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Is it possible to get so consumed in technology and the web that any attempt to make sane judgements about its future is always biased towards some sort of unholy AI race that ends…

Also possible to get a heatmap of a keyboard to see what keys were pressed last. I've seen this attack carried out in a youtube video, where a hacker could log back into a kiosk te…

I like the happy medium of one ultra quantum unbreakable master passphrase which is used to unlock easier to guess passwords. SO somebody owned your Imgur account full of memes. So…

As a rule of thumb, I would go after natural language phrases first, because it is impossible to tell if the phrase was machine-generated. It's nearly impossible to arrange dots ra…

Yeah what I meant is that sometimes the phrase appears like natural language, and was probably uttered once, if not on a stray ebook than somebody once said it. Of course then we h…

Thanks for clearing that up :)

Anxiety is a complicated subject, and can be interpreted differently depending on the sufferer's knowledge of certain areas of neuroscience and psychology. I've been lucky to study…

XKCD's diceware argument fails under certain conditions. Computationally very hard to crack, but when plucked from actual phrases that have been uttered; weak. So to give an exampl…

I see this a lot now, with the proliferation of libraries that allow for arbitrary passwords. Possibly some form of systemic trickling down of bad practices into software with horr…

I call this 'inventor syndrome' because innately people want to better the world in some way, instead of just leech from technology. MY only issue with that approach is people re-i…

I hear you. Raw unfiltered links always have hidden gems. One thing though: Greptweet has an archive somewhere with a huge trove of tweets that users of the service have searched f…

Nice trove to pore through when I find the time. I like to use Twitter to analyze HN datasets. It's mostly limited to links, because that's what I'm after mostly. https://twitter.c…

Rise? It has been hockey sticking the moment a packet was sent out of DARPA