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by clinton_sf 10y ago
Yes. And the malware could be polymorphic. Or there could be multiple versions of the same "core" out there. It's not clear to me how sophisticated virus (malware) scanners for OS X are with dealing with that.
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by clinton_sf 10y ago
> Is there any diagnostic tool out there to determine if you've been infected? From what I can tell, they posted the SHA256 of the offending binary under the IOCs section of that web page. So you should be able to do this in the roo
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by clinton_sf 10y ago
Thought experiment: let's say that Apple doesn't know what the suspect in a law enforcement investigation is suspected of. If the request is between revealing the identity of a user from a particular IP address (which is probably
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by clinton_sf 10y ago
Excellent. http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/47518/is-pptp-vp...
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by clinton_sf 11y ago
Maybe it is a coincidence being posted on HN 7 months after the article was written, but the NY Post article is a great commentary on what is in the news these days: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FBI%E2%80%93Apple_encry
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by clinton_sf 11y ago
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11275505
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by clinton_sf 11y ago
Take a look at Jocelyn Goldfein's software engineering career ladder chart: https://medium.com/@jocelyngoldfein/a-very-very-rough-approx...
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by clinton_sf 11y ago
I actually don't see a problem with Apple's MFi program. Back in 2013, a woman in China was electrocuted by her iPhone 4 due to a non-OEM charger: http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1283818/
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
This approach solves a few problems: 1. Apps in the Mac App Store can't ship their own kernel extensions along with the app. With the framework, it may not be necessary for virtualization products to do that -- enabling them to ship in
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
While it may not be covered under FDIC, Federal Regulation E might come into play here, according to this research paper: Is Everything We Know About Password-Stealing Wrong? http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/161829&#x
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
I don't think this is Apple trying to be difficult: SSD TRIM is buggy between all the different vendors (today even Ubuntu enables it only for Samsung and Intel SSDs by default), they want to guarantee that it works by whitelisting wha
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Hardware, OS, and Application-level Sources of Tail Latency [pdf](drkp.net)
3 points by clinton_sf 12y ago|0 comments
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Bonaverde coffeemaker to use DRM with single-use RFID chip(coffeechangers.zendesk.com)
2 points by clinton_sf 12y ago|0 comments
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
Take a look at http://www.broadbandmap.gov/ and plug in your address to see what your options are. I'd suggest Monkey Brains ISP: https://www.monkeybrains.net/wireless.html It's not on the nationa
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
I didn't give this article much weight -- Bennett called up Christensen on the telephone and got an emotional, ad-hoc response. This isn't a well thought out, polished, official response from Christensen. Hopefully we'll see
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
If that's what you're trying to do, you might want to explore cross compiling Mac apps on Linux: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2786240/how-to-compile-in... See also Mozilla Bug 921040 - Cross-compil
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
That's nice for a fanless i5. But a fanless i7 is already out there with some great specs, though it's pretty expensive. http://www.tinygreenpc.com/microsvr.aspx Power: 8W – 35W (Depend on system configuration and
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
What graphics card does Mac OS X think it's using when running in QEMU/KVM as you describe? Are you able to get different (more than 1200x800) resolutions? One of the major shortcomings of most of the "Mac OS X in a guest&quo
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Moishe Lettvin – What I Learned Doing 250 Interviews at Google(youtube.com)
5 points by clinton_sf 12y ago|0 comments
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
> he's actively asking people to send money to him in a way that skirts the lien the irs has filed against him. if the irs notices this and gets pissed, it absolutely puts his 'helpers' in harm's way. I'm not sur
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
It's breathtaking to see such a blunder: a Forune 100 company telling nearly 20% [1] of its installed user base, it's second largest desktop OS customer base, to stop and make a financial decision about what to do, instead of givi
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by clinton_sf 12y ago
StartCom/StartSSL thwarted a recent hack attack, according to: http://www.informationweek.com/attacks/how-startcom-foiled-c... Their due diligence on verifying who is requesting the cert probably helped; but I&#x2
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
I don't see this as a "youth" problem. To reframe the discussion, this is about the ever present cycle of innovators that become incumbents and innovators that disrupt incumbents. If you haven't heard of Clayton Christen
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
The journalist spin on this is misleading, especially the part about "speculatively shipped to a physical address". It's common in supply chain management to optimize the ordering and placement of items before they are "
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
From what I understand, the mechanisms for this law are already in place and aren't much of a problem; any Apple customer already has this with the "Activation Lock" feature, and any carrier can already deny service based on
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
Send you résumé over to jobs@quakelabs.com and reference Hacker News. I'll take a look. We're based in Mountain View.
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
From an earlier Hacker News post: The money is in the Bitcoin protocol https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6823394 pasted below: Alternative chain examples 1. Peer-to-peer, social trading of “normal” (government-backed) cu
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
> but actual market decisions that drives such profits is the real source of truth. Right. Cue up the 2008 financial crisis. > may be it isn't profitable enough because the other problems they chose to focus on is more "impo
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
> Most things in the world eventually self-correct. But before that happens, many people will be hurt and die in the process. Yes, I understand that, but my point is that this isn't some apocalyptic end to the world as we know it, a
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by clinton_sf 13y ago
I suspect this problem will self-correct. It's not that we've run out of choices: it's partially that pharmaceutical companies had the narrow view that developing new antibiotic drugs is less profitable than developing drugs

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