jkire

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by jkire 5y ago
Directly behind it is the student library, with an echoey three story tall open space [1] (why would you design a library like that?!). When you're there at 2am you can hear the chains dropping and hitting the coffin on the hour, which
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by jkire 5y ago
> A common pattern in these systems is that there's some frontend, which could be a service or some Javascript or an app, which calls a number of backend services to do what it needs to do. I think an important idea here is that you
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by jkire 6y ago
One thing that always has scared me a bit with using CAs for SSH is how you protect the signing certificates? After all, if an attacker gets that cert then they get full access to everything, and can masquerade as anyone. You end up with a
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by jkire 6y ago
The main thing I found interesting about this is the idea of trying to break the taboo of working from bed, especially for those who have a disability that make it hard/impossible to get out of bed some days. After all, this is the r
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by jkire 6y ago
To me all these slogans around security is to ensure people really, truly, actually think about things before they go against the grain. Is using obscurity as part of your defence always wrong? No, but equally it often adds a false sense of
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by jkire 6y ago
I did a Maths degree before becoming a software engineer, and honestly I think its really changed the way I think, just in general. There's something about being given a problem, or theorem to prove, and grappling with it until you rea
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by jkire 6y ago
FWIW I've been coding since my early teens and enjoyed it a lot, but when it came to university (in 2009) I had very little interest in doing a CS degree and instead opted for Maths. The two main reasons were: a) I knew that doing Math
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by jkire 6y ago
It's worth noting that VPN / SSL proxies provide box to box (or process to box) encryption, whereas native SSL support provides process to process encryption. The difference being that if an attacker manages to get access to the b
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EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud(nextcloud.com)
155 points by jkire 7y ago|50 comments
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by jkire 7y ago
Yup, if you're using ssh-agent (as opposed to something like gnome-keyring) setting `AddKeysToAgent confirm` to your ssh config should cause a pop up to happen every time anything requests a key from the agent.
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Ease yourself to sleep with GDPR regulation read by the Shipping Forecast guy(alphr.com)
1 points by jkire 8y ago|0 comments
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by jkire 9y ago
Isn't the other reason so that adversaries can't tell if a particular username/email has signed up? This is not so useful for something like github, sure, but certainly is useful for the more embarrassing sites where users ha
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by jkire 9y ago
Honestly, these replies feel completely unhelfpul. This is exactly how MPs offices have always worked, staff open and respond to letters with little oversight. Now they do the same with email. Yes, in 2017 we can do a lot better and use d
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by jkire 10y ago
> And if what I’m truly trying to do is to learn to think about problems in a different way, a week-long effort at dabbling in a side project isn’t going to change my way of thinking. I'm not sure that's why people try differen
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by jkire 10y ago
"When coding on a team, I modify my strategy to carefully test code that we, collectively, tend to get wrong." I think addresses that point quite nicely?
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by jkire 10y ago
This really highlights the differences between trying to understand and formalise the theory behind distributed systems and trying to practically build and use distributed systems. In a practical sense, bitcoin pretty much has the property
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by jkire 10y ago
I totally get this; federation is hard , and its so much easier and nicer ─ as a developer ─ to have a centralised service. Often centralisation is the right choice for a particular project, and I respect that. That doesn't mean we sh
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by jkire 11y ago
Really? To me that sort of is the closest translation, but it doesn't really hit the nail on the head. But maybe that's just my weird linguistic background.
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by jkire 11y ago
> Well that's just it, security is talked about but the buyer (the hotel in this case) is often not in a position to actually evaluate the vendor's claims. But at least the buyer becomes aware that security might be an issues
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by jkire 11y ago
Fundamentally, English is a flexible enough language that if any of these concepts became common enough they would become ordinary words (probably lifted directly from German). This has actually happened, for example Blitzkrieg (commonly
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by jkire 11y ago
Genuine question: Don't the other companies talk about security in their replies to the RFQ? Wouldn't that cause the original company to stop and ask the other repliers about the security they would implement (if they didn't
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by jkire 11y ago
I wonder if this is too featureful? What is the difference between +1, heart, and hooray? Having just a +1 and -1 is unambiguous and probably covers the vast amount of use cases? Perhaps not, but I'd be very interested to know the reas
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by jkire 11y ago
It would be nice if we had an effective opposition, but we don't. Not when it comes to security concerns. Corbyn's stance with trident and Stop the War means that no one, and I mean no one, can take any argument he puts forward se
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by jkire 11y ago
> If you're concerned about things getting tampered with, encryption guarantees that it won't Sure, HTTPS protects against tampering, but its not the only way. The parent comment seemed interested in ways of solving the same pr
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by jkire 11y ago
A similar idea is to allow pages to download static content over HTTP if they include the hashes of the content. Things like CSS and javascript need authentication so you know they haven't been tampered with, but don't necessarily
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by jkire 11y ago
Ha! And HTTPS doesn't seem to work for me at all.
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by jkire 11y ago
I'd imagine HTTPS is significantly more expensive to host than plain HTTP, due to the CPU requirements of the crypto involved.
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by jkire 11y ago
My mother occasionally uses the cat's name. The cat's name! We're both male, but still
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by jkire 11y ago
My mother frequently has to cycle through my brothers/my fathers name before getting to mine. Its the times when she starts using the cats name I get a little miffed.
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by jkire 11y ago
How does this deal with different versions of a utility having different flags/commands?

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