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by x1798DE 12y ago
Just to add to why you would or would not want to use the passphrase vs. the abbreviation - I've personally found that I find it much easier to actually type a password that consists of words, names or "nonsense words" gene
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by x1798DE 12y ago
> Assuming they were actually keeping the contents of such wordlists out and actually ensuring high-entropy passphrases, we would be in an OK place, though still far removed from the security provided by randomly seeded ECC keypairs. I&
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by x1798DE 12y ago
If we were using an SSH-type model, there's no particular reason why APs which you control which share an SSID can't also share a private key. If you are the administrator of the APs and you want them all to be seen as the same ne
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by x1798DE 12y ago
It's been maybe 15 or so years, so I'm similarly pretty far down the rabbit hole, but I definitely remember having a lot of trouble with: x = x + 1 At the time, it seemed patently obvious that it was a false statement, beca
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by x1798DE 12y ago
> A country with a lower life expectancy will necessarily have a younger population. This is not necessarily true. Generally the number for "life expectancy" that is quoted is life expectancy at birth, which is roughly the av
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by x1798DE 12y ago
> What would people recommend these days seeing as TrueCrypt is likely to be compromised and ecryptfs might not be as secure as it could be? Just to push back on this a bit, I don't think it's particularly likely that TrueCryp
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm guessing that's how the data are actually gathered for whatever reason. The UN World Population Prospectus has various breakdowns here, and they group people in 5-year groups, so there's a break at 14 and a break at 19. I
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by x1798DE 12y ago
> Now whether they were watching your ex-roommates for a good reason is neither here nor there, but the fact remains that the FBI wouldn't be doing their jobs if they didn't keep tabs on you, someone whom they were living with.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I agree that it's a step forward, just that I think it doesn't address the biggest problems and it's not a solution . It certainly helps with the health problems, but it's only a good step in the sense that nearly anyth
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by x1798DE 12y ago
As much as I don't want to make the best the enemy of the good, I'm really skeptical of "decriminalization". Yeah, you won't get sent to jail for it, but if you don't make it legal , you are still dealing in a
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Yeah, I've been shocked by how easy it is to get a brand new router and set it up with the same SSID and password and every device I have auto-connects like it's the same thing. If you have the AP password, it's trivial to se
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>Only in the same sense as selling organs or babies (or conspiring to fix prices) is a victimless crime. Selling your own organs is definitely a victimless crime. Arguably the baby you are selling is the victim of a baby-selling scheme
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think the point is that I don't really care how it's done, I just want it to work. I'd love to pay for road use, up to the point that transaction costs swamp things (like when people have to stop or slow down when going thr
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by x1798DE 12y ago
> For me, I don't want a faster car, I want fuel efficiency. I want a car that doesn't require too much maintenance and repairs. If we're talking about cars, my version of "horseshit" is traffic and parking. I do
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I would love that so much , but public choice theory makes it clear that that is anything but the easy solution. I'm fully and 100% in favor of that idea though.
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Not really, because then the police have the control over the cameras. This officer in Albuquerque [1] was wearing a lapel cam in 3 separate serious incidents, after two of which he was accused of using excessive force and during the third
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Well, what I mean is that we'd ideally have a situation where there are cheap dedicated hardware modules which contain your private key, so that you never have to trust your private key to a phone or a laptop. A phone can play that rol
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I wonder if you have a not ideal library? I get a large fraction of my audiobooks and ebooks from libraries. For very popular books there's a bit of a wait list, but if you have a very long "to-read" list like I do and a libr
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by x1798DE 12y ago
Yeah, it's an interesting situation. I've been averaging around 12 books per month (audio and ebooks) pretty consistently this year, mainly because I've been really good about going to the gym (I do all my reading on an ellip
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>Anyhow, I read "belonging" as a coded word for "community", and wonder how Airbnb thinks they are going to culture their own community... Yeah, I need a new "community" like I need a hole in my head. Not ev
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think Google cares about privacy in the abstract, but I'm concerned that there are some fundamental mismatches between what Google considers acceptable disclosure and what I consider acceptable disclosure. I don't really underst
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by x1798DE 12y ago
The threat model isn't "what if someone tells everyone their username and password", it's "What if someone gets your username and password". I think most of the time people have one number they connect to, an
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>So...I don't know what the "flaw" is...but it doesn't seem to me that the OP learned the biggest lesson of all about security: that pretty much everything is a tradeoff. The flaw is side-channel data leakage about th
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I think this is just illustrating precisely the point of two-factor authentication, which is defense in depth. Right now, you have one factor which means that anything that compromises that factor compromises you , and who knows what biz
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>STANDARDS: The "message bus" needs to have essentially an HTTP protocol standard, that both producers and receivers on both ends can understand. I think a better analogy to what we need should be an HTTPS protocol standard. HT
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by x1798DE 12y ago
> ie, we are looking at our existing house infrastructure, the idea of an IoT and saying "but the Internet Of Things is not going to give me a faster horse, so why would I want it?". I think again you're missing the point
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by x1798DE 12y ago
nounaut has the technological objection to this idea pretty much covered, but to add on to that, one of my problems is that Google has shown in many occasions that they simply don't understand why you would be concerned about keeping c
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by x1798DE 12y ago
>Regardless, I really don't know how you actually identify someone. Likely, as you say, physically being present(retina scan, fingerprinting, both?). You raise an interesting philosophical question; that is, what is identity? It&#x2
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I still don't see a compelling argument here. Who cares about having a "light show" in their house? What does that even have to do with the internet? We already have huge televisions that aren't very expensive. If we wan
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by x1798DE 12y ago
I'm not sure why you think this dystopian vision you have wouldn't be horrible. It would have massive chilling effects on nearly everyone's behavior, since it would be incredibly efficient to seek out and socially punish anyo

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