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by tgragnato 10y ago
Signal is too difficult to be used by my relatives, but do not underestimate the issue. Dad uses the app to work and has not uninstalled, while mom, did the upgrade, came to ask "why the gardener of the nearby sends me pictures while h
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Funny thing is that I've been introduced to Signal by my peers. No paranoid lunatic glare. The app has some rogue edges and needs to be refined in order to be as usable as wa, specifically: data usage & media compression. The servi
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Given the amount of people deeply involved in the tech industry who read hn probably my opinion will not be very popular. But I feel obliged to add a few lines about WhatsApp. In a worrying technological landscape, it has been for a long ti
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by tgragnato 10y ago
A chemical weapon is as effective as a portable nuclear device from a terroristic point of view (they tend to exploit vulnerabilities in the defence system to instill fear in the population), the main difference is probably the damage cause
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I read this paper some time ago, is fas.org a reliable source ? https://fas.org/sgp/crs/nuke/RL32572.pdf > During the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union both deployed nonstrategic nuclear weapons
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Not to mention the threat posed by the number of suitcase nuclear device russians allegedly lost control of.
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by tgragnato 10y ago
The press made a lot of fuss about this claim. Unfortunately we have no confirmations nor denials, it would be nice to hear an internal about this. http://thehackernews.com/2016/04/android-swift-programming.h...
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Yup this happened to me too ! Fortunately, they have been blacklisted for phishing (google safebrowsing) just a couple of days later. Have they exaggerated ?
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by tgragnato 10y ago
For the clever design of the language: coding with optionals is a breeze, it defaults to thread-safe reference counting, a cleaner syntax (IMHO only), .... . For the unifying potential of the language: swift on the server (currently linux &
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by tgragnato 10y ago
The most famous "tool" used in this field is the drake equation. If you cut the product to the fraction of those planets, fl, that actually can develop life, you have a much higher probability than the one you get with the full eq
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Thinking that the author of a text editor should be concerned about the espionage activities of a superpower "is not how things should be". Useless, yes. Nobody thinks he should solve the problems of the world, that's just a
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I suddenly feel too young
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by tgragnato 10y ago
bewildered ๏_๏
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I'm waiting a llvm-compiled base to express my total admiration
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I wouldn't think in term of gains, if someone doesn't want to live, it's because he/she has no other goal left. Despite the moral/ethical issues this may be a more realistic scenario that what it initially looks. Th
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I am not skeptical about this concept in particular, but about the lack of practical confirmation for the results of their tools. This is perceived (at a later stage & by the public opinion) when many in the government itself publicly q
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Ok, but the current trend seems to suggest a strong preference for SIGINT, ELINT, ... over traditional HUMINT. Isn't this overestimating only a peculiar aspect ?
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by tgragnato 10y ago
https://wikileaks.org/wiki/Julius_Baer_to_Angela_Merkel Though they're specifying "This document appears to be a forgery." ...
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by tgragnato 10y ago
absolutely true
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by tgragnato 10y ago
There are many ways to ensure a system is fault-tolerant, scalable and still reasonably safe. They certainly have the resources to solve this if only they want. All I can say is that I am not willing to pay for something so fragile, but tha
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I'm with you ! They are both criminals and as such should be detained. Quoting Bill Binney “Things won't change until we put these people in jail”
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Yeah it makes a targeted attack easier. But it prevents attacks across different customers. Tradeoffs ... Maintaining a running pool of VMs per service in a sufficient number to serve the load of requests grouped by customer, and assigning
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by tgragnato 10y ago
I read their post "incident report" too . Isolation is claimed, but if I understand correctly, HTTP handling is shared between customers. Am I wrong ? Suppose you're a "bad actor", knowing this is a shared service,
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by tgragnato 10y ago
You are right to worry about this, current stock market valuations are not sustainable .. Just avoid the risky bourse. IMHO it's too late for refuge assets too. Long term assets could be something to be evaluated. solar energy, home re
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by tgragnato 10y ago
An information leak is an information leak : we still fail to realise that it's something that's happening daily. There's no drama in it. Criminals are taking advantage of opportunities like this every day, still no one cares
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by tgragnato 10y ago
IMHO it all boils down to economic interest of some strong powers: in EU they're not cheap, but cheaper ... I would like to say a lot about this, but I am gonna redirect you to some documentaries: - https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by tgragnato 10y ago
Well, we have seen m68k, PowerPC, x86_64, arm, AArch64. Given the inherent problems to the x86 architecture, if they could produce a multi-core successor to the A10, an alignment in arm64 between mobile and desktop would be a best fit. - po