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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
re edit: TL;DR: Unable. This is the usual pitfall when troubleshooting a highly reliable system: any uncaught exception is going to be an outlier, almost by definition. Given the millions of km travelled, one collision in 2 years on the
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
No, it doesn't. It requests a location from the location providers registered in the browser; it is the browser internally requesting a position from Google - which is beyond the control of the webpage . "Martin Fourcade ‏@mfou
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
I'm guessing this to be the approximate locality: http://www.openstreetmap.org/search?commit=Hledat&query=bad+... - a local branch track, so a passive safety system is likely.
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
What is also not on the news (yet it does happen fairly often) are prevented accidents: train passes signal at danger due to driver error, all affected traffic stops immediately and automatically, some delays and a mountain of paperwork a
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
This seems to happen fairly often (note the emphasis); things that actually happen often are not on the news (because https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/News_values ). From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
ahem "It also means, anyone using the defaults in OpenSSH is not PCI compliant."
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
This specific mechanism didn't exist in 2000; the behavior is no different from the ILOVEYOU virus: user runs code, code does something malicious, code contacts cracker. It all boils down to "if you require security, you can'
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Well, it's not necessary (or even good) to have a Single Master Ssh Key For Everything, right? ;)
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
That's a feature, not a bug. SSH is a power tool; if your users can not be trusted with power tools, it is your responsibility to provide them with something brightly coloured, drool-proof and locked down.
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
"More and companies are opening up their firewalls outbound because it makes developers feel warm and fuzzy." - this is the actual issue, and should fail you in the audit: precisely because it is a major vulnerability which ca
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
"I am just dropping a key on your machine" - from my point of view, it does not matter whether you're dropping an executable, an SSH key, or Aunt Matilda: you already have the user executing arbitrary code (your distinction b
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Never mind the health aspects: should burning incense sticks be allowed in the office? No general answer - if all your cow-orkers love the smell, I guess there's no issue. Otherwise, I see no difference from "should I eat my duria
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
[citation-needed] for both - not least because of the dramatically reduced power output in winter.
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
In other words, if it does appear idiotic for all the technical reasons, it would follow other reasons are at play. (Call me a cynic, but "pork-barrel" immediately comes to mind.)
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Nice try, but no, that's a broken old trick. window.status is gone for exactly this reason, but things like onclick="this.href= http://evilsite.example/" (or even onclick="window.location= http:/&#
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Dissolve into thin air? That's what clouds do, right? (One woulda thunk the word "cloud" in itself would be warning aplenty ;))
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Sounds interesting. Alas, the last sentence has triggered a Cobra Effect alert. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobra_effect
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Yup, the XKCD translations still hold: https://xkcd.com/678/
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Signing without encryption is worse than useless by providing a false sense of security (see e.g. http://th.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/people/lucks/HashCollis... , MD5 used as an example); and costs to start signi
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
And you're supposed to change it every 90 days ;) No, seriously: things you know and things you have can be invalidated. How do you invalidate a brainprint, a part of who you are ? Ergo, you still need another (revocable) auth fac
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
This. More specifically, the Wild West got wild for a few years - during a massive population influx - while the entire system was unstable (which also means interesting , in most senses of the word). The metaphor leaks, but is close eno
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
At least theoretically, it should be possible to build Chrom ium with such customizations; you'll lose the benefits of the Google walled garden, but you'll gain a bit of user freedom as well (probably won't be point-and-clic
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
As an experienced user, when I'm looking for some semi-obscure Windows program, I still do have problems distinguishing legit download links from this. Perhaps I'm too used to the radical method "just select what you want fro
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
"You may have encountered social engineering in a deceptive download button, or an image ad that falsely claims your system is out of date." Weeeellll...I see 99% of these in Android in-app ads. So - a) this should be the end of i
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Not at first sight. On second thought, it hits you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_...
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Oh well. New MSIE, same as the old MSIE, in all but the name. (I do distinctly remember the very same marketing campaign running for IE8 like the current one for Edge. Oh, the visuals were different, all right.)
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Ah. Now that's a problem I have no solution for - only the same workaround as you describe (you have taken one more step than I did by having a dedicated host for the SSH connection, instead of just an account - with today's v
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Yes. No. Maybe. Depends on the use cases, risks, threats etc. What are you trying to reach? What are you trying to avoid? TL;DR: There is no Silver Bullet.
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Hmm, that looks far more useful than my original impression of "pass the URL to GDocs and call it a day" :) Good luck!
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by Piskvorrr 11y ago
Any files? That's a brave claim. Actually: "Supported File Formats: DOC, DOCX, XLS, XLSX, PPT, PPTX, PDF, PAGES, AI, PSD, TIFF, DXF, SVG, EPS, PS, TTF, XPS, RTF, ODT, SXW, SSV, SXC, ODS, SXI, ODP, WPD"

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