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Could the selection of primes derived from Pi be optimized to find weaker ones vs. stronger ones? eg: calculate a very large set of them and then pick the ones that are weakest and…

I wasn't angry. I find the need to smear me like that an excellent example of the anti-intellectualism that is rife on this site. Fine, I've deleted my contribution. I don't waste …

Does anyone know where one can get a free wildcard certificate? Need it for development and foo/bar/baz/biff.example.com change names regularly (they include the hash of the code c…

The iPhone has never prevented you from running your own code on it. It shipped with a javascript SDK and then within the year they opened it up to objective-c programs. They charg…

10k distinct combinations-- if, and only iff, they used a 7 digit all numeric pin. The odds of this are not bad for most people, but in this case the person who had this phone has …

Does anyone really believe he can do it? Is anyone taking him seriously? I see this as a campaign stunt for the LP nod. But for me, it only confirms that Gary Johnson is the right …

Lets see, english major up to her ears in debt, moves to San Francisco for a CSR job? I think we need to up the math requirements for english degrees. Alas you can't teach common s…

The phone in question was a work phone, not a personal phone. In work environments the enterprise IT tools control how the phone is administered, backed up, and the like. Which mea…

Title changes are purely to comply with 80 character limit, otherwise as close to the original articles' title.

Transplant yourself to any other police state. Anywhere with a very strong government hell bent on controlling its citizens. Eastern Germany, Or the USSR, or Germany under the Nazi…

I'm not sure which "other side" you're targeting with your argument, but as a gun rights advocate its' completely consistent to be a privacy rights advocate-- and basically a human…

We don't need to have a discussion. As you point out we already had it. It doesn't matter. We want privacy, we believe we have human rights. They don't care. They want power. That'…

Also, the court isn't asking, its' demanding, and its demanding Apple create a vulnerability in a system designed to thwart such vulnerabilities. I'm not sure it's even possible. W…

You don't see them going after servers, because the servers are far more vulnerable.

My Facebook feed is full of people ragging on Trump for being on the wrong side of this issue, but they are silent about Obama: "In a secret meeting convened by the White House aro…

This ruling didn't make corporations people, it gave groups of people the right to exercise the free speech rights they already had, even when they choose to pool their money to bu…

First off, depends on how you use the word "regulate". But the government has done a poor job of regulating money, and well, to be honest, money is really the result of our efforts…

If you discover a problem with a product, you either don't release it or you fix it. You don't need to tell others (and others don't have a right) what you've discovered. To think …

That's not broken.

Brand new software that-- and this seems to be missed in the wider discussion-- may be impossible to produce. It may not be possibly for Apple to comply. For instance, you can't in…

Also, the FCC should not be able to make rules like this. This is why we have a three branch system. Congress doesn't have the legal power, in the constitution, to give agencies th…

The proper, legal way to transport a firearm while flying is in the bag. Last time I did it (this was before 2001 and the police state hysteria we're in now) all that you had to do…