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dokument··on Michael Dell Pledges $36M in Harvey Relief
That sounds more impressive than ฿7.4k
dokument··on Decommissioned mobile devices as cheap energy-efficient compute nodes
What is the real downside of that vs replacing android with linux? I could see there being more pro's than cons except for specific use cases.
dokument··on CrashPlan is exiting the consumer market
We need a p2p backup solution. Something like what wuala used to be but open source and distributed. Give up 1TB of local space to get ~750GB offsite, or something like that.
dokument··on Ask HN: Starting blogging when you're not an expert?
> Does it makes sense to you to start a (technical blog) when you know you're not an expert in any field ?

I believe so yes. When I am learning something new myself, it is always great to follow along with someone else that learned it. There is no reason to leave out your mistakes or lessons learned. Plus you can come back and correct yourself but share it with others.

dokument··on NIST Random Beacon
How much would it matter if you used this as one source of entropy for your rng?
dokument··on Wikileaks reveals CIA's Elsa: a geo-location malware for WiFi / Windows
Do you want to build a Snowden?
dokument··on Another Ransomware Outbreak Is Going Global
I've seen variants that use Bitmessage and other anonymous messengers before.
dokument··on Conglomerates Didn’t Die, They Look Like Amazon
Maybe. Still wouldn't be as much as google knows. Via android phone locations, apps installed, what people are saying in email/gchat/gvoice conversations, google home histories, youtube, etc. Not mentioning their other services like google cloud.

It would be very easy to use that data to know when and with who to invest.

dokument··on How billions vanish into the security industry
The first step to IT security is physical security.
dokument··on Ask HN: What laptop do you use?
Lenovo Thinkpad X201 with extended battery.

It's cheap, good battery life, durable, does everything I need from a laptop.

dokument··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
I can't comment on oakmail, but I can tell you how i'm doing it for my project (decentralized mailer/messenger, look for my post on this page). But basically you perform a lookup (X address = Y privatekey). The problem is when your users don't want their pubkeys to be public.

In a nutshell, I create a new keypair using the recipients address as the seed for the keypair. Addresses in my system are similar to bitcoin addresses (I also use elliptical curve encryption) so the addresses have embedded hashes and checksum of the public key.

This means that pubkeys are encrypted and only people with your address can retrieve your pubkey.

dokument··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
It would be neat if you could extract the desired data (text) from the page and hash it so that you could later fix the link (by pointing to a new valid link).
dokument··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Elliptical curve asymmetrical keys for the actual encryption. No encryption by proxy by default. Basically think of a shared database where you don't know who inserts data or who selects data. Making all payloads the same size, and constantly transmitting/receiving at a set rate ensures that even your isp can't tell if you are the sender or receiver of a message. The security/anonymity levels are adjustable so you don't have to use the features if you'd rather not. Also with shared asymetrical keys, users can communicate without having to sign/identify themselves within the message. This also provides plausible deniability. There are a lot more layers, but I'll keep it brief here.
dokument··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Kind of, but more anonymous and not tied to tor. More like Bitmessage (https://bitmessage.org) but with a fresh approach. You can connect via tor (tor-tor) and talk to people on i2p, or clearnet, sneakernet, etc.
dokument··on Ask HN: What are you working on?
Project: Distributed, trustless, anonymous, encrypted, messenger/mailer with the goal of hiding senders and receivers of messages. Also can't be brought down since it is distributed.

Problem: Limited time to work on it. I have a working prototype with one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many messaging/mailing working fully encrypted over ipv4. Building out the transport methods is the next main task (ipv4 works, need ipv6/tor/i2p/file/qr/etc).

dokument··on Amazon, the world’s most remarkable firm, is just getting started
Wasn't that NYT article found to not be very accurate?
dokument··on US Senate votes to undo FCC internet privacy rules
You can't. Trust is trust.
dokument··on Ask HN: Where do you host your personal blog these days?
Pelican is great. I have it installed on a local vm which I use for composing then I push the static files to the webserver (ramnode). (www.adammelton.com)
dokument··on Ask HN: Is S3 down?
You also get your ssl sessions backed up on global webcaches as an added feature.
dokument··on Using Yubikeys Everywhere
neat. what are some use-cases for ed25519?
dokument··on SecureDrop – An open-source whistleblower submission system
Came here to say this. You could just publish to the general chan. However, bitmessage is no good for distributing data. It would be good for distributing how to get that data (torrent magnet, mega.nz link, encryption key, etc).
dokument··on Live slow, die old: Mounting evidence for caloric restriction in humans
Did you take into account your extra energy requirements in the winter? Your body has to keep you warm and this uses energy. It would be interesting to have an app or wearable that could help you keep up with intake based off of your environment (e.g. yesterday you walked n+10 miles and it was cold, you should eat more today than normal).
dokument··on It’s time to bring back the dumb phone
Honestly a dumb phone + data hotspot would be ideal for me. I could see this pairing well with wearables that provide the interface instead of traditional phone screens.
dokument··on Ask HN: Any good resources for finding software jobs abroad?
Want to know the reason that grass is greener on the other side of the fence? Because, it is fertilized with bullshit.
dokument··on FreeNAS: Open Source Storage Operating System
I believe they are replacing jails with docker containers.
dokument··on Couchdrop – Secure cloud upload server
His name is Michael Lawson.
dokument··on Ulam Spiral
Three years ago I proposed using Ulam Spirals as the peering logic for Bitmessage (decentralized, trustless messenger service). Essentially with Bitmessage you trade messages with everyone on your network but you can be a member of multiple networks. My proposal was to be in one network but peer with with all the "touching" digit peers according to the Ulam Spiral. The benefit of this approach is that newer (higher value) networks are peering with older more established ones and there are multiple paths between non-touching networks to send messages.

Here is the forum post with the suggestion: https://bitmessage.org/forum/index.php?topic=2549.0

dokument··on F-35 radar system has bug that requires hard reboot in flight
Any clue to why it would take so long to reboot?
dokument··on We Need a Better PC
Isn't that kind of like saying that Apples phone chargers and cords are always failing/breaking so Apple has bad build quality on all of their products?
dokument··on Silicon Valley and Black Coders: Howard University fights to join the tech boom
The 2015 demographic supports your claim. %36 White (non-hispanic), %31 Asian (non-hispanic)

[https://www.jointventure.org/images/stories/pdf/index2015.pd...]

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