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by zmanian 12y ago
I don't think there is a free lunch here. Yes immutable data makes the inserts O(1) but increases the query costs proportionally to the number of producers. You need to traverse all possible systems states to do a complete lookup. Encr
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by zmanian 12y ago
The net effect here is that each client must lock the database on insert. A client can batch multiple inserts but the server cannot batch inserts from multiple clients.
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by zmanian 12y ago
Rust is one of rare class of memory safe languages that are - easily callable from other languages because of the C ABI - runtime free and not Posix dependent - portable across CPU architectures. Rust will provide you memory safety where ot
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by zmanian 12y ago
I remember when this was going on at Hacker Dojo. The Internet was completely unusable for weeks. It seems likely that goal of the attack was cause Hacker Dojo to lose members. It seemed like an economic attack on a community space.
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Congress may impose license plate reader limits(arstechnica.com)
22 points by zmanian 12y ago|12 comments
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[video] Scaling Bitcoin to Billion and Billions of Transactions per Day(youtube.com)
1 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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Ioerror responds to NSA employee's question. Should NSA be defunded?(youtube.com)
1 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmanian 12y ago
It sounds like some variant of the hardware Bitcoin bank idea that has been floating around the valley. The rough sketch of the idea is -Hardware device runs a full security bitcoin node in your house -Provides a multisig for your mobile wa
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How the FBI ignores Congress's mandate to report on the use of the Patriot Act(slate.com)
2 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmanian 12y ago
There are usually hackathons and meetups going on all weekend. The Bitcoin Sunday hackday is always fun. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Bitcoin-Devs/events/220632910/
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by zmanian 12y ago
It's been interesting to see the decline in GCM performance since the launch of Textsecure v2 in 2013. Dropped and delayed Textsecure messages have gone from rare to routine in the Bay Area. At 31c3, I learned the WispherPush has been
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by zmanian 12y ago
It would be incredibly socially valuable to be able to independently triangulate the location of cell phone towers and then observe if new mobile towers came online. i.e. Stingray detection.
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by zmanian 12y ago
Sybil resistance in two forms in Tendermint. 1. You assume the initial distribution of tokens is trusted. If someone presents you a consensus without a history to make you believe that initial distribution isn't full of sybils, distrus
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by zmanian 12y ago
What kind of adversary would be defeated by Sharelock but could overcome TLS?
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by zmanian 12y ago
It isn't clear that we should want PGP to succeed from a communication point of view. It's clear that PGP has succeeded in protecting communications of a some subset of users for the last 20 years. Because of the lack of forward s
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by zmanian 12y ago
GPG is an immense failure from the point of protecting person to person communications. It is largely a success in verifying the identities of the software developers. The entire Debian ecosystem relies on GPG in largely successful ways. Pe
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Snowden, Poitras, Greenwarld: Reddit AMA(reddit.com)
24 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmanian 12y ago
1. The NSA uses all of these offensive information security technologies in mass surveillance as well as targeted attacks. See Belgacom. 2. The more concerning thing is their appropriation of civilian infrastructure and targeting of civilia
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by zmanian 12y ago
Presumably Manuel is busy with Threema.
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RAM usage and zero knowledge proofs(metzdowd.com)
2 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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by zmanian 12y ago
The government isn't a unified entity. It's worth watching what arms of the government and governmental elites cooperate with the totalitarian surveillance regime and what arms defect.
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by zmanian 12y ago
John Gilmore( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gilmore_%28activist%29 ) has related to me that the doored version was distributed and persisted in the ATT production environment for several months before someone notice
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by zmanian 12y ago
Amazing illustration of a Sybil attack
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by zmanian 12y ago
Very similar to IPFS's merkle DAG and seems like a critical element of getting content centric networking projects like Bitorrent, Inc's Project Malestrom up and running
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Tendermint: Consensus without Mining(youtube.com)
2 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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Everything we know of NSA and Five Eyes malware(nex.sx)
2 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments
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Night School: How regulators undermined a transportation startup(psmag.com)
26 points by zmanian 12y ago|5 comments
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by zmanian 12y ago
Canadian
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by zmanian 12y ago
The perspective that the Church-Turing hypothesis applies to the physical universe is mainstream but unproven. It is implicit in the work in the original post. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_physics https:&#x2F
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Blockchain University: Lectures on Bitcoin and Blockchain Technology(youtube.com)
2 points by zmanian 12y ago|0 comments

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