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Comment Truecrypt + Dropbox (Score 4, Informative) 200

I use Truecrypt's encrypted drive containers in my local Dropbox folder. The file sync'd to Dropbox is encrypted when the sync occurs, so that is all they ever see. Because Dropbox does a binary diff of the file and only uploads the differences which makes syncing large encrypted files feasible.

I've seen some chatter that Truecrypt may have been compromised - Bruce Schneier and Snowden use it so I'll trust in their judgement.

Comment Re:And nothing of value was lost... (Score 3, Interesting) 330

Well, the article linked asks the question of whether or not it is backdoored based upon a test that proved SOMETHING was leaking:

Now are they just hoovering up the skype IMs via the new microsoft central server architecture having back doored skype client to no longer have end2end encrption (and feedind them through echelon or whatever) or is this the client that is reading your IMs and sending selected things to the mothership.

I'd be curious to see if there's a query against a phone number sent via skype, vs a url. That would back up the claim of a backdoor much more solidly than the work that has already been done. It would be harder to verify, though.

Comment Re:Your government $$$ (Score 1) 235

These particular scumsuckers reached into Hawaii as well. I received maybe 10 calls from them - I kept hoping the "second and final warning" was true, but alas, 'twas not to be. Finally answered the phone, waded through the crap and started chatting with the actual person on the other end of the line. I kept him dancing for a while, but he disconnected me after I asked for his supervisor. They haven't called back since, so... op success?

Comment Re:And STILL No 64 Bit (Score 1) 93

*whoosh*

I was saying for all of my boxes that are NOT Linux. 64 bit Chrome is available for Linux as you are obviously aware.

For your edification, Mr. AC, because Wikipedia knows all:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exclamation_mark#Computers

relevant snippet:
"Several computer languages use "!" for various meanings, most importantly for logical negation; e.g. A != B means "A is not equal to B", and !A means "the logical negation of A" (also called "not A")."

Comment Dust 514 (Score 1) 280

I'm REALLY looking forward to the release of this game. I've been in the beta for months and its pretty addictive. CCP has been pretty good about rectifying grossly out of balance weapons etc so far. No more swarm launcher spam =)

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