vader1

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by vader1 11y ago
Any recent experiences on Tresorit vs. Spideroak?
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Wuala shutdown notice(support.wuala.com)
9 points by vader1 11y ago|2 comments
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Namecheap.com DNS servers down yet again(status.namecheap.com)
21 points by vader1 11y ago|7 comments
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by vader1 12y ago
"that I use for e-mail for myself and a few other family members." If the domain is dedicated to yourself, there's no problem as you can indeed add an unlimited amount of domains, forwards and aliases. Sharing one account wit
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by vader1 12y ago
+1 for asuswrt-merlin. It's the Cyanogenmod of the router world: the stability and speed of officially supported drivers, with the added flexibility and freedom of a custom firmware.
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by vader1 12y ago
The same goes for Wuala.
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by vader1 12y ago
Of course using HTTPS is no guarantee that the site doesn't leak your data in any other way. But never before has it been this easy to create a false sense of security: give the impression that connections to your site are encrypted, w
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by vader1 12y ago
I have very mixed feelings about this. Yes, on the one hand this is great news because a lot of websites who otherwise never would have bothered with SSL can now be protected from snooping or traffic manipulation on your local (possibly ver
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by vader1 12y ago
Wuala has supported this for as long as I can remember, it's called "WualaDrive": a network mount of your entire file archive.
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by vader1 12y ago
The difference to the end user is that while the bank's operations division can only do this for a single website, Cloudflare can do so for 2 million of them.
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by vader1 12y ago
I'm not quite following how having just enough insights about the encrypted data to perform DDOS mitigation would be scarier than having full read- and write access to the cleartext. Thanks for the responses though, and definitely look
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by vader1 12y ago
I understand that there are many different types of DDOS attacks, and that for some of them having access to the content on the application level makes your job of mitigating them a lot easier. But even without that, would comparing the enc
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by vader1 12y ago
Interesting how they specifically refer to yesterday's discussion here on HN and over at Reddit, but don't go into the frequently mentioned complaint that despite not having access to the PK itself, Cloudflare can still intercept
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by vader1 12y ago
Indeed. Imagine an internet user who uses online banking with one of these banks; registered his domains with Namecheap; keeps some bitcoins at Coinbase; pseudonymously frequents Reddit; and posts anonymously at 4chan every now and then. By
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by vader1 12y ago
While this is a cool feature, I wouldn't say the improvement is more than marginal: all potentially sensitive customer data is still available to Cloudflare in plain text. And after all, with a Business plan you can already use your ow
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by vader1 12y ago
Anyone else starting to get creeped out by the amount of sites using Cloudflare (including HN itself)? By now these guys are probably handling at least 25% of all my webbrowsing traffic, and because of their man-in-the-middle architecture t
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by vader1 12y ago
Oh, it works fine for me. The problem is with the average person who doesn't know or want to know what a self-signed certificate is. "When you first connect, it will show you a popup with a long set of characters. Check if it ends
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by vader1 12y ago
I'm using DAVdroid in combination with Owncloud, which works very well. Unfortunately though the author does not want to add support for self-signed certificates, which is not a huge problem for us technical people (we can manually imp
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by vader1 12y ago
I don't know how it was in the past, but installing Gitlab 7 on debian/ubuntu is a breeze: download a .deb and install it, install postfix, optionally tweak the configuration files, and run 'gitlab-ctl reconfigure'. Take
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by vader1 13y ago
Sadly, Adium trunk is still on libotr 3.2.1 (OTRv2) which gets so confused if either party is using multiple simultaneous logins that I just disabled it for most of my contacts who are on a mac.
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by vader1 13y ago
Unfortunately I had the same experience when I evaluated it a couple of years ago. You should check Wuala: while still not perfect (the client is closed source and java) the user experience has been pretty much as smooth as Dropbox'.
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by vader1 13y ago
Of course a system such as this will not provide you with foolproof protection against any adversary ever. If that is what you need, email is not what you're looking for, period. But there is in fact an enormous difference between the
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by vader1 13y ago
Firstly because I'm looking to create a solution that can be hosted centrally: the average email user is simply never going to setup and host their own mailserver and setup the encryption. Secondly: simply using a regular encrypted par
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by vader1 13y ago
I also considered the approach of transparently encrypting all incoming mail with the user's public key, but it has a couple of downsides, mainly: * This only works if all of a user's clients support GPG. I'm looking for a so
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by vader1 13y ago
For a couple of weeks now, I've been brainstorming about how to create a system like this. I'd very much like to use this sort of setup for my own emails, but it simply doesn't seem to exist, especially not as open source (wh
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by vader1 13y ago
Seconded; after an extensive comparison over a year ago, Yii is now my framework of choice on any PHP project, and I haven't regretted that choice a single time since. It's fast, powerful, extensible and well documented. As for En
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by vader1 13y ago
In the long run there is probably room for even more than two crypto-currencies, as long as each of them is unique enough to have its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Litecoin however is merely a fork of Bitcoin with changes to a fe
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by vader1 13y ago
It's not just MtGox and bitstamp. Pretty much every other exchange, as well as bitcointalk.org and trackers like bitcoinity are under attack simultaneously. It's a pretty obvious attempt at manipulating the market by causing widespread pani
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by vader1 14y ago
Most Bitcoin supporters agree that there are only two possibilities in the long run: either a fundamental flaw in the Bitcoin code or economics is discovered and the value drops down all the way to zero; or Bitcoin reaches a point of global
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by vader1 14y ago
The deflationary-spiral argument is pretty much as old as Bitcoin itself, and in my opinion quite overrated. Sure, the Euro and the Dollar themselves are inflationary currencies, but because of interest your buying power increases when you

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