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Post by jcheng » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 4:20 PM UTC

baboo wrote: post #42

sillysaurus wrote: post #34

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This makes no sense whatsoever. Their application is doing the encrypting. That means their application can do whatever it wants, including making it trivially easy to reverse the encryption. I get that the intentions are good, but https would provide exactly the same trust guarantees, and ultimately it bothers me that they would try to mislead people into a false sense of security like this. If their application is…

They are probably either lying or incompetent. If they really had no access, then their server cannot do any "analysis" beyond storing it, and the app could as well just store it locally, or with Amazon S3 or whatever storage system the website already uses. Obviously not everything is encrypted, or otherwise they don't realize that there is no reason for them to provide a simple storage service, considering most web…

Post by jcheng » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 4:40 PM UTC

sillysaurus wrote: post #34

nivstein wrote: post #18

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The moment you sign-up for Takipi a secret AES-256 key is generated for you (and never stored by Takipi in any way or form, and you manually enter it on your machine when installing the agent). This key is used to encrypt every piece of application data which leaves the machine. The source code is also encrypted similarly. The source code and the data are only decrypted in your browser when viewing the details of the…

This makes no sense whatsoever. Their application is doing the encrypting. That means their application can do whatever it wants, including making it trivially easy to reverse the encryption. I get that the intentions are good, but https would provide exactly the same trust guarantees, and ultimately it bothers me that they would try to mislead people into a false sense of security like this. If their application is…

Post by alive-or-not » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 5:13 PM UTC

socillion wrote: post #64

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BizSpark does (for up to 3 years); DreamSpark does not include the Ultimate edition of Visual Studio. https://www.dreamspark.com/student/software-catalog.aspx

You definitely can get VS Ultimate through DreamSpark, but only through DreamSpark Premium (fee paid by school.) http://i.imgur.com/9aHcIOx.png https://www.dreamspark.com/Institution/Subscription.aspx

Post by taeric » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 5:41 PM UTC

wereHamster wrote: post #60

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Of course, the retort there is as much "write simpler programs" as it is "use the type system." I've seen and been a part of many a tangled knot in a type system that, while ostensibly safe, was so much more involved to do the simple things that I think it caused more bugs.

I'm not saying strongly typed languages are bugfree. But they eliminate whole classes of bugs. The OP was asking about programming techniques to improve code quality or tools to help with debugging. Well, a type system is such a technique/tool that checks for bugs at compile time.

Post by eli_gottlieb » Thu, Apr 18, 2013, 6:58 PM UTC