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HSBC asks for a primary password as well as 3 random characters of a secondary password. They could hash your original password + each of the characters in your secondary password,…

Uh, how exactly? The whole point of the private key is that it's only known to MS...

Random fan on Newegg has ~2W power draw, so not much. But many processors are limited by heat dissipation, so better heat transfer could mean faster clock speeds (think water cooli…

Heading of link is wrong: original source article says its 30 TIMES more efficient, not 30%. This would be a seriously big deal if it's actually commercialized: based on the Sandia…

Here's an even simpler way to think about it: it's the left point of the standard 95% confidence interval from the Central Limit Theorem plus a hack for small sample sizes. The Wik…