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by dankent 3y ago
Why care about anything?
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by dankent 3y ago
This article explains the solution in much more detail, including how the instructions for what to do were given in an obscure way in the book: https://dreamsofgerontius.com/2016/10/05/masquerade-by-kit-w...
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by dankent 4y ago
I'm afraid that is also not correct. Dunning-Kruger is defined as people with low ability in a domain overestimating their own ability in that domain – it does not require someone to be really good in another domain. https:/&#x2F
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by dankent 5y ago
See the German TV show Dark for in interesting take on what could happen if they somehow became cyclic.
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by dankent 5y ago
It's definitely a dilemma. I guess the sweet spot would be security systems that are well understood in house but built on existing, well understood and studied standards and theory. A starting point might be to use battle-tested open
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by dankent 5y ago
That sounds like it would be a big win for law enforcement. If you can force your opponent to avoid some modern ways to communicate, you can put a big dent in their efficiency. It's possible that paranoia might lead to criminals avoidi
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by dankent 9y ago
You could always subscribe and get ad free viewing. That way they can pay for the good service they provide without needing advertisers.
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by dankent 9y ago
I assume wereHamster is referring to the value of the constant being changed, rather than the name.
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by dankent 9y ago
One doesn't need to be an expert in a particular field to identify a weak argument. For example, the author of the memo presents some citations to back up the idea that there are biological differences between men and women that might
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by dankent 9y ago
I've been using graphql recently and I have found it very productive. Providing a lot of flexibility to the client when querying the server eliminates a lot of server side work that would normally be required in order to implement new
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by dankent 9y ago
If I want to get all levels of an arbitrarily nested tree, I just query for all of the objects that are in the tree in a flat array and then reconstruct the tree on the client side using the parent/child Ids. This is similar to what I
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by dankent 9y ago
I'm not sure I would describe the sources as 'from here to the moon' On reading many of the sources, it was apparent that they did not provide particularly solid evidence to back up the points he was making. It was also obvio
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by dankent 9y ago
That's what leads me to being reasonably sure the hypothesis is valid. As a scientist, though, I'm always going to wonder whether there is a way to subject it to a proper test rather than just relying on opinion (no matter how muc
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by dankent 9y ago
I wouldn't take that bet either as I agree that is a very unlikely thing to happen. Note, though, that you are using the specific word 'algorithm', where as I am talking about 'methods'. Most cryptographic failures
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by dankent 9y ago
I am aware of the usual (and strong in my opinion) argument. Every time this discussion does the rounds, though, I do wonder whether the hypothesis could be tested. Most vulnerabilities do not come from breaking the core algorithm but rathe
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by dankent 9y ago
If you're telling me I can't develop and deploy my own rockets for fun (providing I don't cause risk to others) then yes, that is thought policing. (btw, I do develop and deploy my own rockets for fun)
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by dankent 9y ago
You find it fantastically unrealistic that a vulnerability could be found for a well known and widely used encryption method?
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by dankent 9y ago
Game companies are also a great example of a situation where a large group of people with time on their hands (teenagers still in high school) are motivated to look for vulnerabilities in the method used.
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by dankent 9y ago
Have any studies been done on relative security of crypto algorithms that are either: a) Well known, well studied but also attractive targets for attackers to study b) Unknown (aside from the developer) until an attacker encounters a specif
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by dankent 9y ago
If a vulnerability is found for the outer encryption method, additional encryption of the inner message by a different method may provide some defence. If that is the goal, though, it would be better to use two well studied encryption metho
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by dankent 9y ago
Following the earlier discussion ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14901566 ) about the malicious crossenv package, I've knocked together a quick tool that might help to spot such typosquatting: https://
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Show HN: Tool for spotting npm typosquatting(npmjs.com)
2 points by dankent 9y ago|2 comments
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by dankent 9y ago
I've knocked together a quick tool that might help to spot such typosquatting: https://www.npmjs.com/package/check-typosquatters (It's the first time I've published anything to npm so let me know if I ha
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by dankent 9y ago
I assume you want to represent all of the relationships on the tree in any case, so I think minimising the number of required parent-child lines would actually make representing modern relationships less messy. You'd have a pink relati
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by dankent 9y ago
I really like the overall approach - definitely a nice friendly way to edit a tree. The standard way for family trees to link children with parents is through the relationship of the parents. Did you avoid doing that on purpose? The problem
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by dankent 9y ago
I got better results: Input (original) name: the-northern-trifid-nebula-8499-1920x1200.jpg type: image/jpeg size: 737.26 KB Output (compressed) name: the-northern-trifid-nebula-8499-1920x1200.jpg type: image/jpeg size: 263.17 KB (
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by dankent 9y ago
Even if the primary service itself was compromised, it would be possible to have an automated dead man's switch running on an alternative service that would alert the world that you were being held incommunicado. Of course, failing to