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by sln 11y ago
You missed the whole point of this essay. The fastest code to write is often insecure because languages, apis and so on are almost always insecure-by-default. If you write code fast because you have a life at home to get to, and I write cod
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by sln 11y ago
I think the suggestion was that this site doesn't really need to identify its users. It's a quiz site. If you want to make custom inputs for each user, drop a cookie with a big random number and stop fretting about the cases where
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by sln 11y ago
What a terrible post. Every single example is simply security through obscurity. Once a leaker understands the ways in which a file may be watermarked, they will likely be able to circumvent it. An example of a watermarking method that does
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by sln 13y ago
I really want to believe this comment is a joke... Everything that you mention that needs to be "regulated" is already regulated by the bitcoin protocol itself. In fact, the whole point is to replace regulation with strong cryptog
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by sln 13y ago
Yes they do but 1) most people are more comfortable dealing with usernames compared to public keys, and 2) distributing the public keys themselves can be tricky if you don't already have a trusted connection set up (just look at past a
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by sln 13y ago
Yes this is a real problem. Being "paranoid about privacy" is not a yes/no decision for people to make. Different people have different things they would like to be private about and to different degrees. Some people may not
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by sln 13y ago
Yeah but if you're trying to catch criminals the signal to noise is far better with presidents, judges, and congress than with boring, normal citizens.
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by sln 13y ago
Phone numbers are unique values when you need to call a phone or send an SMS, which is what this software does. If you were trying to do your taxes, sure...but in this case a phone number is exactly enough.
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by sln 13y ago
Followers are established by connecting to bittorrent swarms. From the paper: "The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for efficient near-instant
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by sln 13y ago
This is not true. Followers are established by connecting to bittorrent swarms. From the paper: "The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent protocol, which can be used for effic
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by sln 13y ago
Basically, if you have anonymous, P2P, encrypted messaging you need to solve the problem of maintaining a public ledger of user names to public keys. There are several approaches to this, but one of the most compelling right now is using th
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by sln 13y ago
Stop spamming up this thread without even reading the damn protocol. The whitepaper is a whopping 12 pages and very explicitly states the mechanism used to prevent this kind of spamming. The post rate is throttled against the blockchain rat