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MiWDesktopHack

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    Comment #9994726

    twitter: _MiW i said something silly and you blocked me. lets move on and continue an intellectual dialog

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    Comment #9990144

    Hi Thomas, Thank for following this up. I think you are right. RH SWS was EOL before the Dual_EC default switch was made. If the only public banners for this product are from befor…

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    Comment #9985908

    > You have probably never used a crypto tool that used either Dual_EC or extended-random, for what it's worth. Dual_EC was default PRNG in BSAFE-SSL-C for almost a decade. Shodan m…

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    Comment #9579852

    Hiya, This seems somewhat related to some work I did last year on using blockchain to 'register' and provide distributed revocation of certs. I called it UTXOC or Unspent Transacti…

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    Comment #8809184

    Use slower / heavier hash -- PBKDF2 or better. For lulz use something like Darkcoin Cryptocurrency 'X11' Proof of Work function - multiple rounds of 11 different hashes. Or more. (…

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    Comment #8420441

    Sweet! Thanks for the tip. looks like EFF just got another donation for $6.54 USD, and thank you Zach for donating your software for charity!

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    Comment #8420426

    This is a really well written article; full of great, reusable tricks and techniques in reverse engineering. Clear screenshots, humorous yet technical content, neat results. Hats o…

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    Comment #8338146

    I respect and admire agl, his and very important work on EC; but i must respectively disagree with his analysis of bitcoin and other blockchain based technologies. This paper was w…

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    Comment #8147120

    Worked for me in Firefox 31. Awesome, played for a while but the citizens didn't like me; no save option! Would gladly play again with persistence. Very impressive example of the r…

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    Comment #8124211

    This is a new 100% premined cryptocurrency from the makers of ripple. Stripe has invested in this technology; so it already has some fiat backing behind the haul. Whomever this is,…

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    Comment #7892921

    Steve Gibson has also made the TrueCryptⓇ Final Release Repository at https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm I had to use this mirror recently as there are already bad co…

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    Comment #7369874

    The leaked data set contains: * screenshot of the back office application * OSX and Windows back office application binaries * btc_xfer_total_summary.txt * CV-Mark_Karpeles_2010032…

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    Comment #7062248

    kill it. kill it with fire. this product collects the kind of personal data that should not be handed to third parties. too ripe for abuse. too much insight into your existence. a …

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    Comment #7062236

    supposedly FEDORAcoin or "TIPS" is the most traded or gifted currency within reddit. This would not show on any external chain monitors like the story source as most of the trading…

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    Comment #7062228

    Its scrypt based proof of work function, its a litecoin alt-coin derivative. It offers little over other scrypt based alt-coins. A UK company has announced they will be selling scr…

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    Comment #6994626

    they plug their magic box into your firewire port and dump your memory and image your disks. They don't care about what OS you are running. they grab it all.

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    Comment #6994176

    Did the snapchatdb.info guys change the donation address? Its now reporting as 1M7rREovDkdEh4mZrYNgcj1FECRknFLuRz They have already got $1USD for this. https://blockchain.info/addr…

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    Comment #5046434

    Sure, but that just lets you set the next block. You can't use it to generate false transactions because no other client would find those transactions valid. At best you can drop a…

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    Comment #5046182

    The bitcoin algorithm adjusts the difficulty so 2016 blocks are generated in 2 weeks, so a nonce is found every 10 minutes or so.

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    Comment #5046157

    In practice you would need far more than 50% of the mining power to take complete control of the blockchain. The greater the hashrate of your miners, the greater probability that y…

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    Comment #4992474

    Super cool. This makes me want to go and buy a drone + VR. Actual youtube link just in case you don't want to visit news corp www's. http://youtu.be/ojIz5Mai2Rw

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    Comment #4924409

    So the feature that I have used on 3 iPhones for the last few years will no longer work in 45 days time? My current iPhone will be the last device I am able to get push mail and co…

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    Comment #4442745

    Very interesting idea -- The idea that one can bypass image filters (say at a network DPI level) would be useful, until this technique is discovered and detectable. What about some…

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    Comment #3723284

    of course i had noscript! Source history.replaceState(null, null, String.fromCharCode(8238) + 'lmth.ecruos'); Can you view my source from Chrome or Firefox?