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Comment #17592664
That would be useless, as the key could just be passed through.
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Comment #17516175
Critically, it also doesn't leave a trail by running a server anywhere.
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Comment #17516136
That's why they're using two different stats engines.
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Comment #17515115
They are linked as HTTP referrer, so they can get the tokens out of the stats page later on. It's using a popular and well known domain to evade detection.
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Comment #15199486
"Hey Siri" is.
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Comment #15199484
Siri recognises the "hey siri" bit unique to the owner, further commands aren't validated.
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Comment #15069976
> There are also military specific parts of GPS that civilian receivers can't access. I don't know if military receivers are ignoring civilian signals, though. For all intents it's…
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Comment #15069971
The US military uses encrypted GPS, not the civilian one.
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Comment #14988390
I'm not really in this world, but you'd save more power by recycling aluminium cans (%5+ of US power consumption) than by killing off cryptocurrency mining.
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Comment #14688887
The answer is a little unfortunate, even though things are said to be worth $xxxxM market cap, but the depth of the market is so shallow that the true value is near zero.
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Comment #14688877
It's worthwhile to note that not a single once of the thousands of "ICO" things that have been launched in the last year have actually done anything of value. They all generate hyp…
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Comment #14653439
TCP or UDP transports.
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Comment #14579676
Should be easy to describe then.
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Comment #14579675
All obfuscation around a central controlling group that have the ability to reverse any transactions they don't like or negatively financially impact them, in other words.
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Comment #14579604
The principle of Ethereum is that code is law, the "hacker" followed the law to the letter and acted in a prescribed manner. What's the crime here exactly?
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Comment #14568939
If your concern is an attacker that can do 128 bits of work, you've got other problems (like reality).
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Comment #14567436
SHA3 is a hash function, not a KDF.
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Comment #14402478
There's beyond HDR, you can switch between multiple penetration levels and do automatic detection of materials even with ones made 2 decades ago. None of this is really new, insigh…
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Comment #14400458
In general yes, invisible things can burn your eyes but it's probably of no concern here. The more common thing you'll run into is things like cheap DPSS green lasers that output a…
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Comment #14395955
They are not opaque to X-Rays, much less the ludicrous penetrating power used in baggage inspection. Baggage X-rays can happily penetrate inches of metal, nothing short of lead bri…
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Comment #14242752
How does this handle SSH session re-keying, does that need further authentication from the device? openssh does this pretty infrequently, I can't immediately remember if that needs…
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Comment #14242722
So, capture the auth and use it for the malware, show the user some failure and allow their retry to pass. Stupid dodgy Yubikey fails half the time.
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Comment #13967293
Completely transparent as far as a luggage X-ray is concerned, they're very high power because they don't have to care about exposure limits like medical imaging would. They usuall…
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Comment #13967278
No, luggage X-rays are extremely powerful, think 120kV or higher. They can easily penetrate inches of steel on the low end.