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i assume you've read the recent article by nafeez ahmed from vice, etc, about how google's search algorithms were funded via the NSF/CIA/NSA for 2 years before google ever existed …

predictably well put from mr chomsky. to effect a classic double flashback, fight club style, here's a dose of bread and circus from juvenal from CE 100: "'It is scarcely possible …

they live is one of the best john carpenter films, and that includes the epic 10-minute on-concrete wrestling match before keith david will don the glasses. being extremely enterta…

space-alien technology speculation aside, i've been aware of openssh's less-than-reassuring default selection order for Ciphers, HostKeyAlgorithms, KexAlgorithms and MACs for a few…

this work from 2011 by IVT doesn't exactly inspire confidence. http://theinvisiblethings.blogspot.com/2011/05/following-whi...

oh, you mean like VT-d etc on intel cpus. what reason could you possibly have to suspect that the IOMMUs from a company named "intel" are backdoored? :)

good luck detecting baseband attacks in the wild. i hope you've got a transceiver with you and a rainbow table for cracking the A5/1 etc on your cell link.

i really am a fan of what moxie et al are doing with textsecure. i am less of a fan of redphone, but that's another matter (zrtp, woof). while i trust textsecure, it is hard to tru…

while i am generally loathe to comment on HN, i consider it truly sad to see the passing of grothendieck. he was a truly revolutionary mathematician and his contribution to the (ha…

i hear they are going to ban air soon because pedophiles can use it prey on children.

i think it's great to see ppl being skeptical of security claims from phone manufacturers. trying to secure a normal cellphone is pretty much impossible and if you're storing sensi…

your characterization of visits to the doctor is spot on: they are gatekeepers to medication and treatment and they have a warped incentive structure that biases them to under-trea…

even better, how about you name the compounds he "discovered" and demonstrate that they were not the subject of prior work. maybe i should write a book about a whole bunch of stuff…

it's not slander, it's the truth. someone else discovered and tested MDMA many decades before sasha, but he is credited with "discovering" the compound.

just like most people who are sasha fanboys, you obviously have zero domain knowledge on this subject. try them out yourself, see what happens.

i know i'm going to get downvoted, but illumen is completely correct. there is nothing so american as downvoting the truth.

entirely untrue. do your homework. sasha almost exclusively synthesized compounds that were already in the academic literature. he reproduced others' work and gave minimal attribut…

it is sad to hear that sasha passed, he was a great man. he did a lot of really positive work for expanding the public's knowledge of hallucinogenic compounds, mainly 5HT-2A agonis…

if anyone thinks that a few semesters of introductory mathematics or science courses is "not relevant" for a CS program, they have completely missed the point. this is a fool's com…

nice to see btcd getting more usage, goldmar :) for the related blog entry with some more details, check out http://markgoldenstein.com/building-websocket-client-btcwall... we just…

i always advocate for FDE, but that often has issues with remote serial console. the threat model of running without disk encryption is far worse for most bitcoin-related sites tha…

i strongly suggest that sites concerned with their security use (1) full-on colocation services and (2) encrypt the partition they store user data on or encrypt the entire disk. if…

DISCLAIMER: i know and have worked with kyle (the author). while the factual content of tptacek's review may be spot on, his overall tone is very negative and smacks of "only exper…

i'm in my 30s and i am in total agreement with you: the modern helicopter parents are so preoccupied with "bullying" that the next generation of kids are going to be soft-minded ni…