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You missed the whole point of this essay. The fastest code to write is often insecure because languages, apis and so on are almost always insecure-by-default. If you write code fas…

I think the suggestion was that this site doesn't really need to identify its users. It's a quiz site. If you want to make custom inputs for each user, drop a cookie with a big ran…

What a terrible post. Every single example is simply security through obscurity. Once a leaker understands the ways in which a file may be watermarked, they will likely be able to …

What a terrible post. Every single example is simply security through obscurity. Once a leaker understands the ways in which a file may be watermarked, they will likely be able to …

What a terrible post. Every single example is simply security through obscurity. Once a leaker understands the ways in which a file may be watermarked, they will likely be able to …

I really want to believe this comment is a joke... Everything that you mention that needs to be "regulated" is already regulated by the bitcoin protocol itself. In fact, the whole …

Yes they do but 1) most people are more comfortable dealing with usernames compared to public keys, and 2) distributing the public keys themselves can be tricky if you don't alread…

Yes this is a real problem. Being "paranoid about privacy" is not a yes/no decision for people to make. Different people have different things they would like to be private about a…

Yeah but if you're trying to catch criminals the signal to noise is far better with presidents, judges, and congress than with boring, normal citizens.

Phone numbers are unique values when you need to call a phone or send an SMS, which is what this software does. If you were trying to do your taxes, sure...but in this case a phone…

Followers are established by connecting to bittorrent swarms. From the paper: "The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based on the Bittorrent …

This is not true. Followers are established by connecting to bittorrent swarms. From the paper: "The last network is a collection of possibly disjoint “swarms” of followers, based …

Basically, if you have anonymous, P2P, encrypted messaging you need to solve the problem of maintaining a public ledger of user names to public keys. There are several approaches t…

Stop spamming up this thread without even reading the damn protocol. The whitepaper is a whopping 12 pages and very explicitly states the mechanism used to prevent this kind of spa…