xnull2guest

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by xnull2guest 12y ago
It's not about terrorism. Never was. That's just how the deep state sells it to voters. If you look at the Snowden documents (and leaks by others) you'll see essentially nothing other than the international nature of the prog
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Yikes, that redaction... even if it didn't miss digits that's a mighty small search space. Really interested to see where the bug crops up aside from CGI scripts.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
I'm confused about what you're trying to say.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Zero days are by definition vulnerabilities that aren't disclosed and do not have fixes.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
No. I don't think that follows.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
They certainly could have done more. I'm not as confident that doing more would have prevented this. Not at the larger scope. Perhaps additional investments would have made Home Depot a less attractive target and Walmart would have bee
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
I certainly do not intend to dismiss security faults (I'm a security researcher by trade). I do, however, want to point out that such lists are invariably not exhaustive and the analysis is woefully incomplete. Ask any security profess
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Companies lose huge amounts of money, much of it from PR with customers, when they are hacked. The recent EBay hack for example lost the company huge amounts of money (remember seeing but haven't had luck finding the numbers online). B
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Because it's not relevant? I argue it is. There's no way Home Depot could have prevented this. If they took every step suggested by every article and every comment in this 'factual discussion' they would have been owned
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victim_blaming Seriously. Defending cyber infrastructure is hard. Incredibly hard. If you only play defense you lose. Always. 100% of the time. Nuclear facilities and critical infrastructu
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Nah, this all has to do with ValueAct Capital, which is known for vulture investment. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/11/microsoft-new-... http://www.reuters.com/article&#
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
We're seeing quite a lot of these sorts of headlines across different companies. It's important to keep in mind that: - It was not necessary for Apple to unlock devices for the NSA. - Police use Stingray devices and taps at phone
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
We're on the same page. There's been tons of great work in the past couple years (Smart's SPDZ and others). The financial model has to use something like a pay-per-search instead of the usual ad model (although technically ev
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Yes, it's more general. The schemes that just do functional encryption are more efficient because they don't need to do everything else FHE needs to.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Designing a skimmer-proof ATM is much like designing a squirrel-proof birdfeeder. It looks good on paper but you never know what these guys are going to do. Even if there were a skim-proof ATM, they could probably get a retired machine on t
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Perhaps the person downvoting this could explain why it wasn't relevant to the branch of the conversation.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
http://youtu.be/3jQoAYRKqhg?t=14m17s I'm not saying that this thread or even HN is a victim of this. I do want to use this opportunity to contribute that there are NSA programs designed to derail conversations.
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Almost exactly the tactic and politics Israel uses. If there's violent conflict, the lesser power is 'terrorist' and this justifies the use of greater militaristic power to squelch the rebellion. If there's no violent co
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
Hmm... http://www.ehackingnews.com/2013/08/almost-half-of-tor-sites... http://www.wired.com/2013/09/freedom-hosting-fbi/ Somehow "fiddling with inputs" and "noticing
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by xnull2guest 12y ago
The problem with this is that the grove will not be able to grow enough to sustain (or come close to sustaining) even a single person. By the very, very most optimistic calculations (best recorded growth in tropical greenhouses) you need at