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by willscott 11y ago
It would also be fascinating to know what sort of compromises if any are needed to allow this change to occur for operations in China.
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by willscott 11y ago
At a high level, one of the main goals in uProxy is to lower the bar for indirecting your traffic. It isn't meant to provide anonymity, or to resist targeted attacks. If you're wondering where to place it, there has been some disc
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by willscott 12y ago
Great to see this getting played with. In addition to these notes, there's apparently a custom kernel module doing security stuff that was found on twitter. I mostly find this interesting for how much work went into it. Priorities can
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by willscott 12y ago
I was running it on a super low powered chromebook, which was the main problem.
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by willscott 12y ago
An interesting takeaway from this, perhaps, is how willing this statement is to defend and mark the 'defenders of peace' group as supporters of the regime. If an anonymous hacker attacked a cause that you supported but you didn&#x
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by willscott 12y ago
The saving grace is that we have a country that was able to admit that it did this. For me, that's hope that we're still in a position to learn from our wrongs, and that the checks-and-balances are still somewhat in-tact.
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by willscott 12y ago
This is a good reminder that your phone may not be as secure as you think. In many countries governments are able to get access or ask for this type of change to be made from the national telco's. The reactions you can take at the mome
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ISP Interconnection and Its Impact on Consumer Internet Performance [pdf](measurementlab.net)
1 points by willscott 12y ago|0 comments
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by willscott 12y ago
There's significant incentive for us to wait until we feel all the security pieces we have been working on are relatively stable before releasing. Even if we don't advertise, we really want to have multiple security audits, and to
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by willscott 12y ago
Consider supporting HTTPS, since a lot of the un-cors'ed javascript this service enables involve credentials.
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by willscott 12y ago
no
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by willscott 12y ago
This is exactly what happened with the first era of URL shorteners, and has the detrimental effect of scattering dead links around the web when your service closes. (termed link rot) ArchiveTeam has a project scraping URL shorterners to att
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AllSee: Bringing Gesture Recognition To All Devices(allsee.cs.washington.edu)
2 points by willscott 13y ago|0 comments
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by willscott 13y ago
The campus has internet access for professors and graduate students. There is an egyptian joint venture company in pyongyang that provides both wired and cell internet access.
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by willscott 13y ago
I'm an american currently teaching Undergrad level CS in pyongyang. Most of the students here know that they want to work at one of the two government research labs: Korean Computing Center, or Pyongyang Information Center. One of the
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by willscott 13y ago
The basic thought here is that there's a ton of energy in our environment, specifically in the form of high-amplitude RF waves from TV broadcasts, and we should be able to use that energy to do work. This project is trying to figure ou
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by willscott 14y ago
Firefox is currently ahead on the data channel, right? They support sending blobs / arrayBuffers directly, while Chrome doesn't yet have a reliable transport or binary data support. Your example translates the file into a base64 string to s
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by willscott 14y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if some of the ICMP responses are forged - It seems disadvantageous for the site to have such a long path, since each hop has the potential for attack. http://www.thoughtcrime.org/software/fakeroute/ can be seen as
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by willscott 14y ago
I am an avid Mathematica user. Not because I need to evaluate that much math, but because I really like its wysiwyg notebook structure for note-taking. It's great for keeping up with lectures and including decent looking equations and tabl
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by willscott 14y ago
There's a reasonably high earthquake risk, more likely to happen in your lifetime than a volcano. On the social side, Seattle tends to be somewhat slower paced than SF or NY. You might not see the same level of high intensity and fast pace
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by willscott 14y ago
Are there many examples of websites using client-side javascript cryptography?
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by willscott 14y ago
This looks somewhat similar to Unhosted's Remotestorage[1] specification. [1] https://unhosted.org/
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by willscott 14y ago
I'm sure many US companies would love to see North Korea become more hospitable to the west. A plausible near term goal might be running fiber over land between South Korea & China, which would probably be much cheaper than undersea cab
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by willscott 14y ago
Google has indicated that writing will be provided through a history api: https://developers.google.com/+/history/ History sources can be set to default to public, and will show up on a user's profile when that happens (like +1's do today
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Jacob Appelbaum's CCC keynote on Personal Responsibility(youtube.com)
4 points by willscott 14y ago|0 comments
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by willscott 14y ago
There was an academic paper on this published in the fall by Telefonica in Spain: http://conferences.sigcomm.org/hotnets/2012/papers/hotnets12... Abstract: Price discrimination, setting the price of a given product for each customer
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by willscott 14y ago
There have been several attempts at chrome extensions. (example: https://github.com/Mononofu/CryptoChrome ) It seems pretty clear that the issue is that both sides need to buy into a solution for it to work. How are you going to verify th
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by willscott 14y ago
There are a bunch of teaching OSes which are a great place to start for this stuff. The actively developed ones we chose between when teaching the OS class at UW this fall were: JOS (mit) https://github.com/guanqun/mit-jos Pintos (stanfor
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Price and Search discrimination on the Internet(conferences.sigcomm.org)
1 points by willscott 14y ago|0 comments
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by willscott 14y ago
The artist's page: http://www.martinbackes.com/pixelhead-limited-edition/ He sells them for 158 euro. It's also worth looking at CV Dazzle if you find this interesting. It looks at ways to beat current face detection mechanisms while not

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