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by utnick 11y ago
Also to be fair, is it proven that Tor's most popular use-case is something other than criminal activity? I know there are legit uses for Tor certainly, but it wouldn't really surprise me if criminals were the primary users
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by utnick 11y ago
Anyone have an idea what percentage of networks and hosting providers drop spoofed packets originating from inside their networks? What are the downsides of dropping them?
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by utnick 11y ago
anecdotal counterpoint :) -- squatting aggrevates my lower back. I think its because my hamstring flexibility is terrible which causes my squat form to be terrible. I'm working on that.
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Attacks on fiber networks in bay area baffle FBI(wsj.com)
1 points by utnick 11y ago|0 comments
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by utnick 11y ago
For people questioning the valuation, There is already a public company that is very similar to airbnb called Homeaway. They are profitable with a 3 billion dollar market cap. It doesn't seem far fetched to me to say airbnb is an orde
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by utnick 11y ago
could he get access to a graphing calculator possibly? That would be a good environment to learn coding and wont allow him to connect to the net or make calls.
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by utnick 12y ago
I have a few comments/questions about the post: 1) Why is a mobile phone random number generator good enough to generate encryption keys, but not good enough to generate one time pads? What extra weaknesses do one time pads expose? 2)
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by utnick 12y ago
The way these end to end plugins work, the website never has access to the plaintext message, it all goes through your browser extension first.
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Still in search of the perfect book api(bookstack.net)
2 points by utnick 12y ago|0 comments
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by utnick 12y ago
I think he really is just trying to convince the jury that it might have been someone else who ordered the murders. That should shave decades off the jailtime.
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by utnick 12y ago
So the attack is due to the fingerprint of the key being smaller than the actual key and therefore theoretically possible to find another key with the same fingerprint.. Doesn't textsecure and threema have the exact same problem? Both
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by utnick 12y ago
If its free to go to a community college, won't 4 year universities have to keep their prices lower or people will just decide to go to community college for free.
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by utnick 12y ago
Whatsapp right now hides all of the encryption from the user, doesnt have a way to do key verification, so its trivial for the whatsapp server to do a Mitm on your conversations. I know they are working on that and I fully expect whatsapp t
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by utnick 12y ago
in the reddit nootropics forum the other day there was a post from someone who almost accidently OD'd on caffeine. Alot of the users there use caffeine powder, and he had his bags of powder mixed up with his vitamin c powder and almost
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by utnick 12y ago
I had a similar idea for pool builders. Find streets where the majority of houses have pools and sell lists of the people without pools.
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by utnick 12y ago
I don't really understand what this is, is it a vpn?
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by utnick 12y ago
What does he mean that scaling a mobile backend is a solved problem? What has changed?
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by utnick 12y ago
Wickr is not sponsored by the EFF
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by utnick 12y ago
I disagree that just because its possible for a malicious or comprimised server to send evil javascript, javascript crypto should not be done. You have to analyze the threat model. Take the note taking webapp they use as an example. Without
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by utnick 12y ago
> Why does the person who moved in yesterday, perhaps far needier than the longer-term resident/owner (and just as deserving of basic civic services) have to pay so much more? Property taxes without caps are just as unfair but in th
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by utnick 13y ago
Why is summing a list of numbers 1 to N O(N^2) instead of O(N), don't you just iterate through the set of numbers once? EDIT: Nevermind, I think it means the value of the sum is on the order of n^2
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by utnick 13y ago
How about a job board for people that want to work in the space industry?
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by utnick 13y ago
The Readme says insight requires a running bitcoind to communicate to over RPC, does bitcore require the same? or is bitcore like a reimplementation of bitcoind?
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by utnick 13y ago
you can send direct messages as well that are private
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by utnick 13y ago
Or sports watching, Not sure if this is possible yet , but I'm imagining a 360 degree camera at the courtside of every sporting event. Then this is streamed to you at home so you can focus in on whichever part of the play you choose a
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by utnick 13y ago
Agree , I really believe they are commited to security and openness. They should be a model for a lot of security focused companies out there. Security is a process.
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by utnick 13y ago
can you give some screenshots or videos of the fingerprint showing mechanism? My biggest concern with cryptocat is that this info is kind of hidden and not bubbled up to the user. In the web version, the way its handled makes it possible fo
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by utnick 13y ago
Actually, this is the opposite of ruining it. Cities love to have tourists come, spend money, use hotels, etc
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by utnick 13y ago
Also, What did he mean by public keys are not authenticated?
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by utnick 13y ago
If the crypto is broken, then break the crypto and collect the 200k. Or if its vulnerable to a MITM, then explain how. Or if its vulnerable to chosen plaintext/ciphertext or known plaintest, explain how. There has been so much piling o

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