It's kind of a... fitting symbolism of the Democratic Party when you think about it.
They won't.
Rainbow tables are completely ineffective once you introduce a salt of sufficient length to the password because you've now made the storage requirements exponential.
Since bcrypt uses a salt of 22 characters encoded as base64, this gives you a possibility of:
5444517870735015415413993718908291383296
combinations just for the salt alone. You're not going to be storing rainbow tables for that many salts much less the 31 character password+salt hash that follows.
Read this response on SO for an explanation why.
Rainbow tables are only effective for something like MD5 without salting.
Read this on rainbow table defenses and on bcrypt specifically.
That's the point though. bcrypt largely limits the effectiveness of password cracking to dictionary attacks.
Even an 8 character password with a corpus of most special characters will still take you around 380,000 years to crack at 250 hashes a second ((86^8) / 250 * 86400 * 365).
Exactly.
This is why President Dumbass undid all of Trump's EOs protecting churches.
I might actually go and buy their crappy products if they sold something like that.
What’s more is mRNA vaccines, I don’t need modifications to my RNA, I just need antibodies.
Minor nit:
mRNA stands for "messenger RNA." This is the RNA that is read by the ribosomes in your cells' cytoplasm that produces proteins (actually amino acids). mRNA doesn't modify anything: It can't. It's literally just there to be converted into something else.
This is why I said that I strongly support the technology behind the mRNA vaccinations because it's brilliant and they're currently working on using it as a potential cure for multiple sclerosis. (It was originally devised as a potential cure for cancer.)
What I find suspicious is that they have to stabilize the lipid capsids with polyethylene glycol, and I've read at least one paper that suggests up to 70% of the population with typical exposure to PEG appears to express antibodies specific to certain types of PEG. This suggests a potentially wider risk of reactions to it.
The mRNA is almost certainly safe. The PEG, I suspect, is what's ultimately causing these problems, and the long term risk from this is not something I'm willing to accept for myself.
Disclaimer: I'm a programmer not a biologist. This is all gleaned from reading dozens of medical papers over the course of many months because I'm probably mildly brain damaged and find this fun.
The flu vaccines are stupid anyway. Influenza viruses undergo a type of mutation within cells that is argued to be the "sexual reproduction" of the virus world. If you have a cell infected with multiple strains of the same flu, their genes get mixed up during the translation process which either causes mutations that hit a dead end or wind up slightly more virulent.
And then on top of that, influenza lacks the enzymes required to validate the translation of their genes anyway... so transcription errors are pretty common, also leading to mutations! Trying to keep up with this using traditional vaccinations is fighting a losing battle.
This is why I do wish the mRNA vaccines were safer, because they can manufacture the vaccines with in a few days of sequencing the viral genes. Everything is synthetically produced.
The problem is the transport mechanism. I spoke with a guy here on TD.W/P.W who said he's working for a company that manufactures the lipid capsids, and they're pushing for something that doesn't use polyethylene glycol. I would probably take those because there's much less of a risk.
But yeah, otherwise I see this as too risky. I'm in pretty good shape, decently healthy, no underlying conditions that I know of, but there's some family history of autoimmune disorders and severe allergic reactions to things. Do you think I want to take something that could potentially trigger either of those? No thanks.
Great info. Now do the J&J Vax, please.
I could elaborate a great deal more, but I've done this ad nauseum such that I feel like a broken record.
But since you asked kindly:
The JNJ and AstraZeneca vaccines are probably safer because they use modified adenoviruses (JNJ uses a human adenovirus; AstraZeneca uses a chimpanzee adenovirus) and are historically better tolerated. However, their efficacy is reduced if you've ever been infected with a similar adenovirus before because your immune system will destroy it before it has the chance to infect any tissue.
Although adenoviruses are DNA viruses, they only contain coding for their own genes; the JNJ and AZ viruses only contain coding that gets translated in the nucleus into mRNA that is then read by the ribosomes and produces proteins from SARS-CoV-2.
Looking through the VAERS data, the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines appear to be showing the greatest number of serious side effects and appear to have the highest rate of suspicious deaths post vaccination. So again, I would consider the JNJ and AZ vaccines to be the safest of the lost.
However, there is a fairly significant caveat:
Both the JNJ and AZ vaccinations are replicated in human embryonic tissue. For the AZ vaccine it's derived from the HEK293 line. For JNJ it's from the PER.C6 line.
