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peawee
on Feb 4, 2012
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Why do self-respecting hackers use Gmail & Co?
Someone I know once told me crypto is funny because all you have to do is compromise the OS's socket implementation.
etherael
on Feb 5, 2012
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Is that before or after you write a gui interface using visual basic to track an IP address? :/
peawee
on Feb 7, 2012
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To be fair, this is a guy who does hardened, embedded RTOSes. In the normal world implementation, of course crypto matters.
Sometimes I need to take off my "all software sucks and I hate everything" hat before posting :-/
icebraining
on Feb 5, 2012
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How so? The application does the encryption, not the OS.
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