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raw23··on Classical Cryptography Will Survive Quantum Computers
Correct me if I'm wrong but The article doesn't describe how 'classical' cryptography will survive quantum computers. It merely describes how it will break RSA and then lightly covers a potential alternative quantum proof public private key cryptography scheme.

Misleading title?

raw23··on NASA To hold Major Announcement After AI Makes Major Planet-Hunting Breakthrough
>The event will take place on 22 February

Gonna have to wait for while....

raw23··on Critical Tor flaw leaks users’ real IP address
shameless plug: https://github.com/r-a-w/TorProxy

This will ensure all outgoing traffic is headed for the Tor network. This would prevent this vuln from being effective as it would drop the outbound packets.

raw23··on Reverse Engineering an Integrated Circuit for Pwn2Win 2017 CTF
This is awesome, nice work!
raw23··on Bitcoin has crossed $6,000 USD for the first time
This analogy is comparable to an extent. The odds of making money off bitcoin compared to a lottery ticket are several orders of magnitude higher. When making investments if you want to make large gains some of your money has to be in riskier assets.

Obviously don't put your life savings in bitcoin, anyone who does is not making an intelligent choice. But if you have money to spare that your willing to lose, I wouldn't consider it a horrible investment.

raw23··on Bitcoin has crossed $6,000 USD for the first time
This also happens with fiat currency in the form of lost or destroyed cash. The final supply of bitcoins is limited but bitcoins can still be created using fractional reserve banking no different then our current banking system.
raw23··on Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture
Watched this the other day, good layman's introduction to what computers actually do. Feynman has a serious skill at explaining complex topics in simple terms that anyone can understand.

love to watch Feynman's lectures even if I have a fairly good understanding of the topic, such an entertaining lecturer.

raw23··on The Strange Loop in Deep Learning
Self referential loops in the brain may indeed be the mechanism for our sense of self awareness but to go on and say this makes consciousness any less mysterious is a non-sequitur.

How would any combination of neurons and interconnections between the neurons (feedback loops or not) explain the emergence of a subjective first person experience i.e. consciousness

This might be a confusion of words and not reality. If you define consciousness as self awareness then we are talking about two different things.

raw23··on Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
Bitcoin is a neutral technology, think of it like cash. Buying illegal things is always done with cash but it doesn't mean we should get rid of cash altogether.

Regardless even if we came to the collective decision that we wanted to get rid of bitcoin, its not feasible due to its decentralized nature.

raw23··on Security Certifications Are Causing More Harm Than Good
I think soon that this sentiment will start to apply to Universities. It seems inevitable at some point in the near future there will be an online 'university' (for lack of a better word) who's graduates will be considered equal or even better than a standard university education, particularly for tech related degrees.

Universities have been a centralized source of accreditation for a long time. All it takes is for someone to figure out how to restrict graduation and filter good candidates using testing or some other means to gain accreditation and acceptance of its graduates by industry.

raw23··on Silicon Valley Hedge Fund Takes on Wall Street with AI Trader
Frustrating that so many great minds are swooped into the finance industry.

The lure of money is too strong.

raw23··on Silicon Valley Hedge Fund Takes on Wall Street with AI Trader
Arguable whether or not HFT increases liquidity in the market.
raw23··on Hacker Steals 900 GB of Cellebrite Data
Guessing they were sent the data by the attacker
raw23··on Show HN: A partial HTTP server written in brainfuck extended with syscalls
I think the author is a masochist
raw23··on 0-day exploit for Firefox/tor on windows
http://pastebin.com/7xZ27haj
raw23··on MacBook Pro 2016 first look: One week later
This is also the main thing making me question the purchase
raw23··on It’s Finally Legal to Hack Your Own Devices (Even Your Car)
Not a lawyer, but i couldn't see why it wouldn't be thrown out.

Hotz just reversed and found an exploit on his local machine. Seems to be exactly what these provisions are covering.