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by themenace 9y ago
This has parallels with the secret groundbreaking military technology that "60 Minutes"[1] was talking about in 2008. When you have unlimited capacity to store data and the processing power to tag objects (or people!) in real-time
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by themenace 10y ago
Today we can confidently guess that THIS is the secret groundbreaking military technology that "60 Minutes" was alluding to in 2008. Reporter Bob Woodward (known for breaking much of the Watergate story that led to President Richa
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by themenace 12y ago
Wikipedia has lots of interesting info about South Korea's RRN number: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resident_registration_number Basically it's a 13-digit number with format yymmdd-sbbbbnc consisting of year,
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South Korean ID numbers are “master keys for hackers”(bbc.com)
2 points by themenace 12y ago|1 comments
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by themenace 13y ago
I'm not seeing the risk if it's a publicly available address. Analogy: They tested every door lock in America. They found that 64,000 door locks are trivially opened. They put up a website where you can enter your home address t
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by themenace 13y ago
Check if your site uses a known weak key here: https://factorable.net/keycheck.html Enter a domain name or an IP address.
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by themenace 14y ago
If you want truly unbreakable encryption, there's always the one-time pad. In that case, the unbreakability is guaranteed by mathematics, an even stronger guarantee than physics. Certainly, the one-time pad suffers from the need of each pai
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by themenace 14y ago
While this is good science and I enjoy hearing about it, it needs to be said that "unbreakable" encryption is a solved problem. The existing public key plus symmetric key infrastructure, with a sufficiently long key, achieves "unbreakable"
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by themenace 14y ago
I think Kogan has already stopped supporting IE7 because IE7 hangs if you do visit! To be clear: I wanted to see this amusing "tax notice" first hand, but when I visit kogan.com using Internet Explorer 7.0 with all default settings using a
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by themenace 14y ago
The dichotomy is not "nice to have" vs. "must have" -- it is whether the threat is "visible" vs. "invisible" when it concerns privacy and security for consumers. Phone calls being massively scanned by a national security organization are an
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by themenace 15y ago
I remember news from a few years ago in which brokers and analysts at some company discovered that a particular way of sending emails on BlackBerrys prevented the messages from being archived on their company server. They were using this me
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by themenace 15y ago
Your use-case would work so long as both sides use general-purpose computers. We've made our app work for Windows, and we believe it can be made to work under Mac OS X and Linux. There's a big problem getting it to work for sandboxed device
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by themenace 15y ago
Original author here. My colleagues and I have been kicking this idea around and we built a proof of concept under Windows. I'd like to hear HN comments. Has this been done before? Would you use it? Is there any chance it could be made to w
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Idea for a floating encryption window (requesting HN comments)(cryptofly.pen.io)
3 points by themenace 15y ago|4 comments
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by themenace 15y ago
150 degrees Fahrenheit (65 C) would exceed the highest surface temperature ever recorded on Earth -- by a wide margin. I can't find a good reference at the moment, but I think 150F would be immediately fatal. I think the infographic is humo
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Iran spy drone GPS hijack boasts: Rubbish, say experts(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by themenace 15y ago|0 comments
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by themenace 15y ago
I think it's a great idea and wish these guys success. But isn't eBay (and perhaps Craigslist) in a much better position to provide this functionality? They have enormous historical databases on the prices of things.
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by themenace 15y ago
"How is believing in your product an excuse for not trying to minimise risk. Especially if you know that most startups fail, there's no good reason not to hedge your bets." Would you agree that this would not be a good answer even if it is
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by themenace 15y ago
The author, Cringely, mentions that he helped write the business plan for Illustrator, Adobe Systems’ first consumer product. But you never get to see the business plans of super successful products -- that's what I'd like to see. The one e
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Why big companies can’t change(cringely.com)
5 points by themenace 15y ago|1 comments
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by themenace 15y ago
Magnetic visualizer sprays are also great fun -- assuming that you can still buy any of them. You can actually see the magnetically recorded data on floppies, the magnetic stripe on ATM cards, hotel card keys, driver's licenses, and analo
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by themenace 15y ago
And there is a system called Deniable Video extends that concept of plausible deniability to live audio & video. It's like TrueCrypt for real-time data.
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by themenace 16y ago
Cleese talks about how multitasking is destructive to the creative process (at time code 6m:30s): "But if you're racing around all day, ticking things off on lists, looking at your watch, making phone calls, and generally just keeping all t
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Ask HN: Review our startup: Deniable Video(deniablevideo.com)
34 points by themenace 17y ago|41 comments
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by themenace 17y ago
> adoption was hindered by the word "nuclear." This is exactly why NMR machines are now called MRIs. "NMR and MRI are essentially the same technique, except MRI is used to analyze the contents of humans instead of what is in a test tube
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by themenace 17y ago
The article creates the impression of information rather than actually providing any. Just look at the bar chart they give: 49% Failed to make connection... but WHY? 21% Loading or off-loading error... but HOW? 16% Ticketing, tagging er
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Fake fingerprints, formerly experimental, make real-world debut(yomiuri.co.jp)
1 points by themenace 18y ago|0 comments
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by themenace 18y ago
Not only is it a bad example, it's cheating! The guy in Tokyo didn't know the target personally; he just looked him up in a register. The origin of "Six degrees of separation" presumes that each individual in the chain knows the next link p
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Ask HN: Secret military technology as groundbreaking as the tank and airplane were
4 points by themenace 18y ago|20 comments
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by themenace 18y ago
> The other blunder that Friendster did at the time, was to allow people see who visited your profile. I bet their pageviews dropped overnight. Would you explain this a bit more please? Why would it be bad to let users see who's visitin

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