At 8/19/16 04:01 PM, Sam wrote: i got nothing to hide

In that case, can I have your:
SSN, credit card details, bank information, any personal customer information, photo ID, and access to your webcam and microphone 24/7? Thanks.

;)

At 8/19/16 04:08 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 8/19/16 04:01 PM, Sam wrote: i got nothing to hide

In that case, can I have your:
SSN, credit card details, bank information, any personal customer information, photo ID, and access to your webcam and microphone 24/7? Thanks.

What's an SSN

I said nothing to hide not nothing to lose.

my dignity

At 8/19/16 06:18 PM, Sam wrote: What's an SSN

Americans get a number at birth. It's used to prove you are you even though it's not hard to find someone's last 4 digits and other identifying information.

At 8/19/16 06:37 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 8/19/16 06:18 PM, Sam wrote: What's an SSN

Americans get a number at birth. It's used to prove you are you even though it's not hard to find someone's last 4 digits and other identifying information.

Think of it like "The Matrix" but really insecure and none of us can dodge bullets.

.. Yet.

To be fair, "nothing to hide" is a pretty loose term according to intelligence operators ;)

Blasting Agent is a HaxeFlixel game that just came out on steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/453810/

It's also on 3DS and WiiU, although those versions use a heavily modified flixel to deal with the limitations of those platforms.

Defender's Quest is apparently working on PS4 and Xbone now.

And they added me as an official member of flixel on github.

Looking good

At 8/23/16 11:35 AM, MSGhero wrote: It's also on 3DS and WiiU, although those versions use a heavily modified flixel to deal with the limitations of those platforms. Defender's Quest is apparently working on PS4 and Xbone now.

Sweet

And they added me as an official member of flixel on github.

Congrats!

At 8/19/16 06:18 PM, Sam wrote: What's an SSN

I think it's equivalent to our NI number

At 8/19/16 03:25 PM, MSGhero wrote: Pathfinding findings http://enkiangames.tumblr.com/

Nice post! Lazy Theta* seems interesting. I have never heard of it before.

At 8/19/16 04:00 PM, egg82 wrote: PSA Alert: NSA tools have been leaked to the general public.

Is there a good description somewhere describing the tools and what they actually do ? I'm guessing there are 0 days as well. Is there a list of them somewhere?

By the way I finally pushed up my Kademlia DHT implementation.
https://github.com/prettymuchbryce/kademlia

There is a lot of work I can still do to make it better so this may turn into an ongoing project. At least until I'm reasonably happy with it.

At 8/27/16 02:06 PM, PrettyMuchBryce wrote: Is there a good description somewhere describing the tools and what they actually do ? I'm guessing there are 0 days as well. Is there a list of them somewhere?

https://github.com/adamcaudill/EquationGroupLeak

;)

EGREGIOUSBLUNDER specifically is actually about -3650-day.

Calling CenturyLink tomorrow. Something's very wrong. Even 450 up is uncharacteristically low, and I unplugged everything and restarted the router to test.

I used several different speed tests, they all showed about the same result.

At 8/28/16 11:49 PM, egg82 wrote: Calling CenturyLink tomorrow. Something's very wrong. Even 450 up is uncharacteristically low, and I unplugged everything and restarted the router to test.

That sucks

Tbh this is low too

At 8/29/16 12:01 AM, MSGhero wrote:\

Tbh this is low too

That's something I would expect with several TVs and multiple devices online. Not super-low, and I bet if you took a few of those offline everything would be good.

7, on the other hand, is.. Well, something's wrong. Getting it looked at by CenturyLink themselves tomorrow.

In the meantime, I started a new shift at my job: 3 AM - 11:30 AM.

Why? I don't know why, because I'm fucking nuts I guess.

At 8/29/16 08:20 PM, egg82 wrote: That's something I would expect with several TVs and multiple devices online. Not super-low, and I bet if you took a few of those offline everything would be good.

I have an entire apartment building online, but yeah it gets higher as the night goes on. Not too much higher though, bc people here study instead of sleep.

Jesus fuck are you fucking kidding me?? AGAIN??
This is the exact same issue I had with my other drive after four months of having it. Exact same model. The hell is this shit?

Never in my life have I had a HDD fail. Now two with the exact same model within three weeks of eachother, and only after having them < a year.

Weird that they failed within weeks of eachother when I got them both almost a year apart from eachother, though..

.. Especially weird this conveniently happened just after I updated Win 10 to the Anniversary Update.. Hmmmmm......

