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by Ansil849 5y ago
> Because Sci-Hub has a good chance of winning the case. I understand that this is the party line that is parroted whenever this issue comes up, but it does not make any sense as a rationale for keeping new articles off the site. How is
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Yeah, I have heard this reasoning, but it seems muddled. How is keeping the site online so old articles are available but no new articles are added acting in "good faith"? It's not like the old articles are any less copyright
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I saw that tweet, but it doesn't change the material reality: try plugging in some DOIs from recent article from the last year, and they will not be there. Scihub used to be a great resource, now it's only a resource for old resea
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The site is working in the sense of you can download old papers, but I don't believe any new papers from the last year are accessible.
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Is there any word about when sci hub is going to start adding new articles again? It's currently only useful as an archive of old research articles. New papers from the last year are not available. I never understood the rationale for
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Yup. Which is all why it's an academic paper, not a case study of a real-world example in the field.
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Facts! But seriously, if we're talking about the realistic risks printers pose in most environments, it is not having data exfiltrated via LED signaling or other vanity supply chain injection attacks; the number one risk is by having s
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by Ansil849 5y ago
No reason to get weirdly defensive. The reality is that realistically no one in the corporate espionage sector uses lasers to either exfiltrate or infiltrate data, because there are a million easier ways to do so which aren't a nightma
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> But there's a reasonable chance someone evil works for the printer company and every printer sold contains this backdoor. If your threat model does legitimately consider this to be a "reasonable chance", then your facili
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> you probably aren't going to be hiring a team of printer firmware developers. You're just going to buy an off-the-shelf non-wifi printer, and use it offline. In such a scenario, you're also probably never, ever going to
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Sure, the analogy is imperfect, but the point is if you just spend a sizable chunk of your physec budget to guard against a virtually-unused attack vector, you now have that much less to spend to guard against much more common threats like
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> In the SCIFs I have been in, if there even are windows, the blinds remain drawn at all times. Windows are discouraged in SCIF construction, though not outright against spec. Aside from visual controls like blinds/curtains, IR&#x2
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Unless you were working for an intelligence agency, if your organization was sold TSCM against laser-based surveillance, then the organization was taken for a ride by the security contractor; you weren't also sold birds of prey to prot
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> or at least line of sight to the machine for this? Correct, and not just line of sight, but static line of sight. The potential scenario here is something like if there is a desk phone on someone's desk visible from the window tha
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> You typically have counter-measures in place to detect when someone is firing a laser at your exterior glass windows to exfiltrate data/IP. I assume it can/does happen. It does, either in films or intelligence lore, but not
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> For our attacker model, we assume that an initial compromise has happened on the target device through the software supply-chain similar to the incidents at SolarWinds [8] and CodeCov [7]. For example, a regular update of the device’s
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by Ansil849 5y ago
> These photos are mostly duplicates and poor photos. You can often find the missing info in the published versions. Where?
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Try reading the article. In this instance the editors were the censors, as they were government workers. And regardless of whether or not you want to call it censorship or some obfuscated term like "editorial choices", the point r
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My impression was that that is precisely the whole point of this project: to draw attention to the gaping hole in the photos, to highlight the crass censorship which led to these photos being suppressed for years. The hole _is_ the focus of
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> It may not reflect the actual reality behind the black hole And therein lies the problem. I'd rather see literally nothing, a black hole, than some AI-constructed representation of what an algorithm determines 'should' b
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> And the fact that it's comes up as a routine topic probably says more about your social circle than anything else. Not really. Unless my 'social circle' also has a monopoly on metrics like Google Trends, doula is a more
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> I literally knew all of the male words and zero of the female ones (I’m male)/ I find it kind of astounding that someone can know what aileron or azimuth is, but not what a doula is. The former I have never, ever encountered, wher
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> He came in at 9:30, napped at lunch for an hour, left at 5:30, and did ok work [...] And there was nothing wrong with that. It's a sad testament to the current skewed work/life balance that the observation that someone worked
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I am not at all saying that authority can be depoliticized, I am simply pointing out that the underlying politics are what guides adherence to or rejection of a particular authority, depending on whether the authority's politics are in
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> People just don't trust authorities anymore I would argue that the issue is not mistrust of authority per se, it is rather the rampant politicization of authority. To wit, I feel like a more accurate reflection of the zeitgeist is
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> he's implying Shopify messed up when it seems he just didn't have a clear understanding of what the role entailed and what the tech was he'd be working with. It seems extremely improbable to me that at no point in the hi
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The post does come off as a touch arrogant, but I believe the core issue was that the role was misadvertised: > I was hired as a frontend developer, which turned out to be misleading. [...] In order to triage this, I worked on a number
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> I accepted. Despite the downlevelling, despite the fact that compensation was well below market, Shopify was a big step for me. I will always optimize career decisions based on a position's potential to improve my ability as a dev
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It beats browsing rubbish websites where the advertising is indistinguishable from the articles.
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by Ansil849 5y ago
I currently subscribe to MIT Technology Review and IEEE Spectrum. Used to subscribe to 2600 and Wired but haven't renewed my subscriptions as I felt like the quality of the content has just been getting lower and lower. And I miss CPU

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