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That's just 75% of HN or rather "privacy-focused" tech enthusiasts. The remaining 25% hide under the disguise of generic security "concern" that usually involves tangential topic. …

>there is even a .com button, so you don't have to type it out. 1998? Magnificent.

I concur. I always thought HN is a technically-biased community. Not on this section.

Lol comparing cryptocurrency with pokémon card is new level of... uh creative but not very bright perspective. OK let us pretend Pokécard has some crypographically proven propertie…

Cryptocurrency, being a currency has its value tied to its utility (e.g. the usual talk about decentralized, private, and resiliency against inflation which have been beaten to dea…

The main problem is the malware that makes you lost access to your data. (Pseudo-)anonymous payment (BTC is not fully anonymous) that facilitates the payment is just a side effect.…

Banning crypto due to ransomware it's like banning strong cryptography due to ransomware. Yeah sure it will make the problem 'smaller', but do you see the interesting lapse of logi…

No. Paypal denied giving any details. It could be 100% because of Tor, could be 100% unrelated to Tor. Who knows, that's what EFF is disputing.

Can you share the secret Konami code? Preparing for possible potential incident..

I feel like rather than glibc, "selinux permission denied", would fit better these days. ..but on second thought, hat's actually selinux doing its job if the executable is a real v…

PTC (formerly MKS) Integrity It's a "product lifecycle management" that is basically version control plus issues list tracker. It has horrendous 80-90s-era interface and require cl…