Flixel ended up raising about $8500 after the campaign, including extra-campaign funds. I also think Defender's Quest ppl put up an additional $3k from the start, so that's good. Hopefully this means someone can make flixel compatible with the latest versions of the required haxelibs.

pawerupsssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr7Ala5hbA

At 8/30/16 04:19 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: pawerupsssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr7Ala5hbA

Are the physics and things in r theta or are you just converting the display to that in the end of the frame?

At 8/30/16 04:53 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 8/30/16 04:19 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: pawerupsssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr7Ala5hbA

Are the physics and things in r theta or are you just converting the display to that in the end of the frame?

the whole game is flat and a vertex shader warps it. physics and stuff does have a bunch of utility functions to handle the point where it wraps around correctly (lots of modulo shit for calculating distances and directions)

At 8/29/16 12:01 AM, MSGhero wrote:

At 8/28/16 11:49 PM, egg82 wrote: Calling CenturyLink tomorrow. Something's very wrong. Even 450 up is uncharacteristically low, and I unplugged everything and restarted the router to test.

That sucks

Tbh this is low too

This is a joke right? How are you getting such high speeds...

At 8/31/16 09:28 AM, Rustygames wrote: This is a joke right? How are you getting such high speeds...

I don't think their last mile is copper. You can get similar speeds if you're fibre into the server you're testing against (and you're paying for the speed). I think a lot of universities offer those kind of speeds in the UK, too. I can't say for sure, I was never in student halls.

At 8/31/16 11:09 AM, Sam wrote:

At 8/31/16 09:28 AM, Rustygames wrote: This is a joke right? How are you getting such high speeds...

I don't think their last mile is copper. You can get similar speeds if you're fibre into the server you're testing against (and you're paying for the speed). I think a lot of universities offer those kind of speeds in the UK, too. I can't say for sure, I was never in student halls.

I never knew that. I thought sooner or later you'd always run into a bottleneck. Even if 500Mb/s is easy enough to get (I know for a fact it isn't anywhere in the UK), these guys were actually complaining about that speed being slow...

At 8/31/16 11:17 AM, Rustygames wrote: I never knew that. I thought sooner or later you'd always run into a bottleneck. Even if 500Mb/s is easy enough to get (I know for a fact it isn't anywhere in the UK), these guys were actually complaining about that speed being slow...

Mostly joking haha. We're very close to a node (low ping) and it's fiber from there. The other thing is that some ISPs or whoever will speed up their service to you when it detects a speed test.

At 8/31/16 12:19 PM, MSGhero wrote: Mostly joking haha. We're very close to a node (low ping) and it's fiber from there. The other thing is that some ISPs or whoever will speed up their service to you when it detects a speed test.

Now that's just downright sneaky.

At 8/31/16 11:17 AM, Rustygames wrote: I never knew that. I thought sooner or later you'd always run into a bottleneck. Even if 500Mb/s is easy enough to get (I know for a fact it isn't anywhere in the UK), these guys were actually complaining about that speed being slow...

I have a dedi fiber line with 1Gbps up/down, so 500 down would be just slightly too low for me, indicating something might be wrong ;)

At 8/31/16 03:27 PM, OmarShehata wrote: Now that's just downright sneaky.

Yeah. Seems CenturyLink, at least, don't seem to do that. Or at least not that I've found yet.

Pic: Fiber box itself with the white fiber line going outside and a yellow CAT6 going to the router. I have a CAT5e going from the router to my PC directly.

At 8/31/16 08:44 PM, egg82 wrote: I have a dedi fiber line with 1Gbps up/down, so 500 down would be just slightly too low for me, indicating something might be wrong ;)

wtf are you even downloading/uploading with that

At 9/2/16 04:36 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: wtf are you even downloading/uploading with that

I can stream Netflix REALLY well :)

Honestly it's overkill, but it was cheaper than Comcast and I really wanted to try it

Oh, Amazon- never change :)
Looks like I found my new little malware toy. I'll need to write a new keylogger, though, sadly as my old one died with my HDD :(

For a project of mine, I'm intending to store userdata on the user's machine; "registration" consists of a random ID being generated and used as the primary key in a database that's stored locally. (This is some obscenely large number, say 512 bits long and random, so that there's no chance of a collision. IDK.) Then, whenever it encounters another user (peer-to-peer) it stores the current user's data on their system. Oh, let's assume it's encrypted because it's good enough right?

