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https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/blob/maste... appears to be looking for Apple devices to wake them back up.

There has always been speculation that there was a Phoenician connection to Cornwall, but not a lot of archeological evidence. This stemmed from things like Cornish place names hav…

Yes, I wrote it and it is intended as a demo only. I have not put in the finite field logic in that implementation. It shows the concepts though.

They can use Shamir's Secret Sharing to achieve this with no plaintext. see http://willtracz.co.uk/shamir-secret-sharing-and-passwords

This was fun to find at the end of two days last week when a third-party system was trying to connect via SSL. Java 8 is the first to allow above 1024-bit Diffie-Hellman parameter …

It's more pervasive than just registration too if you allow the username to be adjusted. This is again a problem with email addresses that also allows leakage. Regarding the probab…

This has already happened. The Internet Watch Foundation already tell ISPs to block child pornography, and the court system can tell ISPs to block file-sharing/streaming sites. It …

Isn't this similar to Skimlinks i.e. you don't get paid by them until conversion?

The code to do this is on Github (at least for the UK): https://github.com/fubralimited/php-oara Affiliate network integration is not a technical challenge at all.

You'd be surprised at the level of data the affiliate networks make available to the people using them. Even if you are a small affiliate, purchase/basket level data is on offer.

Until the ICO start taking people to court it will stay ridiculous, but I think the intent of it is important. Using etags to track individuals is really no different to a cookie w…