HackinOut

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by HackinOut 12y ago
WPS push button and WPS PIN are two separate features. If you only have WPS Push Button enabled you are not vulnerable.
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Yes, that is why this password is called a Pre-Shared Key.
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Yes, I meant try to delete... My first impression about CryptoWall is that it was hacked together quicker than CryptoLocker. It doesn't bother with generating a symmetric key per file but rather seems to use a single asymmetric key.
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by HackinOut 12y ago
You only need to decrypt once the payment has been received, so the private key doesn't need to be sent to the infected machine before that. Encrypt/Decrypt, it seems to be a moot point. The "decrypt one file for free" f
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by HackinOut 12y ago
CryptoWall apparently delete shadow copies with a simple vssadmin command. http://stopmalvertising.com/malware-reports/cryptowall-behin...
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by HackinOut 12y ago
I wouldn't be so sure this would help: CryptoLocker was using symmetric encryption (AES) for the files while CryptoWall apparently solely use RSA (which creates problems for the pirate, like slow encryption, thus encrypting only small
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Apparently CryptoWall does a dumb copy of the files before encrypting them and do not zero-out after deleting. If it still proceeds this way, that makes it fairly easy to do some recovery. Source: http://www.wyattroersma.com&#x2F
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Same code for Chrome 39.0.2171.95 on Windows...
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by HackinOut 12y ago
"make our cultural treasures accessible to everyone. Forever." They're stating their mission and then asking for donations. At least that's how I see it. There is no endeavor that is guaranteed to succeed. Money isn&#x
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Testimonies can by themselves end up into a conviction. I am not sure this is comparable. When a crime is committed any evidence is welcome to try and solve it. Investigators are not "choosing" their type of evidences like you can
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Yesterdays's HN discussion about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806394
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by HackinOut 12y ago
OP mentioned using biometrics as a username in combination with a password. [1] seems to imply you can add a password or pass code on xbox and I think you can do that too on a Galaxy S (?) [1] http://support.xbox.com/en-US&#
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by HackinOut 12y ago
OP mentioned using biometrics as a username in combination with a password. [1] seems to imply you can add a password or pass code. [1] http://support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-360/kinect/auto-sign-in
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Agreed, but I personally think it shouldn't be a general public feature, but rather reserved to the initiated. The cost lessen quickly with time (a point made by this article) and people have trouble understanding the limitations of a
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by HackinOut 12y ago
"Something you have, something you know, something you are" Fingerprints are neither. As several people mentioned in this thread, the only thing I see a fingerprint suitable for is replacing a username.
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by HackinOut 12y ago
This was done from an "index finger [...] lifted from a water glass" while we are discussing a copy made from a "few photographs"
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by HackinOut 12y ago
I think Samsung does it with facial recognition on the Galaxy S's lock screen. Should work better and better and you don't need an additional sensor. EDIT: So does Kinect for Xbox one.
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Although I have no doubt it could work, I guess they didn't try the copy? Couldn't find the video of the conference. He probably demo'ed using a copy of his own fingerprint from a photo? It's great work, I hope the fact
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by HackinOut 12y ago
The article is from May 9th. HN Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7728043
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Some details from Google: https://www.google.co.uk/policies/faq/
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Thanks for the reference. I am not sure that backlights are the problem though. Just imagine shining a light behind the page of a book (although it's hardly comparable to the level of transparency of Liquid crystals). I would rather be
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Yes but they are totally usable with ambient light with the built-in light turned off as opposed to non-reflective LCDs. As a side-note, if I remember correctly, the built-in light in the Paperwhite is not a backlight but runs on top of the
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by HackinOut 12y ago
The well accepted definition of an e-reader is "a mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading" (from wikipedia) and most (all?) of those devices are reflective as opposed to LCDs which are back
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Also relevant is D. Knuth's literate programming.
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Do you have a language in mind? If you ban (for your whole program) some components then I guess you would loose some expressiveness. Also I don't know if you can categorize "components" as more or less readable. For some pro
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by HackinOut 12y ago
This trade-off is also why I love Lisp. Although you can easily write something totally incomprehensible, people well versed in Lisp manage to be very expressive with a very powerful language. Of course lisp macros are the key. It's ex
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by HackinOut 12y ago
For programming languages, a paradigm allowing to be "as expressive as necessary" is LOP[1] (Language Oriented programming). With it you can basically choose your level of expressiveness while you develop your program (with diffe
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Thanks! I think I saw they were showing the screen at CES but I didn't know they were selling this thing!
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Pixel Qi (discussed in another reply) was funded by Mary Lou Jepsen, a former CTO of OLPC. The screen you are referring to probably uses the exact same technology (designed while she was CTO?). It's not e-ink but indeed amazing. Too ba
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by HackinOut 12y ago
Thanks. I am sure I have seen at least a part of this but I had (purposefully?) forgotten all about it. One nice thing about not being Miyasaki is that my reverie about Ghibli can remain whole. :)

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