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by devx 13y ago
> Bitcoin is, by design, highly vulnerable to network analysis Maybe it's time Zerocoin (by Matthew Green's students) got implemented into Bitcoin: http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2013/04/zeroc
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by devx 13y ago
Wasn't lobster used to be called the "cockroach of the sea"? If they change their names and brand them as something else, they could probably sell very well as expensive food, too.
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by devx 13y ago
But that's mainly a niche market - a market of people who wouldn't care even if the iPhone is $2,000. Apple may very well continue to sell iPhones only to that market, but they will definitely lose market share. And I think Ap
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The Civil War Inside Bitcoin: Go Anonymous or Go Mainstream?(blogs.kqed.org)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Different view: http://pandodaily.com/2013/08/23/steve-ballmer-the-worst-ceo...
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by devx 13y ago
That's why companies like Google and Microsoft should provide as much end to end encryption for their users as possible. So the government doesn't even bother asking them about the data.
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by devx 13y ago
I hope they've taken a snapshot of the software before announcing the crowdfunding campaign. If there has been any update since then, and it had any backdoor, it may have already been removed.
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by devx 13y ago
> There is mounting evidence that the NSA had a copy of several ROOT-CA keys to perform SSL/TLS interception on a massive scale. Has anyone tried putting 2 and 2 together yet from all the leaks about what NSA has collected so far, a
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by devx 13y ago
Why take the chance? From the leaks, the companies have "cooperated enough", especially when we're talking about "foreigners". We don't need proof for absolutely everything and for every single case, to stop tr
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by devx 13y ago
Source where you can donate to help the project along: https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/securedrop
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by devx 13y ago
Samsung's Chromebook had about the same battery life, if not a bit bigger, and achieved that with I think half the battery size. So whatever is going on now, is probably HP or Google's fault. Also, I think you're confusing th
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by devx 13y ago
But would they have done this without Mozilla pushing the performance with asm.js, or that fast? Competition is great, and it also makes me wonder, if they keep this up - maybe NaCl won't be needed either?
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by devx 13y ago
1) I think with future authentication technologies, this will get easier (logging in to the wallet based on a fingerprint token?). Perhaps the new FIDO standard will help here: http://www.fidoalliance.org/faqs.html 2) Taxes
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by devx 13y ago
> The folder-like design in iOS 5 and iOS 6 has been replaced with an opaque app icon. The end result is so horrible that it’s hard to avoid thinking it was done maliciously: if someone was tasked with hiding away a set of unwanted apps,
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by devx 13y ago
Could it be related to yesterday's announcement, and a confirmation that they were talking about Bitcoin? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6550068
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Crowdsourcing a New UK Constitution(blogs.lse.ac.uk)
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by devx 13y ago
That seems similar to that strategy that says you need to commoditize your competitor's products and cash cows (especially if such a move doesn't affect you in a big way). The dollar is a sort of "proprietary currency" o
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by devx 13y ago
> Lloyd made his pitch, proposing a quantum version of Google’s search engine whereby users could make queries and receive results without Google knowing which questions were asked. The men were intrigued. But after conferring with their
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by devx 13y ago
HTC may have fixed it with the latest update: http://www.reddit.com/r/Android/comments/1og2h8/critical_and...
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by devx 13y ago
Google's Adam Langley has just proposed ChaCha20 with Poly1305 for TLS, and says the performance is pretty good (~5x faster than AES-GCM in software). https://www.imperialviolet.org/2013/10/07/chacha20.ht
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On Jupiter and Saturn, diamonds fall as rain(extremetech.com)
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by devx 13y ago
Ironic that it's coming from the "Independent". They probably don't even realize the irony themselves.
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by devx 13y ago
Would the security of such algorithms improve dramatically if say 5 years from now we'd live in a world where everyone has a 64-bit device or machine, and the algorithms can be optimized for 64-bit? Are current algorithms limited by 32
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by devx 13y ago
> I think the tech will shine if they ever manage to fit 4K resolution in there. That's probably going to take a few generations, and they might do it faster and with better results if they used this technology instead, which appare
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by devx 13y ago
Look at the trend for "real" (not nominal) salaries over the past decades, and you'll get your answer for how destructive inflation can be for the lower and middle class. Since the dollar has been dramatically devalued over t
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by devx 13y ago
What feature would we need in Android by default, to make meshnets a lot more possible? Like some sort of auto-connection to whatever Wi-Fi is close to you. I'm hoping that once the carriers themselves start to push users to use wi-fi
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by devx 13y ago
If Apple moves to a 5" screen or something close next year, I'm sure they'll double up the resolution again to 2272x1280. That could force Android OEM's to think they need to go to 2560x1440 now, to be higher than Apple,
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Microsoft Took a Big Risk With Windows 8 and It's Starting to Backfire(fool.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
Then you move to the "next" T-mobile. The point is to encourage this behavior, and punish the bad one by leaving as soon as it happens (same goes for Verizon/AT&T) now.
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by devx 13y ago
So who started that war?

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