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by aortega 11y ago
You should try to read Cyrillic code comments...
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by aortega 11y ago
Hi, have a couple... 1) First, I found the complete lack of security puzzling. I mean, they don't even use SSL in their site logins. You use md5 to check firmware...and the coders are obviously capable of using proper cryptography, but
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by aortega 11y ago
Lol yes, there are many more bugs ;)
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by aortega 11y ago
That exploit won't work.
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by aortega 11y ago
You might be forgetting another source: used books. There are literally millions here. Used-books shops are everywhere, sometimes there are entire streets taken by them. You can find anything here, and everybody commutes about an hour from
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by aortega 11y ago
Specially because being 99% desert, Patagonia is very similar to a place already destroyed by nuclear war, sans radiation of course. Being born there, I was also surprised, specially because Patagonia economic activity is surging thanks to
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by aortega 11y ago
Education quality is generally better in public colleges. A huge part of the population start college, either public or private, but very few finish because it is very hard to complete a career, often taking 8 or 10 years for an engineering
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by aortega 12y ago
Regarding build quality, check this: http://imgur.com/rqVgisL Thats my W540, sans plastic covers. The inners are solid magnesium.
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by aortega 12y ago
The last one with the IBM logo was the X60.
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by aortega 12y ago
Ubuntu synaptic drivers got it right. You dont have to push the touchpad all the way. Only touch it with two or three fingers.
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by aortega 12y ago
The thinkpad line is modular and you can buy a keyboard and replace yourself. That's the trick of the long live of my thinkpads: spares. I don't know if other notebooks has the ease of repair of a thinkpad. Maybe the Dells.
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by aortega 12y ago
With the new touchpad, the trackpoint is useless because it badly positioned. The trick is to use the multitouch pad like in a mac and forget about the trackpoint. It is actually not bad, you got pinch to zoom, two finger scroll, etc. Actu
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by aortega 12y ago
Thinkpads do not break, they accumulate. At any time I have 3 on the house, use them as media centers, donate them to mom, etc. Currently on a W540. Not very happy, but after some configuration is passable, cool and fast. Quality should be
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by aortega 12y ago
Probably. Edit: Yes, I missed it.
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by aortega 12y ago
Check any CTF or hacking contest (like Defcon CTF) They use FreeBSD as a playground.
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by aortega 12y ago
Basically FreeBSD and NetBSD are better as long as you don't connect them to Internet. In particular FreeBSD security is so abysmal, once you plug it to the internet you can't really say is your computer anymore. Edit: Downvote
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by aortega 12y ago
The article missed: 1) W^X protections 2) ASLR 3) Stack canaries 4) strlcpy 5) OpenSSH! 6) Heap guard pages 7) Software NX 8) Etc. Maybe project PAX invented some of those, but massive deployment was in OpenBSD first. Well if you can call t
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by aortega 12y ago
>I'd also like hashes of my firmware compared globally so I knew my firmware isn't special. And how do you know what is your firmware? surely you don't ask the suspected firmware for a copy of itself. Do you extract from m
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by aortega 12y ago
Maybe they meant "HMAC" or "Fingerprint".
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by aortega 12y ago
http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/coreboot/2015-February/079... >This means the OEM are fusing SHA256 public key hashes into the southbridge. SHA256 public keys, scary indeed.
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by aortega 12y ago
Ok scratch language. What about maths, or programming? My personal theory is that the only advantage kids have over adults its lots of free time. Not a small advantage, that is.
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by aortega 12y ago
I don't get this "Child's brains are better" thing. A Child needs up to 10 years to speak, read and write correctly in their native language. An adult can do it in a couple of years, months sometimes (not my case!) I hav
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by aortega 12y ago
Is not based in brainfuck, its a turing machine, and both look that way because any less instructions are not enough for programming a digital computer.
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by aortega 12y ago
Just want to point that this is just the basic instructions of a Turing machine, therefore this language is complete and equivalent to any other Turing-complete language.
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by aortega 12y ago
The paper actually has a nice one-sentence summary: "The group velocity of light in free space is reduced by controlling the transverse spatial structure of the light beam." The key word here is "group velocity"
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by aortega 12y ago
Makes sense, but can you think of an example about how a software developer would benefit for being a commodity worker?
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by aortega 12y ago
Labor can be seen as a scarce resource. If a US developer want to maximize profit he needs to be as scarce as possible. PG and startup employers are in the reverse situation: they need to commoditize labor as much as possible to maximize th
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by aortega 12y ago
All of these https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Features
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by aortega 12y ago
The problem with FreeBSD is that it has almost no security features turned on by default. It's more unsafe than windows and much worst than Linux.
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by aortega 12y ago
For critical system daemons, using a custom memory allocator that disables the in-built system security is insane. Injectable allocators that fill the heap with function pointers in predictable positions are what make exploiting them easy.

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