MrRadar

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by MrRadar 6y ago
Hams are pretty uptight about self-policing what goes on in their RF spectrum, mostly because they realize that if they don't a) other people will step in and police it for them and b) it would make it much easier for commercial intere
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Keep in mind that amateur radio operators are banned from using encryption* on the air which means no HTTPS/TLS, SSH/SFTP, VPNs, or Tor. You'd basically be operating with the privacy of the Internet circa 1995. Almost all com
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by MrRadar 6y ago
This. I got an unexpected windfall last year that meant I could finally afford the downpayment on a house and in the Minneapolis suburbs (not exactly a "trendy" area) basic post-war (50s-70s, 2-4 bedroom) homes start at $250k un
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by MrRadar 6y ago
In the US by 2030 both 2G and 3G will be a distant memory. AT&T shut down its 2G GSM network at the end of 2016 and intends to shut down its 3G network early next year. Verizon intended to shut down its 2G and 3G CDMA networks at the en
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> How does https prevent DNS spoofing? My post explained in detail how HTTPS prevents DNS spoofing. If you do not understand any of the steps in my argument, please point them out. Otherwise, if you are unable to understand how TLS and
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> "That's what certificates are for" Could you explain that? I thought that if DNS were spoofed then people could be redirected anywhere else, no matter what the certificate said. This suggests you are not very familiar wi
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> If someone nefarious wanted to MITM my web site, the easiest would be to spoof DNS so it went to some other host, and do the MITM that way. Your ISP could do that to you, no? That's what certificates are for. While certificate aut
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by MrRadar 6y ago
OK, now I understand what you meant about "a forward proxy on the client side" (as that's exactly what I mean by "use a proxy to strip the encryption"). But I still don't understand why that allows you to not h
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by MrRadar 6y ago
I must still not understand what you mean. Where is the encryption being added? Could you draw me an ASCII network diagram (showing the server, the browser, and the intermediate network hops) with an indication?
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by MrRadar 6y ago
The reason to do it is because while HTTPS is not perfect (especially when it comes to certificates), the attacks against unencrypted and unauthenticated plaintext HTTP (as I outlined in my other post) are incredibly trivial in comparison.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Encrypting data after it has transited untrustworthy networks (which could have surveilled or modified it before it gets to you) is about as useful as closing the barn door after the horse has already escaped. The encryption (and authenti
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by MrRadar 6y ago
HTTPS-only is valuable for three reasons. Firstly it prevents MITM attacks that inject Javascript (or other) payloads into web pages which can be used e.g. for DDoS attacks. We saw this with the Great Firewall being used to attack Github fo
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by MrRadar 6y ago
KRZ only had a limited physical release through iam8bit and it sold out shortly after it was released last year. Though it looks like it's also included in a collector's edition bundle of games from the publisher, albeit at a very
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> Question for the Americans - is Mavis Beacon a reasonable name for someone to be called where you come from? I would say so. Mavis is a bit old fashioned, but it was a very common name at one time[1]. Beacon is not a common last name,
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by MrRadar 6y ago
I wouldn't say we "suffered with VHS" since VHS actually has higher resolution (it records the full 480/576 vertical lines of broadcast TV, with horizontal resolution similar to VCD), VHS tapes could hold 2-8 hours (vs 7
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Don't forget another type (of which I count myself among): those who think "proof of work" cryptocurrencies are an environmental disaster. Recent estimates place the energy used to mine Bitcoins at around the same as the enti
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by MrRadar 6y ago
It's probably down to browser/OS support and the increasing importance of user-generated content on the web. Windows only got Unicode support by default on the consumer side with Windows XP which launched in 2001. Mac OS X was als
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Yes, my first thought when watching the video was "oh, they're porting the Android UI to desktop" (and not in a bad way).
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> Same as a Cray XMP! That reminds me of this classic bit of technology humor, the Apple Product Cycle[1]. It doesn't ring quite as true today as when it was first posted, but the broad strokes are still similar. Specifically it app
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by MrRadar 6y ago
For TLS certificates? That's because none of the CAs support it.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> Historically, clock speeds scaled inversely with the # of cores. It's the miracle of chiplets. AMD isn't binning one 16-core CPU, they're binning two 8-core CPUs and then combining them together.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
There's no mandate for phasing out AM broadcasting on the HF bands, especially not in the US (where the use of digital radio broadcasting by any station is still completely optional at the discretion of the station and where there is n
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by MrRadar 6y ago
> This guy compares learning Morse code to learning a foreign language! How does learning the alphabet, numbers and a little punctuation compare to learning a language? I got my General license last year and this month I decided to give
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by MrRadar 6y ago
The rules are against obfuscating your communications, which encompasses both encryption and e.g. using code words to hide your meaning.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
That might work in a normal election year, but this year that solution would still put people in a bind between risking getting a severe infectious disease and exercising their democratic rights.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
This. Passports are available in card form as well as book form too so you can carry a passport card in your wallet with your state ID. I have no plans to get a "Real ID" driver's license since I already have a passport card.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
This is about interference with the delivery the ballots (both from the election officials to voters and to vice versa), not about the security of the ballots themselves.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
Which GPU do you have? According to https://mesamatrix.net the radeonsi driver for GCN and RDNA cards supports OpenGL 4.6 (the latest), and the r600 driver for older TeraScale cards supports 4.5.
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by MrRadar 6y ago
They were probably VHS HiFi decks used to record the day's broadcast so that they could prove to advertisers when/how often their ads played in case they were asked. You could fit up to 8 hours on a VHS tape in the slowest speed m
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by MrRadar 6y ago
I don't know why you were downvoted because your concern is 100% legitimate and relevant to the current discussion.

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