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I believe these sorts of people are also referred to as warez d00dz.

Whoops! Looks like your right... AES doesn't use public key exchange, and public/private key pair generation at all! I was entirely confusing it with other completely different thi…

EDIT: As drdaeman pointed out, none of what I'm describing is AES. I am describing something completely different. I am describing public key cryptography, which is completely diff…

Not really. It goes like something like this: 1. Starbucks' server has the private key, the iPhone app has the public key. 2. The app locks the plaintext up in AES with the public …

Because the author does seem to care about defining what COW means, because "atomic cow" doesn't readily google to its proper meaning, and because it doesn't seem to be otherwise m…

How many personnel does it require to physically compromise 100,000 machines? 1,000 people gaining access to 100 machines a piece? 100 people, breaking into 1,000 machines? Is that…

This model of investment is one tactic. But in my opinion, it's not the one at play here. Another majorly significant tactic of investment is to buy your potential competitors earl…

Does anyone remember Friendster and MySpace? (stupid question, I know) But before Facebook opened itself to non-edu TLD email addresses (read: enrolled college students only), thes…