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Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 10 years ago
> probably the more likely scenario is that some insider leak some of the distributors private keys which would allow certain releases to be cracked - but would likely also trigger key roll over.

It could also be the case that someone leaked the plaintext symmetric key(s) for this specific movie's DCP. If someone gained access to private/secret keys on a compromised DCP player somewhere, it'd be smarter to leak symmetric keys for individual movies to avoid detection.

Comment · 10 years ago
Comment · 11 years ago
Yep, I agree and that's where I install stuff on everything other than OS X. One distinction though, I think, is that most of the stuff I install on OS X I don't want to be available system-wide. I'm (typically) not using Homebrew to install daemons that run all the time or things that serve critical system/network functions, so I've never seen a reason to make them available to the entire system. I agree that goes against the Unix way but I started preferring this way of using Homebrew after I had similar problems upgrading and even updating OS X.

Also, what if for some reason a single machine is shared by two people and they need different versions of some programs installed with Homebrew? Installing everything in /usr/local isn't going to look like a good idea then.

Comment · 11 years ago
Mostly because of my (perhaps irrational) OCD in not wanting to touch global system paths or files, even though under FHS /usr/local is where you're supposed to install manually-managed libraries and binaries. I believe Homebrew likes to have its path owned by you instead of root, so I think it makes more sense to have stuff that's going to be owned by me to be in my home folder rather than /usr/local.
Comment · 11 years ago
I'm curious to know if there's a reason everyone installs Homebrew in /usr/local (other than it being the default installation path). I've always chosen to install it in ~/.homebrew and haven't had any problems. Everything I install with Homebrew seems to handle an alternative prefix without issue.
Comment · 12 years ago
Why did Stellar decide on using Facebook accounts to enforce the one account per person rule, instead of something better like mobile numbers? There are more people with cell phones than there are with Facebook accounts. Acquiring large batches of phone numbers to game the system is harder since it costs money and is more easily detectable.

Even if this guy isn't gaming the system with fake Facebook accounts, I'm sure others already are.

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