HN has only ever been civilized by way of preferential moderation. Don’t delude yourself with rose colored glasses. Just continue to take my comments personally, as if you were being attacked by a close friend.
To provide some better perspective, this link has a picture of the incident, and described in greater detail that the mechanism of action wasn’t simply some newspaper rallying for a boycott.…
Starship Troopers had that sort of thing going on, in the sense that Heinlein portrayed the society of the novel as a militaristic, conservative authoritarian regime born out of economic turmoil of a vaguely sketched…
Okay, so wait a second. Hold it right there. @nerdponx is onto something here. This is really important. You take your fingers, and take your 100+ key keyboard, and you think about how reliable your structured…
our phone numbers are more a part of our identity than ever before Okay, great idea: phone numbers are the new social security number. Oh but wait, not really. Not when I can set up a prepaid phone for $30. Or three for…
Keep in mind that there’s actually a path to breaking people out of this point of view, but it’s a really deep, dark rabbit hole, with lasting ramifications. When you take this principle into account, however, a huge…
Like quintuple: tuh-ple As in: That group of 5 was a real ‘tuple.
Well, what's the point in asking, if you already know everything? I wonder.
User error, for one. People get sloppy and reuse a not-so-one-time-pad. That alone compromises secrets with frequency analysis.
No one really tries to break encryption, when side channel attacks can capture a message during the process of encryption. No one thinks in encrypted text. The plain text is always created and then translated over to…
It’d be best to imagine something else. Stenographers are much too busy in court, recording transcripts of proceedings as they transpire. They wouldn’t have time to help avoid detection. I think it’s probably better to…
HN has only ever been civilized by way of preferential moderation. Don’t delude yourself with rose colored glasses. Just continue to take my comments personally, as if you were being attacked by a close friend.
To provide some better perspective, this link has a picture of the incident, and described in greater detail that the mechanism of action wasn’t simply some newspaper rallying for a boycott.…
Starship Troopers had that sort of thing going on, in the sense that Heinlein portrayed the society of the novel as a militaristic, conservative authoritarian regime born out of economic turmoil of a vaguely sketched…
Okay, so wait a second. Hold it right there. @nerdponx is onto something here. This is really important. You take your fingers, and take your 100+ key keyboard, and you think about how reliable your structured…
our phone numbers are more a part of our identity than ever before Okay, great idea: phone numbers are the new social security number. Oh but wait, not really. Not when I can set up a prepaid phone for $30. Or three for…
Keep in mind that there’s actually a path to breaking people out of this point of view, but it’s a really deep, dark rabbit hole, with lasting ramifications. When you take this principle into account, however, a huge…
Like quintuple: tuh-ple As in: That group of 5 was a real ‘tuple.
Well, what's the point in asking, if you already know everything? I wonder.
User error, for one. People get sloppy and reuse a not-so-one-time-pad. That alone compromises secrets with frequency analysis.
No one really tries to break encryption, when side channel attacks can capture a message during the process of encryption. No one thinks in encrypted text. The plain text is always created and then translated over to…
It’d be best to imagine something else. Stenographers are much too busy in court, recording transcripts of proceedings as they transpire. They wouldn’t have time to help avoid detection. I think it’s probably better to…