alexkus

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by alexkus 11y ago
The recent attempt to decriminalise non-payment of the license fee failed:- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31151821
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by alexkus 11y ago
Sky rep lies about basis of security feature? Could be.
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by alexkus 12y ago
If you cancelled out the cyclical/reciprocal debts then you'd still have the same amount of working capital as you'd pay back $X but also get $X back as a creditor.
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by alexkus 12y ago
Mikefax anyone? (Ha, seems I've mentioned Mikefax a while ago... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4687527 )
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by alexkus 12y ago
Indeed. It's .ch because that's the initialism of the Latin name for Switzerland: Confoederatio Helvetica. The Latin name is used to avoid favouring any one of the four official languages (German, French, Italian, Romansch).
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by alexkus 12y ago
> How RAM Scrapers Work > Once on a targeted system, RAM scrapers work by examining the list of processes that are running on the system and inspecting the memory for data that matches the structure of credit card data, such as the ac
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by alexkus 12y ago
Occasionally, usually over zealous stripping back of machines in very controlled environments[1]. 1. I don't do much work with these kinds of customers any more as I chose not to go for security clearance (on purpose, as this is a conv
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by alexkus 12y ago
I just can't get excited about vim plugins (no matter how good they are, no matter how much I love vi/vim - and no disrespect to their authors). I can imagine how they could increase my productivity (to some extent) but... I'
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by alexkus 12y ago
http://www.live-footballontv.com/ Is where I got for football fixtures for the UK, albeit not JSON.
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by alexkus 12y ago
Indeed. The biggest weakness is that users aren't well trained in ensuring that the page they're typing their username/password into (to access one of the public access points) may not be genuine. I know I've seen some f
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by alexkus 12y ago
Not quite, the difference between the two situations is the difference between accuracy and precision. E.g. http://academics.wellesley.edu/Chemistry/Chem105manual/Appen... The Chinese Street maps are very precise
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by alexkus 12y ago
Thanks for the clarification. I know Strava takes the issue of privacy seriously!
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by alexkus 12y ago
Can't remember the terminology they use but Strava allows you to define privacy areas (within a configurable radius of a point) where no points are shown on your individual routes. Exactly to stop someone working out where you live&#x2
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by alexkus 12y ago
One of the last things I'd want is lots of drivers near me to be even more distracted saying "Hello? Hello?" into their phone and repeatedly looking at it to see if they're still connected or still have a signal. Also, g
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by alexkus 12y ago
Can't put in words how much better I sleep after moving to decaffeinated coffee. I do like a nice coffee but I'm content with instant[1] decaf (and even if I have 10 cups a day it's not more caffeine than the equivalent of a
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by alexkus 12y ago
From the original post: > This patch is a variant of what we've been using to help protect customer keys for a decade. So it protects keys against heartbleed, but not other HTTP related data (urls, cookies, headers, etc).
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by alexkus 12y ago
And who runs their webserver as root? (Or who changes the permissions on /etc/shadow to allow it be read by a non-root process). Having to be root to be able to bind to a TCP port <1024 is no longer necessary on a modern OS.
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by alexkus 12y ago
You now know the two primes (p,q) which multiply together to make n (the public key modulus). We also know e (the public key exponent). d (the private key) is:- d = e^-1 mod ((p-1)(q-1)) To work this modular inverse out you use the
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by alexkus 12y ago
It shouldn't be about it eventually being overwritten, sensitive information like that (which isn't needed for runtime) should be actively scrubbed before the block of memory is freed. You can't, however, get away with not ha
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by alexkus 12y ago
Didn't have any spare time to have a go at this, here's how I was going to do it:- 1) Create a VM with the same version of Linux, nginx, openssl. 2) Create a self-signed SSL certificate for the server 3) Verify that the HTTPS serv
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by alexkus 12y ago
Irony would be such a patch leaking information about the state of any random number generator leading to more easily guessable session keys or the like. (Of course, creating suitable fake data with a separate PNRG to avoid this would be pr
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by alexkus 12y ago
You give a URL that exists on an HTTPS webserver you control that you've patched to send SSL Heartbeats that have a payload size much greater than the real payload. If the client code (at whatever site you are targeting) is vulnerable
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by alexkus 12y ago
Slow and steady. At 2Mbps upload it's only about 12 days.
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by alexkus 12y ago
Capistrano
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by alexkus 12y ago
> how Would you explain all this stuff about averages to the daughter of the man whose bike got ran over by a truck The greatly increased chances of seeing any grandchildren I may end up having is way more important, to me anyway, than t
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by alexkus 13y ago
My manager will chase me up if my vacation time is going unused (e.g. I get 1/2 way through the year with less than 1/4 of my vacation used) and ask me what my plans are for using it. Getting to the end of the year without using i
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by alexkus 13y ago
IPFreely?
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by alexkus 13y ago
That's not quite the same thing. You could replace the IBM CEO every week for many years to come with someone who has been at the company for 30+ years.
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by alexkus 13y ago
.org Old school. Were bitelabs.io or bitelabs.ly already taken?
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by alexkus 13y ago
Sounds just like me at 16. Wasn't very motivated despite studying the A-Levels I wanted to (Maths, Physics, Computing). Spent all my spare time stealing Internet access at the local University (this was back in 1992/1993). I got d

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