lucastx
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Comment · 8 years ago
Also no good for data capped connections
Comment · 9 years ago
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies is a wonderful book. I wouldn't call the systems they build upon (such as lMetacat [1] and Tabletop [2]) "machine learning"...
[1] http://science.slc.edu/jmarshall/metacat/
[2] https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/handle/2027.42/105891
I'd also like to see FARGonauts / Center for Research on Concepts and Cognition style software implementations around... I have run with success this python implementation of Copycat:
Comment · 9 years ago
Keyringer is a software that does exactly what I think you need, in a similar way than the parent's suggestion (gpg over git):
Keyringer: encrypted and distributed secret sharing software https://keyringer.pw/
Comment · 9 years ago
Except gliders floating in infinite space. Maybe.
Comment · 9 years ago
From the news article:
Boelter said: “[Some] might say that this vulnerability could only be abused to snoop on ‘single’ targeted messages, not entire conversations. This is not true if you consider that the WhatsApp server can just forward messages without sending the ‘message was received by recipient’ notification (or the double tick), which users might not notice. Using the retransmission vulnerability, the WhatsApp server can then later get a transcript of the whole conversation, not just a single message.”
I frankly didn't understand what was said here.
Comment · 10 years ago
“What is the robbing of a bank compared to the founding of a bank?” -- Bertolt Brecht
Comment · 10 years ago
I see here two concepts of "being able to"
Comment · 10 years ago
People underestimate a lot the power of "useless" features, if well designed, to attract new users.
Telegram's Stickers are probably one of the features that most people feel other messengers lack to make people enjoy using it. Lots of friends are actually communicating daily through GIF's.
Comment · 10 years ago
Sure it is not the best tool -- but depending on what means "critical" in your context it provides great security. Not against the NSA targeted attacks, sure, but if you're not so concerned about your adversary using exploits and more sophisticated tools (versus just demanding data from the provider or something like that) ProtonMail goes a long way.
Anyway it is, for most cases I can think of, much better than Gmail.