dlitz

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by dlitz 5mo ago
> My ISP changes the prefix on a regular base (and on request) I found this was the case (with Telus) until I reconfigured the DHCPv6-PD client on my gateway, mainly to stop it from sending DHCPv6 Release messages and to have it explicit
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by dlitz 7y ago
I don't believe rms is seriously in favor of child sexual exploitation, but that's a red herring. The concern for me is has been the accounts of far more directly-relevant behaviour, such as (iirc): * repeated phone calls to s
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by dlitz 7y ago
Well, a compromised google.com main page could return malicious search results for certain queries. How many Windows sysadmins install PuTTY by googling "putty", and then installing an executable from whatever site shows up in th
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by dlitz 7y ago
The important thing is that tags are signed and up-to-date, like how git tags work or how Debian signs its entire repository as a unit (via the Release file) rather than having developers just sign individual packages. Otherwise, even if i
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by dlitz 7y ago
I think yall are using the terminology differently from each other in this thread. "Checksum" historically did not imply resilience against intentional modifications. Nowadays, it's arguably a best-practice when designing a
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by dlitz 10y ago
Just fix it in the parser. ;)
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by dlitz 10y ago
It'll be great precedent for when Iran, China, Russia, etc. want to do the same thing.
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by dlitz 10y ago
Yes, apparently Canada has something called the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board: http://pmprb-cepmb.gc.ca/about-us/frequently-asked-questions
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by dlitz 10y ago
Yeah, Matthew Garrett also gave a pretty detailed talk about it Linux.conf.au 2012, which reaches a similar conclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2aq5M3Q76U
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by dlitz 10y ago
Foreign journalists? Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras are both American.
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by dlitz 10y ago
The "auto" in "autopilot" stands for automatic, not autonomous. Autopilot systems have existed for decades, and they've always referred to systems that automate the most tedious parts of operating a vehicle, while
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by dlitz 10y ago
I'd like to see a good CLI design involving sandboxing-by-default, and handling object-capabilities (e.g. file descriptors) as first-class objects. Right now, "convert a.jpg b.png" passes the strings "a.jpg" and &qu
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by dlitz 10y ago
I live in Canada. AS6939 is Hurricane Electric.
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by dlitz 10y ago
You do when you work at a job that doesn't offer flexible hours.
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by dlitz 10y ago
Error 1005 Ray ID: 2bc55074399a2a5b • 2016-07-02 21:50:36 UTC Access denied What happened? The owner of this website (www.fas.org) has banned the autonomous system number (ASN) your IP address is in (6939) from accessing this website.
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by dlitz 10y ago
You also want the passphrase to be easily changed, separately from the master key (because changing the master key is slow and resource-intensive). Even if you have a strong passphrase, there's some probability of leaking some number o
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by dlitz 10y ago
Is there any way to see exactly what this system does, aside from faking a suicidal episode on my timeline and getting friends to report it? I've heard that early versions of this system basically inserted barriers between suicidal peo
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by dlitz 10y ago
How does this guarantee a secret ballot, i.e. that voters remain unable to prove to a third party that they voted in a particular way? Low-value elections don't necessarily need secret ballots, but it's important for high-value
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by dlitz 10y ago
The problem is harder than it sounds when you're talking about something as high-value as a national election (especially in the US). Have you read "Reflections on Trusting Trust"?
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by dlitz 10y ago
I don't see the big problem. Lots of other libraries already work this way. Perhaps most of them. If you're shipping binary packages, you need to build them in a clean chrooted environment anyway (such as pbuilder/sbuilder&
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by dlitz 10y ago
Related to this, the W3C maintains a best-practices document about private ("capability") URLs: https://www.w3.org/TR/capability-urls/
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by dlitz 10y ago
It's still pretty expensive for very little added security benefit, which the added complexity might negate. How many bits of security does this add? 5 or 6? Maybe 32? People deploy ad hoc obscurity hacks like port-knocking because w
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by dlitz 10y ago
XMPP "when encrypted and compressed" seems fairly pointless; it's insecure. The CRIME attack demonstrated that compress-then-encrypt fails to provide confidentiality if it mixes confidential data with attacker-controlled data
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by dlitz 10y ago
Aside from it just being what you're used to, what's wrong with just having PgUp/PgDn for scrolling?
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by dlitz 10y ago
> Any decent doctor should know this It sounds like they did, at first, and the manufacturer (ostensibly the experts on this particular drug) pushed back hard .
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by dlitz 10y ago
That's how it works in Android 6.0 (Marshmallow) and above.
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by dlitz 11y ago
It would be nice if bash had a more discoverable version of the 'help' command for new users. Right now, someone (say, a bright 12-year-old) who opens up a terminal for the very first time and types "help" is greeted wit
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by dlitz 11y ago
How often does it happen, though? You don't need a human on every flight in order to deal with that. Build a few ground-based emergency remote-control centers across the continent, and train the autopilots (or the air traffic control
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by dlitz 11y ago
It would also make the censors' job easier.

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