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davidsong··on Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation
Did Monero exist at the time? It ought to have been possible to just put it in Monero and leave it mixing for years, then pull it out slowly over time.
davidsong··on Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related To Silk Road Investigation
> a macbook with serial number filed off

This really tickled me for some reason. Does he know something that we don't?

davidsong··on Severe flaw in WPA2 protocol leaves Wi-Fi traffic open to eavesdropping
Powerline adapters are pretty cheap nowadays and fast enough. I get synchronous 200mbps over a pair of TP-Link gigabit ones in a place with really poor quality wiring, and they come with power pass-through so I don't even lose a power socket.
davidsong··on OnePlus OxygenOS built-in analytics
Whistling lessons from Kevin Mitnick
davidsong··on 150 days of living and coding in a van
There's a downvote button? I've not seen it yet.
davidsong··on Software to capture votes in upcoming German national election is insecure
From what I understand, verifiability and transparency is something you don't really want because it enables vote selling. In a secret ballot, someone dishonest enough to sell you their vote is probably dishonest enough to vote the other way.
davidsong··on Why I Was Fired by Google
Depends on what you deem suitable. If you're aiming to get people who have a strong desire for exploring and creating systems then you'd likely end up with more people with Aspergic traits, a majority of which are male.
davidsong··on Stack Overflow Sunsetting Documentation
I edited some examples written in Python to tidy them up and make the page PEP-8 compliant, so it actually serves as a good example of Python code. My edit was rejected for being too trivial, and after that I never used Documentation again.
davidsong··on It is as if you were doing work
https://github.com/pippinbarr/itisasifyouweredoingwork/blob/...
davidsong··on The .feedback scam
It's not so much what the machines think, it's that moving from the convention of `company.domain` to `.company` confuses users and allows scams like this to happen.
davidsong··on Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
Because now we can watch those funds and know how much money they made, we can watch them to see if they make a mistake.

If every address was different we'd have no idea how much money they're making and only funds paid by people who also reported them would be tainted by the long eyeball of the law.

davidsong··on The future of education is plain text
CRLF unless your audience mostly use Mac or Linux.
davidsong··on Malware Uses Router LEDs to Steal Data From Secure Networks
There was [earlier work](http://www.applied-math.org/optical_tempest.pdf) on pulling Ethernet data from the LEDs of a 100MBps switch, as they were hard-wired to the cable.

There was also a paper from around the same time about a keyboard hack that flashes the caps lock key imperceptibly fast but brightly enough so that a remote watcher can see the encoded keystrokes on your curtains or ceiling, but I can't seem to find that one.

davidsong··on Secret Dots from Printer Outed NSA Leaker
Hmm, okay, so we reduce to black and white, add some warp and noise and then reduce the size so that the text is only just readable.

...and they focus on adding fonts of multiple sizes so it can't be shrunk without losing information.

davidsong··on Venture investors blast US decision to withdraw from Paris Climate Accord
This is inflammatory and contributes very little, it doesn't really belong here.
davidsong··on Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
This is an American company that strips SSL from many, many medium value targets; if they aren't thoroughly owned then the surveillance state is being negligent.

A paranoid man would go even further than that and assume that monitored DDoS-proofing goes hand in hand with targetted, state-sponsored DDoS attacks.

davidsong··on Ask HN: Which companies have the best blogs written by their engineering team?
One reason to dislike them is that they're the NSA's favourite MITMiddleman.
davidsong··on Weebly hacked, 43M credentials stolen
Spam is as much a form of marketing as assault is a form of touching.
davidsong··on Memory FAQ
Yeah I spotted that too.

Another posted pointed out that it's on github, so you could always submit a pull request:

https://github.com/nommu/nommu.org

davidsong··on Moral Machine
> How does a car know if someone is a "criminal" anyway and what does that mean?

Adware on everyone's phone is broadcasting a SocialWorthScore™, without one it's assumed to be a large negative number.

davidsong··on What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers
Imagine playing minesweeper on advanced difficulty, blindfolded, but where all the mines are patents. It would be a bit like that unless you wanted 25 year old printer technology.
davidsong··on Apple and Facebook helped bust the world's biggest torrent site
The Pirate Bay has a Tor address, which is the only sure way to get to it in the UK.
davidsong··on Reddit is still in turmoil
You don't need to be a horrible person to make insensitive posts, it's a role played depending on environment and audience. I'm sure the 4channers among us aren't famous for trollish funposts on Facebook and LinkedIn.
davidsong··on 50 Shades of System Calls
Anyone else actually tried this? I was impressed with the video and thought I'd give it a stab, but the mouse drag to drill-down isn't working for me in 0.11.0.

Found a possibly-relevant issue but it's closed and the single clicking option doesn't work on my box either: https://github.com/draios/sysdig/issues/526

davidsong··on TSA's Head of Security 'Removed' from Office
Is that what you call a structured bonus?
davidsong··on Have Software Developers Given Up?
> Can you think of any other profession that does anything like this?

Photographers, graphic designers and musicians.

davidsong··on UK Porn filters block sex education websites
I think that blocking children from going on all adult or loosely moderated sites is the only logical conclusion here, calling it a porn filter is dishonest.
davidsong··on Bitcoin Reaches 1000 USD
No need to cash out, you can buy from anywhere using all4btc.com. If you'd rather order it yourself than have someone else buy then try an Amazon gift card from gyft.com instead.
davidsong··on Bitcoin nodes surged to 200k
> Britons will be SOL

Is it that hard to set up on BitBargain?

davidsong··on Drone Imagery for OpenStreetMap
It's caused by the quick and dirty image scaling algorithm, it doesn't take enough samples per pixel. We used to see this sort of stuff in computer games before mipmaps were invented, which are smaller versions of the image pre-scaled using a fancy algorithm and then used in place of the larger image when it's smaller on the screen.
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