mckiddy

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by mckiddy 11y ago
Legacy code?
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by mckiddy 11y ago
However, either case is an equally valid reason to uninstall the app.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
His entire job was teaching students, so I don't give a rat's ass about what the rest of the faculty thinks if the students like him and perform well.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
The second dotcom boom is coming to an end. Have fun everyone
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by mckiddy 11y ago
In that case they should just leave out the examples entirely. If the code runs, someone in the world WILL copy & paste it into their project and walk away, no matter if it's marked as insecure or not, which just perpetuates the pr
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Silicon Valley egos at their finest: "Use our product so we can make billions of dollars, but fuck you otherwise." I use venmo with friends because of their network effect and it's convenient, but it sounds like internally th
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Plaintext actually stands out pretty easily in a hex editor, just because everything else is basically gibberish.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
The missile argument is a bit of a stretch to me. The F-35 can carry way more than four missiles if they're attached to the wings (like the Su-35 the author compares it to), it will just destroy any semblance of stealth. Comparison wit
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Except this also adds very little benefit. Sure, 3 ciphers might be better than one, but as the top comment said the cipher is already the strongest part of the entire process.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Exactly, this will fail just as fast as a single cipher when your users inevitably use 'password123' for their password.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
On modern bows it's called the riser. I'm not sure if that has always been the case though.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
scrypt deliberately uses lots of memory in addition to CPU, which makes it much harder to parallelize using a GPU
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by mckiddy 11y ago
scrypt is deliberately designed to use a large amount of memory when calculating hashes, which makes it much more difficult to parallelize using a GPU (which don't have much RAM available), hence making it much much slower to attack.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
If you know the HMAC key, why would you ever need to generate a collision? You can just reevaluate the MAC and replace the old one.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
MUNI in San Francisco is also like this. Very useful.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Thats true, but I just wanted to point out that humans are actually one of the best species on Earth at distance running http://www.slate.com/articles/sports/sports_nut/2012/06/long...
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by mckiddy 11y ago
How does this provide any better performance to the company using it? If anything it's doubling the work requirement because now you have to do 2 rounds of bcrypt/etc instead of 1.
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Because so many of these points are demeaning, right? Practically everyone I've ever met uses "you guys" in place of "you all", etc, with no derogatory intent. Certainly anyone familiar with the western US would rea
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by mckiddy 11y ago
Are you serious? Opinions like these are exactly why women are having a hard time in tech in the first place. If I have to spend every waking moment at work obsessing about whether a single comment will make my female coworkers label me as
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by mckiddy 11y ago
The evidence also wouldn't be available if he simply hadn't recorded the videos in the first place.