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  1. Bruce shouldN'T go to Washington on Now From Bruce Schneier, the Skein Hash Function · · Score: 1

    BS made a good starters book, but with many errors. BS is not taken seriously on cryptography circles. I appreciate his work on pushing freedom for cryptography exports on US, but all his other work is irrelevant and gets publicity from his gestalt of self promotion.

  2. Not really on Python 2.6 to Smooth the Way for 3.0, Coming Next Month · · Score: 4, Interesting

    You can keep your code compatible with both at the same time. Deprecated features are trivial to rewrite in most cases. There are even tools for this.

  3. Re:Fuck the police on MI6 Terror Photos, Data Accidentally Sold On Ebay · · Score: 2, Interesting
  4. China needs more eye openers on James Powderly of Graffiti Research Labs Detained In China · · Score: 1

    I would've shown people the Tiananmen Square protests and massacre instead of Tibet. There is a documentary about Tank Man where a group of university students are asked if they recognize the pictures and only one of a dozen has a clue, and doesn't dare to say it out loud. The masses are brainwashed even though the protests were in the millions so it is amazing educated twentysomethings don't have a clue.

  5. Re:"non-cisco vpn" client? on How Phishers Think, Act, and Make a Profit · · Score: 1

    That was for the ActiveX exploit. The SSL man-in-the-middle applies to all SSL VPN vendors and isn't fixable unless they add some extra server authentication.

  6. Not really on Patch DNS Servers Faster · · Score: 1
    Your firewall should keep state of outgoing UDP or TCP connections. And AFAIK BIND and others don't pick a fixed source port, the problem is they reuse it.

    It's one single change on the firewalls, nobody needs to "reconfigure [their] entire network." And should be easier if as most large organizations the DNS servers are on a DMZ.

  7. Use PGP on Gmail, SPF, and Broken Email Forwarding? · · Score: 1

    That's why for sensitive stuff you can use FireGPG.

  8. I beg to differ. on EBay Abandons Plans For PayPal Monopoly · · Score: 1

    On first looks it looks horrible with fake offers to make discussions about products or offers (e.g. http://www.ioffer.com/i/iphone-3G-Scam-Please-Read--59937406 ) This is somehow even worse than ebay.

    Why can't there be a good market site out there? It can't be that hard for a major player.

  9. It is dead too now :( on Best Color Scheme For Coding, Easiest On the Eyes? · · Score: 1

    I guess too heavy cgi on the original site.

  10. T.A. on US To Get EU Private Citizen Data · · Score: 1

    America, fuck yeah!!1

  11. Original Register article on Google To Develop ISP Throttling Detector · · Score: 1
  12. Where are past year's results? on 2008 Underhanded C Contest Officially Open · · Score: 1

    We also have listed the winners of last year's contest, which was to write a simple encryption utility that mysteriously and undetectably fails between 1 percent and 0.1 percent of the time. The winning entry is truly impressive.
    I can only see an external link to previous contests and that one lists 2006's. Link please? Thanks :)
  13. No, no on Estonian Cyber Defence Hub Set Up · · Score: 1

    Just let them think you are using floppy disks and 1200 baud modems.

  14. Re:OpenMP? on Panic in Multicore Land · · Score: 1

    Er... No. Check out the new STL and many other new things doing either OpenMP or something. OpenMP is not limited lik SIMD. You can do a lot of mini-threads there. The pragma statements are good hints to the compiler. Check out GCC 4.3 on STL, Cell. And GCC 4.2 on OpenMP.

  15. Re:Millionaire's Problem on Protecting Online Identity Through Cryptography · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Paris Hilton at Wikipedia

    In December 2007, Hilton's grandfather, hotel magnate Barron Hilton, pledged 97 percent of his estate to a charitable organisation founded by his father, the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation. An immediate pledge of $1.2 billion was made, and a further $1.1 billion after his death. He cited the actions of his father as the motivation for his pledge. According to reports, the potential inheritance of his grandchildren is sharply diminished.[4][5] Bush is cheating, he has Darth Vader as second in command running the show. A military-industrial complex lobbyist.
  16. Re:Support your local EFF on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 1

    You can still send them some money in some way almost anonymously by post or bank deposit in cash. Maybe collect around you with friends and neighbors while there.

  17. Re:Support your local EFF on More Details Emerge On Domestic Spying Programs · · Score: 1

    Please don't stop voting! Vote independent. Bipartisanism can be mostly destroyed with just 15 to 20% of independents. They are forced to negotiate with people. Get involved. Please.

  18. Re:Good *old* IBM on Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns · · Score: 1

    I think I tried to reply to another comment excusing the employees... Or I was too sleepy to detect the evident sarcasm :) Either way, my bad!

  19. Re:What we all need on Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm thinking of reporting you right now to save myself.

  20. Re:Good *old* IBM on Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns · · Score: 1

    I beg to differ. They are well aware how this technology will be used besides the Olympics. And in my opinion, anyone working in a monstrosity like aware of the consequences is responsible too. Nobody coded this under a life threat. If people get in prision and tortured you are responsible. You-are-responsible. This work is specifically designed to impose fascism (go dig the dictionary if you don't agree.) This is evil.

  21. Re:What we all need on Video Surveillance Identifies Threat Patterns · · Score: 1

    Well, the US Government thinks they know what we think. Thinking of crime is a crime in itself for them. Think before you think!

  22. Please stop repeating like a parrot on Apple Adds Memory Randomization To Leopard · · Score: 1

    That "vulnerability" was even mentioned as implementation bug on the manual page since 2002! That was an overrated piece of FUD. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=systrace&sektion=1#BUGS Niels couldn't defend his tool because he was chair of Woot 07. Very unfair. He did ask OS developers for modifications in parameter checks for system calls, as to make that safe it should be kernel side. No matter what similar tool you use, arguments can be abused. Only kernel space checks can be 100% safe.

  23. You stay anonymous... on Linux Wireless Driver Violates BSD License? · · Score: 1

    Ignore the more relevant discussions from technical people. Like at Kerneltrap. And answer by replying blindly what I called you. - Hey, you farted, it's disgusting - No I didn't, you did! - Right

  24. Re:Hmmmm on Linux Wireless Driver Violates BSD License? · · Score: 1

    How is the parent moderated insightful? It's a boring troll. He twists all the facts to make Linux zealots go crazy and light the torches. Slashdot is getting even worse than Digg at this pace.

  25. I want those on The Linux Networking Stack Exposed · · Score: 1

    15 seconds back.