aleks224

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by aleks224 11mo ago
So this would be the first stack overflow after the Morris' fingerd one (well, first one that's widely publicized): https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1995/Feb/109 > we've installed the NCSA HTTPD
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by aleks224 11mo ago
This was great to read. Related: Morris also discovered the predictable TCP sequence number bug and described it in his paper in 1985 http://nil.lcs.mit.edu/rtm/papers/117.pdf . Kevin Mitnick describes how he met s
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by aleks224 1y ago
There's a quote in the bible that says something similar: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.” (John 12:24)
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by aleks224 1y ago
This blog post exposes the badness of SMS-based recovery. I think other recovery options such as Yubikey aren't ideal either, as a Yubikey may simply stop working and you're completely locked out. The specific situation the author
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by aleks224 1y ago
Do TOTP authentication apps typically provide recovery codes option? Can they squash all of the added TOTP codes you have in the app into one code?
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by aleks224 2y ago
Some folks claimed it's a LRAD https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-range_acoustic_device However, there was no perceptible sound and folks describe it kinetic force that causes a state of panic and rush in the ches
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Multinational Small Business (1993)(nakamotoinstitute.org)
1 points by aleks224 3y ago|0 comments
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by aleks224 3y ago
For a set of primitive operations (such as those in Turing machine), how can you be sure that it spans all possible computations? It sounds that's one of the challenges Turing had - so he went at lengths to show that by various "s
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Making State Transitions Programmable(akircanski.github.io)
1 points by aleks224 3y ago|0 comments
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by aleks224 4y ago
>The only way to mitigate this is to use computer-readable proofs, which can be verified by algorithms to ensure correctness. This seems like a strong overstatement. We got by for more than 2000 years without computer-readable proofs, re
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“Wetware” Decompilation of Digger(digger.org)
2 points by aleks224 4y ago|0 comments
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by aleks224 4y ago
Very interesting! My understanding is that you're thinking about this more in terms of an 'application environment for power-users' than in terms of a 'multi-faceted IDE with lensing'. To clarify, the specificity of
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by aleks224 4y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, with your Lisp IDE you could have an image sub-editor which may expose functions for image modification (eg. cropping), which could be called from the parent-editor. Is this accurate? Also, what is
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What to Do When the Trisector Comes (PDF, 1983)(web.mst.edu)
3 points by aleks224 4y ago|1 comments
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by aleks224 4y ago
> A trisector is a person who has, he thinks, succeeded in dividing any angle in three equal parts using straightedge and compass alone. He comes when he sends you his trisection in the mail and asks your opinion, or (worse) calls you to
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by aleks224 4y ago
The undecidability property proven here doesn't imply that there exists at least one Diophantine equation for which we'll never know if it's solvable or not, does it?
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by aleks224 4y ago
>The question is, how do you select for those whose research will ever amount to something truly interesting You can't, as "truly interesting" is context dependent, changes over time and something that everyone deems as fu
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by aleks224 4y ago
I believe the culprit is the assumption the grants/tenure-track systems make about applicants/assistant professors. That assumption is negative, as if new hires will try _not to do research_. It's also about the number of gra
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by aleks224 4y ago
> Richard stallman himself got repetitive strain injury from emacs Is this really true? Some notes at https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html indicate it was a different type of strain injury, unrelated to ctrl&#x2F
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by aleks224 4y ago
At what point in time did encrypting microcode in processors become common? Is this a relatively recent practice?
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by aleks224 5y ago
> Our financial regulatory system still hasn’t fully figured out how to address the risks of the derivatives, securitizations, and money market mutual funds that comprised Shadow Banking 1.0, but we’re already facing the prospect of Shad
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DeFi: Shadow Banking 2.0?(papers.ssrn.com)
1 points by aleks224 5y ago|1 comments
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by aleks224 5y ago
>An "elite controller" is a person living with HIV who is able to maintain undetectable viral loads for at least 12 months despite not having started antiretroviral therapy (ART) . Elite controllers are rare: for every two hund
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by aleks224 5y ago
same authors and their previous paper about magnetized cockroaches https://www.quantumlah.org/about/highlight/2019-09-cockroach... >The award was presented for the paper “In-vivo biomagnetic characterisation of
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by aleks224 5y ago
http://www0.mi.infn.it/~calcolo/OpenVMS/ssb71/6489/6489p009.... >Each person engaged in the conversation has a viewport on the screen. Phone can display as many as six viewports at a time. The viewpor
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Phone Utility on VAX/VMS(marc.vos.net)
23 points by aleks224 5y ago|15 comments
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by aleks224 5y ago
I'm thinking of doing this with my kids for programming exploration + imagination development. Anyone has ideas how to quickly generate pictures/graphics, such as, draw them by hand and make them super small PNGs? It seems that dr
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by aleks224 5y ago
> Founded in 2008, Sky ECC surged in popularity after messages sent via another encrypted messaging service, EncroChat, were intercepted and decoded in a French and Dutch-led operation in mid-2020, leading to the arrest of over 800 peopl
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Broken E2EE apps and Balkan crime gangs(balkaninsight.com)
1 points by aleks224 5y ago|1 comments
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by aleks224 5y ago
Some web application hacking in action in this medical paper: > .. none of the deleted sequencing runs could be accessed through the SRA’s web interface. In addition, none of the runs could be accessed using the command-line tools of

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