benedikt

> the nature of that license makes its use in certain classes of business very, very dangerous

Well, thats the point of it.

> (2) "Stalker" downvoting, which is when a person retaliates to a comment by downvoting that person's contributions en masse.

This is why downvots (or upvotes) are not registered if you vote from the user-page.

> 1. The specs for the radio chip are easily available, so she could identify the actual packets from looking at the voltages on four wires.

How does one go about doing this? Is this done on hardware or some wireshark-esque software tool?

In order for a systematic solution to exist, the cipher must be systematic. Maybe Zodiac didn't make it mathematically or systematically.

Humans are pattern-loving creatures, maybe these Reddit users found a pattern that has escaped everyone else so far. Or maybe it's just gibberish.

Since there is quite a bit of money involved one might wonder if someone is trying to profit. One could take this even further, put up his best tinfoil hat and ask how much control MtGox has or had over the market. Is that possible scenario?

I read in Torvalds "Just for fun" that the version numbers for the Linux kernel were always supposed to indicate how far to the next major release it is. In the book he mentioned that it really tough when he bumped the version number up to 0.95 because he "only" had to implement the network stack..

More bandwidth and users have probably made it a very stressful job for ~5 people.

I noticed that they are willing to give away passwords, but not willing to point out the SQL injection.