Not sure if you're trolling, unaware or making some sort of pedantic argument. Key stretching and adaptive hashing are considered best practice and here's a couple references to read up on including some from TFA. These solutions will partially mitigate the impact of weak passwords.

http://plaintextoffenders.com/...
https://codahale.com/how-to-sa...
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.c...

Well in this case Pbkdf2 would provide at least 10,000 to 50,000 times more protection than their approach for the same password.

It's weird, I mean, it's like 3 lines of C# (and probably many other languages) to convert a string to a secure Pbkdf2 hash. Add some bounds checking and other DB nonsense (for a whole separate DB column for the password parts presumably?) and their approach is even more complex to implement. I'm sure someone could do it all in one line, the point is it's not hard to do it right, it's not like they saved hundreds of man-hours. It's like no one even cared.

To be clear, buying or owning bitcoins doesn't require you to possess the entire blockchain, right? You only have a key to a wallet so the hundreds of millions of people involved in bitcoin probably aren't affected although the various miners and ledger guys (I don't know the terms) are the only ones who should be worried.

p.s. I don't own any bitcoins so please correct me

1) Anyone who has posted in this thread is unable to moderate so your assertion that Parent was "censored by the very people who claim to vehemently support free speech" can't be entirely true.
2) You assume the motivation for the moderation is opinionated and not based on some other criteria (e.g. unnecessary personal attacks during civil discourse)
3) You use similar name-calling, unfortunately debasing an otherwise potentially meaningful argument.
4) Slashdot.org did not delete the post or take any automated or official action, rather, a random selection of Parent's peers "down voted" the post. Likewise, down votes of videos on YouTube does not constitute censoring by YouTube. While institutions such as the Federal Government and YouTube should not be in the business of deciding what is appropriate speech, ones peers are allowed to pass judgement.


It is unfortunate that you and Parent were not able to frame your arguments in a more civil manner as they would have been interesting points to discuss.

You're right, don't argue with an idiot, but in this case we're not talking about arguing with the one in the pulpit, we're trying to educate his followers (the viewers on YouTube) and I think that's different in a very meaningful way.

Lauren's supposition that Wikipedia information will simply be ignored and that Youtube should simply censor the videos is based on a dodgy notion that censoring speech we don't like is somehow better than combating it with truths. Yes, they may ignore Wikipedia but not all of them. It may take longer but it's the more righteous path than censoring. imho

The RI lawmakers are Idiots.

After all this time, the extraterrestrial life that we found ended up being a proverbial bug on the windshield of the ISS?

Somehow the rationalization that the internet is simultaneously a vital interstate service that precludes state regulation and a purely market driven business seems like a big business wet dream.

States can regulate and tax most businesses but not *this* business because it's special for "reasons".

By siphoning all the files off his computer, DUH

Theoretically you could hash files using FileAPI in modern browsers. Alternatively, an offline tool could be used to index your photos on your computer. Both of those scenarios would likely not be accessible via mobile devices although there's nothing preventing the development of a dedicated mobile app that does all of this locally on the device. Open source it so it can audited.

I'm not certain what the exposure is with this approach, in theory someone could abuse the process to claim hashes for other peoples images but I don't think there's any more risk of that with a local process than an online process. Regardless, the idea that you would upload nude images to a third party service like this seems ridiculous. Also, one seventeen year old does it and suddenly the service is in possession of child porn, it's nuts.

There was one tweet during the outage, it was hours after the outage started and there was silence from them for the next 24+ hours before service was restored. It's a pathetically small amount of communication. That's how they handle an outage so I don't expect a follow-up.

Although, inquiring minds want to know.

Oregon has one of the most regressive state income taxes in the country so I don't disagree with your feelings on the matter. That said, this tax shouldn't affect the used-bike market? In fact, buying a used bike is the best way to avoid the tax altogether, no?

Here's another way to look at it, the tax is an incentive to buying a used bike (only new purchases are taxed, right?). Buying used is typically more green than buying new (why manufacture a new bike when an old one is just as good?) so a truly environmentally conscious buyer shouldn't be negatively impacted at all!

(strained logic that legislators wouldn't have been clever enough to employ but it is kind of true)