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asclepi
5y ago
I agree, it absolutely is interesting research, and I appreciate the detailed explanation that was published. Although the proximity requirement severely limits the possible impact, it does make us think again about the security of our Wi-F
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asclepi
5y ago
I agree with the industry response here. KRACK was the same thing. The author finds a vulnerability that is absolutely valid (no denying here), easy to exploit in a lab but very hard to exploit in practice. Back in the day, we did test ou
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asclepi
5y ago
IIRC, "a heck of a long time" refers to the time elapsed since the initial release of OpenBSD in July 1996. Patches for vulnerabilities are listed per release on https://www.openbsd.org/errata.html
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asclepi
6y ago
Oh, we can fulfill them. We'll resort to TLS inspection and force you to trust our CA on your device if you want to continue accessing our corporate network. And now we get to see (almost) everything again, like in the "good old d
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asclepi
6y ago
I agree. For several years I have been looking on and off for a layman way to locate a source of a sound, but haven't found anything. A solution like this could resolve many of the lingering "hum" cases. Often they are only h
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asclepi
6y ago
Here's hoping it also reduces the exorbitant amount of false positives we've been seeing with Stripe's fraud prevention services, which cost us a lot in lost legitimate sales.
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asclepi
6y ago
I had a Little Printer, and I believe the article is slightly over-romanticizing the device. It was slow, not only the printing itself but there would also be a considerable delay before it would start printing as everything had to go throu
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asclepi
7y ago
If the item you're ordering is out of stock or unavailable to ship immediately, the shipping method time starts when the item ships. For example, it will take two business days after an item ships to reach you with Two-Day Shipping.
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asclepi
7y ago
They did, but they also wasted a lot of time in January, allowing the virus to travel the world. But as you mentioned, other nations made similar mistakes, and they had the benefit of being warned. However, when it comes to the question of
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asclepi
7y ago
I agree, demonizing the Chinese people is the worst thing anyone can do. They didn't want this virus either, but they taught us how we can contain it, and they paid the price with countless human lives. The CCP is the one that needs to
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Kali Linux 2020.1 Released – Non-Root by Default
(kali.org)
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7y ago
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asclepi
7y ago
Absolutely, but Whatsapp it isn't distinguishing any less between Whatsapp users and non-Whatsapp users. Messages doesn't entirely cut you off from people who don't bring money to Apple, and it doesn't require another ap
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asclepi
7y ago
> You seem to be attaching too much significance to the color. I'm not. That is what the Twitter OP indicated as the actual reason. He was left out " specifically because he was on Android and turned the thread green" (si
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7y ago
83% of US teens have an iPhone according to Piper Jaffray in April 2019 [1]. That number is biased, however, as 1) it's solely based on a survey done in high schools, and not every teen will feel comfortable admitting they have somethi
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7y ago
> If someone wants to join the chat, then its on them to get on board with what everyone else wants. However, when a community of people chooses Whatsapp as the exclusive form of communication, everyone in that community is forced to get
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asclepi
7y ago
> Nobody was going to switch to an entirely different mode of communication just for my sake Please elaborate. No iPhone user has to switch from the "iMessage" app to the "SMS" app to reach an Android user or include
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asclepi
7y ago
That's not how it works. These kids didn't create the stigma for the green bubble. Popular culture did, big-money TV, movie and music productions did, and teens are the most susceptible. Try finding a recent US-produced music vide
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7y ago
That's subjective, but your observations are valid in many scenarios. The point I want to make is that Messages is not preventing them from including Android users because they don't have an iPhone, which is a general misunderstan
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asclepi
7y ago
The same applies. Messages can perfectly handle group messages that include a mix of iOS and Android users. Unlike Whatsapp, Messages doesn't require that every participant has Messages, nor that they have an iPhone. Messages will send
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asclepi
7y ago
I do notice a pattern of misunderstanding that I've also observed when talking with Android users IRL. iMessage is very different from Whatsapp. For starters, there is no dedicated iMessage app. iMessage is managed from the iOS Message
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asclepi
7y ago
iMessage reverts to SMS when the recipient doesn't have an iPhone. All within the same app. To what does Whatsapp revert when the recipient doesn't have Whatsapp?
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asclepi
7y ago
As usual in aviation, you cannot make a decision without impacting a lot of other stuff, this case is no different. For example, on certain aircraft models with limited OH space, a number of luggage OH bins - especially towards the extrem
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asclepi
7y ago
NetSol was the only bidder when the government solicited for a registrar to manage registrations for the domain name registry, and was again the sole bidder when the government privatized the registry itself two years later.
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asclepi
7y ago
This was Verisign, which acquired Network Solutions in 2000. Verisign had already spun off the registry unit from Network Solutions when this incident happened. The remaining registrar business of Network Solutions, along with the name, was
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7y ago
There was no net transfer of money from NetSol to the registry for those domains, except when a customer would accept the offer for the domain. They registered the name, and just before the 5-day ICANN Add Grace Period would end, they rever
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asclepi
8y ago
I also appreciate the open nature of Reddit. No account is required if you just want to read, and you don't need to be first "approved" to most subreddits to be able to contribute. No "real-name" policies that often
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New Service Blocks EU Users so Companies Can Save Thousands on GDPR Compliance
(bleepingcomputer.com)
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8y ago
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8y ago
It's too early to tell. My feeling is that you will be right on May 25th, 2018. Nothing significant will change in the short term. But my feeling is also that the parent will be right on May 25th, 2021, if the EU chooses to enforce the
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8y ago
I did that and it bit back when it prevented Transmit from connecting to my servers, with only a generic "Unable to connect" message popping up. This was fixed fairly recently[0], but it's a reminder that using a restricted s
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8y ago
Any good nautical store should have them. Obviously, you'll find those only at the coasts or near rivers. I can recommend American Nautical Services[0]. [0] https://www.amnautical.com
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