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by 16s 15y ago
kernel.org has been down now for three or four days now. Seems there is more to this hack than we've been told. For awhile kernel.org just didn't respond to requests, then they put up this maintenance page: http://kernel.org/
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by 16s 15y ago
Yes, if it was a mandate then elementary schools could use basic DNS servers to block then entire .xxx domain rather than having to try and use complex and expensive http content proxy filters that only partially work.
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by 16s 15y ago
It is a one-time fee. About 200 dollars. godaddy has the lowest price that I've seen (199.00). I think it's a smart idea (if you own a registered trademark ) as 200 dollars is a lot cheaper than getting attorneys to go after trademark viol
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by 16s 15y ago
Number 5 is so true. I've seen it first hand many times. If the password on your TrueCrypt volume is "password" (or something similarly trivial) then you've just given away everything. And you need to understand this. Strong encryption wi
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by 16s 15y ago
I didn't submit any bugs, but I certainly enjoyed reading the code. I learned a lot from it. Tarsnap has some of the simplest, understandable C code I've ever read. If I ever need, secure remote backup, I'd use this software and recommend i
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by 16s 15y ago
I'm an ISO (Information Security Officer). I am responsible for IT security for a large organization. I don't have a CISSP, although most other ISO's I know do. I've worked in security for about six years. It's a real mixed bag. Some ISO's
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by 16s 15y ago
India too. "If you are not an engineer, you are nothing" I was told that by a friend from India once.
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by 16s 15y ago
This is why I feel that all password managers that store passwords are fundamentally flawed. Who has verified the crypto used to store the passwords? Has it been implemented by devs who thought they knew crypto (but really don't) as this ar
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by 16s 15y ago
Young programmers hear that goto is bad and should never be used. They begin repeating this to others. Then the whole world thinks goto is bad, because 99% of devs say so. Then an expert, highly-regarded dev shows code that has useful goto
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by 16s 15y ago
Some people have jobs where it's discouraged to stand-out or draw attention outside of work. Doing so is looked-down upon and may lead to reprimand or termination. I have no idea if this was the case for _why, I just want to point that out.
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by 16s 15y ago
The phrase "crappy code" is subjective and not easily measured. What you consider "crap" may be pure art to the people that produced it. Perhaps you just lack their perspective? Perhaps you've never had to write code in that language or at
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by 16s 15y ago
In MBA school they are taught that you are a cog that can be replaced by a similar one. They have no idea of the weak position they are in. The old COBOL guys have them over a barrel and the system vendors can charge whatever they wish for
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by 16s 15y ago
Many of these older languages do things that younger programmers are taught not to do. If you've only ever programmed in OOP/Java, Ruby or .Net, I'm not sure you'll "learn as you go" as you'll have to go against much of what you learned in
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by 16s 15y ago
Great advice. I can attest to the wrist strengthen and stretching as well.
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by 16s 15y ago
Yes, you are right std::thread is a library. I meant to write "provided by an external library". But I won't edit my original comment as doing so would take-away from your response. I see std::thread as a great first step. The richer abstra
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by 16s 15y ago
The new C++ standard has std::thread (came from boost::thread) and most compilers already support it. So threads in C++ are no longer provided by a library, right? Am I missing something, is std::thread not good enough? Edit: I meant to wri
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by 16s 15y ago
The pellet gun is not the problem. The child is the problem. Take the pellet gun away and he'll stab his victims with scissors. Take the scissors away and he'll beat his victims with a ball bat. The tool (pellet gun) is not the problem. Sto
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by 16s 15y ago
It's not inherently bad. It's a trade-off between security and convenience. Believe it or not, most of the time, business managers are far more concerned about the user experience and the convenience of use rather than information security.
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by 16s 15y ago
I encourage people to use SHA1_Pass. I wrote it and provide full source code under the GPL license. It's free as in freedom and beer. I use it because (as you stated) sites don't do the right thing and have other priorities. As conscientiou
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by 16s 15y ago
You couldn't. It's not possible. If you don't know, then it's not possible to pre-compute. Many people fail to understand that. Rainbow tables (while sounding magical, are not). Edit: But they are great for standard unsalted hashes. md4, md
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by 16s 15y ago
They deserve to be called out. This isn't their only mistake . These clowns are the same bunch who kept giving AAA scores to complex mortgage-backed securities during the housing boom. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-13/moody-s-s-p-
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by 16s 15y ago
Is it pronounced "fuk eye me" or "fuk eee me"???
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by 16s 15y ago
xfce4 is really awesome. I can vouch for it as well. If you need a productive, traditional desktop, then try it. The only thing I miss is the gnome samba mount options.
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by 16s 15y ago
To get from the Chinese ships to the rail station... you must have trucks. To get from the rail station to Walmart... you must have trucks. No way around it.
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by 16s 15y ago
They'll find plenty of those.
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by 16s 15y ago
So is this a paid spot on HN? Can't reply to or upvote/downvote their posting? Yet it's on the front page. Edit: They should do better than md5 if they want smart people to solve hard problems.
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by 16s 15y ago
Yes, but less fun than cracking it yourself with software you wrote.
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Freshplum has hard problems
5 points by 16s 15y ago|8 comments
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by 16s 15y ago
One thing I've always wanted to do is cross reference the data structures/containers for various languages. In Python a dictionary is what Perl calls a hash and what C++ calls a map. Three different names for the same data structure (key va
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by 16s 15y ago
Please. 16Crack broke these in less than 5 seconds. Plain md5. 05b28d17a7b6e7024b6e5d8cc43a8bf7 = !@#$%^&*() 5f4dcc3b5aa765d61d8327deb882cf99 = password

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