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sadpluto

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About sadpluto

I'm beginning a new blog (my very first!) which will probably be a long series of quasi Ask HN posts, although they will be edited with curated results and feedback. Please bear with me while I submit my own posts at first... Hopefully this won't be needed for long!

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    Comment #4464525

    I think a little search answers my own question. From [Google's cache of][1] I see that it refers to commercial activities. § 6 Identification of providers Concerning commercial of…

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    Ask HN: Hetzner's Terms and Conditions: "full name and address must be present"

    Greetings. I hope that given the popularity of Hetzner here in HN somebody will be able to shed some light on its Terms and Conditions. Under the item 6. Published Content I see th…

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    Comment #4409706

    Are there Bootstrap tutorials that also combine the minimal CSS knowledge required in order to use it? For instance, I have a vague understanding of the box model, and can hand-cod…

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    Comment #4358106

    Does your decentralized ideal apply to the whole Internet, or just TLD signing and such? In other words, do you believe we'd be better off without a DNS root zone? I know there's F…

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    Comment #4357910

    How can DANE ever work if DNS (including DNSSEC) is an unencrypted protocol? Doesn't this mean that the moment you get a response to a DNS query the a malicious network could retur…

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    Comment #4268767

    Wow. Thank you very much for educating us, Thomas. Your comments require grabbing some popcorn or equivalent. In particular when you engage in a constructive debate with someone of…

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    Comment #4268689

    Thanks for answering! What I don't understand is that, given that your starting point is "two computers talking over a malicious network", doesn't the current state of affairs of (…

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    Comment #4268503

    Could security experts give their take on this? There are some strong statements, such as the last sentence: "Because DNSCurve does not do this, and because the problems DNSCurve a…

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    Comment #4268472

    Thanks for your answer! I'm more confused by the moment about DNSSEC et al: isn't the DNSSEC-based validation of HTTPS referred to above supposed to get rid of CAs in the future? T…

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    Comment #4267858

    In [1] you showed us how to authenticate via DNSSEC HTTPS in Chrome. If I understand correctly this involves a lookup of a TYPE257 record. Given that only 5% can resolve TXT record…

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    Comment #4224925

    Hello everyone! I know... I'm still submitting my own articles. On my defense I'll just say it's article #2... I hereby promise I will not do it once I reach #10. I feel it may be …

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    Comment #4204451

    What is the standard reference for DOM mastery?

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