devops99

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by devops99 2y ago
Did Spafford threaten the neighbors directly? In a legal context, and also the real world sans a legal context, words do have meaning and words do matter. I don't see anything in the article that Spafford terrorized anyone. Whether Spa
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by devops99 2y ago
Thank you for prompting attention to the switcheroo. This angle of attack is generally unheard of, but should be considered. I can think of some mitigations that can work. Tamper-evident materials are well-known by the crowds that will targ
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by devops99 2y ago
Why "fight the bots" anyway? If software that is acting out the will of some humans somewhere is retrieving static contents, what's the big deal?
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by devops99 2y ago
This here is a stronger motivator than any other motivator mentioned in all other comments posted. And "journalist" will include anyone who has the "wrong" memes on their machine.
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by devops99 2y ago
The more inexpensive option of the newer Trezor wallets and "login PIN" as an optional alternative to a password that also works, seems to be the best option (that I have seen so far). The more recently released Trezor wallets are
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by devops99 2y ago
Your hammer is preempted by a teethed hollow point bullet to the face (in the hypothetical scenario, of course).
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by devops99 2y ago
> vs. FDE with a boot key stored in some cloud service secured with the user's password instead of a TPM Without secure boot (backed by TPM), I can boot a small USB device that has LEDs on it to indicate to me that the target system
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by devops99 2y ago
I agree. TPM defends against the most likely threat that typical users are facing. And, where users that are individually targeted, the theft/robbery will more often than not be designed to appear "random". Because TPM sniffe
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by devops99 2y ago
> there is no standardisation in connectors, pinout, or bus type when it's not soldered onto the board. I have three motherboards with plug-in TPMs and each required a different, unique part that was difficult to source. This should
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by devops99 2y ago
We have had "FDE" and secure boot with TPM in higher-than-commercial (defense) and the higher end of commercial settings for Linux, BSD, and illumos since TPM 1.2 was available, and I'd have to dig in some places to confirm b
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by devops99 2y ago
Common use cases, are, "as a Developer / DevOps practitioner, I want for": - a client (company I do contract work for) sees a different source address that is different than the source address I use for casual browsing+po
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by devops99 2y ago
Those are big words for someone who openly admits to running binary blobs in the kernel of the device carried on-person.
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by devops99 2y ago
> of people who actually appreciate the threat model enough to keep spending extra effort The "product" is already successful. Some spent effort, others spent money. Those who did the latter include defense contractor or other
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by devops99 2y ago
The inner city gang-related shootings that are counted as more than just the bulk of the "mass shootings" are not "white male".
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by devops99 2y ago
We already have a safer less violent society, it's found outside the cities.
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by devops99 2y ago
Who is the injured party?
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by devops99 2y ago
Yeah I still wish I could be half as cool as that guy.
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by devops99 2y ago
In response to the comment further above (so not just the article), outbound network path management is not uncommon. However we often see it presumed to be uncommon by those who haven't thought of it, or have thought of it but the abi
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by devops99 2y ago
There are times in human history where there was more intense "space weather" in the solar system. These events were much more spectacular -- is in a much greater spectacle -- than the most spectacular events we know today which a
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by devops99 2y ago
You actually don't have to dig too hard to find places where hundreds if not thousands of people are doing exactly this.
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by devops99 2y ago
Flipping the HAP bit on the Intel ME/AMT on older laptops is less difficult, generally (not always). However, with more recent UEFI releases containing newer Intel ME/AMT payloads, the HAP bit is benign on these newer releases of
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by devops99 2y ago
Basically this. And, hopefully your USB stack, or your phone's equivalent to SIM interface, doesn't have vulnerabilities that the small computer that is the SIM card could exploit. Operating systems that center their efforts on pr
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by devops99 2y ago
Pay more taxes to change the weather.
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by devops99 2y ago
Good Intermernet, very good Intermernet, keep up the good behavior and the key to your chastity cage shall be unlocked come May 2026.
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by devops99 2y ago
Niiice. This is like that one time my friend make a Counter Strike map of our local high school.
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by devops99 2y ago
How about you tell the former CEO of Qwest, or William Binney, or Jacob Applebaum how it is you are so sure you think the world works. I implore you, respectfully, to consider what they have told the world and give some time, on top of the
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by devops99 2y ago
I would at a later time directly link to you the next-generation builds that we do have permission (the previous was not my corp) to make public-facing in 2025, as I already wrote in another comment. However, your overall reply is kind
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by devops99 2y ago
If everything you posted in this thread wasn't so demonsrably, and pathetically stupid, I might be able to take you somewhat seriously. But they are, so I can't.
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by devops99 2y ago
> but you don't provide any actual details above what everyone already knows. The message I posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42557398 is excessively detailed. What we did was put de-blobbed GrapheneO
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by devops99 2y ago
This is exactly why there are some more "enterprise" machines out there that an arbitrary adversary with physical access can not "abruptly restart" from the outside. It's a shame that popularly used OEMs still allow

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