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Given that banks usually MUST validate their customers' identity card the opportunities for tracking your users with this must be superb. I'd frankly prefer "insecure" user+pass ov…

> It's very hard to make a privacy case against FIDO. With username and password, I have full control over my privacy in a very easy to understand fashion: If I randomly generate t…

Source: The people who sell YubiKeys.

Do you only have 2-3 backups of your workstation? I have much more backups of my workstation etc., should I now buy dozens of crypto hardware key thingies and constantly switch the…

If they try to print more Bitcoin by changing the software that does NOT automatically mean that the majority of Bitcoin users will install and run that modified software. The non-…

> Not solved by the blockchain though.. Uhm, why not? As far as I see, the price of Bitcoin has actually even hyperDEFLATED. It started below $1! Now it is at $40000.

> I personally haven't seen any problem solved by the blockchain thus far. Solved problem: Hyperinflation caused by excessive governmental money printing. Yes, I know you may not c…

Thanks, but why does the post show two screenshots juxtaposed: - one labeled as "2FA Authenticator permissions disclosed on Google Play" - and the other as "2FA Authenticator permi…

The thread does not seem to answer the most interesting question: Is it really possible for app developers to leave out permissions in the list of requested permissions on Google P…

I am *very* surprised that the list of requested permissions on Google Play does *not* have to match the actual permissions which the app gets when installed. I would have thought …

What is the expected efficiency of this?

> The only viable response is to accept it's going to happen and have meaningful discussions elsewhere. That is precisely why I said Hackernews is doing itself a disservice: This m…

I'm not criticizing this particular submisssion but rather the fact that there is now *every* single day a thread where people hate on crypto. What is the benefit for the community…

It's not like it hasn't been done a million times. So what is the added value in repeating this hate-fest every day?

If you had to be constantly followed by security people the whole day, would your complete loss of privacy be alleviated by them being cheap? Include in the equation that Satoshi a…

Even if that is true there is no guarantee it will stay like that: Bitcoin has amassed a $1T valuation in like what, 10 years?, of existing. Who knows how popular it will be in ano…

Thanks for taking the care of explaining! > but his life won't be "destroyed" -- at least not by any reasonable standard. There are plenty of well-known billionaires who are perfec…

EDIT: Please explain in the comments - because I seriously do not understand that - why on earth you are downvoting this!? You're advocating something cruel. WTF? What is the probl…

Have a look at the forced restarts of Windows due to updates having become a well-hated meme to see how lucky you'll be in explaining that to the users.

Do you want Java to do deep packet inspection on all network traffic? Because Java supports naked sockets [1], so that is what you would have to do to block the network traffic fro…

How do you want to write software which supports plugins then? Force the user to restart everything if they need a plugin? Or do you want to force developers to only ever write mon…