trotsky

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by trotsky 13y ago
Holy Jesus that's a lot of money. Has anyone credible ever done any market sizing of the btc services or hardware markets? At first blush it is hard for me not to estimate the btc specific hardware market as being less than 200MM even
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by trotsky 13y ago
The only one I've ever seen in DC was the one I was test driving.
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by trotsky 13y ago
When talking about US national politics or institutions inside DC, WP is almost exclusively used to mean "Washington Post"
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by trotsky 13y ago
Wow, the US Attorney is really going out of his way to fill this one up with bullshit. I knew something was very wrong when goodin claims hundreds of millions in losses on a carding ring and it didn't take long to find it. The only peo
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by trotsky 13y ago
software is fundamentally broken in some way that it just gets harder and harder to keep a lid on the more effort we make. There is money to be made selling inflatable rafts before a tsunami, but it's pretty depressing work and pretty
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by trotsky 13y ago
"...the erosion of confidence in the ability of the United States to do anything discreetly or keep anything secret." An amusingly worded statement perfectly delivered in intelligence speak. Because Mr. Hayden is so crucially aw
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by trotsky 13y ago
What percentage of those android phones would you say are upgraded to a level where they don't have any publicly announced cve's against them that allow for rce or close enough? Like 5 or 10 percent? I agree that it's better
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by trotsky 13y ago
The idea that a serious compromise will present a clear path back to a specific ssh key that got used by the attackers and that you'll possibly be able to stop it just by turning off that key is pretty laughable. But then again, so is
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by trotsky 13y ago
Out of curiosity, how do those krait cores compare to the exynos a15 based cores that samsung is shipping in volume? I've been very impressed with their performance on chromeos as compared to older ip. With xen now building with a15 h
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by trotsky 13y ago
If you train your users to accept self signing you might as well just give up on pki. It appears from the chromium pinning list that they really do let anyone add a pinning rule for themselves if they want to, that would probably be the mos
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by trotsky 13y ago
I wish cnet didn't write this article like they thought they were CNN or USA Today. What are we supposed to make of the phrase "master keys"? It doesn't seem like they are talking about root ca's. Is it really pract
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by trotsky 13y ago
an egregious violation of investor trust and ethics. I agree that this kind of behavior is too obvious and not socially acceptable or common practice. But the concept of the modern style of silicon valley private equity industry (of which
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by trotsky 13y ago
and yet when the service binds to localhost instead of a local, private routable address that clearly exists as you're tunneling to the internet, it has said "hey, look, whatever im doing i dont want any other computer anywhere to
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by trotsky 13y ago
it was indeed complete sarcasm.
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by trotsky 13y ago
The anti-virus age may be over, but if the supporting evidence is that host based signature products don't provide an effective defense against a variety of common security threats then the anti-virus age was over a long, long time ago
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by trotsky 13y ago
If there is one thing that I have considered a flaw in computing, it's that there have been few ways for inexperienced developers and users to use one simple system which allowed them to circumvent their host based firewall, their netw
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by trotsky 13y ago
You pretty much nailed how it's done, good show for off the cuff. Encrypt file with large symmetric key. Slice into n pieces, where n is like 5-10 or more. Distribute a few copies of each slice to reliable people unlikely to directly c
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by trotsky 13y ago
I completely agree with you. I am very appreciative of being able to read these documents, but it clearly will cause little or no harm to the us or the intelligence community. About the only thing that was in the manning cache that probably
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by trotsky 13y ago
The way these things work is no one person actually has the whole key - portions of it are distributed to various people you trust but may otherwise be unlikely to conspire. They might not even know who has the other parts. The idea is it t
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by trotsky 13y ago
This play is straight out of the wikileaks playbook that they used almost verbatim when the us was making a lot of noise about assange. It appeared to be effective, in that US intelligence took the threat seriously and were concerned about
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by trotsky 13y ago
EDITED: Thanks guys, it seems like I managed to paste over most of my post with the clipboard filled with the last one. Thanks for being so nice pointing it out. Sucks, the on topic one i destroyed was leaps above the banal content that rep
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by trotsky 13y ago
Wow, if this is the class of insert you get after paying what I presume are not insignificant amounts of fund, I'd hate to see the budget for a compelling one. Reading between the lines, he sounds butt hurt to me due to dismissals from
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by trotsky 13y ago
wow, i'm shocked that amazon would stoop so low. what's next, the yahoo toolbar stops being a convenient and secure way to search the web and gets into the spyware business?
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by trotsky 13y ago
I'm not sure which they you mean, but I assure you nobody is under the impression that only some people do it. Core routers and core cellular gear is quickly becoming an industry that every nation state that can is looking to jumpstart
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by trotsky 13y ago
While they do have their own bespoke fab, the description given there is wildly more impressive than I've ever heard it described by people not giving speeches. For obvious reasons they are always going to need their own fab to some ex
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by trotsky 13y ago
From what I've seen, most of the newer ipmi gear including the dedicated port ones include a standardized i2c interface between the platform controller/ec side (the main server) and the BMC - while it has in most cases similar aut
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by trotsky 13y ago
That's the absolute truth. And given the vast array of high frequency oscillators, high end dacs and software configurable pin reassignment, you really need to include a pretty effective rf shield (say ~-40db over ~10kkhz-1.xghz) or go
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by trotsky 13y ago
Short answer is you can trust building block type components like CPUs if they're designed by a company that is in the camp of the same nation state/alliance that you align with as well. Very similar to the thought process you wou
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by trotsky 13y ago
steal someone elses
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by trotsky 13y ago
nope. i've only heard of google doing any real messaging re: pinning.

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