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throwaway15908

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    Comment #34697322

    Sounds like a good way to weed out middle management ;)

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    Comment #34624415

    > correlated to progressivism how? also, there are better correlations to crime, than cop hatred, like darn communism is the first i can think of

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    Comment #34523956

    >how this token relates to the vault, nor how decrypting the token is a necessary dependency to decrypting the vault. That is actually a good point i didnt fully understand myself,…

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    Comment #34523588

    Ok, fine. I still dont feel comfortable, but here is the link. https://github.com/proxemy/dotfiles/blob/master/scripts/toke... The vault is regular kdbx with an additional password…

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    Comment #34523453

    But an attacker can never tell if the current guess to crack the token is the right one. Its just random noise in the end.

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    Comment #34523430

    I am not a cryptographer, so please keep that in mind. > An attacker that does have access to vault and token is given the ability to try brute force and to look for cracks that mi…

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    Comment #34523206

    I should have said that the token file is several kb in size, about 1/20 of my vault size, and of course random noise. I am aware that future hardware or algorithms could bring dow…

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    Ask HN: Save, Public Password Vaults?

    I once got downvoted a lot by stating, that i have put my password vault in my public dotfiles repository. What I should have told too, was that there is also a token file in place…

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    Comment #32863508

    I dont know why you get down voted because you are absolutely right. I would go even further and demand regulators to define standards to enable migration or self hosting.

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    Comment #31630620

    Are you sure, there is no signal in background radiation? Someone should check.

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    Comment #31515933

    I really want to see that risk assesment.

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    Comment #31381233

    Its easy and it starts with language.

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    Comment #31278573

    Wouldn't it be feasible to replace this "get your own domain" part just by letting tor doing the lookup for some introduced .onion site. My reasoning is, that this could get much f…

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    Comment #31271590

    Degrading social care systems and social mobility is actually to blame for this. This is what OP is missing in his/her rant.

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    Comment #31209112

    Black people were discriminated in the US from the beginning. This discrimination continued long after civil rights reforms in public and private institutions. Even if you could ma…

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    Comment #31208073

    A system is either sustainable or not, this is independent of population. The sustainable level of consumption is dependent on population.

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    Comment #31207869

    I was about to write "The Problem we both have is mislabeling" but then i realized that we dont have the same problem. From my perspective, conservatives/rights often stand out wit…

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    Comment #31207163

    From broad brain traits like sexual orientation down to smaller ones like spatial perception or emotional intelligence, a young brain has certain development windows in which a tra…

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    Comment #31206238

    So you agree with me, that left and woke is not the same thing. Whats odd thou is, (1) there is no clear definition of wokeism, like its an arbitrary stereotype used by demagogues …

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    Comment #31205808

    I think, you are contrasting your peers to a propagandistic caricature. Or how easy can you fit in that image "moderate" leftists like bernie sanders or noam chomsky? What is the d…

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    Comment #31205654

    This is dangerous bs. Easy to swallow for the uneducated masses. Putting all moral consideration aside, imagine you could totally depopulate two continents of your choosing. Why sh…

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    Comment #31183994

    >Free speech! So important! >No no, not free voting. How do you stay calm and polite? I cant comprehend.

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    Comment #31150793

    Why are they even encrypting the stuff? 1024 bit key? On such a long term mission, KISS is pretty crucial. EDIT: Probably some military doctrine. For science you monster.

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    Comment #31137682

    >Why are 200ppm sustainable? The higher CO2 levels of long gone times where probably not even remotely a problem for those critters around, because evolution had plenty of time to …