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combat-banana··on Pixel Binary Transparency: verifiable security for Pixel devices
It is entirely irrelevant because cell phone companies add “analytics” (spyware) as part of their firmware stack… which Google and anyone else cannot block.

Use no cell towers or agree to be tracked. Lol.

combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
Because it is doing it within a closed time series that is located in the past. Like predicting what the weather was yesterday in areas with no radar. Cool, and useless.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6382/ab5f3f

combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
I think we agree: in my personal context it is an anecdote but let’s use rumor in this context instead. :)
combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
Not really. Different as in “BBQ chicken pizza” vs. “pepperoni pizza”.
combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
Careful with the terminology there. They do not “handle” the states but rather “access” or “read” them: moreover the qubits read are not processed along any probability vector which means they are scraping inherently junk data.

By analogy: imagine you want to make an aimbot to shoot people in an online FPS video game. You need your aimbot to calculate not only the vector to shoot at (our game has bullet drop and bullet objects, not hitscan weapons) but also to calculate for the opponent’s motion.

The way people at Google are doing it now, they look at a map of where the players are where when the game starts and try to ammo dump it… with no one there. Lol.

combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
Rumor would mean that I don’t have personal knowledge. I do. It is not a rumor, but rather an anecdote, and the source will remain unknown and unposted. I appreciate your reply.
combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
It is not possible to use entanglement states to process quantum data. More failed projects from supposed “the smartest people”— I am not impressed.

I also further disagree they are producing anything other than annealed states even if using some other methodology.

Food analogy: like saying you are making a “revolutionary new pasta” which is an egg noodle or a rice noodle as opposed to a flour noodle. Not impressive.

combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
Those are not quantum computers they are classical computers that have been enabled to process data matrices. Not the same as moving amplitudes directly.
combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
It’s an anecdote. No source.
combat-banana··on Ask HN: How long until quantum computers break 512 bit RSA/ECDSA? 1024 bit?
Anecdotally I only know of one team on Earth capable of doing it “properly”. They are working with Grigori Perelman on the system and it is made of cheap materials, almost intentionally, like a snub in the face of rich companies.

I know of no major research companies that have begun on the same line of research.

combat-banana··on Windows Security and Privacy
Did you write this? Wow! I’m going to be going through your guide with a friend! If I can think of anything helpful to add based on the process I will let you know!
combat-banana··on X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014
“ In case we needed more evidence that putting dynamic code between hyperlinks from one page to another, add this to the pile...”

If you add “is a bad idea” after another so that it reads: “ In case we needed more evidence that putting dynamic code between hyperlinks from one page to another is a bad idea, add this to the pile...”

Otherwise the sentence isn’t saying anything as it is worded. Sorry if I am being mistaken here.

combat-banana··on Windows Security and Privacy
This is an above satisfactory article.
combat-banana··on Shouldn't distant objects appear magnified?
It’s very simple depending upon your context. (God’s object)
combat-banana··on Scientists trap light inside a magnet
I wonder if this will lead to co-applications with https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_trap (s)
combat-banana··on X glitch wipes out most pictures and links tweeted before December 2014
“ In case we needed more evidence that putting dynamic code between hyperlinks from one page to another, add this to the pile...”

This sentence doesn’t seem to be complete. What did you mean?