Yubikey is fantastic. Your identifying private keys are stored insider a secure hardware module inside the Yubikey. The login process sends a random challenge to the Yubikey, the Yubikey replies by signing the challenge with your private encryption key. The login process verifies the signed reply against your store public key.
At no time does your secret key ever leave the device, not even to your own computer. A trojan could eavesdrop on the whole thing and not learn anything useful.
I do the same. I was surprised and disappointed to find out my online stock trading account was selling my info to the most spammers out of all my accounts. Security? lol...
> Large numbers of hungry people with the right to arm bears is not a recipe for the filthy rich to go on grinding people down for ever.
Very naive. Large numbers of hungry people are divided into several layers of hungry people, each blaming the layer below them while being grateful for their position and afraid of dropping to the layer below.
It's not like this is the first time the filthy rich have played this game.
Yeah right. Here in 'Merica we can't even provide healthcare beyond a third-world patchwork of greed and corruption. God forbid (literally) some poor person gets something they didn't earn or inherit.
Universal Basic Income? Not here anytime soon. Universal feudal servitude coming right up.
You are really deluding yourself. Apple's OS is no better than Windows in any meaningful way and the hardware is much more expensive for equivalent speeds. More to the point WINDOWS UPDATE REBOOTING NOW DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER INSTALLING UPDATE 1 of 78...
I would have had FIRST POST, except as I typed my magnum opus windows rebooted to install updates. At least I wasn't in front of 200 people doing a presentation like last month.
The only draw is it doesn't F*ing install updates and reboot exactly when I have 15 minutes left to get that work done. It doesn't pop up a dialog asking me to do something important right in the middle of me typing away, grab a handful of my keystrokes as an answer, and go do god-knows-what with my permission based on what I was typing. It doesn't install updates when I open my laptop in front of 300 people to do a presentation. And it doesn't say "DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR MACHINE UPDATING OS" without asking when I am out of battery and away from a power outlet.
Bitcoin to Bitcoin on a different exchange or to a wallet is a non-taxable transfer. Bitcoin to Ethereum is a taxable event, as different coins are not like-kind exchanges.
This random stranger is able to see me trying to hook up with random strangers! This security vulnerability leaves me open to being seen by a total stranger, but not necessarily one of the ones I want to be seen by, as far as I know, since they are all strangers.
Exactly. Yubikey does this now. You have a secret private key that never leaves the security hardened device. The device will accept any token and encrypt it with the private key ("sign it"). The website or resource can decrypt with your public key to authenticate you.
No blockchain necessary here. Blockchain would add nothing.
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The Yubikey can generate a different set of keys for each participating website so separate websites can't cross-reference your identity.
Yubikey is fantastic. Your identifying private keys are stored insider a secure hardware module inside the Yubikey. The login process sends a random challenge to the Yubikey, the Yubikey replies by signing the challenge with your private encryption key. The login process verifies the signed reply against your store public key.
At no time does your secret key ever leave the device, not even to your own computer.
A trojan could eavesdrop on the whole thing and not learn anything useful.
I do the same. I was surprised and disappointed to find out my online stock trading account was selling my info to the most spammers out of all my accounts. Security? lol...
> imagine a country where most people didn't believe in evolution or medicine.
I live in the U.S.A. you insensitive clod!
Yes I am curious. That's why I boot into a Linux Live-CD and make sure my hard drive is not mounted before I plug in the thumbdrive.
> how do you socially engineer someone to put a USB stick with some code into a machine
"Hi, I'm here for an interview. Oh shoot I spilled coffee on my resume. Could you please print a copy for me? It's on this thumbdrive."
> Large numbers of hungry people with the right to arm bears is not a recipe for the filthy rich to go on grinding people down for ever.
Very naive. Large numbers of hungry people are divided into several layers of hungry people, each blaming the layer below them while being grateful for their position and afraid of dropping to the layer below.
It's not like this is the first time the filthy rich have played this game.
Yeah right. Here in 'Merica we can't even provide healthcare beyond a third-world patchwork of greed and corruption. God forbid (literally) some poor person gets something they didn't earn or inherit.
Universal Basic Income? Not here anytime soon.
Universal feudal servitude coming right up.
You must be a blast at parties
You didn't define a function, so neither will I:
print('Hello, world!')
You (Ruby) beat me (Python) by two parenthesis! Had I used Python 2 it would be a tie.
Sorry for the bad grammar.... I can't find my Slashdot edit button...
> Ruby's "hello world" is shorter than Python's
... print("Hello, world!")
Boasting of being shorter than THIS is just silly:
>>> def main():
>>> main()
Hello, world!
Right, because three times faster than Ruby 2.0 would be Ruby 6.0!
> Ruby's "hello world" is shorter than Python's
Boasting that being shorter than THIS is important is just silly:
>>> def main(): ... print("Hello, world!") ...
>>> main()
Hello, world!
> Microsoft Says Windows 10 Spring Creators Update Will Install in 30 Minutes
Whether you want it to or not.
As long as that turd doesn't install updates while I'm trying to use it I'll be satisfied.
You are really deluding yourself. Apple's OS is no better than Windows in any meaningful way and the hardware is much more expensive for equivalent speeds. More to the point WINDOWS UPDATE REBOOTING NOW DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR COMPUTER INSTALLING UPDATE 1 of 78...
I would have had FIRST POST, except as I typed my magnum opus windows rebooted to install updates. At least I wasn't in front of 200 people doing a presentation like last month.
The only draw is it doesn't F*ing install updates and reboot exactly when I have 15 minutes left to get that work done. It doesn't pop up a dialog asking me to do something important right in the middle of me typing away, grab a handful of my keystrokes as an answer, and go do god-knows-what with my permission based on what I was typing. It doesn't install updates when I open my laptop in front of 300 people to do a presentation. And it doesn't say "DO NOT TURN OFF YOUR MACHINE UPDATING OS" without asking when I am out of battery and away from a power outlet.
Bitcoin to Bitcoin on a different exchange or to a wallet is a non-taxable transfer. Bitcoin to Ethereum is a taxable event, as different coins are not like-kind exchanges.
This random stranger is able to see me trying to hook up with random strangers! This security vulnerability leaves me open to being seen by a total stranger, but not necessarily one of the ones I want to be seen by, as far as I know, since they are all strangers.
> the sole responsibility of the user
My mom just called me because she lost "her yahoo" again. Tell me again about people being responsible for their private key infrastructure again?
Exactly. Yubikey does this now. You have a secret private key that never leaves the security hardened device. The device will accept any token and encrypt it with the private key ("sign it"). The website or resource can decrypt with your public key to authenticate you.
No blockchain necessary here. Blockchain would add nothing.
foreach webpage in Internet /bitcoin/
if
post "if you want to mine your own crypto currency you need a motherboard"
+ link to my product listing
> Intel [...] is on a path to bankruptcy.
lol. because they enable government agencies to spy on us? have you been paying any attention to who has all the money?
You keep trying...
Bitcoins are mined with specialized ASIC chips now. Trying to use GPUs would be a waste of (a lot of) money because you couldn't compete.
But you keep posting this ad, I'm sure some sucker will buy...