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by awakened 12y ago
You wrote: "We haven't even figured out how to 'deal with' black people here in the US..." That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.
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by awakened 12y ago
Shell accounts are like short wave radios, wrist watches, cameras and landline telephones. Not many people have them anymore but they are oh so useful.
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The Evolution of US Restrictions on Using and Exporting Encryption (1997) [pdf](foia.cia.gov)
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by awakened 12y ago
This is not true. There are several recovery options offered by NearlyFreeSpeech. They are defined in great detail on their website. They offer two factor (TOTP) as well: "Our membership recovery procedure comes into play when you lose
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by awakened 12y ago
The car ride to the fair is what he should be most afraid of.
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by awakened 12y ago
How do you track all the contacts from a million infected people?
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Dead Hand - Russian Automated Nuclear Launch System(businessinsider.com)
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by awakened 12y ago
UVB-76 is a number station transmitting one-time pad encrypted messages. Old transport technology (radio) sending old, unbreakable crypto technology (one-time pad encrypted messages) at the speed of light all across the world. These technol
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by awakened 12y ago
I have done it a lot. However, I optimized the slow parts in C++ with Boost Python, not C. It is not hard and it works great and is well documented.
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by awakened 12y ago
$ is freedom, but so is lack of debt. Zero debt + $ = great freedom. The edge of modern Western society (those not part of the main rat race) is a place where you can truly be free and happy, but you'll be seen as fringe. Never go into
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by awakened 12y ago
Ebola is a Level 4 Biohazard. Try getting into or out of a CDC certified Level 4 facility. All of this is documented and easily understood. It's highly contagious, there is no cure and and there is no telling how long the outbreak will
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by awakened 12y ago
You can strip and pack in many cases and reduce the size dramatically while still having a statically linked binary.
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by awakened 12y ago
"The only correct view is the absence of all views." - thich nhat hanh We are unhappy when we assign reasons to people's actions or words. When we think that others say or do things because they are "out to get me".
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Why Do You Need Encryption?(pastebin.com)
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by awakened 12y ago
"I believe those interfaces are inferior." Things are not inferior or superior, they are only different. If you can open your mind and understand this, then you will realize vi and Emacs for what they are.
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by awakened 12y ago
“The sad thing about guys who exhibit these brogrammer qualities is they seem to fall short of greatness in both worlds,” said Parish. “They’re not purely macho or purely geeky, they’re somewhat pretenders in both...” Part of the prob
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by awakened 12y ago
So should someone find a remote exploit in OpenWhatever that gives them remote root access and they publicly disclose that (without having tested it on the Internet... just in their lab) then they are not subject to the CFAA?
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by awakened 12y ago
Ah yes. Thank you. Slide 23. But they misspelled TrueCrypt and this was 4 years ago.
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by awakened 12y ago
I do not see the request from the government to remove the slide. Did I miss something? Maybe they decided to just remove the slide on their own?
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by awakened 12y ago
E4M - Encryption For the Masses is free software that TrueCrypt was based on. It's free to fork as well. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E4M
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E4M – The Software TrueCrypt Came From(en.wikipedia.org)
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by awakened 12y ago
FreeOTFE (which was developed by a woman named Sarah Dean... who by the way also had a large TrueCrypt archive) is no longer developed. She stopped responding to email about a year ago and her domains went away too. http://www.re
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by awakened 12y ago
Many on HN may not realize, but there are miniature NSA groups in most every organization in the USA. Universities, non-profits, small corporations, local governments, etc. If they have an IT Security group, then they are likely spying on I
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by awakened 12y ago
"The only correct view is the absence of all views." - Thich Nhat Hanh (Thay)
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by awakened 12y ago
We also say, "stop and smell the roses", but we don't do that either ;) We're so busy rushing here and there that we never touch nor live in the now. And we have children and expect them to just do the same. It's sa
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by awakened 12y ago
Many years ago, I submitted a bug report to OpenBSD about an issue I had discovered with threads. I received a one line response from Theo. I still have the mail. He wrote: "Threads are for idiots." At the time, I felt dis