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by trebor 13y ago
Ah, thank you. I hadn't heard of the challenge and didn't know the size of the number being factored. So this will mainly affect 1024 bit keys, rather than 2048+ bit keys, I presume.
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by trebor 13y ago
I think it's interesting to note how people have gone to expecting 5-digit reliability out of an internet service. Not only is GitHub under fire, but the whole IPSec industry gets blamed. Back when my dad installed physical PBXes, the
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by trebor 13y ago
This is potentially one of the biggest breakthroughs ever. The ability to harness static electricity and convert it into usable electricity within our own electronics could be used to extract some of the power from not only lightning strike
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by trebor 13y ago
However with Ruby 1.9 - 2.0 (2.1 will support generational gc, finally) the performance of Ruby (with ORM and non-c frameworks, like phalcon and Yaf) is drawing close to parity with PHP.[1] I think that what drove diaspora's failure is
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by trebor 13y ago
Linode may have "regular" hard drives, but they're fast. I ran a legacy PHP commerce package for a client and it would log gigabytes of data due to deprecation warnings, I wasn't as knowledgeable about downgrading and fr
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by trebor 13y ago
I have to say, RethinkDB has piqued my interest. And I'm a pretty staunch MySQL/SQLite -based developer.
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by trebor 13y ago
Humans are pretty powerful conductors, are you sure that a sensitive capacitance sensor couldn't tell the difference between a finger and a finger attached to a body? I don't know it for a fact, but I'd be surprised if not.
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by trebor 13y ago
I think that this would be easily detectable by testing capacitance. The steel ring around the home button could potentially be used for that.
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by trebor 13y ago
Yes, I didn't express myself clearly there. I was thinking of how the chip's output could possibly be used to attempt to predict the output of the PRNG and so be used in something like a side-channel attack. I'm not thinking
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by trebor 13y ago
I would prefer a cryptographer, not Linus, to weigh in on how Linux's PRNG works and what impact RdRand would have on it. It's not that I distrust Linus, it's just that it's hard to separate the vitriol from the facts. T
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by trebor 13y ago
It's clear, yes, but it's also a blind assertion: we know what we're doing, you don't. He doesn't explain any of the reasoning, just that RdRand is one of many inputs. The question, and its follow up question, by Da
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by trebor 13y ago
I own two digisparks, and I think the main improvements are the 3.3V/5V and mounting holes. I'm still glad to see more devices filling this niche.
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by trebor 13y ago
Wish I could just enter a name. I don't use my social media logins to sign in to other sites any longer.
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by trebor 13y ago
This article has been posted around 3-4 times this year alone. Most people should already be well aware of the cost of a full rewrite due to all the horror stories. Yet, sometimes the best software has come from a full rewrite.
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by trebor 13y ago
A hackintosh is only an option when you don't mind breaking your word. In fact, this is why I bought a Mac mini instead of built a Hackintosh; I even wrote Tim Cook about a "system builder" license being something I'd dr
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by trebor 13y ago
The github project has also been stale for 1-2 years. I'm interested but you've got to maintain a project for it to be a "solution".
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by trebor 13y ago
Except that a DropCam's footage is admissible as evidence in case of an actual robbery. You won't get that out of a fake camera with a blinking light.
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by trebor 13y ago
If the design were that time consuming, then scanning/printing a copy of the original to ~2mm tolerances (which some of the better scanners and printers can achieve) will still be out of tolerance. Do this with a precise mechanical par
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by trebor 13y ago
I don't find the physical design of a product to be unique or worth protecting. If the "pirate" wants to go through the trouble to scan, touch-up, and print something they could've bought then let them go through the tro
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by trebor 13y ago
I've considered DropCam[1] for just the same reason in the past. There are quite a few less expensive cameras available, with night vision even, that support archival/streaming to mobile devices. [1]: https://www.dro
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by trebor 13y ago
I heard about how the modern diesel-electric trains are engineered and wondered what I could learn from their systems, and was just about shocked. My intent was a thought experiment on "could we build a better hybrid car?" And the
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by trebor 13y ago
Actually, the OP is about an attempt to build a tsunami-proof boat. The about/"what is it?" page gives more insight. Hope things work well for him.
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by trebor 13y ago
And a revolution fighting against modern weaponry is practically guaranteed to fail. With the government constantly trying to restrict the citizens' access to weaponry there's no way to even make parody (pun intended) to hold the
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by trebor 13y ago
If I read this correctly, Schneier is saying that "increasing key size will be enough to stay ahead of the advances in factorization for the foreseeable future." I hope this is true. But I think I'll stick to my guns, saying
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by trebor 13y ago
Great. So all my effort in an attempt to keep my info off Facebook has not paid off; my friends with Facebook apps have "allowed" Facebook to create a ghost profile for me. Thanks a lot, Facebook!
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by trebor 13y ago
That hasn't worked out so well for the Jabber protocol so far, and its federated. We probably need something simpler with OTR built into it.
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by trebor 13y ago
They can be forced to change their code, affecting their endpoints, and acting as a wiretap yes. But in the OP's view he said it was an Open Source protocol, which wouldn't get a lot of "forced/secret patches" becau
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by trebor 13y ago
It would be nice to tag something as fiction in its title here, in a category on Medium, or something like that. Sorry to be a downer, but I come here to read news and often only skim the (oft useless) introduction to an article.
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by trebor 13y ago
Sorry, but I can't find any sign of an "Open Messaging Service" by Yahoo anywhere. I can't find clients, I can't find sources. The OP doesn't cite a single post but brazenly makes broad assertions with nothing
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by trebor 13y ago
I'm intrigued. What's it weigh though? I'd want to use it for backpacking / disaster-style work rather than sitting at some table or desk.

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