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Comment #15462066
Amazing. Did they need to jailbreak or physically open the phone to find all this stuff? They talk about reversing binary images and using their "Legilimency" toolkit; I wonder if …
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Comment #14735311
Done, thanks!
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Ask HN: Can we add link previews to Hacker News links?
I have some chat groups where we share/save HN links (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14731830 for example). Unfortunately, the article names aren't shown as a link preview an…
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Ask HN: SHA2 vulnerability post was removed. Why? Is it legit?
Hello. A moment ago someone posted this: https://github.com/laie/WorldsFirstSha2Vulnerability It's now gone from HN. Is the vulnerability legit?
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Ask HN: How do companies like Telegram exist anonymously?
It is known that Pavel Durov is the creator of Telegram. But Telegram itself doesn't seem to have a real address (except some shady proxy address). It all looks like some elaborate…
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Comment #14650545
Is a kill switch purpose to protect against a new infection? It doesn't help decrypting the files i guess? What is it used for?
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Comment #14650520
Thanks!
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Comment #14650486
Seems to work both ways. Receive random file from unknown people or send chosen file to unknown people? EDIT: was just explained in other comment by meejah, thanks! ( https://news.…
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Comment #14650427
Probably all "slots" would be "occupied" and everybody gets the attacker's sent file, iiuc.
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Comment #14650370
It operates over the Internet instead of Wi-Fi / Bluetooth and it initializes transfers by a code.
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Comment #14650348
Does the session key hash help if the attacker guessed the code correctly?
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Comment #13619147
at the moment its very tailored to macOS and has plenty rough edges because its for personal use. But I'll gladly clean it up a bit and put it on github if enough people are intere…
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Comment #13618036
Some time ago, I implemented a little tool for myself which backups folders incrementally on usenet (deterministic message-id creation from a secret key, append-only style with met…