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Holy Jesus that's a lot of money. Has anyone credible ever done any market sizing of the btc services or hardware markets? At first blush it is hard for me not to estimate the btc …

The only one I've ever seen in DC was the one I was test driving.

When talking about US national politics or institutions inside DC, WP is almost exclusively used to mean "Washington Post"

Wow, the US Attorney is really going out of his way to fill this one up with bullshit. I knew something was very wrong when goodin claims hundreds of millions in losses on a cardin…

software is fundamentally broken in some way that it just gets harder and harder to keep a lid on the more effort we make. There is money to be made selling inflatable rafts before…

"...the erosion of confidence in the ability of the United States to do anything discreetly or keep anything secret." An amusingly worded statement perfectly delivered in intellige…

What percentage of those android phones would you say are upgraded to a level where they don't have any publicly announced cve's against them that allow for rce or close enough? Li…

The idea that a serious compromise will present a clear path back to a specific ssh key that got used by the attackers and that you'll possibly be able to stop it just by turning o…

Out of curiosity, how do those krait cores compare to the exynos a15 based cores that samsung is shipping in volume? I've been very impressed with their performance on chromeos as …

If you train your users to accept self signing you might as well just give up on pki. It appears from the chromium pinning list that they really do let anyone add a pinning rule fo…

I wish cnet didn't write this article like they thought they were CNN or USA Today. What are we supposed to make of the phrase "master keys"? It doesn't seem like they are talking …

an egregious violation of investor trust and ethics. I agree that this kind of behavior is too obvious and not socially acceptable or common practice. But the concept of the modern…

and yet when the service binds to localhost instead of a local, private routable address that clearly exists as you're tunneling to the internet, it has said "hey, look, whatever i…

it was indeed complete sarcasm.

The anti-virus age may be over, but if the supporting evidence is that host based signature products don't provide an effective defense against a variety of common security threats…

If there is one thing that I have considered a flaw in computing, it's that there have been few ways for inexperienced developers and users to use one simple system which allowed t…

You pretty much nailed how it's done, good show for off the cuff. Encrypt file with large symmetric key. Slice into n pieces, where n is like 5-10 or more. Distribute a few copies …

I completely agree with you. I am very appreciative of being able to read these documents, but it clearly will cause little or no harm to the us or the intelligence community. Abou…

The way these things work is no one person actually has the whole key - portions of it are distributed to various people you trust but may otherwise be unlikely to conspire. They m…

This play is straight out of the wikileaks playbook that they used almost verbatim when the us was making a lot of noise about assange. It appeared to be effective, in that US inte…

EDITED: Thanks guys, it seems like I managed to paste over most of my post with the clipboard filled with the last one. Thanks for being so nice pointing it out. Sucks, the on topi…

Wow, if this is the class of insert you get after paying what I presume are not insignificant amounts of fund, I'd hate to see the budget for a compelling one. Reading between the …

wow, i'm shocked that amazon would stoop so low. what's next, the yahoo toolbar stops being a convenient and secure way to search the web and gets into the spyware business?

I'm not sure which they you mean, but I assure you nobody is under the impression that only some people do it. Core routers and core cellular gear is quickly becoming an industry t…

While they do have their own bespoke fab, the description given there is wildly more impressive than I've ever heard it described by people not giving speeches. For obvious reasons…