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Marked for deletion: Line-line intersection(en.wikipedia.org)
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by throwaway125 14y ago
A lot has been written and said about Bradley Manning but it always seemed such a distant thing. Reading this statement made me realize how he's a real person that I can identify with rather than just some guy in a news article.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
That's not how I read it. I see him saying they should have checked their verb list (thought about possible failures, as you said.) He also says that if people are more aware of the algorithmic nature of these things that they are less like
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I'm not sure I understand with how you got to "entirely". Yes, his pull request was dangerous but it also reveals how the repo owner would accept just about any pull request you send him. That seems like a major issue. I'm sure both parties
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by throwaway125 14y ago
While it may be easy to transfer bitcoins anonymously, spending them anonymously on tangibles is just as hard as spending any other kind of money anonymously. Tax evaders are often caught because their lifestyle and assets are inconsistent
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by throwaway125 14y ago
To be fair, usually when a title changes post submission it's to rename it from obvious link bait to something more reasonable. If people are discussing the link bait title instead of the actual content then that's all the more proof that e
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by throwaway125 14y ago
If done well I much prefer an editorialized title to the original title (providing the original title is not a good fit as per the guidelines.)
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by throwaway125 14y ago
https://www.torproject.org/docs/hidden-services.html.en tl;dr hidden services are anonymous
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by throwaway125 14y ago
the gist of it seems to be that yahoo ran a vulnerable wordpress site that allowed the attacker to run javascript from the yahoo domain, allowing them to steal login cookies. That makes me wonder, doesn't yahoo set the http only flag for th
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Speaking for myself here, but many of the reasons Google is so bad for privacy isn't necessarily because of something Google did themselves. There are very few websites on the internet that don't have some form of Google tracking device on
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by throwaway125 14y ago
So you're one of the people that buys into the whole "It's easy to tell what files are legally shared" and it's just not true. Which is proven time and time again when publishing companies send DMCA takedown requests for the content another
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I've had similar encounters with privately disclosed vulnerabilities that are still live years after the fact. What is the right course of action here? If you just wait out and the vulnerability eventually gets exploited they could blame wh
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I'm really sorry, I didn't know it caused that because it didn't happen in my browser (firefox) but after the complaints I looked at it in chrome and it does indeed break the formatting. I can not edit my previous post anymore, again sorry
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Since some people can't access the videos and many of the links will go dead here's a torrent[1]. I also found the text[2] but that seems to have some of its words changed slightly compared to the video. 1) magnet:?xt=urn:btih:f8b92a305da8a
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I was curious about this and a search came up with this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr._authors... in case anyone else is interested too.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
is there a name for that? At the very least it's copyright infringement, although I'm not sure it's criminal copyright infringement.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I wish Mozilla (and other browsers) also blocked plugins that don't behave while updating. I want to have java installed so I can decide to run java programs, but I don't want to have a browser plugin, so I disable it. Every single time j
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Several things: 1) Mass scale surveillance becomes trivial and you'll end up in a database of suspects even if you've never broken the law 2) Your identity can be checked without your knowledge regardless of probable cause 3) The technology
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by throwaway125 14y ago
With all lower case it does exist: http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=sircmpwn
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by throwaway125 14y ago
The core value of any social site or network isn't in the software, but in the community. The article recognizes this and suggests that the people who care about freedom should make the initial 'investment' by creating an account, thereby
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by throwaway125 14y ago
From how I understand it this is not a javascript Tor implementation at all. It's an entirely different piece of software that allows you to create a whole lot of volatile short lived proxy servers that can then be used to connect to actual
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by throwaway125 14y ago
With Moxie Marlinspike's KnockKnock[1] port knocking offers real additional security. 1) http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/knockknock/
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NY Removes 2,100 Sex Offenders From Online Gaming Platforms(pcmag.com)
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Regarding #3 I think they want the patent holder to prove he is actually using the invention for a (commercial) benefit. If you invent a copy protection scheme they want to see you actively sell it to third parties or actively use it in you
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I don't understand where your malware remark comes from. I've visited his website (albeit with noscript on) and it looks a lot more readable than your average news site. Seems like a low blow to attack him over how the website looks, especi
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by throwaway125 14y ago
http://codahale.com/how-to-safely-store-a-password/ or PBKDF2 is also a good solution. the tl;dr version is: sha1(md5(pw + salt)) is too fast to be good, crackers can run millions of attempts per second if they have access to the hash.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
You can turn the same thing around, no one is forcing Facebook to do business in Germany. If they want to do business in Germany they have to follow German regulations.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Reducing the uniqueness of a browser's fingerprint seems like a more valuable privacy investment than a DNT header that may or may not be adhered to by the websites you visit. Are any of the major web browsers actively working on this?
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by throwaway125 14y ago
While that choice seems to make sense on a short term, I don't think giving up liberty can lead to safety in the long term. At some point your liberties will be so restricted that you're at the mercy of the rulers without much chance to inf
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Phrack 65 had a paper calling out for people to write software that would make those types of laws unenforceable. The paper described the general idea and also presented a very technical explanation of one particular piece of software that

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