mcdigman

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by mcdigman 13y ago
A better guess would be that the last new bitcoin will never be mined, because exponential growth in hardware dedicated to it will not last, given that the cost/benefit ratio (in terms of power, hardware, and effort) gets worse the fewer bi
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by mcdigman 13y ago
This is a very dangerous question. Thinking like this leads to huge security vulnerabilities in important systems. A better question is "What is the worst thing that could possibly happen if this system were successfully attacked?" If the a
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by mcdigman 13y ago
The problem with this is that then there is no institutional memory. Many student groups in colleges (at least at my college) fight the same problems in a recurring cycle every 4 years, because no one remembers why it didn't work out last t
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by mcdigman 13y ago
This is why you typically want to publish things like this as far and wide as possible - if any single source is compromised, it can be detected by noticing a discrepancy between two publicly available addresses. I'd wager they'll put it in
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by mcdigman 13y ago
Because the internet facing machine could have been infected with malware that allows someone to read the decrypted message, and send it back over the internet. First, being compromised in the first place is less likely for the machine not
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by mcdigman 13y ago
Does anyone else find it strange that the page containing this video also has a "send anonymous tip" link, which claims "we don't track anything, not even your ip address." And of course the headline "modern media is often wrong, vapid, and
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by mcdigman 13y ago
If you spend enough time trying to debug systems that are communicating in binary, its an ability you start to pick up, especially for small numbers.