alexwright

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by alexwright 13y ago
"Normally, highways are still built underground in these cases, and passing through a building is an extremely rare occurrence." Did they mean underground? Seems like an underground motorway would be even more impressive or unusua
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by alexwright 13y ago
All the cable modems I've used (UK) have always downloaded a an image over TFTP on boot. As I understand it they can come up with a very minimal loader and reach out for their config to the local "node" for configuration, and
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by alexwright 13y ago
I should have said for a product like Lavabit, ie mail as secure/private as SMTP likely gets right now, I hope it wouldn't be unreasonable. However, in my heart of hearts, I knew it was too much to ask for. I guess anyone that kno
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by alexwright 13y ago
You can have a client side key BTW. It's a complete dick to setup and each UA is different so it's really not viable for a product for the unwashed masses. But for something like Lavabit I don't think would be unreasonable.
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by alexwright 13y ago
Yes you could do that two seconds worth of testing, in basically every browser these days even. But then you couldn't write a link bait article about the possibility that they are doing it.
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by alexwright 13y ago
When I attempted a similar thing on a C64 the external 5.25" disk drive was similarly inoperable. Turned out the elastic bands from the motor to the little ring that camped the disk had just gotten too lose with age. Was a pain in the
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by alexwright 13y ago
This is just a common misconception over what Moore said, and what his law means. Hint: it has nothing to do with the clock speed or even directly the prefromace of your CPUs. Moore's law is the observation that, over the history of c
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by alexwright 13y ago
Bitcoin doesn't work by passing tokens around to represent the value. In a Bitcoin spend the value is simply added to the wallet/address's balance. Any further spend is deducted from the wallets balance. The "coin"
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by alexwright 13y ago
You can burn fiat cash, and fire gold bars into space. What are the consequences of those actions? Other coins are presumably worth more because there are now fewer of them.
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by alexwright 13y ago
I'm using the onboard/ondie Intel HD4000 and it works. You might have a driver that is blacklisted. Chrome and I think other browsers have a list of drivers known to allow execution of dangerous shader code and block WebGL in thos
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by alexwright 13y ago
This is what sdfjkl is intending I think. Have the TVs/Whatever on the other side so they can't scan your network shares to get the information to send back the HQ. I would be much more effective, straightforward and ultimately
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by alexwright 13y ago
It would either stagnate or go in the opposite direction.. and we don't need another WMP.
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by alexwright 13y ago
Not sure if serious But if you are, they did try to join the social-war: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/So.cl And failed.. The site actually seems to be down right now, I don't think they announced it being killed
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by alexwright 13y ago
Unknown drivers? How much do you know about any of the other drivers for any of the hardware? Most NICs and Video chipset drivers now come with a binary blob you have to feed it, it's completely opaque binary microcode. As far as video
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by alexwright 13y ago
So I'm guessing the application logs into a user's online banking interface? Or is there some WS API the banks are making available?
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by alexwright 13y ago
I'd be (pleasantly) surprised if devices like the Galaxy Player didn't still have binary blobs for the Wifi/BT and video hardware. Even NICs for otherwise fairly open PC/ATX machines all still have the proprietary blob f
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by alexwright 13y ago
Or reply in some side channel, piggy back the next (expected, ie when the user has switch back to normal mode) UMTS radio packet for example. I don't know the packet structure but I expect there are areas that could be re-purposed cove
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by alexwright 13y ago
The radio interface could listen/wait without even replying, ie wouldn't make the GSM RFI speaker noise. If governments, carriers and law enforcement could all manage to use this so incredibly rarely that it's never been obse
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by alexwright 13y ago
But if they don't have your address, ie it wasn't leaked or they're full of shit and never had the list, when you enter the SHA1 you don't give them the address.
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by alexwright 13y ago
A form to enter the sha1 of your email address so they can check against a list of addresses they've already sha1ed? And a form that takes the email for people that don't give a shit or don't know wtf a sha is. Maybe just a .
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by alexwright 13y ago
What you planning to do with my public keys? Or worst case encrypted private keys. Now putting something into ~/.ssh/...
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by alexwright 13y ago
When I stick a AA battery on a Peltier, to work out which side is which on unmarked unit, it actually does "feel" very cold really quickly. Hot side is obviously also very hot, very quickly. I'd think it's more likely th
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by alexwright 13y ago
I dunno about everyone else, but on this 24" Dell IPS I can see the next image being loaded and then scaled, does it every few seconds. The details starts getting a bit blurry them pop, new asset super imposed and we start scaling.
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by alexwright 13y ago
I still use GoDaddy for a couple of names because they support DNSSEC DS records. I'd like to move them out, but my other providers don't even have a roadmap to implement DS/DNSSEC.
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by alexwright 13y ago
A) That's what they were after though: “all information necessary to decrypt data stored in or otherwise associated with [the account].” A rogue cert and MITM would get the password for the account though, unless B . B) Anyone who kno
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by alexwright 13y ago
The way I've handled it in the past in Varnish is just to look for the upgrade request and do basically: "Whao they wanna do websockets? I give up, return(pipe);" which means Varnish will from then on just ferry bytes from on
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by alexwright 13y ago
With a different key though. Once you've got this new cert. you can MITM, but you can't use it to decrypt the traffic already captured. Also anyone paying attention sees the cert. fingerprint change out of the blue.
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by alexwright 13y ago
CA like Verisign don't have the key though, this misconception is too common. If you're doing it right the CA is just signing a cert you've generated, they never see the key.
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by alexwright 13y ago
> Cyber is pretty clearly defined among the people who use it. Other words are not. Maybe the people using these terms (ie, people creating a "defence force" for the UK) should be more in touch with... more current lingo? Sure
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by alexwright 13y ago
No there isn't a hosted child kernel. What the parent means is that the guest and host are using the same kernel instance, and the distro needs to be able to handle that to run.

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