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Diabolical plot? You are insane to believe I think that. Spreading misinformation isn't a conspiracy, everyone does it. Hell I just did it. That doesn't mean it should be left unch…

> This is a lot of text responding to some pretty simple facts. The only value judgement I've made here is that you might want to look up who people are before you decide to tell t…

You seem hell bent on making me look bad based on a statement I made which I've already conceded was incorrect. I have no ties to this account to my actual identity and no intentio…

I opened up my book of cryptography from Jonathan Katz, and found this in regards to CTR mode: > As with OFB mode, another "stream-cipher" mode, the generated stream can be truncat…

AES is a block cipher that operates on 128-bit blocks exclusively. If you look at the implementation of AES-GCM, it also operates on 128-bit blocks. AES-GCM is basically just count…

> Returning to the point, this attack would be unaffected by Microsoft purchasing anything. I was agreeing with you :)

> You need to enable JavaScript to run this app. Sigh.

Your intention is correct, but your details are not (as are the OPs). Microsoft share's it's SSL certs with the entire planet. Microsoft protects it's private keys and does not sha…

> The same people calling for everyone to always remember what Microsoft did 20 years ago log out of HN and go work on their Facebook React app with no apparent sense of irony. Spe…

I'll just dump my own here. This is mostly anti-corporate, anti-monopolistic, anti-cloud, and anti-surveillance ideas. Windows, the development environments, etc is a monolithic pl…

For Skype, the real complaints (maybe not here) are the structure and ways Skype works. Originally, Skype was a P2P communications platform, even for calls. After Microsoft acquire…

That's an interesting statute. The problem is it can be interpreted in many ways. Your interpretation is how some may see it, however there are others as well. For instance: > by a…

I personally am not hysterical about any of this, I just am concerned for the citizens of the EU while living under this law. My main issue with the GDPR is that articles and suppo…

> then went on define net neutrality as the exact opposite of the commonly accepted meaning. [Regarding Obama Administration] "Then there was the 'fairness doctrine,' designed to l…