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by zmanian 11y ago
Dherman is the founder of Mozilla Research and it is spare time project for him. There is a fair amount of activity in their slack. https://rustbridge.slack.com/messages/general/ which you can join from here http
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by zmanian 11y ago
It would be great to connect this work up with the Rust Bridge project. https://github.com/rustbridge
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While Hardware is often perceived to be "harder" than software. I feel like the NextTeam where right about the system specs for graphically driven OO environment. It took them 20 years to really get their software environment to t
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Leaving out this context from Bloomberg article is negligent on the part of the journalist...
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Totally agree with you.
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Signal for iOS desperately needs a new maintainer to replace Fred. Here is the tracking issue for data usage. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-iOS/issues/866
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by zmanian 11y ago
Given the security properties of Rust, it would be pretty compelling to use Servo over Tor
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Police should not be accorded any presumption of correct behavior or professionalism. Any use of force by state actors should be treated with maximum skepticism.
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by zmanian 11y ago
This has never made any sense to me. What is the threat model? In almost any case where you can use QKD, it would be cheaper to send a courier with locked/handcuffed brief case.
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Cryptographers are generally not interested in using quantum physics to achieve secure communications Cryptographers interested in encryption schemes that use mathematical structures that are not amenable to any known quantum algorithm. Lat
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by zmanian 11y ago
What was the process of learning about side channels and techniques for mitigating them when developing libsecp256k1? It's an area I'd love to better understand.
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Implanted RFID tracker found in sex trafficking victim(marketplace.org)
6 points by zmanian 11y ago|1 comments
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by zmanian 11y ago
This is really neat. How does a system like Hopper compare to the Ethereum Virtual Machine?
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How to generate the SNARK parameters for Zerocash securely(z.cash)
1 points by zmanian 11y ago|0 comments
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Zero Knowledge Contingent Payment Executed on the Bitcoin Network(bitcoincore.org)
10 points by zmanian 11y ago|1 comments
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by zmanian 11y ago
I've got a Gotenna and it's basically works as advertized and I'm pretty happy with it. http://www.gotenna.com/
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The thing you ideally want from a language is the ability to benefit from an ecosystem adding functionality, teaching, open sourcing libraries etc. The Python ecosystem seems healthy to me. Interesting things are happening in the language a
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by zmanian 11y ago
This bill was extremely close to becoming law in 2013 before Snowden. The nice thing that happened in the meantime is we got a stronger law passed in California that applied to all digital service customer information and not just messages.
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Basically the problem with Safe Harbor is Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and Executive Order 12333. The cumulative effect is that all people non US persons are legitimate targets of mass surveillance under US law.
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When the USS Jimmy Carter[1] splices an intercept into an undersea fiber optic cable it probably leaves something similar to this behind of locally filter the data and only uplink relevant data. Makes you wonder what vendors the Navy uses a
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by zmanian 11y ago
Intel has shown a disturbing willingness to add unproven revenue generating functionality to the trusted computed base like require an Intel signature on SGX software or giving Intel DMA access to everything.
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V8 4.9 91% Es6 support(v8project.blogspot.com)
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How the FBI pressures Muslim immigrants to become informants(buzzfeed.com)
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Intel SGX Explained(eprint.iacr.org)
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There are lots of interesting questions in an effective basic income system. Sybil and fraud resistance come to mind immediately. If I were in the top 0.01% of wealth, I'd really like to see research into basic income. It would help wi
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by zmanian 11y ago
Op seems to misunderstand the following: 1. Your hypervisor is the security boundary. 2. Unikernel design lets you maximize the security benefits of AppSec and LangSec by removing the large OS surface area.
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by zmanian 11y ago
The biggest challenge of micropayments is how to minimize the cognitive load of making many tiny payments. How should the user agent decide when to alert the user?
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There are ways of coping with that like sending volumetric information to the headset rather than individual frames
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Cloud Based Rendering and Light Field Displays(themill.com)
9 points by zmanian 11y ago|4 comments
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Here is a good article on the technical details. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/11/how-dropbox-found...

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