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A better guess would be that the last new bitcoin will never be mined, because exponential growth in hardware dedicated to it will not last, given that the cost/benefit ratio (in t…

This is a very dangerous question. Thinking like this leads to huge security vulnerabilities in important systems. A better question is "What is the worst thing that could possibly…

The problem with this is that then there is no institutional memory. Many student groups in colleges (at least at my college) fight the same problems in a recurring cycle every 4 y…

This is why you typically want to publish things like this as far and wide as possible - if any single source is compromised, it can be detected by noticing a discrepancy between t…

Because the internet facing machine could have been infected with malware that allows someone to read the decrypted message, and send it back over the internet. First, being compro…

Does anyone else find it strange that the page containing this video also has a "send anonymous tip" link, which claims "we don't track anything, not even your ip address." And of …

If you spend enough time trying to debug systems that are communicating in binary, its an ability you start to pick up, especially for small numbers.