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by throwaway7767 13y ago
Did anyone claim qubes does not have security holes? The point of qubes is not to "solve security", it's to make a useable everyday OS that offers better security than other general-purpose OSs. It does this by isolation and
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
The attack surface of a paravirtualized Xen VM to its hypervisor is much smaller than a linux application talking to the linux kernel. Of course it's not perfect, but xen has a pretty good track record. And a significant chunk of the f
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
It's actually GPL-2+, but yes, this unfortunately limits the scope of outside contributors.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
Yes, not notifying at least the big linux distros and BSD projects was quite irresponsible. Everyone except for a few chosen service providers like cloudflare was thrown under a bus here.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
I know I'm replying to a troll, but... you have been following the news, right? Would you rather have us use the backdoored RSA bSAFE library? That was developed by paid professionals, who by your logic should be the paragons of compet
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
The block being hashed will include the payout address set by the miner, which will make the block he is working on different than the ones the others are working on. The block includes a nonce, a random number which is changed for each try
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
>A hosting service like Mega with the security of Tarsnap that could host and de-duplicate torrents would be very interesting. Tarsnaps security is based on client-side encryption. They cannot read the plaintext. Therefore if more than o
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
He said he's in a good financial situation. He did not say he paid himself the lowest possible amount of salary he could live off, and let the business run without any safety buffer of money. I'm just going to assume that Colin is
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
As a customer of about 2 years now, it is much appreciated. I feel much better doing business with corporations when I get the feeling that they do their business fairly. Tarsnap succeeds at this.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
I think the fact that Colin handles everything himself increases my trust in tarsnap, because he clearly knows what he is doing. I trust it in a way that I would not trust a faceless corporation like crashplan, even though they also adverti
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
They list it as a feature, but I'm not sure I'd trust it, given that their client is closed source.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
But, as with the old adage "RAID is not backup", don't forget that ZFS is not a backup either. ZFS has bugs like any other codebase, and metadata corruption will make your whole pool unrecoverable. RAID-Z and block checksums
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
I was not aware that the NSA had decided to restrict TAO's operations to China. That must be a very recent thing if so. Can you provide any references to that?
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
> So far as admin SSH, once you reach a certain size you generally stop letting admins ssh in from random places and require VPNs (often with crypto tokens), if only because it gives you a easy chokepoint to disable access when you fire
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
They could have reported the case to the authorities. The cops would have sought a search warrant for the mail and had to go through the legal process for that. That's how these things are supposed to work.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
They are worried that the negative PR of them reading users mail when it suits them will result in stricter legislation about these matters. So to head that off, they've invented this legal circus show to legitimise the whole thing.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
> If MS patched Office to upload your local files to MS servers, you would have a very strong case against them for "stealing" your files. If you upload them to OneDrive/Google Drive, not so much. At work, we use exchange.
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
No, I was simply trying to express that if these datasets are going to be collected, I'd rather access to them be restricted to government than for it to become a free-for-all, because I disagree with the GP that the root problem is in
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
Such defeatism. Some people are violating our privacy, so we should just give up on the whole notion? My worry about abuse of this data goes beyond public officials. I think the right to privacy is worth protecting, even in the face of chan
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
That was not my reading based on the first line. But if so, I agree with the sentiment. But this idea that all this surveillance-state stuff would actually be great if only we could all have access to the data is quite common in the tech co
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
Ugh. So you're willing to give up your privacy as long as others do so as well? Sounds like the "utopia" described by David Brin et al. Count me out of that future society. My desire for privacy is not affected by others desi
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by throwaway7767 13y ago
> My personal view is that scanning and checking against lists is fine but the data for any vehicles not believed to be wanted/committing an offence should then be immediately destroyed. I haven't fully signed up for the consul