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Ask HN: Why Isn't Open Source Voting Software Mandated?
101 points by _wldu 6y ago|132 comments
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by _wldu 6y ago
I very much agree with this. Rust is to C++ what Go is to Java. I think the fact that Go compiles to native binaries and can be linked statically are the primary reasons it is often compared to system languages like Rust or C++. But really,
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by _wldu 6y ago
Getmail supports oauth. I use these tools for email: Getmail -> sortmail -> mutt Getmail just gets the email (pop or imap). sortmail is an MDA I wrote to replace procmail. It basically just filters emails into maildir folders. Mutt to
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by _wldu 6y ago
Anyone who attends a conference once or twice a year. Vendors sponsor those and in return often get access to the attendee list. Name, title, company, email, etc.
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by _wldu 6y ago
JSON is widely used. There is no arguing that. And for small to medium networks, JSON is fine. However, when you are monitoring multiple 100 Gb links and you produce hundreds of GB of logs a day, JSON is the wrong format. Especially if you
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by _wldu 6y ago
I like Suricata, too, but am disappointed that they are dropping Snort's unified2 binary file support. Binary file formats are so much faster and efficient than JSON. I have no idea why projects use JSON when they expect to produce ten
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by _wldu 6y ago
Company managers become upset because this makes them look bad. Most corporate security depts spend a lot of money on salaries, devices, etc. And then some hacker kid comes along and embarrasses them. They retaliate and try to 'kill th
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by _wldu 6y ago
"and no one has a flipping clue what does what" This has been my experience too. We got rid of monolithic VMs running generic Linux systems (that were well understood and easy to reason about and fix by the entire team) and repl
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by _wldu 6y ago
For people who have migrated from Google, but still have an Android phone. Any tips? I'd like to stay on Android (way less expensive than Apple).
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by _wldu 6y ago
Yes, It is. It's so common, in fact, that it has a name... breakfast. Break the fast.
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by _wldu 6y ago
This sort of extremist view is typical of rust proponents and is also why rust has a bad reputation. Java, Go, C# are all extremely safe and performant languages.
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by _wldu 6y ago
CS/EE degrees are optional. Many hackers do not have them. It's just an indicator that they probably know the basics (bits, bytes, systems, etc.) but certainly not required. Some of the best hackers I have worked with had dropped
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by _wldu 6y ago
You should be satisfied with the results of a pen test if you can get a real hacker to do it for you. Finding real white hat hackers is hard, but they are out there. Most 'security guys' are not hackers. They do not have CS degree
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by _wldu 6y ago
Some SSH honeypots accept more than one password for root. So, if 'letmein' and 'changeme' get you a root shell, it's probably a honeypot... but it could be a very broken PAM config as well (I have seen this firstha
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by _wldu 6y ago
I think the idea is to pay them to not publicly release it rather than to get it back.
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by _wldu 6y ago
What computer programs do people use to cheat? I do not play chess with other people, but I do play against the computer. I've thought of writing a program to make moves for me to see how it would fair against the computer. I'm in
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by _wldu 6y ago
Some orgs (edus and non-profits) only have 10k to 20k per year for their entire bug bounty program. So when setting the price of RCE, we should keep that in mind. Not all of us have tons of cash. Recognition and resume building is a huge va
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by _wldu 6y ago
C++ has already been around for 36 years.
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by _wldu 6y ago
C++ will be around for at least the next 100 years. It's an ISO standard used by business and government all over the world. Modern C++ is very safe and fast too.
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by _wldu 6y ago
Buy a cheap domain from Gandi for 10 years. They provide free email and DNS. Use that email for anything you care about. Stop using your gmail account and forward your gmail to your domain's email account. Gradually, you'll switch
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by _wldu 6y ago
Is it that easy to have someone locked out of Google? Just by reporting them for fake abuse? I'm sort of shocked if that is indeed true. It ought to be hard to do that. Otherwise, people who disagree with others may use that to get eve
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by _wldu 6y ago
Open network border and SSH to servers/workstations (key access only). I can easily work from anywhere. I tunnel my web browser via SSH, too, when I need to access internal org websites. SSH is really all you need. You definitely don&#
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by _wldu 6y ago
This is why I occasionally take vitamins, but not everyday. It's easy to over do it and cause more harm than good.
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by _wldu 6y ago
And neither hide your DNS query from the DNS server itself. If half the world are using Cloudflare DNS via DoT, then Cloudflare could log those DNS queries and IPs. The logged data could be sold or given to law enforcement, governments, adv
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by _wldu 6y ago
Only over the wire. Google and Cloudflare (or whatever DoT server you are using) still see and log your DNS queries (if they want). That is his point.
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by _wldu 6y ago
It's the largest distributed database ever. It's not simple or easy, but it works very well and has for decades.
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by _wldu 6y ago
Yes, it's basically a popularity contest these days.
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by _wldu 6y ago
Yes, I agree. They are fun to learn. Pride of lions, school of fish, covey of quail, troop of monkeys. I wonder sometimes, who came up with these names.
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by _wldu 6y ago
This is a good point. It's why I subscribe to some you tube channels but not others. I can find content I am interested in on dozens of channels, but I gravitate to those where I better relate to the channel owner's presentation o
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by _wldu 6y ago
"It dawns at me that if I were still at AWS, I might propose offering Digital Content Volume Sales as a Service. “Simple Article Sales Service”, SASS. Maybe I should write a PR/FAQ." Would that be legal? Buy a subscription

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