Here's a paper that explains the challenges behind manufacturing these types of adenovirus-based vaccinations, and here is an article that discusses the embryonic tissues used during the manufacturing process.
Pro-tip: You can stop reading when they mention blockchain voting.
There's a bunch of us who are generally pro-vaccine and support the technology behind these vaccines.
...and we're not getting them either.
You're not alone. There's gonna be a bunch of us who won't be getting a cute little report card every time a new cold shows up.
Same. Of the ones I've spoken with, they almost unanimously say they don't trust the vaccine(s).
I've been a strong proponent of the technology, but I've come to the conclusion that for the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines, the PEG-ylated lipids used to encapsulate the mRNA aren't safe.
I have a theory that, like a virus, the lipids end up fusing with the cell walls. Then the body sees the polyethylene glycol on the surface of your cells and potentially induces an autoimmune-like response or worse.
It's all fun and games until one of these people get pepper sprayed.
How about some spicy air with that COVID? Oh hahah your masks don't do shit against either.
There's a deeper implication in this if you're a Christian. Peace in the ME hastens the end times.
In fact, I would argue this is part of the reason Trump lost. Satan and his allies recognized that Judgment Day was coming far too quickly, and they did everything they could to infiltrate and influence the Democratic party--and many Republicans--to cheat, steal, and lie about this election.
This is true, because the ME is largely based on cultures that only understand show of force. If they screw with us, we annihilate the people responsible.
If we leave them to their own devices, their common enemy will be gone, and the entire area will collapse into a state of infighting and the problem will self-resolve in a couple of generations.
"The paradox of tolerance requires being intolerant toward intolerance in order to be tolerant."
Yep. Checks out.
Yep. As I mentioned up-thread, there's some (admittedly limited) evidence you should eat according to your genetic composition. If your ancestors ate vegetables and some fruits, you probably should too. Likewise if they had a diet with legumes and nuts. Here's the post with some citations, if curious.
It does annoy me that there are people so caught up in this idea that "eating plants is gay" that they're actively ignoring the reality that early humans were omnivorous, highly opportunistic feeders. The explosion of highly available carbohydrates via cooking increased the energy budget available for our brains allowing them to grow.
If we were intended to be strictly carnivorous, we would have the teeth of a carnivore--not an omnivorous ape.
The eskimos can do it almost certainly because of genetic selection. If we were to try eating exactly what they eat, it would most likely make us sick. It's probably the same genetic changes responsible for their short stature due to a combination fo diet and reduced surface area for cold weather survival.
There is some limited evidence that you should probably eat according to your genome (i.e. what your ancestors ate).
mRNA cannot change your DNA.
The nuclear pores in the cellular nucleus are one-way, and the nucleus doesn't contain anything that can read mRNA ("messenger" RNA).
In fact, mRNA is only read by and consumed by the ribosomes in your cells' cytoplasm.
I really wish people would stop spreading this nonsense, because the real problem with the mRNA vaccines is the polyethylene glycol used to stabilize the lipid capsules used to transport the mRNA into the cells.
Peanuts are a legume, so they're not botanically vegetables.
The "Equality Act" also attempts to mandate churches hire people who are fundamentally opposed to faith.
Well, over the last week, the FAA grounded everything flying PW4077 to determine the source of the blade out events, much as I predicted.
So yes, I think the thread was largely an overreaction since the engine didn't explode but the failure was contained (which it was engineered to do).
In all likelihood, there were cracks forming in the fan blades due to manufacturing faults.
No.
Gab is based on Mastodon which uses bcrypt to store password hashes. There are no rainbow tables for bcrypt for anything 8 characters or less. For under 8 characters, the rainbow tables would be ~211 296 876 372 480 bytes in size. Plausible given current storage but very unlikely.
Edit: And this calculation is probably off by an order of magnitude as I forgot about the salt and was basing this off the hash length.
Edit edit: Plus a 16 byte salt renders rainbow tables completely useless.
A 16 character password randomly consisting of upper and lower case letters and numbers only using bcrypt with a cost factor of 10 would take ~6.046727765959351e+18 years to crack on a single Nvidia 2080Ti.
The Gab passwords are hashed using bcrypt. I don't know what their cost factor was configured as.
When you're faced with the prospect that your freedoms might be ripped away at any moment, it's interesting how one can transform from "I don't need a gun" to "I'm willing to fight and die for my family."
That's how I always read it.
I'm glad I'm not the only one whose brain works this way.