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by yuliyp 9y ago
How do you "take out" an attacker? They will just create more accounts. The accounts themselves don't have to cluster with each other. And let's say you do find a large set of accounts and ban them. New fake accounts are
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by yuliyp 9y ago
(a) it means each code can only be redeemed once, which is a bit of a usability hit (b) it still doesn't stop a malicious server, which can try to MITM the group join and proxy messages to the client.
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by yuliyp 9y ago
As soon as the code is redeemed, the server has access to the code.
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by yuliyp 9y ago
Hyperbolic much? This is a weakness that not only requires WhatsApp to be malicious but to not care about the trivial visibility of an exploit (the client would still display the extra person being added to the group chat).
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by yuliyp 9y ago
See https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/android/23776567/?category=52452... for the details of the feature. The identity of the new member isn't known at invite time.
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by yuliyp 9y ago
> As long as all the communication between peers are e2e, I think this situation can be solved by peers advertising the people they have invited to the group, later clients can refuse to do key exchange with parties, which are not announ
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by yuliyp 9y ago
What are you talking about? Facebook already offers E2E encrypted chats (both in Messenger and WhatsApp). Offering broadcast communication (such as public posts) pretty much flies in the face of offering E2E encryption (the author wants a l
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by yuliyp 9y ago
This theory would make sense if bribery were a practice only practiced by the rich. It is not. Even civil servants who are not being taxed disproportionately would accept bribes, and even the poor would give them (as the benefit of the brib
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by yuliyp 9y ago
So the point of a methodology like this is that it guides you into hopefully making better code by driving you away from certain decisions. Yes you can certainly sabotage attempts at doing so with patch methods and copy-paste, but the point
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by yuliyp 9y ago
Let's imagine the entire rest of the world thought that the dollar was worth nothing. Well everyone in the US still needs dollars to pay their taxes, so they'll still want to get their salaries in dollars. Similarly, people will s
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by yuliyp 9y ago
4 months of expenses , not necessarily 4 months of full-time-employment income.
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by yuliyp 9y ago
The race described here sounds pretty similar to a type of cache consistency race: Client X reads a complex value from a database, does some calculation, and writes the result in a cache. Client Y updates something that should invalidate th
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by yuliyp 9y ago
It does actually have such a restriction (Article 1 Section 9): "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed." Further, it prohibits the states from passing such laws as well (Article 1 Section 10).
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by yuliyp 9y ago
OK... What is a better mechanism? that'll look better to you?
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by yuliyp 9y ago
The point is that they fear that fish will be scared away from the area by the presence of the turbines.
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by yuliyp 10y ago
Births and deaths are derivatives. Thus a 25% spike is basically just an adjustment to reflect smaller (~2-3%) errors in the non-census years. To put numbers to this: imagine 100 people were born every year between 1991 and 2000, inclusive.
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by yuliyp 10y ago
The population charts ( http://usafacts.org/us-population ) are interesting. It looks like the government continually underestimated the population, resulting in the "spikes" as each Census brought numbers up toward
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by yuliyp 10y ago
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120103/07193917260/no-be... looks likda similar
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by yuliyp 10y ago
And be sure to check it again if there's a redirect. Don't let your URL handling library do this. Alternately send all your traffic through a proxy that can't talk into your network.
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by yuliyp 11y ago
Because a lottery gives you the people for whom a small chance of getting in is worth going for. If someone's awesome enough to have lots of awesome opportunities in many places, then they wouldn't commit to a lottery-based oppo
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by yuliyp 11y ago
That's what User agent started out as. Browser name and version. Now imagine you're building a new browser.
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by yuliyp 11y ago
User-Terminal MaPping?
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by yuliyp 11y ago
Oh come on. The taxes that 90% of people pay are perfectly clear. The exceptions only affect a very small minority of people (namely those with enough income to make it worth their while to care about exploiting the exceptions).
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by yuliyp 11y ago
Yes, but as-is the post is pure hand-waving. At least some measurement could confirm the theories being stated. Did someone actually try taking one use case where they had memcached and replace it with Redis? What actually happened?
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by yuliyp 11y ago
For a post that attempts to compare Redis to memcached for caching, it's amazing how few actual numbers appear in the post.
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by yuliyp 11y ago
If you're pooling votes across the states then you don't exactly have an eloctoral college any more, and you get the turnout-proportional results anyway.
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by yuliyp 11y ago
Wouldn't this lead to a TON of games? Now if you're a Democrat in Nebraska, or a Republican in California, it's in your best interest NOT to vote. That way the winner-takes-all majority in your state would get less of an impa
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by yuliyp 11y ago
"the fate of my kids future and my family's future can be thrown off track by random shit" That's life.
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by yuliyp 11y ago
There is a relatively liquid market for bonds. Let's say I issue a bond today. I set the interest rate at 3% per year for 10 years. A lot of different people buy those bonds (for ease of math, assume that an individual bond is $100). I
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by yuliyp 11y ago
That's because the US has turned into a defacto buyer-coalition system where you have to pay to join a club (health insurance provider) which negotiates rates with health care providers. If you don't join such a club, you get char

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