hack37 | 9 years ago | on: Why didn't Common Lisp fix the world?
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hack37 | 11 years ago | on: Indian Air Force Issues Security Warning; Xiaomi Clears the Air
I must have missed the security warning when Apple phones communicated back home when syncing contacts in iCloud.
hack37 | 11 years ago | on: True Goodbye: ‘Using TrueCrypt Is Not Secure’
by fixing the bug you tell everybody what/where the bug is and if anybody has a copy of someone else encrypted disk (think external backup, amazon etc..) they can decrypt it.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Implementing REST APIs with Embedded Privacy
In software development we call it abstraction. Privacy is for real people.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: PureVPN facing legal issues?
>> Setting up your own private fully encrypted (Harddrive) OpenVPN is quite easy and the only "secure" alternative.
You are misunderstanding the reason people use these services. They use it to stay anonymous because many people use it and it is harder to distinguish what traffic belongs to what user.
If you setup your own vpn server, encrypted or not, it defeats that purpose because one could just listen on the other end.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Turn any website into an API HackMIT 2013
Source code is available.
See chrome_extension/background.js.
Change post url accordingly.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Google to be Punished in France for Failing to Pare Back its Privacy Policy
Google is not "any" company. In light of recent allegations, they collect far too much data for purposes that we don't know. Hence "Define specified and explicit purposes;".
Every user is entitled to know what data a company is storing on them.
Remember that CNIL protects user interests.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Why have SVG images not yet replaced PNG on the web?
Being a programmer doesn't mean living with the latest gadget.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: UK Authorities Destroy Guardian's Hard Drives
I don't really know why do you say it has not really worked. Has anybody been killed ? There is a reason they call it dead man's switch.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Wikileaks Releases New 'Insurance' Files
because it may be the source of the news ?
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Google says e-mail users should have no legitimate expectation of privacy
Talking about privacy. Why use services like Scribd ?
A simple link to the pdf file hosted somewhere else would have suffice. I then can do my searches locally without them tracking exactly what I do (who views what, who searches what). SASS (Service as Software Substitute) is evil...
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Over 100,000 people apply for one-way trip to Mars
I won't sign up until they make sure there will be Internet... with Earth.
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch
What is the point of creating such network if it is for the benefit of just a few ?
If 1% of the population can have free speech, but the rest of them don't, nothing will change...
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: Meshnet activists rebuilding the Internet from scratch
behind pay wall...
hack37 | 12 years ago | on: You have no rights
Same as your reply really...
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I do not understand how it has not taken over the world.
Background: I have ~15 years of experience in programming. In my spare time I learn new languages.