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by vijayp 12y ago
Of course the irony is that much of Apple's dominance has been cemented by their tyrannically analytical optimization of all aspects of their supply chain!
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by vijayp 12y ago
We open sourced (GPL3) Mitro ( https://www.mitro.co ). You can find the code here: https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro . We have a similar model for reprompting, but you can alter the code as you see fit. Some
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by vijayp 12y ago
The design doc describes the architecture: https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro/blob/master/PasswordManage... We unfortunately don't have a great description of the protocol. The closest you can get is
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by vijayp 12y ago
iOS and Android apps are available on the respective app stores now. Note that the Android app might be vulnerable to clipboard hijacking, as described in http://fc13.ifca.ai/proc/4-2.pdf
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by vijayp 12y ago
Secrets are stored as described in the design document; the server knows how many secrets there are, but nothing about them: https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro/blob/master/PasswordManage...
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by vijayp 12y ago
The chrome extension already supports this via an option on a hidden preferences page: chrome-extension://EXTENSIONID/html/preferences.html
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by vijayp 12y ago
Strange, if the URL is shown in the 'details' view, the dropdown should show up. If not, please email inbound@mitro.co.
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by vijayp 12y ago
We're very excited to make this available to the community and welcome pull requests, bug reports, etc.. Pitch in on Github: https://github.com/mitro-co/mitro
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by vijayp 12y ago
It should be just as secure: not revealing the AES key you use to encrypt data is about the same as not revealing the seed of the random number generator you use to randomly generate ids.
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by vijayp 12y ago
Yeah, this is a really good point. I'm going to try to reach out to someone in the government on Monday. I don't really have many contacts over there, so if anyone has suggestions on how to navigate the bureaucracy, I'm all e
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by vijayp 12y ago
I'm not sure exactly what good it would do since the data are already out there. I guess I could re-anonymize the ids and see if I could get the links replaced.
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by vijayp 12y ago
That's a very interesting question. In your example, finding the identity of one or two drivers might be possible easily, but finding the identity of many drivers would still be very difficult. I guess whether it's anonymous or n
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Lessons from NYC’s improperly anonymized taxi logs(medium.com)
160 points by vijayp 12y ago|56 comments
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by vijayp 12y ago
In NYC, at least, taxis and for-hire vehicles are exempt from car seat laws: http://www.nyc.gov/html/tlc/html/faq/faq_pass.shtml#9
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by vijayp 13y ago
Heh, this reminds of a story many years ago at Google, where we got angry messages from some guy complaining that Google kept deleting all the photos from his online album. We eventually figured out he his online album had an unprotected &q
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by vijayp 13y ago
Too bad DNSSEC isn't widely used; signing the records would prevent this from working. The government could still block the DNS requests, though.
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by vijayp 13y ago
The point is not to prove anything but to shame competitors into providing good quality service. Google Fibre is not about making money, it's about driving the industry to provide faster Internet, which Google believes will lead to mor
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by vijayp 13y ago
Snapchat does indeed currently run on GAE. In this article, I was trying to show cost of running efficient custom infrastructure to solve the problem. GAE's per-byte costs are higher than a custom solution operating at scale for a num
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by vijayp 13y ago
FB tried this with "poke" (remember that) and that didn't work so well. A service with a number of users is not as easy to copy as it would seem. Replicating the technology is one thing, getting all the users is another.
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by vijayp 13y ago
Also, no integers. Who needs integers anyway?
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Colours in movie posters since 1914(vijayp.ca)
20 points by vijayp 14y ago|1 comments
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by vijayp 15y ago
I never really meant to imply that App Engine doesn't make it a lot easier to build and administer your code. It's more than just a price/stability tradeoff. The problem is, as an App Engine user, one is totally at the mercy of any future p
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Ridllr - Bringing sharing back to Reader(ridllr.com)
8 points by vijayp 15y ago|3 comments