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631.
by ale42 3y ago
Aren't there ways of getting attestation working even with custom ROMs? (never tried, but I think I've read something about it in the past)
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by ale42 3y ago
Especially as long as it needs to send your data to the cloud to work.
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by ale42 3y ago
https://archive.ph/rPla5
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by ale42 3y ago
I think that VeraCrypt and Cryptomator have very different use cases. And VeraCrypt has features like hidden volumes (not that most people would ever need those).
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by ale42 3y ago
So true... opening a CSV in Excel is like playing the lottery. Sometimes it opens fine, sometimes not, it even depends on the character encoding of the CSV and whether you double-click the file, open it or drag it inside Excel. Sometimes yo
636.
by ale42 3y ago
They should be banned everywhere...
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by ale42 3y ago
Tried this on a flight 4 years ago -- I got to SSH into a machine and read my mails, it felt like I was connecting from a space ship... so funny but not actually usable to browse the web or do any actual work ;-)
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by ale42 3y ago
As long as you had access to a library... When I was 14 or so, I used the MS-DOS DEBUG program to run step-by-step an executable that did something to change blinking to high-intensity background in text mode. After one hour or so I found t
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by ale42 3y ago
Am I the only one who thought it was some aggregator for weather radar data?
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by ale42 3y ago
You can also create a file (or even better a folder) named CON or COM4. Good luck doing anything with it using the Explorer. (15 years ago I've seen some malware using that to make removal difficult)
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by ale42 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37619819
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by ale42 3y ago
Sounds like... "you could dial numbers quickly. Not anymore: introducing..."
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by ale42 3y ago
Do they really use OSM data? A few years ago we travelled in the Puna de Atacama region in Argentina, where most roads are just dirt tracks in the desert. Despite the zone being very sparely populated, most of the tracks are properly mapped
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by ale42 3y ago
It was fine using the ← and → keys on my keyboard for page change. But it's a bit counter-intuitive...
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by ale42 3y ago
Was going to say the same :-D
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Password-stealing Linux malware served for 3 years and no one noticed(arstechnica.com)
72 points by ale42 3y ago|9 comments
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by ale42 3y ago
My first understanding of the title: a telescope for amateur radio... I was wondering what it was supposed to be exactly ;-)
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by ale42 3y ago
Yes indeed. And that's the whole purpose of the domain impersonation -- the mail should look legit to the potential victim, so they follow up with the requested action (like signing up with their password on a phishing login page)
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by ale42 3y ago
> Everybody and their dog want you to download "apps" - I wonder why? Because apps can collect more data... many apps are just spyware with some function on the top of it ;-)
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by ale42 3y ago
Didn't know this, thanks for the info!
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by ale42 3y ago
This feature is used since ages by sudo to implement the noexec option, to prevent dynamically linked executables from executing further programs. At some point I took advantage of this (sudo allows specifying a custom .so file for the noex
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by ale42 3y ago
> If you suspect you might have received an email from Anthony Blinken, I suggest checking the DKIM signature. Definitely. But I think that the actual attack would rather be that you receive an e-mail (seemingly) from your bank asking to
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by ale42 3y ago
It's definitely not the same people who work on the browser. And given that not many other people are seemingly interested in analyzing this kind of privacy concerns, well, I personally prefer a few more bugs or missing features in Fir
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by ale42 3y ago
I see two essential points (that might have been addressed in another comment somewhere else in the thread, but I can't read everything) regarding pushed firmware updates: • It happens, especially if the update has been a "quick f
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by ale42 3y ago
For "some" reason Tetris feels less reactive than an old Windows 3.1 Tetris running on a 386 at 20 MHz...
656.
by ale42 3y ago
Lol, that one is really funny! Especially for those who used Windows 95...
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by ale42 3y ago
Very nice discovery, thanks! Just found it was already on HN, e.g. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34545086 By the way, I noticed a long startup delay... (on tilde, and on micro as well). After some stracing, I found o
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Perfin (Philately)(en.wikipedia.org)
3 points by ale42 3y ago|0 comments
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by ale42 3y ago
Balloon factory classes ;-)
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by ale42 3y ago
... soon enough Microsoft will put the system settings and Notepad inside Edge, to convince users they need to use it... ;-)

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