HackerNews Summary (2023-05-08 03AM)

Source: PUBLIK KEY KRYPTO

Summary
Public-key cryptography enables secure messaging and authenticating messages using private and public keys.

Facts

🔒 Public-key cryptography allows encryption of messages using the recipient’s public key.

✅ Digital signatures can be created using one’s private key to authenticate the message source.

📅 First published on February 14, 2018.

🇸🇪 The title was changed to “PUBLIK KEY KRYPTO” to sound more Swedish.

💡 The IDEA logo was updated at some point.

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Source: New UK Cybersecurity Campaign Leads Kids Directly to Pirate Apps & Malware * TorrentFreak

Summary
The UK’s NCSC launched a new awareness campaign called CyberFlix to educate pre-teens and young teenagers on risks they face from using the internet. The campaign shares the same name as a movie piracy app, CyberFlix, and the first few pages of search engine results for the campaign lead to piracy-related results, some of which carry malware.

Facts

👶 NCSC launched an awareness campaign called CyberFlix to educate young teens on the risks of using the internet

📺 The name of the campaign is bewildering since it also shares its name with a movie piracy app

🕵️‍♀️ The first few pages of search engine results for CyberFlix lead mostly to piracy-related results, some of which lead to malware

🔒 To keep devices secure, they don’t access the internet without stringent filtering and heavy-duty VPN connections

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Source: DJI drone flight log viewer

Summary
Flight Reader is a program that processes DJI TXT flight log files or other CSV flight logs to generate maps, logs, reports, and history of the flights. It also allows users to customize logs and reports and offers additional features like system tray menu and compatibility with Windows command line.

Fact

🌍 View an overview of your flight with a Google Map and retrace the flight path with a 3D view.

📝 Generate Aircraft & battery logs, history, and reports with customization options.

📂 Drag and drop DJI TXT flight logs or CSV logs or connect to your DJI account to automatically download flight logs uploaded from DJI GO, DJI Fly, or DJI Pilot.

💻 Use the Windows command line to process flight logs and import them into Flight Reader and access additional features from the system tray menu.

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Source: Street Fighter II, paper trails

Summary
Capcom produced one hit after another in the world of arcades during the late 90s. The CPS-1 was an arcade platform introduced by Capcom in 1988. It had a powerful graphic rendering pipeline which allowed artists considerable freedom while designing objects of arbitrary sizes and shapes. However, staying within the ROM budget was difficult, and the solution came in the form of paper sheets and scissors, which allowed developers to track ROM budget.

Fact

👥 Capcom was popular with both players and operators in the world of arcades during the late 90s.

🕹️ CPS-1 had a powerful graphic rendering pipeline which allowed artists considerable freedom while designing objects of arbitrary sizes and shapes.

💰 Staying within the ROM budget was difficult, and the solution came in the form of paper sheets and scissors, which allowed developers to track ROM budget.

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Source: Blackmail as a Victimless Crime: Reply to Altman

Summary
Blackmail is a crime where two legal activities, such as asking for money or publicizing an embarrassing secret, become illegal when combined. Despite over a dozen attempts to explain the legal theory of blackmail, there is no consistent understanding. The authors argue that blackmail should be legalized since it is legal to gossip, and threatening to do so should not be considered a crime.

Fact

🔒 Blackmail is a crime where legal activities, such as asking for money or publicizing a secret, become illegal when combined.

💬 Gossiping is legal but threatening to gossip, unless paid not to, is not.

💰 Asking for money is a legitimate activity, but combining it with a threat is illegal.

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