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by thex86 13y ago
"No need to fill a form, just a simple click on Connect with Facebook or Twitter and here you go, you are ready to play and earn points." Why? I do not have a Facebook account or a Twitter account. Why do most web services insist
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by thex86 13y ago
Thanks, just did!
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Deterministic Builds Part One: Cyberwar and Global Compromise(blog.torproject.org)
17 points by thex86 13y ago|0 comments
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by thex86 13y ago
Yes, sybil attacks are a concern. With a powerful global adversary like the NSA, I don't know what chance we stand but unless there has been some evidence of exits being run by the NSA, I think we are good?
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by thex86 13y ago
> It's a question of whether the idea is fundamentally sound. The problems it has are clearly discussed in multiple places -- websites, research papers, etc. I don't think it can be more sound than that. > You're routin
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by thex86 13y ago
> Isn't this exactly what someone would have said about the NSA spying on us even just a few months back? Did we learn from that AT ALL or just anytime we don't like a theory we will call that person a tin foil hat wearing nutc
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by thex86 13y ago
> I don't think that Tor is compromised, but I don't think it's beyond questioning, either. No, definitely not. Science should never be above questioning, or be subject to fanboyism. My point was -- people keep bringing th
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by thex86 13y ago
I am sorry, but this is just wrong. a). For all the bundles, they are signed by the Tor developer who packages them. The signatures are clearly visible with the downloads. b). Most importantly: Tor is moving towards deterministic builds: h
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by thex86 13y ago
The Internet was made by DARPA. Let's stop using it. I am really sick of these arguments. Do you realize how much research goes into Tor and how many university researchers are associated with it (Cambridge, Waterloo)? Furthermore, can
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by thex86 13y ago
You keep throwing argument, please back it with facts.
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by thex86 13y ago
Funny how you created a fake account just for these comments. I am in no way defending terrorism. I am saying we should look at all of it, instead of saying, "What about X?"
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by thex86 13y ago
So just because that happens, we should overlook the fact that there are drones killing innocent children everyday sanctioned by the United States? You seem to be the type of person that says, "What if X is bad? Look at Y, which suits
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by thex86 13y ago
Yes. Low-latency networks can allow you to perform timing analysis.
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by thex86 13y ago
And you do not even need to control all the relays: assuming you control the first node and the last node in the circuit and as Tor is a low-latency network, it's trivial to perform timing analysis to find out what someone is doing on
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by thex86 13y ago
Right, in this case it actually makes sense because you will already be technically proficient if you are using something like AWS. But in other cases, the GUI can be the main interface, but a CLI to back it up is pretty awesome and I had h
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by thex86 13y ago
As a person who generally prefers to be private wherever possible, I am still divided on a related topic: security cameras. I don't want them to be recorded everywhere I go, but then on the other hand, I do realize that the world does
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by thex86 13y ago
> It's safe to say that Southern India is pretty safe (much much safe) compared to North India, which is almost full of sex-starved assholes (vague generalizaion) Please provide citations or stop pulling statistics out of your own b
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by thex86 13y ago
Implementing AES for crypto class? Seems the kind of school I would love to go to.
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by thex86 13y ago
IIRC, Silent Circle ran into a lot of issues because their product was not open source.
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by thex86 13y ago
"On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog" Wouldn't it be better if we kept it this way? I agree -- the comments section of some websites is really bad, but anonymity is important. Look at Reddit -- the trolls don&#x27
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by thex86 13y ago
> I'm not personally a big Manning fan Can you elaborate why? I am interested in hearing your point of view because maybe I just have one side of the story.
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by thex86 13y ago
The chilling effects of the surveillance state.
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by thex86 13y ago
I am not a Muslim if this is what you were hinting at and I don't see how being one matters in this case. Also, I don't see how ad hominem attacks are a good way of carrying out a discussion. I regularly post articles related to s
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Americans Are as Likely to Be Killed by Their Furniture as by Terrorism (2012)(theatlantic.com)
80 points by thex86 13y ago|40 comments
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by thex86 13y ago
Uhm, just curious, how did you come up with this name?
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by thex86 13y ago
> but we do have a long way to go before swaying public opinion At least in the case of Snowden, public opinion is against him and he is labelled as a "traitor" because people think it is perfectly fine for the government to sp
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by thex86 13y ago
Like Uncle Ben said, "With great power comes great responsibility," the TSA employees are exactly in that position -- they have the a great deal of power at their disposal and they are not trained to control it. One can also argue
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by thex86 13y ago
This is particularly bad for a country like India where the police already has too many powers: they don't need a warrant for many things. By "need", I mean it's not that the Constitution doesn't require them to, bu
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by thex86 13y ago
People who use Gmail can use Thunderbird with Enigmail. It works very well and there are detailed tutorials available. I agree though, it's still not as easy as it should be. User studies of PGP: Why Johnny Can’t Encrypt: A Usability E
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by thex86 13y ago
Yes. The adversary is assumed to be global here and so it can listen to the traffic at both ends. Also, both servers can make copies of the email. PGP gives you end-to-end encryption, which starts from your computer and ends at the computer

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