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A better world
Personal blog · ossguy.compoliticsprogramming
A better world is a personal blog at ossguy.com about politics and programming. Since 2009, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2015, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Linked in threads on Blue Boxes and RTMPE streaming encryption, and on a spreadsheet of every TED talk with a feed download script. The comments are mostly bare links or citations.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
RTMPE is a joke: http://lkcl.net/rtmp/RTMPE.txt "Overall, then, the Adobe RTMPE algorithm tries to provide end-to-end secrecy in exactly the same way that SSL provides end-to-end secrecy, but the algorithm is subject to man-in-the-middle attacks, provides no security, relies on publicly obtainable information and the algorithm itself to obfuscate the content, and uses no authentication of any kind" The Adobe respons…
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on “Who Can Do Something About Those Blue Boxes?”Submitted Why Flash is doomed as a story · 48 points
HN discussionhere is the feed http://feeds2.feedburner.com/tedtalks_video and shell script to download it in background http://ossguy.com/?p=26
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on “Spreadsheet of every TED talk as of 9/2/2009”Submitted Hindrances to free software: DVDs, MP3s, and YouTube as a story · 1 points
HN discussion