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by afreak 11y ago
> But the FBI, concerned about its ability to fight crime — specifically, child pornography — apparently repeatedly asked Microsoft to put a backdoor in the software. A backdoor — or trapdoor — is a secret vulnerability that can be explo
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Facebook Hired Temporary Foreign Software Engineers in Vancouver(thetyee.ca)
2 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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Canadian Supreme Court allows doctor-assisted suicide in specific cases(cbc.ca)
4 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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Is Adblock Plus Accepting Whitelist Bribes from Google, Microsoft and Amazon?(jimlynch.com)
2 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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Taking back my money from Bitcoin--an adventure with the BTC ATM(colin.keigher.ca)
4 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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Discovering and remediating an active but disused botnet(colin.keigher.ca)
2 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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Target to layoff 18K Canadians and close 133 stores after 2-years in the country(cbc.ca)
3 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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Free data leak monitoring via Canary Alerts(canarypw.wordpress.com)
2 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 12y ago
https://pay.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/2fz13q/5_millions_o... A good backgrounder too.
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by afreak 12y ago
https://canary.pw/view/?item=13221ab1721254808546bd068b6cd47... https://canary.pw/view/?item=1bc5b34811b50f3fbce06cb55088372... https://canary.pw/view/?item=87ecceaf19b0187e90
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by afreak 12y ago
I might be willing to concede on this but you also have to take age into account. Let's look at this useful spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmenB57kGPGKdHh... And here are the numbers: Ha
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by afreak 12y ago
Canary does not include data from the Adobe leak because I just haven't bothered. I have considered making it available but because there are many other solutions that are better for such a purpose [1], I'd rather just leave it to
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by afreak 12y ago
Cross-posting this from another site I posted this on: I am glad to see that someone has said what I had suspected. I made a quip [1] about the ethics of charging for information regarding whether or not you're affected by a breach--fu
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Canary will not charge you for breach alerts (also we want volunteers)(canarypw.wordpress.com)
3 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 12y ago
That very much depends on the locale for the latter. If I call 911 and either hang up after they answer or if you say that it is not an emergency but rather a mistake or test, they'll still arrive where I am.
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by afreak 12y ago
But that doesn't answer my question. How did you even test this? 911 is not a trivial service that can be tested blindly.
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by afreak 12y ago
OK. So here is a question that is bothering me: how did you test this? How did you ensure that this application will reach the 911 SMS service?
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by afreak 12y ago
Really it's just celiac disease as those who claim a sensitivity to gluten may have some other food-related ailment. http://guardianlv.com/2014/05/gluten-sensitivity-does-not-ex... The above link is linked to
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Announcing the Canary API beta(canarypw.wordpress.com)
6 points by afreak 12y ago|0 comments
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by afreak 12y ago
> We tried, but we didn’t have money and also often they turned us down. A former Financial Services Agency bureaucrat approached us once last year, but he declined our offer at the end. This is disturbing. For an organisation that promo
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History theft with CSS Boolean algebra(lcamtuf.coredump.cx)
119 points by afreak 12y ago|34 comments
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by afreak 12y ago
Interestingly, there are spiders that will consume small mammals like mice and even snakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goliath_birdeater Their primary diet isn't birds as the name might suggest, but they're
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by afreak 12y ago
If you're concerned about keep things private, having it technically sound is important. This application fails that and as a result deserves to be shot down. There is no need for niceties when you're trying to promote something a
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by afreak 12y ago
I have most definitely followed the advances in the industry because I worked in it in the past few years. Heuristics are not a new thing in the AV industry and have been in the works even before the dotcom boom. Even with advances in it, i
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by afreak 12y ago
You're mixing apples and oranges here. What the problem described in the story is that files are being picked up by an overzealous AV scanner doing disk-based scanning. It's reading non-executable data as executable and throwing a
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by afreak 12y ago
A lot of things can produce mischief, but it comes down to what level of problems you want to deal with. Here's what typical AV scanners go looking for when running in their "optimal" settings: http://community.lan
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by afreak 12y ago
There are many articles describing why but really it comes down to this: malware authors can pump out so many copies of their software at once that signature-based detections in which the AV industry relies on are no longer reliable or effe
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by afreak 12y ago
The malicious code would have exploit software that handles the block chain. In addition, the size of the transaction affects your transaction fee, so you'd have to take that into account. Effectively, it's not good business if yo
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by afreak 12y ago
The simple solution is to not allow your anti-virus software to scan anything that cannot malware. There are exceptions to the rule of course such as MP3s that had executable code, but why does it need to scan every single file on your syst
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by afreak 13y ago
Might have a hard time using "Hummingbird" as a name: http://connectivity.opentext.com/

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