For years, privacy advocates have pushed developers of websites, virtual private network apps, and other cryptographic software to adopt the Diffie-Hellman cryptographic key exchange as a defense against surveillance from the US National Security Agency and other state-sponsored spies. Now, researchers are renewing their warning that a serious flaw in the way the key exchange is implemented is allowing the NSA to break and eavesdrop on trillions of encrypted connections.

The cost for adversaries is by no means modest. For commonly used 1024-bit keys, it would take about a year and cost a “few hundred million dollars” to crack just one of the extremely large prime numbers that form the starting point of a Diffie-Hellman negotiation. But it turns out that only a few primes are commonly used, putting the price well within the NSA’s $11 billion-per-year budget dedicated to “groundbreaking cryptanalytic capabilities.”

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Panem

straw man

“dwarf moon” in 3… 2…

In what way?

I hate linking to this site, but there’s a discussion here about how simply naming a logical fallacy isn’t an argument:

https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQuestions/comments/mn3rgy/is_their_a_name_for_the_logical_fallacy_of_just/

https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopard

Melanistic leopards are also known as black panthers. Melanism in leopards is caused by a recessive allele and is inherited as a recessive trait. In India, nine pale and white leopards were reported between 1905 and 1967. Leopards exhibiting erythrism were recorded between 1990 and 2015 in South Africa’s Madikwe Game Reserve and in Mpumalanga. The cause of this morph known as a “strawberry leopard” or “pink panther” is not well understood.

Sounds like the Supreme Court may rule her illegal at some point.

Ribbit Against the Machine

10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD"
20 GOTO 10

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2cMG33mWVY

Republicans had held a two-thirds majority in the Senate since the 2019 elections. They will still have at least a three-fifths majority in the chamber.

In Mississippi, a three-fifths majority of the House and Senate is needed to pass tax bills or issue bonds to borrow money. A two-thirds majority in both chambers is needed to approve proposed amendments to the state constitution and override a veto from the governor.

While cleaning a storage room, our staff found this tape containing #UNIX v4 from Bell Labs, circa 1973

Apparently no other complete copies are known to exist: https://gunkies.org/wiki/UNIX_Fourth_Edition

We have arranged to deliver it to the Computer History Museum

Don’t ever, for any reason, do anything to anyone for any reason ever—no matter what, no matter where, or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or where you’ve been—ever, for any reason whatsoever…

“Dr.” Oz

LOL

“over”?

give flowers_galore2 all my upvotes

I can’t tell their voices apart.