cheweh

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by cheweh 5y ago
Globally routable addresses are bad for privacy.
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by cheweh 5y ago
The comments from DarkSide hint that law enforcement requested access to the payment server and transferred from there. https://twitter.com/BleepinComputer/status/13932171157008302...
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by cheweh 6y ago
If it makes any difference, this piece led me to another one of her pieces covering an event directly involving my local community of which I was not previously aware, so I am thankful for that.
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by cheweh 6y ago
Note that Obama's birth was a conspiracy around 2008, before 8chan existed. I would argue that "the Donald" on reddit was a driver of Trump's online popularity. This argument is not for striking down individual websites
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by cheweh 6y ago
Over $23 million paid by automakers funded these scummy advertisements. Thankfully we know this from campaign finance transparency. The ads say in fine print that they are paid for by the "Coalition for Safe and Secure Data" and
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by cheweh 6y ago
>bombarding people in the west with this kind of content is a strategy from China This is the premise of Arthur C. Clarke's short story, "I Remember Babylon" (which was first published in Playboy in 1960). https:/&#x
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by cheweh 6y ago
As for similar opinions, see Stephen Colbert on "truthiness".
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by cheweh 6y ago
From knockknock: > When you want to open a port from a client, you run 'knockknock', which sends a single SYN packet to the server. The packet's IP and TCP headers are encoded to represent an IND-CCA secure encrypted reque
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by cheweh 6y ago
Re: sniffing, if I were implementing port knocking I would use the "single packet authorization" variant like in knockknock, which makes sniffing much less useful to an attacker.