Genbox

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by Genbox 4y ago
There is no evidence that a Twitter employee did these changes. In fact, the MO matches a hacked account that was sold on the dark web.
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by Genbox 4y ago
This is great. Gave me a good chuckle.
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by Genbox 4y ago
Estonia has greatly embraced the digital identity through smart cards. They have been on the forefront of digitalizing governmental services. Website: https://www.id.ee/en/ Timeline of implementations: https:/&#x
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by Genbox 4y ago
Data encryption can be decoupled from key encryption. Let's say I hash the content of a file, encrypt the file with its own hash, and then encrypt the hash with the user's password. This way you can have deduplication of data, and
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by Genbox 4y ago
Work: Building a cyber investigations platform that can collect and forensically analyze thousands of computers within an hour. Not due to big scale cloud systems or anything like that, but rather due to efficient and hand-tuned data struct
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by Genbox 4y ago
Eloquently described. News websites I used to frequent have become echo chambers with little tolerance for opposing perspectives. The willingness to discuss becomes a thing of the past and the term 'facts' has been twisted so much
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by Genbox 4y ago
Jason Warner is no longer Github's CTO (since July 2021). He is now the Managing Director for Redpoint Ventures.
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by Genbox 4y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33592368
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by Genbox 4y ago
Similarly, there is Binary Fuse Filters ( https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.01174 ) [1] The paper includes comparisons with Ribbon filter [1] Graf, T. M., & Lemire, D. (2022). Binary Fuse Filters: Fast and Smaller Than Xor
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by Genbox 4y ago
Kotlin does have exceptions[1] [1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/exceptions.html#java-interoperab...
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by Genbox 4y ago
When you trigger an UE, does it happen from the cellular mobile device or the cell tower? I assume the mobile device. In either case, I would imagine it requires a directional and high-gain setup to reach 3,8km. Does that not limit the pote
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by Genbox 4y ago
I've always said that computer science has a PR problem. Formally verified applications is such a foreign concept to people that when you say "verified correct" they get skeptical and mistrust the whole concept. Saying someth
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by Genbox 4y ago
What is the process/oversight on changes in human politicians?
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by Genbox 4y ago
You are correct. However, history teaches us important lessons. Back in the old days when cryptography was a weird concept nobody understood, we had the Linear Congruential Generator (LCG)[1] to generate pseudo random numbers. It looked ran
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by Genbox 4y ago
I largely concur with Raymond Chen's reasoning on the subject. However, there are two distinct factors Microsoft does not seem to realize as problems: 1. There has been a precedent in Windows to run everything as local administrator. L
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by Genbox 4y ago
Hi Matt. Thank you for such an excellent project. I'm pretty sure you already know of sharplab.io. A lot of us C# devs prefer it over Compiler Explorer for a bunch of reasons, but the main one is really the speed. My guess is that Shar
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by Genbox 4y ago
HBO, Amazon Prime, Netflix, Disney+ Watch the same 3-4 series again and again. Never watch any of the featured content. It is not quality content.
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by Genbox 4y ago
Very philosophical take on things. > There are no immovable mountain. Everything is vulnerable, everything exists because it, or something esle, didn't break/transform it into something else. Vulnerability is what humans would
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by Genbox 4y ago
A few things: - You contact their hosting provider and report it. - Check if the top-level domain registrar has a form for it and report it. - If your trademark has been infringed, you can create a Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Pol
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by Genbox 4y ago
I interpret "hacked" as "compromised". Suspicious activity and vulnerability reports don't meet that criteria. In that case, only 2015 and 2022 would qualify. The activity in 2011 was never confirmed to be a breach.
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by Genbox 4y ago
My recollection says twice. However, the number of times a company tells the media it has had a breach does not correspond to the number of times data has been exfiltrated. Notifying customers of a breach is a much more ethical approach tha
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by Genbox 4y ago
> but that doesn't mean it wasn't, or even that evidence doesn't exist - right? That is how it works. You can't prove a negative, so the data is not compromised until the investigation shows that it is. The developer&
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by Genbox 4y ago
Unless the TPM performs the cryptographic operations on the chip itself. TPM can do asymmetric crypto using a key in it's secure storage. It would require Microsoft to use a different authentication scheme based on ephemeral signed tok
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by Genbox 4y ago
> Hold on, can't the same attacker now read my access tokens out of ~/.mozilla/firefox or ~/.config/chromium? You are correct. There is no such thing as "multiple OS-level controls". In Google Chrome on
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by Genbox 4y ago
The files in question[1] are only readable by the current user. That is the default for files stored in the user's folder. I just checked my own installation and the files does have the correct permissions. Having tokens in clear text
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by Genbox 4y ago
> Of course we have to hope for technical advances to convert it to a more manageable form What do you mean by that? Dry-cask storage is very manageable and have been used for decades. > radioactive waste will have to be stored for a
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by Genbox 4y ago
Excess mortality is not a great measurement for this. Not only is there no clear standard for calculating it across the world, but there are also large errors associated with the data it is calculated from. A lot of models do not take age d
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by Genbox 4y ago
BitLocker does validation of the Platform Configuration Register (PCR) in the Trusted Platform Module (TPM). It does this to prevent a whole slew of exploitation techniques. PCR banks 0 to 7 have well-defined values, so an accumulator in th
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by Genbox 4y ago
The laboratory leak could have happened anywhere between the first collection of a virus sample from bats in 2017 and up until the pandemic start in end of 2019. It is likely the virus was transmitted by personel from Wuhan Institute of Vir
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by Genbox 4y ago
I'm at the point where I can no longer see any reason to use UTF-16. UTF-8 is used everywhere today and constantly converting between the two is not only inefficient, but also introduce a risk of bugs/corruption.

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