I can't really tell. On the one hand, it looks like he's legitimately trying to defend these views, but on the other, when you step back and look at them, they're so obviously faulty that I can&
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by tga_d 13y ago
This isn't "guerrilla warfare," it's an isolated case of assault.
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by tga_d 13y ago
So far the only explanation I've seen is the number of syllables. "Ten-eighty pee" and "seven-twenty pee" are relatively easy to say on the radio, TV, and sales floor, but "twenty-one-sixty pee" starts to
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by tga_d 13y ago
>Once enough states in the US legalize it, the Feds will have to back down. Or the federal government can just use it as a means to arrest pot-smoking undesirables at will? I don't really see how state laws come to a head with feder
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by tga_d 13y ago
Isn't that the point that was being made? FTA: ... if we really care about the next generation becoming hackers and makers, not just consumers, we need to reject Apple’s bullshit, reject Micorsoft’s (decreasingly relevant) bullshit, a
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by tga_d 13y ago
>The minute you publish your method, the measure of the output's entropy stops being relevant. Your security theoretically relies on the input's entropy, which is likely to be much smaller. What? If we're applying Kerckhof
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by tga_d 13y ago
Yes, you are being unfair. You can't say I don't think "open source" versus "closed source" has much at all to do with how secure a cryptosystem is (somewhat agreed) while simultaneously saying The track rec
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by tga_d 13y ago
You're being unfair and you know it. Lavabit, the RSA fiasco, Apple's imessage crypto, etc. are all perfectly mainstream examples of closed-source crypto done wrong. As you said yourself, the only thing that conclusively makes a d
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by tga_d 13y ago
For varying definitions of "voluntary." I find it difficult to believe that the majority of these workers would choose of their own volition to work in this industry if they had the option of equally well paying source of income.
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by tga_d 13y ago
My point is that using passwords that length doesn't gain you anything. It would take the world's fastest super computer in 20 years from now about 7 trillion years to brute force 128 bits of entropy, assuming the speed of the fas

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