BoringCode

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by BoringCode 10y ago
No.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
IANAL (can we get a real one in here?), but it depends heavily on your jurisdiction.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
As an addon developer, this annoys me. I've had to port my addons to different APIs twice in the last couple of years. Hopefully this is the end for a while.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
I'm sorry, but saying without the wars there would be no terroism is just bullshit. Even saying that they were the primary cause is misinformed.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
In one sense, yes. After every terrorist attack there is always public outcry for intelligence services "to do more." But, unfortunately the general public rarely thinks about the consequences and trade offs of increased surveilla
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Nitpicking, but there is no inherent quality about "open-source" that makes software support the Pi.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
It appears to be open source. https://github.com/blinksh/blink
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Garbage article. Just a clickbait review of the paper over at https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7kgKijo-p0ibm94VUY0TVktQlU...
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by BoringCode 10y ago
There are other kinds of intelligence besides computer forensics. So, attribution is not impossible if you are a nation state with other resources.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
> I live in a major city and I don't have a car. Parking is no issue for me at all :) So do I actually. But a lot of people do and for that reason it would be far too idealistic to think about removing cars from American cities.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
So where should the cars park then? Parking is a real issue in large cities and we won't solve it by removing even more spots. Other solutions (which are potentially more expensive) should be looked into before we consider removing str
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by BoringCode 10y ago
https://4us.com/Explore Seems like I can access the content there just fine?
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by BoringCode 10y ago
As someone who hasn't read the book or heard about the incident for that matter, I thought it was an interesting trailer. I certainly want to see the film now.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Both organizations focus on similar concepts (after all exploitation and attack are two sides of the same coin). But there is a legal distinction which is important. NSA legally cannot do all that CYBERCOM can do.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Here's the kicker, technically NSA can't even do offense (attack). That's what US Cybercom is for. The NSA primary missions are SIGNIT and IA as a combat support agency. So they can gather information on foreign adversaries (
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Exactly, they simply have never had the institutional knowledge required to secure government networks.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
> Nobody seems to be in charge. That's indeed the problem. There was a strong push for a while to put NSA in charge of civilian infosec infrastructure. But Congress didn't really want to put a combat support agency in that role
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by BoringCode 10y ago
I disagree. If you're going to say "But the authors of this document had a job to do: portray administration appointees in the worst light possible." then you need to at least show some examples of that. You're not makin
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Is there something in this document that you can point to as being inaccurate or obviously exaggerated?
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by BoringCode 10y ago
One of NSA's primary missions is information assurance. I'm sure they have blue teams. But their mandate is pretty limited in regards to what they can do with civilian infrastructure.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
There's the old idea of "you judge your actions by your intentions and others intentions by their actions." I think culturally we've entered into this weird area where we're not even judging people so much by their
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Reading the description seems to imply the author is confusing plugins and addons. Either way you're still installing executable code written by people using those evil pseudonyms.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Some of these rules are oddly contradictory. > 4.2. Do not use unofficial Firefox plugins. Ok, fine. > 4.13. Install an ad blocker if available. Firefox does not have an ad-blocker built in. Most people use Ad Block Plus, which is a
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by BoringCode 10y ago
People in the IC often "jump ship" to private contractors. Be it for better pay, hours, or whatever. I don't find it hard to believe that Snowden would go to a private contractor. No conspiracy there.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Both are absurd points to make. Just because something is theoretically possible in some version of the universe doesn't mean it's worth discussing without any real evidence. Tinfoil hat or not.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
It's also entirely possible that unicorns are real.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
Not necessarily true. A well configured mail server should be just fine. I personally use https://mailinabox.email/ to handle configuration for me and that works great.
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by BoringCode 10y ago
The article (and the screenshot) seem to imply that it doesn't actually check with the Wayback Machine to see if the URL exists. It only displays a prompt telling you that you can try to view it there. So theoretically it would only se
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by BoringCode 10y ago
In that case I would look into ARP poisoning.