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chexum

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    Comment #44821882

    The bit shifts were my first idea too where this would break down; but actually, 1-8 bit shifts would be just fine, and they can be encoded in 3 bits. 0 and 9 are special cases any…

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    Comment #43982050

    In the UK, similar situations are common when “someone” flags any transaction to or from you as suspicious, at which point they need to freeze it, report it to an appropriate branc…

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    Comment #38256536

    I think the pathological cases should be made impossible before anything like that is considered for a world with humans. Y’all underestimate the number of people with enough money…

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    Comment #32992123

    What I hate the most about this is that “is this you” is triggered apparently on a browser version change, which can be up to two times a week. On top of that, with apple private r…

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    Comment #31896964

    IMHO it is clearly a wrong assumption on the side of any such sender. A verification link should have clear definite actions for the user receiving it: - It's me, let me confirm my…

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    Comment #31821171

    I'm quite confused, the article is supposed to be an advocacy piece, but it is just being all defensive about where the use cases are. With TCP/IP, or packet switching, they did ha…

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    Comment #31729719

    http://bootstrappable.org perhaps?

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    Comment #31716602

    Are you trying to repeat Bill Gates's Open Letter TO Hobbyists? You're still missing "Most directly, the thing you do is theft." I think the past 46 years have proved, that free so…

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    Comment #31653718

    pass is great for availability, I think I have several friends even in other countries (if a VPS wouldn't be sufficient) that would lend me space with a shell account for a "pass g…