tskaiser

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by tskaiser 9y ago
Indeed, but I cannot see how this addresses my question?
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by tskaiser 9y ago
If the private key is only used for this purpose, and the cronjob as well as the key only reside on the server, is the security of the key then not a moot point if the server is breached? Genuinely curious.
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by tskaiser 9y ago
As a Dane I'm a bit embarrassed to forget Janus Friis. Thank you for the correction and elaboration.
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by tskaiser 9y ago
The original quote does fall apart, as most quotes do, upon closer inspection. Say you can kill a man, but irregardless of the threat to their life said man would refuse any and all of your orders, who can then be said to have 'control
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by tskaiser 9y ago
Skype (the company) was founded by Niklas Zennström, a swede. Skype (the software) was originally developed by estonians. The company is what is pertinent to the discussion :)
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by tskaiser 9y ago
Insofar none of us would want to suffer the consequences of such acts we cannot truly say we are capable of carrying them out. It is what we mean when we claim someone is "incapable of <x>" such as murder. It does not mean t
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by tskaiser 9y ago
Telmore in Denmark (my current operator) first gave my subscription a price hike to "compensate" for the new roaming rules and then advertised that I could change to a "Denmark only" subscription for the old price. It se
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by tskaiser 9y ago
iirc 3 introduced this service when it was announced that these regulations were underway.
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by tskaiser 9y ago
But can ticking those boxes be mandatory for using a service? ie. "if you don't tick all three boxes you won't have access to Google Search"?
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by tskaiser 9y ago
It is private, but it is not securely private, meaning it is a castle made of glass.
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by tskaiser 10y ago
1118/1025 yields the multiplication factor, not the relative difference which is 9%.
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by tskaiser 10y ago
And "code-staring" is also not simply running your hand over what "must" be right and continually asserting that the bug is "impossible". It is exactly the step of debugging that informs the hypothesis to be te
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by tskaiser 10y ago
Experimenting and reasoning ("staring") solves two different problems: the "what" and the "why". Both are useful tools that can lift different tasks, and neither should be used to the exclusion of the other.
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by tskaiser 10y ago
While it is an outlier it is also proof that it is a poor system of measurement.
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by tskaiser 10y ago
Exactly, and the problem with DRM then becomes that, outside making the pirated content a superior product, it outright antagonizes the legitimate consumers. In short money is poured into making the product less desirable by making it harde
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by tskaiser 10y ago
DRM is fundamentally broken, compared to cryptography, in that by necessity everyone has access to the keys and the content has to be decrypted to be consumed. This makes DRM a client-side security issue with some pretty bad premises. It is
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by tskaiser 10y ago
The problem is that, at least for stuff like music and video, the "harder" part is an illusion for most popular stuff given the sheer size of the demography watching. Out of so many people there is bound to be quite a few who deci
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by tskaiser 10y ago
After a few hits at it, the realization dawns on our hero: "I can order cat food with this?"
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by tskaiser 10y ago
This is cool, but I have a few criticisms: - Flipping something over like that looks cool, but confuses the brain. At least it confused mine. - Inconsistently calculating 1 or 2 elements at a time is confusing. Having 2 results calculated a
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by tskaiser 10y ago
Worse than destruction is undetected malicious modification. Say you decompress a specially crafted archieve which overwrites certain parts of the system enabling a backdoor. As a common user this would be blocked, but as root you'd pr