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Comment Re: Data Security Officer (Score 1) 192

You still don't seem to understand. Maybe it will help you to recall that the input data is thoroughly non-uniform and deterministic in nature. This point was conveyed in the summary, ffs. The anonymization method asserted by msauve and errantly supported by others (yourself included) spectacularly fails to account for this fact, and bears no resemblance whatsoever to a sound OTP implementation. "You're going the wrong direction, shipmate."

I'm rather glad we didn't have folks like you leading the charge at Bletchley Park from 1939 onward, as things might have consequently turned out more poorly for the Allied powers. On the other hand, you would have fit right in keying Enigma machines.

Comment Re:Ahhh ... (Score 0) 47

Wow, I got modded "flamebait" for posting factual information. PayPal employees must be scrambling to man their sockpuppet accounts tonight. That's a shame; perhaps treating their customer base with respect and decency might be a better use of their time. I somehow doubt the downmod has anything to do with VPS Tree (the shit VPS provider) though, since they can't even be bothered to maintain a page for their About Us link these days.

Comment Re:Ahhh ... (Score 1, Informative) 47

You're either a fool or a liar. I've had funds frozen for months by PayPal with no explanation (eventually released with no apology from them), and I've also disputed recurring PayPal charges stemming from a shit VPS provider who had completely ignored several of my attempts to cancel services. In the latter case, PayPal decided to rule in the shit provider's favor anyhow. I walked away from PayPal permanently after finally getting the last of my money out of that account (again, several months later, and I still never got any of the fraudulent VPS fees refunded), and I will never transact business with them again. In fact, since January of 2012 I've continued to receive an email entitled "First Invoice Overdue Notice" from the shit VPS provider every month. Those emails serve as a nice reminder to encourage folks to avoid PayPal at all costs; people continue to use them out of sheer stupidity.

Paypal Policy - A License To Steal Your Money
Funds Stolen By PayPal
PayPal - Beware of PayPal, 6000 USD seized by Paypal
180-Day Hold Sparks PayPal Suit
Paypal Can and Will seize funds...Atwood Knives
Another PayPal victim $4000.00 seized from my business account.
PayPal Horror Stories

If you get bored, try these as well:

Exhibit A
Exhibit B

So, which is it? Are you a liar, or are you a fool?

Comment Re: Data Security Officer (Score 1) 192

By the way, thanks for the added laughs per your attempt to reframe this discussion as "anonymising" versus "encrypting." You'd get a few charity points for sophomoric debate tactics if the subject matter were a bit less serious in nature, but that particular bit of commentary is indeed nothing more than a juvenile attempt at diverting attention from the matters at hand. Try again.

Comment Re: Data Security Officer (Score 1) 192

Are you confirming shipment of the book (along with a couple of other volumes) to Delft University of Technology in your care? I found it odd that even an undergraduate at such an institution would not already have access to such material, but perhaps all university copies are already on loan to other students. As an aside, you appear to be lacking the capacity to distinguish emphasis borne of extreme frustration from certain pathological afflictions. You should work on that.

Comment Re: Data Security Officer (Score 1) 192

Dude, msauve's proposed methodology is indeed tragically flawed, and you clearly haven't read the balance of the posts in this thread. Why are you so resistant to refutation of bad crypto advice? Are you positioned to benefit from deterministic systems which are advertised as cryptographically sound?

Comment Re:Anti-Competitive (Score 4, Informative) 69

I'm sincerely apprehensive about potential outcomes associated with Google becoming a domain registrar, but I'm accepting reversal of the mod points I've expended thus far on this story to strenuously object to to the thoughtcrime-based insinuation made in the following excerpt:

There is no way to prove that Google won't give priority indexing to domains it registers.

This is the logical equivalent to a forward-looking conviction on the same premises as Glenn Beck Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990.

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