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> And tape is very secure, with built-in, on-the-fly encryption What exactly is this referring to?

I believe you're think RFC 6018: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6108 Related HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15890551

I thought that the issue with /dev/urandom was that it wouldn't block when read shortly after startup (when the entropy pool wasn't yet initialized).

> That's enough to turn a dollar into 16 billion in 5 years. I think it's actually 1.6 trillion

> It doesn't matter in practice if the content is still accessible when the browser tells people that accessing it is dangerous. It certainly does matter. There's a fundamental dif…

Displaying a warning to users doesn't make sites "inaccessible".

I was referring specifically to the author's claim that deprecating HTTP and displaying a warning to users is the equivalent of "rendering large parts of the web inaccessible" and …

> Also, if Google succeeds, it will make a lot of the web's history inaccessible. > It's like a massive book burning, at a much bigger scale than ever done before. How on earth did…

> I'll ignore the irrelevant marxist talking point Which part of the parent comment was a "marxist talking point"?

A government can imprison people for horrible reasons, but still not have the worst radio.

> As of now, text rendering methods are missing and for security reasons you cannot read back pixels from the canvas. Does anyone have an idea as to what those reasons might be? I'…

That's to be expected. The idea behind my script is that the URL is encoding the unix time of the first visit to that URL. By starting at the current time and working backwards, th…

I tried that, but found that guessing backwards from the current time works better: https://gist.github.com/Aaron1011/2595f8699ade9d4df16398a68e...

You and the lawmakers opposed to that bill certainly seem 'allowed to say' whatever you want on that subject. Let me be more clear: What does this have to do with 'What you can't s…

How is this related to the parent or OP?

> Look, things like murder or pedophilia are unabigiously evil If by 'murder' you mean 'unjustified killing', then that's trivially true. If, on the other hand, you just mean 'kill…

> That is censoring and shutting down the argument. Who are you to make that call? If people aren't allowed to state that 'behavior X makes person Y unethical', then how are we sup…

> You don't find it bad that a bunch of people, based on their own non-objective oppinion What is an 'objective opinion'? > get to ruin someones business and/or career? Are you say…

> I realized I felt more comfortable discussing controversial ideas in Beijing than in San Francisco. I didn’t feel completely comfortable—this was China, after all—just more comfo…

From Comcast's RFC that's linked in the thread: > R3.1.1. Must Only Be Used for Critical Service Notifications > Additional Background: The system must only provide critical notifi…

I can't seem to find a definition of "Partial disclosure" on either the website or the IETF RFC draft.

Morse code: "translation"

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Based on the white paper, "Blueborne" is really a collection of distinct vulnerabilities in various implementations of the Bluetooth protocol. This is in contrast to something like…