thepacketrat

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by thepacketrat 10y ago
I did have other things to do... (I'm the author.) Also, I fumbled on the VM setup with VirtualBox—should have just used my vSphere Windows 10 instance, but it was already set up for sandboxing malware.
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by thepacketrat 11y ago
Yes, the UK government is paying Microsoft a ton of cash for XP support, so this is possible.
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by thepacketrat 12y ago
Is anyone actually using this?
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by thepacketrat 12y ago
They're hiring a webmaster. But I think it's in a different cold place: Madison, Wisconsin. http://icecube.wisc.edu/jobs/show/webmaster
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by thepacketrat 13y ago
By VPN startups, they mean initiation of a VPN session. Specifically, this means they can grab the credentials at the beginning of a PPTP VPN session, and then decrypt it. PPTP has been known to be vulnerable to this sort of attack for som
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by thepacketrat 13y ago
They're still supporting client-to-server XMPP, so third party apps can always just connect as a client rather than doing federation.
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by thepacketrat 14y ago
Having lost my brother to suicide just a year ago, I can empathize deeply with your loss. My thoughts are with your family.
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Small business point-of-sale systems hacked Subway-style in Australia(arstechnica.com)
3 points by thepacketrat 14y ago|0 comments
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by thepacketrat 14y ago
Oh, yeah, because Pets.com would have worked so much better as a mobile app.
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Intel researchers put WiFi inside—the processor, that is(arstechnica.com)
43 points by thepacketrat 14y ago|20 comments
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.blog, .lol, .foo: Google, Amazon top list of global TLD applications(arstechnica.com)
1 points by thepacketrat 14y ago|0 comments
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by thepacketrat 14y ago
With the contract switching from Raytheon to Lockheed, the general NSF support contract should have a bunch of IT positions opening up next research season, I'd think.
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Hosted websites open to hack thanks to late Plesk alert(arstechnica.com)
1 points by thepacketrat 15y ago|0 comments