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by guessWhy 14y ago
No, the desktop is needed to run Microsoft Office.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
I better idea might be to use convergent encryption only for really large files. Practically this would mean deduplication of software, movies, etc.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
They don't seem to do that, though. Note that they claim that it's a random key and that deduplication is "much more likely" to happen when files are copied. If they would derive the key from the data in a deterministic way, they could alwa
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Yes, but the first part makes no sense. If the 128-bit key is indeed chosen at random for each file (as it should be), the probability that the same key will be chosen again for a second upload of the same file is effectively zero (1/2^128)
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by guessWhy 14y ago
"Agree". http://www.installmonetizer.com/AT_images/process.gif
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by guessWhy 14y ago
I used the following heuristics (some parts added afterwards): 1. Helvetica has level edges, Arial is angled (as ef4 said). Particularly important were "t", "e" and "a", "S", "G", C". 2a. For capital letters, if there is an "R", the Helveti
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by guessWhy 14y ago
It looks fine to me ?! Flash is not used at all and the design shows some taste.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Seems to be related to the straw man: The question is "Should whiskey be prohibited or not?" but he takes it to be "Is there anything good or bad about whiskey?" or "Do I think whiskey is good or bad?".
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by guessWhy 14y ago
I don't really understand the quote. What does it mean/imply?
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Wow. It's also worth reading the comments below the original article. "You’re scaring me here. Please sick around and talk to us. You can always die later. There’s no rush." "Jeez, Aaron - get some help. Now. Suicides talk about it before t
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by guessWhy 14y ago
The comment you replied to was certainly not a reference to Nazi Germany at all. Germans understand that a privacy-related reference to german history is usually a reference to the former state of East Germany which was famous for massive
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Yes, they do (The protocol is called ActiveSync). I don't know if it's on a per-account basis, though.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
I think changing the user agent to only report the major version would already go a long way.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Yes, but it takes more than removing most of the identifying information. First, the precise browser version and OS can probably always be identified by checking for supported features, bugs etc. even if the extreme measure would be taken t
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by guessWhy 14y ago
You said it yourself: everytime your Firefox build is updated, you change identity.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
The expectation that customers should act in a way to basically create the conditions for a perfectly free market is misguided. Not invoking legislation just makes things painful for everyone. Sure, I can switch to Android - but the cost of
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Invalid generalization. If you want money to be part of the index, they should be able to remove you.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Sure, but this was the case before CDNs as well. Unless you are a Tier 1 network you usually pay a fee to your upstream carrier. However, the ITU would like to charge across many networks and discriminate based on the type of service provid
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Why? Verisign merely signs your certificate. It does not even know your private key and hence also can't pass it to governments.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Correct. Furthermore, at least Chrome restricts most Google domains to a known CA. So MITM is not possible for Gmail either.
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by guessWhy 14y ago
Was this example really necessary? You basically said: If terrorists (who, by the way, happened to travel to Afghanistan once) attacked the WTC, the US have a casus belli against Afghanistan. See, the reason why the war in Afghanistan is co
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by guessWhy 14y ago
a) No one time pad is used, because that would make the whole point of publishing the encrypted blob pointless in the first place. The point of publishing it is that the key could be published very easily in an emergency, e.g. using a tweet