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trotsky··on The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG – suspected NSA backdoor (2007)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY
trotsky··on The Strange Story of Dual_EC_DRBG – suspected NSA backdoor (2007)
_NSAKEY discovered two years before patriot act is passed? coincidence? i think not!!1

said another way, what relates the two events in the editorialized title? Just an end of the innocence type vibe? Trusting the sigint guys to design your crypto has always been a well acknowledged double edged sword.

trotsky··on Bye-bye Boxee: how a startup failed to conquer the living room
Boxee's main problem is they built a platform for pirates, sold it at break-even and expected to make their money selling said pirates $5 VOD movies from walmart.
trotsky··on MasterCard breaks ranks in WikiLeaks blockade
Contactless smartcards like you describe are much more fraud resistant than existing skim-friendly magstripes.
trotsky··on Uncovering Android Master Key That Makes 99% of Devices Vulnerable
As I understand google policy, they allow a user supplied CA to over-rule certificate pinning, to allow for the common use case of an enterprise supplied certificate rewriting at the firewall. So unless you're using one of the magic wildcard sub-ca certs issued by a default CA I suspect you're seeing the google apps allowing an exception to pinning.
trotsky··on MasterCard breaks ranks in WikiLeaks blockade
vpn providers see an enormous amount of fraud.
trotsky··on U.S. Postal Service Logging All Mail for Law Enforcement
I have no idea if they are required to do so, but it's worth noting that while the government requires a warrant to open US mail and inspect the contents, your agreement with UPS/FedEx allows them to open anything they see fit to.
trotsky··on You May Not Like Weev, But Your Online Freedom Depends on His Appeal
Consider the 50+ doors the FBI broke down in response to operation payback, yet 0 prosecutions have occurred in the US. Before that happened it was widely speculated that ddos was not a crime in the united states, and that appears to have been defacto agreed to by the US Attorney in this case.
trotsky··on Winklevoss twins to offer Bitcoin ETF
There are plenty of US regulations that apply to gold: purity, weight standards, futures regulations, security standards, etc. And i'd be pretty surprised if they didn't trade through COMEX or use them or someone similar for clearance or bonded storage.
trotsky··on Winklevoss twins to offer Bitcoin ETF
What exchange is going to list a fund that trades an unregulated market? The potential for manipulation is off the charts.
trotsky··on Microsoft is retiring TechNet subscriptions
I agree, TechNet had already been gutted. It's worth noting that BizSpark appears to be very, very easy to qualify for and includes free MSDN + $150/mo of azure credits for three years.
trotsky··on $99 Parallella Supercomputer is Now Open Source Hardware
automatically blocked by ghostery

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ghostery/mlomiejdf...

trotsky··on Germany says Cold War tactics don't help EU-US trade talks
rich white people
trotsky··on The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business
From what I understand the main purpose is liability shielding. Each property is run as its own LLC, and management is done via a centralized management company. If a person gets injured on the property, the liability effectively gets capped at the liquidation value of the building.
trotsky··on The 10 Megabyte Manifesto
and way less effort to cluster or shard
trotsky··on The 10 Megabyte Manifesto
I have no idea how neocities is implemented, but my first thought as far as implementing something like that wouldn't be to give users actual filesystem access, but rather to put everything in an object store. Typically that'd be flat until you bolt on something to simulate a hierarchy.
trotsky··on U.S. bugged EU offices, computer networks
Validation of the claims of documents of substantial value having been held back, in hopes of resolving whatever issue is preventing him from traveling.
trotsky··on A summer job paid tuition back in ’81, but then we got cheap
Wage stagnation is probably a bigger factor.

    Minimum wage, 1951: $0.75/hr
    Minimum wage, 1981: $3.25/hr
    Minimum wage, 2011: $7.25/hr
trotsky··on Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones
Interesting link in terms of tempest paranoia:

http://www.erikyyy.de/tempest/

DIY (collaborative) tempest emissions.

trotsky··on Why Snowden Asked Visitors in Hong Kong to Refrigerate Their Phones
I've recently tried the static bag using a samsung tablet - wifi and bluetooth both showed no attenuation with two different bags. A "farraday cloth" that was suggested to me is priced at about $24 a linear foot (8'x1') so I wouldn't expect these cheaper solutions to be very effective. I would expect a microwave oven cavity to effectively reduce signals in 2.4ghz, though not signals in the lower gsm and related bands.
trotsky··on The War of the Closes
If you need that much detail to explain some of the new answers to current users, why such a focus on brevity when the actual ( responses || closes ) are generated? Also in the news today is the NSA FOIA response in which they took one bureaucratic statement "DENIED - CLASSIFIED" and softened it considerably by including a bunch of explanation in the response itself.
trotsky··on My Startup has 30 Days to Live
Let me try this again. When I said "Wow, you ..." I was really saying: "If all you're contributing is rephrased sections of wikipedia, perhaps you shouldn't be trying to sound like an authority"
trotsky··on My Startup has 30 Days to Live
The term "startup" originated during the dot-com bubble.

Wow, you get some bullshit ideas about business if you get your mba at wikipedia.

trotsky··on OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds
yet they test 10ft los in a barren band, making it clear that they're trying to conduct an unrealistic lab style rf/phy interface test.
trotsky··on OS X is holding back the 2013 MacBook Air’s 802.11ac Wi-Fi speeds
Why would you test wifi speed using afp or cifs? Don't both those protocols dictate a fsync on each block, meaning they are very dependent on rtt which is much longer via radio? If you're testing radio bandwidth you really want to use a protocol without restraints like that, such as rtsp or http. While window size will undoubtedly help here, I wouldn't be surprised to find that windows 8 isn't flushing as often or performs async fsyncs.
trotsky··on Facebook's Former Security Chief Now Works for the NSA
While I don't consider this a huge revelation or issue, dismissing the employment of the former cso of the greatest private intelligence source in history by the greatest intelligence consumer in history as coincidence without a second thought is hopelessly naive. If you dismiss anything vaguely conspiratorial as a "conspiracy theory" out of hand you'd dismiss pretty much every active intelligence program we have.
trotsky··on Quickmeme banned from Reddit for alleged vote manipulation
And as such, content submitted within these subreddits are regularly featured on Reddit's front page each day and capable of being clicked on by more than 1 billion people.

What an odd thing to say. That same hypothetical line of thinking could lead you to say that I'm capable of receiving a trillion dollars tomorrow, simply because I have a fedwire destination address and that much money could hypothetically be transferred to it. Neither has even a slight chance of actually happening.

trotsky··on Official statement from WikiLeaks regarding Edward Snowden's exit from Hong Kong
Perhaps it is a cultural difference, and if so forgive me. But before the Assange affair would you have ever used the phrase "rape accusations" to describe a woman suggesting that the condom used in consensual sex may not have ripped in an accidental manner? If one uses such a broad definition of malfeasance, god knows how many notorious crimes I could have been accused of in my lifetime.
trotsky··on Statement by Julian Assange after One Year in Ecuadorian Embassy
Your question can be restated in a much simpler form as "Do you think propaganda efforts have shifted from newspapers, radio and television to include social media outlets?"

And I would answer, do you think if you were in charge of such things you'd be suitably doing your job if you hadn't?

trotsky··on Statement by Julian Assange after One Year in Ecuadorian Embassy
just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
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