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No, the desktop is needed to run Microsoft Office.

I better idea might be to use convergent encryption only for really large files. Practically this would mean deduplication of software, movies, etc.

They don't seem to do that, though. Note that they claim that it's a random key and that deduplication is "much more likely" to happen when files are copied. If they would derive t…

Yes, but the first part makes no sense. If the 128-bit key is indeed chosen at random for each file (as it should be), the probability that the same key will be chosen again for a …

"Agree". http://www.installmonetizer.com/AT_images/process.gif

I used the following heuristics (some parts added afterwards): 1. Helvetica has level edges, Arial is angled (as ef4 said). Particularly important were "t", "e" and "a", "S", "G", …

It looks fine to me ?! Flash is not used at all and the design shows some taste.

Seems to be related to the straw man: The question is "Should whiskey be prohibited or not?" but he takes it to be "Is there anything good or bad about whiskey?" or "Do I think whi…

I don't really understand the quote. What does it mean/imply?

Wow. It's also worth reading the comments below the original article. "You’re scaring me here. Please sick around and talk to us. You can always die later. There’s no rush." "Jeez,…

The comment you replied to was certainly not a reference to Nazi Germany at all. Germans understand that a privacy-related reference to german history is usually a reference to the…

Yes, they do (The protocol is called ActiveSync). I don't know if it's on a per-account basis, though.

I think changing the user agent to only report the major version would already go a long way.

Yes, but it takes more than removing most of the identifying information. First, the precise browser version and OS can probably always be identified by checking for supported feat…

You said it yourself: everytime your Firefox build is updated, you change identity.

The expectation that customers should act in a way to basically create the conditions for a perfectly free market is misguided. Not invoking legislation just makes things painful f…

Invalid generalization. If you want money to be part of the index, they should be able to remove you.

Sure, but this was the case before CDNs as well. Unless you are a Tier 1 network you usually pay a fee to your upstream carrier. However, the ITU would like to charge across many n…

Why? Verisign merely signs your certificate. It does not even know your private key and hence also can't pass it to governments.

Correct. Furthermore, at least Chrome restricts most Google domains to a known CA. So MITM is not possible for Gmail either.

Was this example really necessary? You basically said: If terrorists (who, by the way, happened to travel to Afghanistan once) attacked the WTC, the US have a casus belli against A…

a) No one time pad is used, because that would make the whole point of publishing the encrypted blob pointless in the first place. The point of publishing it is that the key could …