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by tveita 10y ago
So how do we remove this "Widevine" malware from our phones?
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by tveita 10y ago
This looks like a political statement, not like a serious security measure. "No sane person would say the things this guy is saying, so he must have been hacked." Like the Soviet Union where political opponents would be declared t
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by tveita 11y ago
I am curious why you "wouldn't have imagined this possible", is the reason technical or political?
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by tveita 11y ago
You may be giving hunter-gatherers too little credit. I think erring on the opposite side of romanticizing is just as bad and risks dehumanizing them. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Göbekli_Tepe "Ian Hodder of
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by tveita 11y ago
"networking and rpc" must be written in the languages your server and client are written in, (or something compatible). Writing a networking library in Go does nothing for Facebook if their services are written in C++.
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by tveita 11y ago
If you want something stable I'd stay away from containers and use well-tested technologies like VMs and configuration management. In my experience many of the tools in the container ecosystem are in the early adopter phase, promising
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by tveita 11y ago
> They don't and they end up raising awareness of speakers and ideas they are scared of It's true that a lot of people are only hearing about this because of the protest, and that some of the public reaction is negative, but th
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by tveita 11y ago
> I don't want to appeal to gender stereotypes That's what you seem to be doing, though. By that logic, if we had increased the number of male teachers people would be breaking out in violent fights instead?
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by tveita 11y ago
> That's something that's at least somewhat true of OTR and PGP too Well, OTR is just the protocol, implementations vary in how well they make you authenticate your conversation partner. And PGP will whine at you a lot if you h
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by tveita 11y ago
I would place Signal in the same tier as WhatsApp here (Tier 2). They both upload your contacts to an intermediate server that gives you their public key, which you can optionally verify afterwards. This means a malicious server could both
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by tveita 11y ago
Poly1305 also fails if nonces are repeated. If you want reuse resistance, I'd rather go for something boring like encrypt-then-HMAC than a polynomial based MAC.
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by tveita 11y ago
Interesting, that seems to contradict the information in http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/... Specifically, the FAQ says: "Will running a small number of In
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by tveita 11y ago
Cycles per byte is pretty standard for crypto algorithms, and tends to give consistent results across an architecture. It is usually measured with dynamic frequency scaling disabled. Do you have a source for use of AVX2 automatically reduci
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by tveita 11y ago
There is nothing reality defying about meeting up and exchanging keys in person. Unfortunately, that's a use case the Signal UI goes out of its way to discourage. It's not like they don't know how, copying Threema's UI w
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by tveita 11y ago
Nested functions are convenient, but when you take the address of a nested function that refers to surrounding variables, GCC puts a small trampoline function on the stack. To do this it has to disable the no-execute flag on the stack, whic
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by tveita 11y ago
I've had a similar problem. I would like to develop an intuition for the game by exploring different variations, "if I do this, the opponent does this, but if I do this, the opponent does this instead", but last I looked I co
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by tveita 11y ago
Yeah, we tried that. You forgot setting up TLS, authentication, and oh you wanted a backlog? You'll have to switch to this different client that runs in the cloud / on a Linux server. If there were no other alternatives we could p
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by tveita 11y ago
Maybe a priori in a vacuum, but most people are aware of the historical context where women just recently got the right to vote and attend university, and are still considered men's property in some parts of the world. It's well a
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by tveita 11y ago
Nothing the majority of people learn in High School is well paid. If these programs are effective, entry-level programming jobs will drop to minimum wage from the increased supply. "Coding literacy" may or may not be a worthwhile
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by tveita 11y ago
> Of course, any network partition in a 2-node cluster has a huge potential for data corruption, as each node now thinks it is the master (split-brain). This is not a given, the cluster can and should refuse to operate if it can not get
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by tveita 11y ago
Does Sweden have a national payment network similar to Canadas Interac? If so they might be paying much less than standard credit card fees.
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by tveita 11y ago
The widespread use of MD5 in AUR is because that is the default in makepkg, making it both AUR's and makepkg's "problem". > It doesn't matter what algorithm you use Of course it matters, they have different guara
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by tveita 11y ago
I assure you Yaourt doesn't have an .asc signature either. They should be using SHA-256, or Blake 2 if they think the extra seconds spent verifying matter, but insisting on using MD5 is pretty much going out of your way to increase you
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by tveita 11y ago
A bunch of AUR packages, like Yaourt itself, download their sources over HTTP and verify them with MD5, so even if you trust the AUR maintainer you have no idea if you're getting the same file they did. It's sad that makepkg still
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by tveita 11y ago
For resizing operation you use a resampling filter, not an interpolation method. E.g. the 'point' filter corresponds to the 'nearest' interpolation. http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/filter/ To
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by tveita 11y ago
Pickling, for one. >>> nt = namedtuple('nt', 'a b') >>> nt10k = [nt(1, 2) for i in range(10000)] >>> dict10k = [{'a':1, 'b':2} for i in range(10000)] >>>
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by tveita 11y ago
http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-puts-an-e... says > Update on February 5: A Facebook rep on its security team tells us that, to the company’s knowledge, nothing has changed on its end and isn’t su
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by tveita 11y ago
I got served a "Click here to update your Windows drivers" ad on Youtube. I clicked around for a while but couldn't find a way to report it.
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by tveita 11y ago
They're not supposed to be extradited if they will be tortured either, but prolonged solitary detention is not considered torture for reasons of political convenience. (No one wants to call the U.S. out on their extensive ongoing human
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by tveita 11y ago
It's just as likely that they have done extensive testing and found out that for whatever reason, ads for products you already own still encourage you to buy other stuff. A lot of assumptions we make don't hold up when you start g

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