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benzinschleuder

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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 #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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    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…