vgb2k11

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by vgb2k11 9y ago
yacy.net
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
Check out replies by zkSNARK and stale2002 (just down-page at time of writing). Screen cap here for reference: http://imgur.com/a/xBJUW
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
But its still the wrong explanation. Think about it: (i) Miners, not average users, hold the voting power. (ii) When the 1 MB block-size is congested (like it is now), miners make significantly more money on transaction fee's. (iii) In
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
>I think "you can't block GMail" here is meant in the sense that "you can't block the Google crawler". It's certainly technically trivial to do so, but the opportunity cost from lost users will be, for
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
> if Google implemented my suggestion they could never be blacklisted Google seems to have built their brand intentionally to be the opposite of what you're asking for though; and absolutely they could be blacklisted with a simple &
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
>The webpage also says, "Redundancy is achieved through the use of erasure codes so that your data can always be recovered even in the event of large network outages." >Does this means files can't be lost, as long as yo
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
> 2. When something is free, then YOU are the product. Debian Linux, Firefox, gcc, visual studio... The list goes on. I think the "you are the product" quip has become an overplayed meme of late. Mutually beneficial / co d
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
User ruytlm has posted links to hacker factor blog, and it seems some sophisticated scanners (e.g., Eddie) were crashed by the exploit. In that blog the author postulates that Eddie is a nation-state level (not script kiddie) scanner, so I&
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
> Wouldn't all but the most naive scanners use time-out settings, maximum lengths on bytes read etc? It wouldn't save a scanner from crashing to use a time-out or max read bytes. The defense can send the 100kb zipped data in a
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
Oh this seems quite an interesting experiment. Curious though if this defence poses no additional risks (beside bandwidth) on the server. I mean, is there any significant chance that the random data could cause a glitch on the server implem
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
Very interesting read indeed. I've a question about it; the article is about defeating malicious crawlers/bots affecting a TOR hidden service, so my question is, how might the author differentiate bot requests from standard client
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
Could the head be spoofed in such a way that the header says 1MB, or might the clients/bots be typically strict on ensuring header values are valid? I think your raised issue is important though, and any serious client/bot should
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
After searching the definition of one-time-pad, I'm pretty sure post is redundant and shall be deleted (in T-minus 2 minutes). [edit] No delete option. Mod please delete.
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
>Assuming that I can exchange keys of some sort (physical, digital) with the other contact. Each contact has an identical table of data (pure-random, 1 terabyte, ASCII 256 or choose your own encoding); this is your "Key of some sort
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
Hi Saurik, my reasoning was obviously not very well researched; actually I can see its a damaging assumption for the PR of jailbreaking when I (or the public in general) makes assumptions that jailbreaking is strongly linked to game piracy,
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by vgb2k11 9y ago
>but also lack of demand Unlikely. The demand for pirated material (games) has not diminished. Also its hard to explain why the iPhone suddenly lacks demand for jailbreak when the Android modding community still thrives. >These days,
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by vgb2k11 10y ago
You've been away from HN a few days? The SHA-1 collision example uses PDFs in its demo. Hence other commenter saying SHA 256
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by vgb2k11 10y ago
The most useful app on this hand-curated list has got to be "how many people in space right now". I mean, who knew it would be 6 ! /s /thread.