thomc

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by thomc 10y ago
I converted to Colemak on a TypeMatrix keyboard some years back. Everything was fine and I used to sing its praises until I started having to go to client sites or using other work machines. In one embarrassing incident I was leading a team
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by thomc 10y ago
It was clear the UK was going this way for a while so I switched to a small cloud host for VPN which exits in another country. $5 a month and it took only a couple of minutes to setup OpenVPN with a simple shell script[0]. Also important is
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by thomc 13y ago
A brave effort. Given your commit history, documented plan and great idea I was happy to back it [1] and hope you succeed. Best of luck :) [1]: https://www.bountysource.com/fundraisers/539-neovim-first-it...
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by thomc 13y ago
What about the charger, warranty card, manual, etc? There is space at the top of the bottle masked by a silver band which might contain something, but surprised if you could get the charger in there.
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UK reveals footage of 'top secret' drone [video](bbc.co.uk)
20 points by thomc 13y ago|8 comments
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by thomc 13y ago
I tried it on my account, you get the confirmation that it has changed, but when I logged in it hadn't actually changed the setting. Perhaps one of the URL params is a token, CRC or hash of the email which ensures you need the correct
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by thomc 13y ago
I'm not sure why, but the blog post seems to be passing off Dan Rosenberg's comment on the stack-based buffer overflow as though it was written by the blog author. The original post with credits: https://plus.google.com
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by thomc 13y ago
Looks good, and useful to me, nice work. Will you be covering security in any detail? Most people seem to miss this and I'm discouraged to see when I download the MEAN project this is based on it has serious security flaws. For example
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by thomc 13y ago
But their OpenVPN support is awful and limited, unless you enable developer mode and set it up manually. Prevents Chromebooks from using VPN in our office.
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by thomc 13y ago
Seems a number of companies going this route, here's one I haven't seen mentioned yet: https://launchkey.com/
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by thomc 13y ago
I'm 6 for 5 at the moment - of the 6 companies I've hosted pet projects with over the years, 5 have been compromised at the control panel / infrastructure level while I was a customer: * Layered Technologies, dedicated OpenBSD (Sep 17 2
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by thomc 14y ago
It can be surprisingly hard to fight this. As the author notes, even if the ramblings of the stalker are so obviously crazy, it still requires people to evaluate whether you could have done said actions and whether it is a risk to associate
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by thomc 14y ago
Same here, from the UK and always wished the outgoing local calls were free like the US. However, many of the robocalls and scam calls coming into my line these days appear to come from overseas. I don't know how they can afford to do that
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by thomc 14y ago
I'm in the UK and mostly work from my home office so robocalls and the like became really annoying. I installed a "trueCall"[1] device and it completely stopped robocallers, those "I'm calling from Windows" scammers (which were actually fun
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by thomc 14y ago
It was apparent with NGS too, who were (are) one of the most highly regarded pen testing companies here in the UK. Having worked with many of the leading ones I can say NGS was always at the top of the list, helped not only by their talent
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by thomc 14y ago
I use the compact TypeMatrix USB keyboard which can switch to hardware Colemak using a hot key. When I plug it into my Android tablet I can type Colemak with no issues. The keyboard was an ideal size for taking on the plane yet full feature
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by thomc 14y ago
On Android, apart from being able to run Backtrack on certain Android devices you have tools to MITM WiFi and other fun stuff (on rooted phones) and there is some movement in making it into a developed product, e.g. ANTI: http://www.zimper
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by thomc 14y ago
Not exactly BS - it depends on the cards. In the UK this has been demonstrated to work on Visa cards from a few different banks. I did a quick demo for Channel 4 News at their request a little while ago, video: http://www.channel4.com/news
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by thomc 14y ago
Ruby too: ['dog', 'cat', 'bird'].zip(['brown', 'black', 'red']).each {|animal, color| puts "See the #{color} #{animal}?"}
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by thomc 14y ago
I'm fairly certain you can do it in other languages, unless I didn't understand what you mean. In Python it would be something like: for animal, color in zip(['dog', 'cat', 'bird'], ['brown', 'black', 'red']): print 'See the %s %s?' % (colo
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42+ Secure Mobile Development Best Practices(viaforensics.com)
2 points by thomc 14y ago|0 comments
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Preventing Widespread Automated Attacks in iOS(viaforensics.com)
3 points by thomc 14y ago|0 comments
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by thomc 15y ago
On the one hand if you can argue that someone can guess the unique gist ID, you could also argue they can guess your Github session ID, in which case authentication is moot* On the other hand, because the Gist ID is in the URL, it is more p
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by thomc 15y ago
These kind of tricks are pretty handy, and I don't know why I wasn't taught them back in school, growing up in the calculator generation. My father could do all kinds of math in his head, which was just as well since he was a mathematician,
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by thomc 15y ago
Nice start. Little way to go before it overtakes commandlinefu.com but already I see a really nice feature - people asking for help creating a one liner. Bit like a stack overflow for bash one liners. Always fun to see people compete for th