Nanzikambe

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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
It's un-enforceable as well unless, ultimately you'd end up needing to police the consumer. This sort of misguided action in today's technology culture will just result in an exodus of hardware manufacturers + technology serv
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Indeed not and there're also other concerns in that sphere (baseband and the underlying network/protocols, SS7 etc). But there's some movement in the right direction (Cyanogen, F-droid and the various open phone hardware proj
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> Think of how that would have affected Linux (Android uses dm-crypt for FDE), open source, Github, etc A concern of mine is that unlike the others you mention, Apples software isn't open - we have no ability to check there aren&#x
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> Get over yourself and quit drinking the koolaid. Given these are disclosures from their internal presentations, it's their koolaid that we're discussing.
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
From the slides leaked at 31c3 and by Der Spiegel that's not the case. They want everything. Even if you're not a target you're of interest -- either as a vector to a target.(someone you know, regardless how many "hops&q
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
"It’s just — this is crazy. You go to a rock concert and before the first song is finished, the tweets are coming through. It makes me crazy because people are not relating to the real world anymore. That’s very worriso
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> But I really need to use SolidWorks and Photoshop Why not install WINE? There're several versions of both apps rated as "Gold" in appdb Photoshop: https://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?appId=17 So
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> Drone strikes explicitly try not to hit non-combatants. IIRC Laura Poitros's talk at the CCC a few days alluded to the fact that targets on drone "kill lists" have values assigned to them -- denoting specifically the ac
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Agreed, if I wanted "One UI to rule them all", I'd be typing this on OS X or Windows, instead of Linux + KDE (Re: systemd though I don't dislike it as long as I can choose to remove it, I don't really care about it)
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> Can you present a functioning iris with a custom retinal image behind it? It wouldn't need to be a real iris. Extant aliveness checks typically look for: reflections, pupil dynamics (contractions etc), frequency/resolution -
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> gait recognition (distance) actor plus doesn't allow for injury to the authentic person. > face recognition (mid-distance) photograph or prosthetics + makeup > retinal recognition photograph or prosthetic model iris built to
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I use a chrooted instance of Bind as it's a LAN only dns server, /etc/bind/named.conf includes: include "/etc/bind/adblock.conf"; That file is generated by a script that uses a hosts fil
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Updated: 20:57 GMT, 6 February 2011
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Actually this very rarely happens. I a DNS server on my router which has zone that routes all ad hosting & other wanted stuff to an IP which is then rejected by the firewall. I also have a transparent proxy rewriting all web pages remov
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Off Topic: But out of curiosity what does a Tor hidden service keep in memory? Would there be any information that would uniquely identify the services it's running? Given that they're often run in datacentres (either colocated or
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Did you use gpg instead of disk/partition encryption for that scenario?
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Likewise. Gpg is ubiquitous in the Linux/*nix ecosystem - we can't afford to let projects like this go unmaintained
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
The exploit sent his MAC address to them; so barring the use of a VM or macchanger (doubtful if he was loading Flash against all advise) that would at very least identify the traffic as coming from his computer. Whether that proves who was
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
That's hardly effective; most covertly collected evidence is already inadmissible in courts in most free countries and yet here we are. Governments spying isn't ubiquitous because it's an effective means to uphold the law: it
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Firefox's "Block 3rd party cookies" setting
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
I'm logged into gmail and see the captcha in another tab regardless. Perhaps because I refuse 3rd party cookies but never-the-less it pokes a hole in your theory.
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Anyone know what the interception proxy/tool he's using in the screenshots is? I could really have used that a few days ago
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> when it comes to large-scale webapps (e.g. Obamacare, UK NHS systems, UK taxation systems.) There's absolutely no reason to believe the spy tech isn't as poorly implemented and terrible value for money as the examples you men
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
$ cd source/Libm $ git status ... snip ... new file: Source/Intel/nsa_random_number_generator.c new file: Source/Intel/nsa_random_number_generator.h **CARRIER LOST** Discl
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
> who hacks gift cards at night then rolls into work at General Dynamics? A common theme in pretty much every case I've ever read about a busted blackhat involves bragging in some ridiculous context. I'd believe this.
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
It's worth noting that it's likely that sub-contractors working for private-sector firms (contracted to provide services to alphabet-agencies) earn this much. Snowden was apparently earning ~$200k at Dell then took a pay cut to ~$
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Hardly surprising when you consider this is the executive producer of the show: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_O%27Brien
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Imagine something you're deeply ashamed of, it's quite irrelevant whether that shame is justified or not -- we're discussing psychosis here. So we're not discussing "wow I really feel bad I didn't fix that bug
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
Actually I'm not. And before I continue, let me add: this has little to do with advocacy, and even less to do with anyone trying to foist their perceptions of the recreational or therapeutic value of anything upon you. I was only expla
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by Nanzikambe 12y ago
A beautiful article, makes me yearn for that recent-convert's enthusiasm for a new hobby. Reminds me of when I first took up mycoculture. Perhaps I'll get a behive and join the legion of "that guy" :)

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