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by zmanian 10y ago
I have a few hypothesizes about this. 1. Decentralization won in 1970 - 2005 protocol design because reliable computers were very expensive. It was economically advantageous to have a decentralized network of unreliable computers than centr
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by zmanian 10y ago
Anand Tech seems quite excited about OpenPower and it does tend make me more interested in the Talos platform. https://www.raptorengineering.com/TALOS/prerelease.php
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by zmanian 10y ago
Netflow is a great example of the dual use aspects of tech between surveillance and defense. Making Netflow data more widely available looks like it is going to be essential for defending that Internet but at the same time Netflow data can
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by zmanian 10y ago
Wonders if this is Shadowbrokers...
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by zmanian 10y ago
Secret URL for deleting your Yahoo account. https://edit.yahoo.com/config/delete_user
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by zmanian 10y ago
This is substantially worse than PRISM which operates on individual targeted persons and the upstream Verizon, AT&T program which collects plaintext over the public Internet. This involved bulk search of data past the decryption layer.
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by zmanian 10y ago
This should forever taint Marissa Meyer's reputation. Failure to save Yahoo is understandable. Disregard for user privacy and safety at this scale is unforgivable.
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by zmanian 10y ago
If you want to learn more or participate, checkout http://oaklandprivacy.org/
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by zmanian 10y ago
Governor Brown signed a massive civil forfeiture reform for California today. https://www.aclunc.org/news/gov-brown-signs-historic-bill-re...
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Inside the Chicago Police Department’s secret budget(chicagoreader.com)
233 points by zmanian 10y ago|153 comments
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by zmanian 10y ago
Why is this enterprise only?
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Rethinking Linux Kernel Security(arstechnica.co.uk)
8 points by zmanian 10y ago|1 comments
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by zmanian 10y ago
I can't think of anywhere that blocks Signal but doesn't block Tor. I think the OWS developers would probably be more interested in a system that can conceal metadata from the Signal server rather than pure network surveillance.
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by zmanian 10y ago
Yeah endpoint security is generally worse on all desktop operating systems than iOS and Signal isn't intended to solve that problem. One could run Signal Desktop on their Chromebook for a similar level of endpoint security to iOS.
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by zmanian 10y ago
"Use Signal. Use Tor."
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by zmanian 10y ago
I know a number of people how have had success with syncing but you may want to post your logs in Github or thumbs up if you are dup of https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/909
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by zmanian 10y ago
While the Grugq argues[0] persuasively, that avoiding disclosure was a legitimate strategy. It seems unrealistic to argue that the NSA wanted to avoid more scrutiny in their moment of political weakness in the months after the Snowden revel
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by zmanian 10y ago
I highly recommend the Princeton book and associated video lectures as a place to get started. It does a great job of framing things in the context of the wider fields of cryptography and distribute systems research. http://bitco
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by zmanian 10y ago
I would very much like to see someone built out the transcript validation application of atomic broadcast rather than a distributed ledger version.
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by zmanian 10y ago
That's disappointing :-(
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by zmanian 10y ago
This is a cool implementation of this idea. Proof of work is probably an acceptable solution for proof of concept but anonymous consensus isn't needed for for collaborative document editing. I'm still thinking if this use cases ne
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Sarkara: A NACL-Style Rust Post Quantum Crypto Library(github.com)
3 points by zmanian 10y ago|0 comments
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by zmanian 10y ago
Just intended to point out this is a great example of the general applicability of crytocurrency inspired research.
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by zmanian 10y ago
This is awfully similar to Ben Laurie's good ideas about how to run a distributed time stamping service for a cryptocurrency. http://www.links.org/files/distributed-currency.pdf Great to see these ideas used for g
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by zmanian 10y ago
Okay, here is what I think this is - It is a straight forward combination of two forms of encryption from pairing cryptography world. Identity Based Encryption and Threshold Encryption. - In Identity based encryption, your public key and pr
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by zmanian 10y ago
Guardtime is set of tooling around a FIPS 140 timestamping appliance. Systems on the network submit hashes of their logs to the time stamping. Assuming the appliance remains secure, you can go back in the event of compromise and prove that
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by zmanian 10y ago
I like these counter arguments
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by zmanian 10y ago
The US govt has already weakened these incentives because of the decision not to prosecute Petraeus. The US govt should not have strong incentives against revealing widespread human rights abuse like full-take surveillance of entire countri
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by zmanian 10y ago
Reasons it would be in the interests of the US govt to pardon Snowden: - It would decrease Snowden's celebrity for him to return from exile. - It would remove incentives for Snowden to constantly amplify inconsistent/ hypocritical
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Applications of Zero Knowledge Proofs in Blockchains(sammantics.com)
2 points by zmanian 10y ago|0 comments

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