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by thex86 13y ago
Please go back to Stormfront and the pathetic circle jerking of /r/atheism with this hate. This is HN.
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Travellers' mobile phone data seized by police at border(telegraph.co.uk)
42 points by thex86 13y ago|30 comments
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by thex86 13y ago
TrueCrypt. The most shady piece of security software I have seen. It's 2013 and there is still no public repository and no changelogs are published. Don't you expect the software you will trust all your secrets with to be at least
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by thex86 13y ago
Very nice. If you could add support for other TLDs, I would definitely use this and recommend to my friends.
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by thex86 13y ago
Very nice. Can you please add a way to skip some workouts?
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by thex86 13y ago
Where does a distribution like Debian stand? Can the people who upload packages do something fishy and not get caught? Not that I doubt their intention, but let's assume a developer is forced to do it by say his state or through some o
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by thex86 13y ago
That's a great point. Reminds of the time I taught my friend to use PGP and sent him an encrypted email. Every single time, he would reply in plain-text, thus exposing my older conversation. When asked why, he told me it's too muc
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India introduces Central Monitoring System(theregister.co.uk)
2 points by thex86 13y ago|0 comments
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by thex86 13y ago
While I agree with your sentiment, doing that will likely be difficult. However, the end-to-end encryption is what we need, so that we don't have to rely or expect service providers to change. Things like PGP for sending emails, OTR fo
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by thex86 13y ago
"HTTPS Everywhere is probably the only usable advice in the whole article." Which still doesn't prevent you if the service provider is rogue.
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by thex86 13y ago
I seem to be discussing this topic with my friends almost on a regular basis now. However, and as we all agree, it's much difficult putting them into use. We need these services. If I get lost, I need Google Maps to find the way. I nee
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by thex86 13y ago
Can you please explain what is suspicious for a n00b like me?
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by thex86 13y ago
How many people do you think are capable of running their own mail server? There is no irony here. People make the best use of the tools that they have to prevent a future where they wouldn't be able to use such tools because the gover
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by thex86 13y ago
I don't have the time to write a complete explanation about that, but if you point out a specific instance that interests you particularly, I can try to give an explanation.
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by thex86 13y ago
He says he made the repo private.
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by thex86 13y ago
As far as my memory goes - I think I can safely say this for the past six years, everyone I know is aware that you can get the results for practically anyone, as long as you know their name and their school. So I meant that that this is not
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by thex86 13y ago
> Also, from his write up, it was serious lack of security on the results website. How? The website has an interface to give you all the results. All you need is an email address. How is this then a lack of security? This is 'by design'
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by thex86 13y ago
> One person had just acquired the exam results for the whole country. Not only was this a violation of any and all forms of privacy associated with something as personal as your examination marks, but a mass divulsion of all sorts of p
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by thex86 13y ago
Not exactly, given that Mate is not packaged with Debian. But yes, if your distribution ships it, then it's a good choice.
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by thex86 13y ago
http://xfce.org/ It's never too late...