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by waitwhatwhoa 13y ago
We've built a prototype that does this: https://cloudsweeper.cs.uic.edu/ . It works for gmail only, doesn't require full account access, and is completely server side. Currently we only search for and redact/encrypt plaintext passwords, bu
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by waitwhatwhoa 13y ago
Certainly not a new problem (this paper is from 1982, so old that my University subscription doesn't cover it). This might be a better link to start such a discussion: http://jrs.sagepub.com/content/99/4/178.long
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by waitwhatwhoa 13y ago
Ariya Hidayat & co have put a monumental amount of effort into exposing the inner workings of webkit in phantomjs - I'm not sure I see the necessity for a python rewrite. Taking a quick look at the code, most everything I use phantomjs
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by waitwhatwhoa 13y ago
That's more or less what was done to game the Massachusetts lottery: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/mit-students-scammed-m...
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by waitwhatwhoa 13y ago
This is not the only school that Joan and Irwin Jacobs have given to: And in 1997, the School went through a final name change when QUALCOMM founder and former UCSD engineering professor Irwin Jacobs and his wife Joan Jacobs provided a $15
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The Modern Data Nerd Isn’t as Nerdy as You Think(wired.com)
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The End of Crypto(youtube.com)
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by waitwhatwhoa 14y ago
This and a few other interesting concerns are up in Delete[1] by Viktor Mayer-Schönberger. This is a very interesting book that explains a lot of historical context for how the digital age differs from what came before. The linked blog post
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by waitwhatwhoa 14y ago
Do you run into any query limits with aggressive scraping? A colleague wrote an android market scraper a year or two back and she was repeatedly stymied by limits on the number of queries she could make to the store before getting cut off.
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by waitwhatwhoa 14y ago
I think this comment comes the closest to the truth. The author responded to detractors on twitter by posting a link to the C proof-of-concept that he was apparently attempting to translate into javascript: http://pastebin.com/dHgn0fP7 Th
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by waitwhatwhoa 14y ago
PoC did not work on a Core2Duo L7100
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
Our approach is to have the makefile run a script of your choice that creates a file that is then \input into the main tex document. We do it to include database query results rather than random numbers, however.
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
Great to see UC San Diego research on the front page again :) a similar technology has been commercialized: http://dittokey.com/ also similar but relatively unrelated: http://eclecti.cc/hardware/physical-keygen-duplicating-house... Thes
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
Unfortunately I can't speak directly to this. Our correlation was done using the acquiring bank's BIN, and this information is readily available on some normal VISA cards, and even some prepaid cards (due to the CARD act, these are almost e
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
The biggest difference is that we were using the same cards several times, and in this study we only used the cards once each. At this point everything is speculation, so I really can't say anything one way or another as to why this happene
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
To answer your questions: very high chance of actually receiving, the active ingredient is correct and in the correct concentration (we didn't test the binder/other trace elements), and in a pilot study we saw a LOT of fraudulent charge att
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
This is correct: mass spec analysis showed that the correct active ingredient was present in roughly the same concentration in the pills we ordered compared to the store-bought brand version of the drug.
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
We (and also I am pretty sure our lawyer) consider that to be defrauding the spammers, and even though some people might consider that ethical, we don't (also we're pretty sure it's not legal either).
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
We focused on email spam because that's been our area of expertise for the past few years. Some of these programs are well represented in SEO spam as well - with affiliate programs like these, they don't much care how you bring them the cus
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
They basically always send something, as these are credit card transactions and easily reversed by the customer in the case of fraud, either not getting anything or not getting what you ordered.
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
Hi HN, I'm an author on this paper and would be happy to answer any questions you might have about it. It was a huge effort by a lot of great people and a lot of fun to do. Here's John Markoff's writeup for the nytimes, it doesn't seem link
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by waitwhatwhoa 15y ago
this would be "years and years of testing on thousands of machines," no?
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by waitwhatwhoa 16y ago
Can someone explain why I can't register the 10k most popular keywords and then resell arbitrary subsets of that stream to interested entities at pennies on the... nickel and a quarter?
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by waitwhatwhoa 16y ago
I wouldn't consider it "a thesis paper," but this project will eventually be part of my PhD thesis. Overall I would just say that we just seized the opportunity and wrote a decent paper. I, too, am impressed with our team and certainly woul
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by waitwhatwhoa 16y ago
That's an interesting question. Interacting with people in an unsolicited manner is very hard from a legal/ethical standpoint, so using a method like this to "reach out" wouldn't fly. On the other hand, user education about the profit motiv
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by waitwhatwhoa 16y ago
I wouldn't say it was incredibly technically difficult, the worst parts were probably reverse engineering the somewhat funky custom encoding that the botmaster was using for the C&C communication, and then writing the custom router soft
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by waitwhatwhoa 16y ago
Hi guys, I worked with Julie in writing this article. I'd be happy to answer any questions you have about the work. I was indeed inspired by the Drake equation in coming up with this interpretation of our results :) If you'd like to learn m
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by waitwhatwhoa 16y ago
this trick is not new, and the functionality is available in a couple pidgin plugins: http://www.siorarina.net/google-invisibility-half-scan/ http://www.siorarina.net/google-invisibility-tracker/ Note that if you read that first link, y
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by waitwhatwhoa 17y ago
somebody with no preconditioning or expectations My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter I would consider previous iPhone use to provide both preconditioning and expectations.
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by waitwhatwhoa 17y ago
tongue in cheek but sublime: http://www.metafilter.com/72961/Harshing-your-mellow#2168021

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