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  1. into naked pics of celebrities and post it on 4chan. It will be around forever.

  2. Microsoft kept the root, but blocked the known on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 1

    fake certs from them. Did Apple do even that?

  3. Forcing Apple users to distrust google on Apple Leaves Chinese CNNIC Root In OS X and iOS Trusted Stores · · Score: 0

    ... evil as possible. There are fake certs for Google, and Apple refuses to protect their users against them. That's pretty much the internet company version of sending machetes to ISIS.

  4. wtf? on Reason: How To Break the Internet (in a Bad Way) · · Score: 1

    Why the hell do we have an "article" that just quotes an anonymous coward who is unclear on every concept related to the internet?

    What the hell is wrong with Slashdot and Dice?

  5. Very confused right wing temper tantrum on Carly Fiorina Calls Apple's Tim Cook a 'Hypocrite' On Gay Rights · · Score: 1

    She's not really calling for social justice, she's a right wing politician.

    What offends her is not that Apple makes money from countries where people discriminate against women and gays, what offends her is not that the government has alliances with countries where people discriminate against women and gays - no one thinks that president Fiona would break off relations with the whole middle east and Africa.

    What she means is that she hates liberals for caring about gays at all. Ie., she's against liberal social justice.

    That she's so confused that she supports the feminist half of it, but attacks all of it should make it clear why you shouldn't vote for the right. Too emotional, too tribal to make any sense at all.

  6. Re:"Experts" have a hidden agenda on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Sex/masterbation addiction can lead to food addiction and breathing addiction. End it before it's too late.

  7. Re:No matter the country ... on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The American version is to make it legal to refuse selling Pizza to gays.

  8. It's odd on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 1, Interesting

    British culture has always seemed the most paranoid in the world about children and sex. I once found a website claiming that the world's most innocent cartoons that have young girls in them (for instance "Kiki's delivery service" - and no I'm not joking) should be banned because a pedophile could gain enjoyment from watching the girl in it.. It was a British blog, but I could tell that before checking because of the insane paranoia.

    But, here's the odd part, they're also the country least successful in preventing the sexual exploitation of children. Look up "grooming gangs" in a google news search. They're paranoid about this stuff, but not willing to confront Pakistani or Somali or whatever immigrants over actual abuse.

  9. Putting an age limit on sugar on UK's Tories Promise To Enact Age Limits For Viewing Online Porn · · Score: 1

    would be more successful.

  10. aw ohh on New Yarn Conducts Electricity · · Score: 1

    Teletubbies tech!

  11. Re:Two voice prints on a link maketh metadata. on The Unlikely Effort To Build a Clandestine Cell Phone Network · · Score: 1

    I doubt they're that sophisticated yet.

    Maybe one day they'll do that.

  12. Re:Unlawful content on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Are they going to have sweeping powers to break https so they can check the legality of all your web pages and downloads? Outlaw encryption?

  13. What IS the point of comments like that anyway?

  14. Re:Not just the Anarchist Cookbook on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    Can we ban all the assholes from the internet too? It's such an unpleasant place!

  15. Still sold in physical form. on Sen. Feinstein Says Anarchist Cookbook Should Be "Removed From the Internet" · · Score: 1

    I saw it on a shelf at "the anarchist bookstore" about 10 years ago.

  16. "unclear on the concept!"

  17. Re:Not everyone on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    While technically illegal, I don't know that anyone really cares as long as this information isn't used against normal citizens who aren't terrorists.

    What? There IS NO CHINESE WALL BETWEEN THE NSA AND LEA AT ALL!!!

  18. Re:Told my girlfriend the same thing about the che on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 4, Insightful

    No, the logic of the article is "now that she knows that I cheated I am forced to continue cheating forever, because F**K HER what makes her think she has a say. Because the guy who told on me is a traitor and we can't reward traitors. Also I'll send him to the hospital if he comes out of hiding"

    That's the logic of the article.

  19. Forced their hand? They're still collecting data! on NSA: We Mulled Ending Phone Program Before Edward Snowden Leaks · · Score: 1

    So the principle is "the public must be denied all power!"???

    How did Snowden force their hand, since they're refusing to end the data collection program? He forced them to keep it? Because now that the public knows, the public must be denied freedom at all costs? Because F**K the public, keep the public from having any say is the principle?

  20. You could also turn each word into 2 english on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    characters. Because the entropy of one word out of 7776 is almost as high as two english keyboard characters. So any, say 7 word passphrase could be shortened to a 14 character password without losing any entropy.

    But you'd need a program to convert between the two.

  21. Re:What NOT to do.... on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    Uhm, if you do 10 words this way you've got over 128 bits of entropy.

    By the way if you used a 65536 word dictionary instead you could get there in 8 words.

  22. Re:Wrong - designed to pic with dice on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    Oops, did natural log instead of base 2.

    1 word out of 7776 is 13 bits.

  23. Wrong - designed to pic with dice on Generate Memorizable Passphrases That Even the NSA Can't Guess · · Score: 1

    You miss the point, doubling the number of words only gives you one more bit per word, but makes looking up a word from dice too hard.

    To be more specific, this dictionary is about 9 bits per word. If you used a 100,000 word webster's dictionary that's about 11 bits per word - it's not that many more bits.

  24. Re:The whole premise is wrong wrong. Teach users w on Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    Reordered with glue words between them, they can. None of that reduces the entropy, not the way I calculated it.

    Notice I used choose, not powers.

  25. Re:The whole premise is wrong wrong. Teach users w on Many Password Strength Meters Are Downright Weak, Researchers Say · · Score: 1

    True enough.

    Though you can do strange things like display a tiny hash picture when the user has finished - that can be a visual verification.