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I don't see why we would believe they are not already doing this? Today's news is just that they can now legally take action on it.

Also the whole SWAT scenario is a bit far-fetched, as they will most likely read thru your entire life (don't forget they already have access to it) to make sure they don't look stupid on the news.


Your iphone is already capable to identify nude minors in near real time. Is it really that far-fetched that SWAT team gets triggered into action when iphone detects minor abuse?


Pretty far-fetched, to swat you need a crisis situation, hostage/bomb/shooting



Your reference does not refute my claim. For one thing, a page listing only the "fathers" of fields doesn't speak much to whether the majority of scientists are of the same background.

And even then, your page lists 19 people, 10 of which are clearly not Arab, with one other person of unknown origin. Only 8 of the ones in the list were Arab.

A bigger list is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_scientists_in_medieval...

But it would take me too long to categorize each. I did click a bunch, and again - the majority were not Arabs.

Edit: I see my original comment was imprecise. Saying "much of the golden age of science in the Islamic world was not performed by Arabs", does not mean there were no Arabs involved, but that a lot of it was by non-Arabs. However, I wouldn't be surprised if the majority were non-Arabs.


Could you quickly explain the math behind this please? Genuinely curious


For every character in the password, you have 26 possible letters to choose from in an English alphabet.

Brute forcing this, you would have to try every combination. Which means for a four-letter long password: 26x26x26x26 = 456 976 possible passwords.

For a 10 letter long password: 26^10 = 141167095653376 possible passwords.


You forgot the other 26 uppercase letters, and the 10 digits 0-9. Looks good otherwise, but the result is much larger with a base of 62.

Clarifying it further is “number of days to brute-force if you can try (eg) 10k requests/sec”.


Absolutely, you are of course correct. The uppercase letters and digits - together with the special characters like "!._-,...".

I kept it to 26 letters to keep the math simpler (or rather - the numbers smaller, for myself, really).

Number of days to brute-force if 10k requests/sec (26 letters still...):

4-length password = 45 seconds

10-length password = 453 years

Please give me a heads up if my math is off.


Awesome mission, wishing you guys all the best.

But Ameelio sounds like Emilio. Using latino men's names is probably not the most appropriate idea for this


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