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by uxp 11y ago
Frederic Jacobs has been planning on moving away from Open Whisper Systems for a while. They didn't hire him away, he took another job.
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by uxp 11y ago
Whenever I hear of Cryptome complaining, semi-regularly, about the cache of Snowden documents being trickled into public existence, all I can think of is how they published a ripped copy of Citizenfour because of the stupid lawsuit a former
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by uxp 11y ago
> If I invent a new kind of lock you've never seen before, you'll have to come up with a way to break it. Why?
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by uxp 11y ago
> If it's basically the output of magic levers and knobs and processes which are not allowed to be inspected or questioned or understood by the jury I specifically edited my comment to say that I was not trying to imply that juries
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by uxp 11y ago
The CPU contains both the UID and GID on all iPhones (old and new). The Secure Enclave, if available, contains it's own UID for it's own key derivation. https://mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2016-02-19-what-is-
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by uxp 11y ago
The author finds it stupid that the jury was allowed to ask questions to the author of a forensics tool about the technicalities and inner workings of the forensics tool, like "Wouldn't it be easier if you just jailbroke the phone
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by uxp 11y ago
You do not have any rights as part of a corporation that you do not already have as an individual. That is the distinction. The corporation has rights, of which you can enact on behalf of the corporation, that you cannot enact on your own.
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by uxp 11y ago
You shouldn't lose your right to anything when you're in a group, but you shouldn't have more rights solely because you're in a group. The group should have rights, You should have rights, and everyone else should have r
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by uxp 11y ago
"'I've Got Nothing to Hide' and Other Misunderstandings of Privacy" [0] is a really good paper on why the argument of "only bad people have secrets" is such a fallacy. [0] http://scholarship.law
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by uxp 11y ago
It was Nicholas Merrill from a little ISP called Calyx Internet Access that famously challenged the NSL process. LavaBit's Lamar Levinson is assumed to be under a gag order from some request he was given by the US government, of which
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by uxp 11y ago
> creating an innovative backdoor that does not exist today, means that it can never be un-designed Wasn't it just yesterday a story was published about an upcoming documentary about the STUXnet virus that claims that the US and Isr
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by uxp 11y ago
FILES=`find /Applications/Adobe -type d -name "something that doesn't exist"` rm $FILES/* It's easy to do.
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by uxp 11y ago
I mostly agree. A site called insideairbnb.com that is clearly not affiliated with the company looks to be simply a muckraker blog about AirBnB. But, the data does not lie. If they purged somewhere around half of all Full Home listings to m
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by uxp 11y ago
Some of us like reading and understanding other people's sentiment more than contributing what is most likely irrelevant opinions and general noise? Just because HN, Reddit, /., etc are built around the premise of commenting doesn
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by uxp 11y ago
The Git backend is different from the GitHub frontend, unsurprisingly.
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by uxp 11y ago
Your results, even when logged out, are heavily biased towards your previous query genres. For instance, I'm not logged in, but am at home with an IP address that hasn't changed in over a year despite being leased. When I search G
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by uxp 11y ago
> I'm going out on a limb and suggest that Micah Lee understands why Windows works this way Which he states on his own, and with a quote from an unnamed Microsoft representative, starting on the 7th paragraph: > Of course, keepin
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by uxp 11y ago
> I've seen plenty of bugs where the original fix didn't fix everything You're right, but plenty of bugs aren't for a browser extension that is supposed to enhance the user's security when browsing the internet.
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by uxp 11y ago
> The write-up is a bit vague and misses one major point: not all of these dams in the U.S. are concrete The write-up is in response to a question asking how long dams like the Hoover Dam, which is a large concrete dam, are designed to l
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by uxp 11y ago
Why? Why put forth the expense of obtaining (purchase or rent) hardware and staff to maintain that hardware? Additionally, why put forth the time and expense to write or compose a CRM-like software solution that integrates with voter data,
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by uxp 11y ago
They usually bind to events the browser triggers before a network request is made. This lets them literally block the browser from downloading any content from a source that may register your IP just from the connection (pixel tracking, etc
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by uxp 11y ago
The current certificate that I can see on (star).xboxlive.com is valid between December 1st 2014 and December 1st 2016 . Is it common to issue a certificate for a year, but make it active for the previous year as well?
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by uxp 11y ago
I just logged into my all-but-abandoned yahoo account's webmail in Chrome with Ghostery set to block all, then in Chrome again but with AdBlock at default settings (and Ghostery disabled), then in Safari with uBlock (my default) and no
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by uxp 11y ago
The fact that the telco/cableco broadcasts a public or subscriber wifi off an installed business class service line is more WTF than potentially misconfigured broadcast channels. This is partially why I bought a SB6141 for my home. It
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by uxp 11y ago
> I'm assuming LAN traffic still works in this case. Blocking outbound RFC 1918 addresses is a fairly common firewall configuration to prevent any LAN traffic from leaking out into the internet due to weird or misconfigured NAT rule
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by uxp 11y ago
Against a repository hosting service that lacks SSH or rather incentives HTTP(s) over SSH (Visual Studio Team Services, formerly Visual Studio Online), entering credentials is a problem with Git. 98% of Git users won't have this issue,
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by uxp 11y ago
"Rider Bills" are just amendments to bills. Taking the example given elsewhere in this thread, a farm subsidy bill. If the original bill was to pay farmers 10% of their annual yield (i'm literally making this up), would an am
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by uxp 11y ago
> trello You're looking for Twilio.
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by uxp 11y ago
This is entirely incorrect. nil is a pointer to the value 0, and in C there is only one value that evaluates to a logical false, which is 0. Invoking a method on nil returns 0. This itself alleviates the kind of nil-check-chains discussed i
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by uxp 11y ago
I don't think there is anyone in the world with some sane common sense that _wants_ to legalize drugs like meth and heroin that have high addiction rates, but there are hundreds of thousands that see the benefit of removing the stigma

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