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incant

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    Comment #4532649

    About that 1800 players number. Based on posts by one of the developers, their server doesn't do any sort of calculation: > Our server is basically 'dumb', it doesn't do anything i…

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    Comment #2830332

    (Presumably) Dan Kaminsky and Travis Goodspeed modified a bitcoin miner so that when it found a block, it would embed this tribute inside one of its unused field. (or rather, it em…

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    Comment #2550972

    Most conferences that have encrypted WiFi will use PSK. Given the pre-shared key and observation of the handshake, you can calculate the session key and decrypt all traffic between…

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    Comment #2491062

    I don't think "user2" is claiming that the credit card information was sent in plaintext: normally you ATLEAST enccrypt the securtity code, even if its ssl That seems to refer to e…

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    Comment #2227531

    So does this render DNSSEC effectively moot? It's not much good for authentication if the government can change the authoritative name servers for any .com/.org/.net domain and the…