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Comment Not broken, just fud-ed (Score 2) 110

What if the intention isn't on cracking it but just on spreading FUD?

People are pissed off right now. That Snowden thing just isn't going away and people are looking into encrypted email options. Even people who never thought of using pgp (or regarded it as something for paranoid conspiracy theory nuts) would use it now, if it just came as an easy clickable option.

If you're some government agency, that doesn't look desirable. To make things worse, it's a web of trust, one of these pesky decentralized models. Unlike with a central certification authority, trusting one signature doesn't translate into trusting others. But on the other hand, there is no single CA that can be compromised. If you are a government agency in the business of undermining privacy, you would have to attack it one user at a time. Quite frustrating.

What to do about it?
Create some headlines like:

Fake PGP Keys For Crypto Developers Found

Hmm- looks that isn't safe either. Not worth the effort trying it out I guess.

Comment In Summary.. (Score 5, Insightful) 220

...he's not much of a "science" guy, ...
... captain obvious ...
... He's no scientist. ...
... Bill Nye the Attention Whore ...
... Mr. Bill Nye is NOT and has NOTHING to do with science ...

This out of 31 posts so far.
This on a guy who makes science fun for kids.

Beta might not be Slashdot's biggest problem,
but going the way of kuro5hin is.

Comment What everyone else does with a laser of course.. (Score 1) 143

- cut out some plywood enclosure for your raspi or arduino.
- try to etch some copper off a pcb while looking at the reflection.
- mount it on a quad copter and shoot around in the neighborhood, then post it on youtube.
- try building a projector and accidentally burn down city hall.

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