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by bgc 9d ago
I wonder how well Cloudflare et al defend against the class of “nobody could still possibly be using this” vulnerabilities.
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Tell HN: Old Reddit now requires an account(old.reddit.com)
3 points by bgc 2mo ago|1 comments
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by bgc 3mo ago
Well-written, I appreciated the absence of the kind of over-excited writing you often see in these kinds of posts. At least with the second app (admittedly judging by that UI) this is a classic case of some team that has only every built ap
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by bgc 3mo ago
This is not a Google-wide thing… this is from Google’s Context-Aware Access product, which is configurable in Google Workspace environments. OP should direct their ire at their corporate IT or infosec team.
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by bgc 4mo ago
The November report mentioned in the article goes into (disturbing) details: https://senate.ucsd.edu/media/740347/sawg-report-on-admissio...
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by bgc 4mo ago
That episode is indeed based on this event: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111175/trivia/?ref_=tt_dyk_trv
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by bgc 10mo ago
The cdn-cgi endpoints are documented here: https://developers.cloudflare.com/fundamentals/reference/cdn...
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by bgc 11mo ago
Another fun Zendesk “feature,” that, to my knowledge, has never been fixed is if you CC it on a thread with any other email address that auto-replies, it will get stuck in a loop and ping-pong emails back and forth until the mailbox fills u
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Dark Fiber–An Archaeology of the Dot-Com Bubble(technostatecraft.com)
1 points by bgc 1y ago|0 comments
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by bgc 1y ago
https://archive.is/7uiOo
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"Do not highlight any negatives"(google.com)
33 points by bgc 1y ago|3 comments
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by bgc 1y ago
https://archive.is/192Wu
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Qualcomm Approached Intel About a Takeover in Recent Days(wsj.com)
83 points by bgc 2y ago|78 comments
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by bgc 2y ago
> does there exist a well-defined secure subset of CSS such that we don't have to worry about weird vulnerabilities? I don’t know the answer, but if it is “no,” would it be feasible to add a few more user settings ala topcolor to ac
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CDK Global cyberattack impacts US car dealerships(bleepingcomputer.com)
3 points by bgc 2y ago|0 comments
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SpaceX Loses Starship Spaceraft During Test Flight(bloomberg.com)
92 points by bgc 3y ago|183 comments
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by bgc 3y ago
You’ll still have the ability to install arbitrary drivers and support software obtained directly from the manufacturer, this change only means that Microsoft won’t automatically supply OEM driver files via Windows Update.
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WeWork Raises Doubt About Its Survival(wsj.com)
1 points by bgc 3y ago|1 comments
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by bgc 3y ago
Holy moley, my first “real” computer ran 98SE and had BLACK ICE, which behaved exactly the way you described. I remember I would take the IP addresses of the “attackers” and plug them into a McAfee graphical tracert tool, and it felt like n
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Reddit crashed because of the growing subreddit blackout(theverge.com)
190 points by bgc 3y ago|143 comments
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by bgc 3y ago
Maybe so, but regardless of the facts this would almost certainly not be worth pursuing… In the US, courts are generally prohibited from enforcing foreign libel judgements against US persons if the country in which the judgement was won has
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White House Proposes Evenly Cutting Water Allotments from Colorado River(nytimes.com)
18 points by bgc 3y ago|4 comments
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by bgc 4y ago
An interesting tidbit from the Bloomberg live thread[0]: >The FDIC prefers to close a bank over the weekend, shutting it down on Friday and reopening Monday, Steven Kelly, senior research associate at the Yale Program on Financial Stabil
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by bgc 4y ago
60 Minutes followed an FDIC takeover in 2009, including when the agents actually walked into the bank’s headquarters: https://youtu.be/TAE8i40A5uI
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SVB in talks to sell itself after attempts to raise capital fail(cnbc.com)
295 points by bgc 4y ago|293 comments
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by bgc 4y ago
There is a sort of such system[0], but as others have said it’s not without limitations, especially at a large and extremely busy airport such as JFK. https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/technology/asde-x
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by bgc 4y ago
Related to (2) is an RWSL[0] system, which was supposedly in use at the time of this event and is designed to stop exactly this sort of thing… whether it was functioning, the pilots didn’t see it, etc, will surely come out in the ensuing in
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by bgc 4y ago
Sibling has the links to the authoritative data from the FAA, a search for “runway incursion” at AvHerald[0] will also yield some relevant info. [0] https://avherald.com/ (may be hugged to death right now between this event
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Friday night’s near-disaster at JFK airport(viewfromthewing.com)
393 points by bgc 4y ago|350 comments
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by bgc 4y ago
Communications of the ACM - https://cacm.acm.org/ - has a mix of industry news, columns, and research articles. Membership in ACM includes a print subscription, I’m not sure if one is available separately.

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