EvanAnderson

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by EvanAnderson 5d ago
Late to the party here: If you liked Grim Fandango you will probably get a kick out of Sam and Max Hit the Road: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_%26_Max_Hit_the_Road
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
I don't get the sense that regular people get data "stolen". Ransom is the only thing I see happening to end user data. Credential thefts facilitate theft of money. It might might help the attacker to rifle thru somebody&#x27
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
> You need an optical path to the secure device. Any path can be made into an optical path with a bright enough light. >smile<
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
The trend of companies becoming easier to contact and customer service becoming better is well-documented.
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
Wait until websites start demanding device-bound/attested passkeys. Big tech just needs to get enough adoption to make this change.
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
> ...when lots of celebrities got their nudes in iCloud stolen and published? Right-- high-value victims of targeted attacks. So not regular people.
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
I didn't realize PIN was optional. See my other comment re: the IT industry being fools.
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
That's the stupidest thing ever. All this hullabaloo taking away user freedom to export keys and backup tokens but physical possession is all that's necessary to use it by default. We are a ship of fools, the IT industry.
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
I haven't used a FIDO2 token other than playing around with it on a Yubikey. There, at least, I have to have the PIN to unlock the Yubikey before I can use the FIDO2 credentials (if I'm remembering correctly). Are there hardware t
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
> Not active now, but given how Google+Apple already use the passkey feature to lock you into their ecosystems, it is just a matter of time until their service will require that the passkey is attested from a non-rooted Google or Apple
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by EvanAnderson 8d ago
It's beyond annoying. It's creating needless toil that no "normies" will ever actually do. I'd love a hardware sold in multi-packs and "born" at the factory with identical internal device key encryption k
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by EvanAnderson 9d ago
> ...run it in some kind of secure container which has access to read browser history, and write to its database, but definitely does not have network access. We should be doing this with all software, regardless of provenance, anyway. L
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by EvanAnderson 9d ago
> What kind of fingerprinting are you thinking of? I'm minding a proprietary application where this is being discussed. The vendor is talking about running Javascript in the client to detect headless browsers, bots, etc. I'm gu
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by EvanAnderson 9d ago
Given the number of residential proxies I see scraping the couple of sites I have responsibility for I don't find IP address-based blocking useful anymore. That ship has sailed. Behavioral and client fingerprint analysis (ugh-- having
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by EvanAnderson 10d ago
I always assumed Flock's security posture was like most other companies. It's nice to see confirmation. I think I should add a "X'); DROP TABLE Cameras;--" bumper sticker to my car now.
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by EvanAnderson 11d ago
Some would argue MS-DOS was the CP/M of its time. >smile<
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by EvanAnderson 11d ago
Thanks for coming up with a very apt analogy. I wanted to reply but couldn't come up with something I felt good about.
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by EvanAnderson 12d ago
> ...the remote access and pasting issues should have been discovered in QA. They were. QA is paying Customers now. Having your Customers, many of whom are locked-in to your products, do your QA beats the costs of paying testers.
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by EvanAnderson 14d ago
Process migration seems like something that should be commonplace today. It would be an amazingly handy feature.
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
Yeah-- no kidding. When I was anosmic with COVID I couldn't eat much of anything. Food was just terrible. I still remember the soulless paste that was peanut butter. (Ugh. It was so bad...)
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Neat. We throw away a butt-ton of watermelon rind in the summer. I never thought to see if they could be used for something.
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
The US tendency toward gerontocracy is frustrating to me. Besides being out-of-touch, our federal officeholders being so old, as a group, feeds a self-fulfilling stereotype.
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
I don't know if my father-in-law spit out the seeds or not. I'd heard the cyanide thing as a kid and always avoided eating them.
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
Thanks for the commentary. I'll check out some of those.
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
I still cut out the core when I slice an apple. I don't know the anatomical terminology well, but the "plastic-ey" texture of, I believe, the endocarp is what I don't like. It reminds me a bit of the plastic-ey tooth-clo
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
Point taken. I don't eat mushrooms-- can't stand the texture. I heard a podcast episode re: death cap mushrooms and it was chilling. A guy in the podcast talked about tasting a death cap then spitting it out and rinsing his mouth.
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
I am reminded of the saying in my family: Anything is edible if you're willing to eat it. My late father-in-law ate entire apples-- core and all. I've tried but I can't stomach the texture or how much more the fibrous parts o
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A Brief Retrospective on the Sprite Network Operating System(github.com)
24 points by EvanAnderson 15d ago|13 comments
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
I totally agree. I was there helping fix it, too. The occasion of Y2K was used by merchants of hype and fear to make a quick buck with people who had "prepper" tendencies. I can't believe I didn't expect them to glom-on
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by EvanAnderson 15d ago
I'm an American turning 50 in the next year. Today made me aware of the fact me that I've now lived in a "post-9/11" world longer than before. (Time gets away from us, doesn't it... >sigh<) In the years i

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