Each time the user wants to "login", they just "login" using their username and their password. Their username is really just the file name on their system; they enter the wrong username, they can't find the file. The password is used to encrypt the userdata; without it, it cannot be decrypted. To prevent tampering outside of the application, a hardcoded salt would be added.

Oh, and every time a user encounters another user, if they have data that the current user does not, they concatenate the records from their system. If the user's current data does not match the other user's local copy, the user's data is given priority and the other user's system's records are updated (e.g. a password change, etc.).

Discovering other users involves polling a server for a list of all the connected users around them. This happens only once per application open, and should not take too much bandwidth.

The reason I'm going to all this trouble is because I'm cheap and don't want to fiddle with servers, not even home "use your laptop as a server" servers.

Did I mention, this is targeted towards android, and I know nothing about i) databases (except some 11th grade grunt work in ms access) ii) security (-at least i'm not rolling my own encryption hah-) iii) android iv) java (well, I do know it, but haven't practiced it in quite a long long while)?

So my question is this:
- How long before I give up?

jk, I have to finish or at least attempt it...it's not-mandatory mandatory :(

Is this feasible? (I realize I'm biting off way fuckin' more than I can chew here but all the same...someone tell me why I should not try this)

It's for a university side-project ("side" because it's not a part of the syllabus yet, and "mandatory" because I'd be shameless if I didn't do anything for it seeing as I'd volunteered for it and all) so IDK if I'd have to have a mod delete this post sooner or later (probably not, seeing as i] nobody knows Newgrounds there, ii] this account isn't tied to me IRL...yet... and iii] they didn't say that asking others for help is banned; indeed, it was encouraged) but in any case, even if I'm just being a tad paranoid about it,

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At 9/3/16 12:18 AM, egg82 wrote: Oh, Amazon- never change :)
Looks like I found my new little malware toy. I'll need to write a new keylogger, though, sadly as my old one died with my HDD :(

Why don't you just download one? I'm sure there are dozens of russian hackers just waiting to help you :P

At 9/3/16 07:01 AM, Gimmick wrote: -pls_quote_this_part_only_if_replying_to_above-

I don't know how this could possibly work without a server-side database that is storing this information to ensure there are no collisions, which are inevitable with psuedo-random generation. It's certainly not probable, but it is 100% possible and 100% inevitable on a long enough timescale.

From the sounds of it, you already have a server that is used to determine online users, so why not use that server to store a database on and remove that from the user's local machine? Storing all user information on a user's local machine also makes it trivial for them to alter it, which would in turn make it trivial to break your application: anything stored client-side should be unimportant that can be changed without significant consequence (i.e. something that won't affect anyone but the person who changed the values on their machine).

At 9/3/16 07:01 AM, Gimmick wrote: The password is used to encrypt the userdata; without it, it cannot be decrypted.

That is not how passwords should be used. It sounds like you're using their password as a key, which means you need to store that password in a reversible way to ensure its validity—lest you not have any way to confirm a successful decryption—which is something you should never, ever, ever do with passwords. Passwords should only ever be stored using an irreversible hashing algorithm and nothing else, no exceptions.

At 9/3/16 07:01 AM, Gimmick wrote: Discovering other users involves polling a server for a list of all the connected users around them. This happens only once per application open, and should not take too much bandwidth.

That sounds like it will only give an up-to-date list of connected users to people who have just connected, and people who have already been connected will have no way of knowing that new clients have connected or others have dropped. That would make for a very unintuitive application.

At 9/3/16 07:01 AM, Gimmick wrote: Did I mention, this is targeted towards android, and I know nothing about i) databases

SQL is not complicated or even remotely difficult to use. It is very much worth learning because using it would be far easier than what you're describing. Just install MySQL or PostgreSQL or whatever and read through some online tutorials; what you need to do won't require much work.

I'd also recommend learning i) ii) iii) and iv) before trying to make something that requires the knowledge of all four.

At 9/3/16 07:01 AM, Gimmick wrote: How long before I give up?

I have no idea what exactly you're trying to make here, but this doesn't sound like a good way of going about it. I would recommend not doing anything this way. You can get a VPS for very little money that can do everything you need and more.

At 9/3/16 07:01 AM, Gimmick wrote: Is this feasible?

If you don't have a server to communicate with all connected clients: no. Peer to peer connections are possible, but there needs to be something to inform each client that another client exists; the clients themselves would have no efficient way of determining that themselves.

If you have a server then, yes, this is feasible, but I don't recommend doing what you're describing; it's both insecure and inefficient.