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by yholio 8y ago
I don't know what was the cause of him getting fired, but he certainly SHOULD be fired for such a sleazy sensationalist piece: > When you do a search for "5G is Safe" on Google and Bing, you get a number of negative storie
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by yholio 8y ago
True, but the default parameters of cryptsetup are quite secure with a high entropy password and they are seldom changed. A volume opened with the wrong password will fail to mount with no ill effects, you would just crypysetup delete and t
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by yholio 8y ago
The conclusion seems sensible with regard to implementations of a given, secure algorithm. But the title suggests a much wider claim: that closed source crypto in general, hiding everything from system design and primitive selection to impl
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by yholio 8y ago
This time, maybe they hire some cryptographers too instead of letting the network engineers design the security features. For crying out loud, they took their sweet 20 years to actually create a protocol with forward secrecy and resistant t
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by yholio 8y ago
That's the point of carbon taxes, isn't it? It's irrelevant what and how people drive, and they certainly don't give a buck about carbon emissions, yet they unwittingly alter their behavior with the effect of reducing th
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by yholio 8y ago
I've read the FAQ item and I'm sorry to say that it seems written by somebody talking out of their behind, giving legal advice to boot. Sure, once in the hands of the Russian FSB, Italian Mafia or Nicolas Maduro, any detectable am
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by yholio 8y ago
> I've come around though. I think all the bastardized carbon accounting, market based solutions are on average quite bad. Carbon taxing works well when it's applied - but it's very hard to create the political consensus t
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by yholio 8y ago
Maybe not all open to the public - I can understand the notion of a private beach where a 5 star hotel provides premium services for it's paying clientele and wants to exclude the free-riders. But for that right, the general public sho
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by yholio 8y ago
The outer volume is itself encrypted so if you correctly initialized it as recommended, the raw disk should be full of random bits. When read from within the encrypted outer volume, these decrypt to random data as well, so there should be n
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by yholio 8y ago
Actually, it would simply make terrorists avoid official border crossings. They could, for example, pay a human trafficker $2000 to get them over the border with Mexico. Of course, you would then request for brain scanning technology to be
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by yholio 8y ago
> If you pull this stunt in the USA, I hope you enjoy your five-year sentence in federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison and the effect that the permanent felony conviction on your record will have on your employment prospects and the exercis
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by yholio 8y ago
There's no need to go to such wild hypotheticals if what you want to say is that you support border data searches - it's your right to have that political position. I simply have the opposite position. Given some hypothetical new
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Colocating both roots on the same partition spells disaster, you will absolutely clobber data when the outer system boots. I have detailed in another post that the correct way is to put the sensitive root inside a largely empty decoy data p
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But that's true for all encryption and privacy technology, it has dual use. We as a society must find the right balance and say, ok, there's no reasonable justification for owning 1 pound of plutonium, but there is a legitimate ca
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by yholio 8y ago
You are correct. I've simplified a bit: I boot from a 50GB decoy root partition that also has a 450GB decoy data partition along side it, both encrypted with the same weak password. This is a standard configuration and the machine work
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by yholio 8y ago
This is an important issue cryptographers and security minded people often overlook: the strongest cryptography is irrelevant if it opens you to such social harassment. What we need is practical cryptography. I have found practical success
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by yholio 8y ago
That's an interesting example. While undoubtedly large, Walmart is still a brick and mortar shop, it's part of the short tail world. Walmart can press producers for significant discounts by simply affording them some of it's
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The problem is more complex than it seems. Amazon could easily stamp out all fake products by giving the manufacturer the power to single source a given brand. Unfortunately, that would also give that manufacturer full pricing power across