0xBeefFed

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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
My understanding is they added this for legal reasons. Users were not aware Instagram and WhatsApp were owned by Facebook and legislators had issue with that.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
This is interesting, and is reflected in some other comments, but I have always gone under the assumption that you will only learn things once so it is best to learn them the correct way. This mostly holds true in an academic situation thou
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
I guess now is the time to look into how to root the console and install a custom ROM in a similar fashion to de-Googling your android phone. There is already enough support in the community for side-loading APKs and the like. Does anyone k
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Write to your MP. Not that they will do anything - Maybe you'll be luckier than me and wont get a canned response about how they are "working hard to stop this" without taking action.
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North smart glasses will no longer work after company bought by Google(support.bynorth.com)
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
https://www.levels.fyi/Salaries/Software-Engineer/Canada/ Just be aware, the data is supposed to be in USD, but some people may still be reporting CAD.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Bit late to the party. I checked out thebrowser.com but there is no mention of the subscription cost anywhere - it seems they won't tell you until you give them your email. Would you know the cost per billing period? It seems like a co
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
That does not seem to line up with their cryptography specification, which is where I am getting my information from. Thank you for mentioning this
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
If you have a Bluetooth receiver logging the different IDs you've come in proximity with and when, its easy to deduce who the positive user is by who you were in proximity of at that time.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
If a user is in close confinement with someone they fear will lash out at them if they test positive, for one. Off the top of my head, lets say you take an Uber home and the driver now has your home address, you don't know if they will
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
I appreciate you looking at the other side. To explain my view point, in this system it seems like all of the risk is put on the infected party who reports themselves. By decreasing the level of control they have, I believe you will see a d
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
The protocol states that it will upload the Diagnosis Keys, a set of Daily Tracing Keys relevant to your exposure. So in short, if this is the case it forces the user to either upload all their keys or none. I would like to note that a v1.1
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
I think its important to give the power to the people by allowing them to omit tokens from sensitive time points. In the current protocol, that means losing a whole days worth of contacts. If you reduce the period to an hour, you still allo
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Emailing you now.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
The issue is, if your putting the risk on infected users, what is the benefit to them to release their tokens? They are already at risk, this just makes them bigger targets.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
So all of the tokens are being put on a central server. Today, governments use WiFi and Bluetooth to track traffic. It is not far fetched to see that your commute from point A to B could be tracked using Bluetooth receivers in transit stati
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
The difference is that the old system relied on human memory which is fallible, not to mention you can omit details which would lead to further trouble (infidelities for one). In this system the only control a user has is to turn off blueto
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
The unlinked DP-3T is one extreme, there is a happy medium if developers don't want to use Cuckoo Filters or Bloom Filters due to false positives, which is to decrease the linkable period. If the period was an hour, people could freely
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
It should be noted that your privacy is not preserved if you test positive and need to upload your Daily Tracing Keys to a server. Your broadcast IDs for an entire day can be linked together, making it easier to de-anonymize you. I understa
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
This is definitely by design. The Cuckoo Filter relies on hashes of the input so there is a chance of collisions. My understanding is a Cuckoo Filter is a recent extension of a Bloom Filter, if you're familiar with those.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Thank you! That is really nice to hear.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
There are some differences. DP-3T proposes two different systems, one with linkable tokens and the other without linkable tokens. The first system is similar to Apple-Google in the sense that your tokens for a day are derived from a key whi
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Given the importance, I didn’t want to rely on google translate.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Is there an english translation of this?
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
The data on comorbidities seems to match data from Italy, where hypertension, type-2 diabetes, and heart disease, were the top three in that study [1]. One thing I do wonders is if the mortality rate is higher as they counted the number of
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Thank you for verfiying that
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
I am not sure if this relates, but this past year at Blackhat there was a talk on Messaging Layer Security and they broughtup a concept called TreeKEM, where users share keys in a tree heirachy to reduce the number of shared secrets. Again,
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Other protocols have suggested that uploads be governed by authorization codes provided by health-care providers. Another suggests having providers digitially sign records uploaded to the server too.
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by 0xBeefFed 6y ago
Your use of the word partial could lead to confusion. The Diagnosis Keys are a subset of the Daily Tracing Keys for the days youre contagious. You then upload these Daily Tracing Keys and associated day numbers. Also you are incorrect abou