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Iranians Crowdsourcing ID of Protestors to Arrest and Torture(mizanonline.ir)
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Iranian Regime Crowdsourcing ID of Protestors for Arrest
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Russian Hackers Attempted to Breach U.S. Election Systems Days Before Vote(theintercept.com)
26 points by s_q_b 9y ago|3 comments
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The topic of this thread is the policy of banning political comments for one week. I stated that the experiment should not be conducted at this time, due to the forthcoming appointment of a government official, which HN should discuss given
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This will be my final comment on HN. As my parting words from this site, I would ask that you please pay close attention to what is happening politically with regard to the laws which shape technology: the First Amendment, Fourth Amendment,
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The community was asked whether there were specific concerns regarding the timing of the experiment. I expressed a particular, relevant, and time sensitive issue, which yes, happened to deal with a particular individual. These issues can&#x
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by s_q_b 10y ago
1. This experiment is directly harmful in that it is using living subjects, without ethics review. 2. The person who shot the gun was informed by Reddit, a company that had it's genesis here. The Y Combinator is a function that makes
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I want to be clear about three aspects of this: 1. Any views expressed here or elsewhere on HN are purely my own and not representative of the United States government or any other entity. 2. This is not about one individual act of violence
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I live in Northwest Washington, D.C. I am a technologist, a government contractor, and an HN member for many years under various accounts since 2008. I respectfully disagree. Yesterday someone motivated by the "Pizzagate" story, s
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Amazon has the money to run the studies to prove whether it increases revenue. I suspect it wouldn't be too hard to both detect shoplifting and differentiate it from legitimate purposes using a modern high-end multisensor fusion machin
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Google null-byte injection. As for the framework, that's RDK-B. http://rdkcentral.com http://code.rdkcentral.com https://github.com/rdkcmf The deeper you look, the worse it gets. Those php issue
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Yeah, go check in a sandbox.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
More importantly, where are they having this turkey? In all seriousness though, if I were one of a handlful of people who understood a rising anonymous currency platform, I wouldn't want to be publicly exposed that way.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
I have had four zero-days affecting 5.5 million devices sitting on a public code repository for two months now, for a project maintained by dozens of corporations employing high-end PHP programmers, who do write PHP for a living. The fixes
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The iVotronics hacking part is very public. The legal aspect may not be as well-known. The iVotronics vulnerabilities were documented in a lawsuit joined by the Commonwealth's own Deputy Commissioner of Elections. See Banfield v. Cort
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Unauthorized use or reproduction is not theft, as it does not deprive or interfere with use of the original copy. Stealing your furniture is theft. Taking a look at your furniture, and carving another set exactly like it is copyright infrin
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by s_q_b 10y ago
That's silly. It's the same logic that got us criminal sentences in the DMCA for copyright violations, since movies, music, and television are a massive part of the American economy. Federal sentences for bank robbery are 5-10 yea
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by s_q_b 10y ago
After a few years around Gartner, Deloitte, and Accenture I have learned that consulting reports are usually PR thinly disguised as analysis.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
These are the certified electronic voting machines (DREs) for Pennsylvania: http://www.dos.pa.gov/VotingElections/OtherServicesEvents/Pa... The Android device in use is the EA Tablet. The certification tests are l
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The race for the smart home "IoT" is in full swing, and once again Amazon is ready to sell Levis to the prospectors. They don't even need to win, so long as they can make themselves the most convenient backend solution.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Right now, Google has no credible open competitor to Android, and not for lack of trying. If Android wants to be the Windows to iPhone's Mac, it will have to get serious about security, or be swept away by the competitors which will in
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Well, yes. If you're saying anything important at all, make sure to say it multiple times from opposing viewpoints. Your best argument will carry the day anyway. Of course this is a "break glass in case of emergency" type cou
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Hey, that's very insulting! I charge at least $20 an hour for snitching.
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Self-domestication is one of the current leading theories for the evolutionary history of dogs. Under that theory, wolves would scavenge scraps around the periphery of human encampments. The more pleasing a wolf was to humans, the closer it
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by s_q_b 10y ago
When attacking an IDS, especially a signature-based one like Snort, my first move is always to overload the network engineers with so many bogus attacks that they can't locate the true vector in the giant haystack. One can use the same
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by s_q_b 10y ago
When I was in high school my father made me work as a janitor in our family's office building. At that point I had been an independent IT consultant a few years, so the position frankly felt like an embarrassment and a waste of time. T
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by s_q_b 10y ago
Well, the most common voting machines are iVotronics from ten years ago, which are pretty laughable. Dr. Appel at Princeton already hacked these systems back in 2006. There's even a flash card on the top of the machine, which even the
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by s_q_b 10y ago
A few hints that tickle my spider sense: 1. Yandex is an email provider that is almost exclusively to the new Russian sphere of influence. This is a the first thing that would jump out to an attribution analyst. Combined with the non-native
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by s_q_b 10y ago
The most secure voting machine certified in my county runs Android Jelly Bean from 2012. It's fish in barrels all the way down...
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by s_q_b 10y ago
This is a personal opinion based on experience, speaking for myself alone, made with access only to public information. Take it for what you will.

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