hypervis0r

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by hypervis0r 6y ago
I have seen this happen so often. People who evidently don't use or haven't used a Windows based machine in the last 20 years complaining more than anybody else. There are plenty of reasons to hate on Windows(-based machines) but
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by hypervis0r 6y ago
The problem with this 'it is relative' line of logic is that everything can be relative. We need terms that describe stuff regardless of how people perceive it. Otherwise, as you said, 'bricked' can mean almost anything.
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
4 hours? You are insane (in a good way), mate. Any less than 7 hours and I literally can't even wake up. If I force myself, my body will literally not respond to my commands and getting up and straight becomes as hard as deadlifting 10
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
Why would you give minorities an "easier" time? Why not the same as everyone else?
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
This is wrong on so many levels it's not even funny. Original HN submission WRT that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20799705
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
On Chrome, you can hit CTRL + G, which does the same as CTRL + F, but is not hookable by web sites
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
OP seems to never have heard of public transport. Wait, are they American? Most likely.
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
The author disabled resizing (zooming) on mobile, leaving the text unreadable. Why do people do this at all? I've seen it happen so often.
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by hypervis0r 7y ago
Only 355687428096000 years old? Mustn't have even finished college!
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by hypervis0r 8y ago
https://xkcd.com/1597/
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by hypervis0r 8y ago
You are taking things out of context. For starters, they did not do that on the iPhone 5S, only on 6 and newer [0]. [0]: https://www.apple.com/iphone-battery-and-performance/
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
Not really. A skilled reverse engineer does not find/replace any certificates, or anything like that. They just debug the app, stepping over all the code, instruction by instruction. There's no way you can beat that. I'm a
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
This method would be a waste of time and energy. Just reverse the app and find it out. No need to play it like a binary is a magic black box that's impossible to inspect.
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
Can confirm, just got a slight arrhythmia just by reading that
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
You don't see .jpeg because people are used to .jpg. There's nothing incompatible with long names that we care about. Also, that Windows feature you mention is called ADS - alternate data stream.
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
You're comparing apples and oranges, too. OP was talking about functional facial unlocking
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
> The only tricky part is the message-sending routines, since they have to be written in assembly Why? (context: never touched Objective-C)
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
You're talking about AMT (which runs on the Intel ME - Management Engine). The ME itself, however, is on every CPU (running Minix on Skylake and later CPUs, ThreadX on earlier models), because one of the responsibilities of the ME, a
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
That security bug you're talking about can be patched the same way it's exploited. No source code doesn't mean "all is lost". Instead of writing a payload that steals your private keys you just write one that patche
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
Not really. The amount of samples that check for debuggers is surprisingly high, and thus makes such red flag unusable. It'd just spam false positives.
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
China has around 70% [1] of the Bitcoin mining power, and the top three miners hold around 50%, which is so massive, it makes everyone else seem negligible, like an experimental error. [1]: https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com&#x2
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
Sure, but that's open source and you can disable automatic updates, meaning they can't change the code whenever they feel like doing so. And if they do, the code will be kept in the source code control history, and will eventually
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
It's not like editing a value in the registry is "going out of your way", it's almost standard Windows practice by now.
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
> Do you honestly believe that Linus would accept core kernel changes for the sole purpose of supporting Windows on Linux? It would NEVER. HAPPEN. Kinda off-topic, but, isn't Linus basically a Microsoft here? Does it matter if Linux
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
So you're refusing to have a basic update installed? Let me guess, you're going to complain and say Windows is insecure because you got WannaCry'd because you didn't update your system and blame it on MS instead? (you =
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
This^, plus, you shouldn't really have "null" or "undefined" variables which you treat as bool (if you do, then that's a bug)
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
You can't really write a compiler if you don't know all the "weird things" of the language.
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
> I haven't seen a stuck mouse cursor for a long time in linux. That's because the only cursor you have in Linux is the terminal one.
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
That's so deep, it hit me in the IDT
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by hypervis0r 9y ago
Literature: sorry no, I didn't read anything; everything I know is from practice. As for the tools: just IDA Pro, really, if you don't count the standard stuff: a VM to avoid getting the host infected (VirtualBox), Burp (to analyz

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