atoponce

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by atoponce 12y ago
When you initiate a connection to an OpenSSH server, the server presents you with its public key, which is hashed with MD5, and the result displayed. You _should_ verify this with the server administrator that the fingerprints matched, and
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by atoponce 12y ago
People only disable RC4 due to PCI audits, because PCI vendors think RC4 is practically broken. It's not. In practice, it's still secure: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RC4#Security . The only way to practicall
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by atoponce 12y ago
Oh brother. Chef is Free and Open Source Software as defined by the Free Software Foundation. It's licensed under the Apache License. It doesn't get any more clear than that.
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by atoponce 12y ago
I've said it before, I'll say it again: hashcash.
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by atoponce 12y ago
As a cloud hosting provider, I don't want to give customers access to the hardware node. Then what?
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by atoponce 12y ago
How does this compare to dakarand? http://dankaminsky.com/2012/08/15/dakarand/
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by atoponce 12y ago
I just recently discovered this setup. I've been running Cyanogenmod for a few years, but was always under the impression I needed Google to use my phone, such as making calls. After my most recent install, I decided to go with F-Droid
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by atoponce 12y ago
That's an intelligent reply. Thanks for sharing your intellect with us.
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by atoponce 12y ago
This is why upstream developers should use /etc/default/ to place daemon configuration files into. Then the configuration file could have "START=no", and even though the policy would start the daemon by default, the
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by atoponce 12y ago
Installing packages from source is fine, but then you have to maintain all security updates and patches from upstream, and you need full control over where all the files are populated on your filesystem. This is a lot of administration over
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by atoponce 12y ago
The /etc/default/<daemon> configuration file comes from upstream, and is not created by the package maintainer.
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by atoponce 12y ago
The post is missing a critical point: per the Debian policy, services should only bind to localhost upon installation. Further, Debain advertises itself as the "universal" operating system. This implies that the defaults are sane
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by atoponce 12y ago
People still use Gmail? If so, I'm guessing the site doesn't pull up for them when they try to visit it. So, why is this important for posting on HN?
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by atoponce 12y ago
Where is this located? I'm not seeing any geographical boundaries to give me a sense of where I'm looking.
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by atoponce 12y ago
That's very unfortunate. With the revelations of Edward Snowden against the NSA, and the ability to call into questions the ethics of cloud computing and their providers, startup cloud companies that don't provide their software c
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by atoponce 12y ago
Is the source code Free and Open Source Software?
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by atoponce 12y ago
For future reference, "rm -rf .??*" will prevent traversing up the filesystem.
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by atoponce 12y ago
No doubt, Barney the Purple Dinosaur is also Satan! I have proof! http://www.fivesolas.com/barney.htm /me rolls his eyes, and moves on.
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Self hosted, self-destructing encrypted notes web app "d-note" v1.0 released(pthree.org)
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by atoponce 12y ago
Where is QR and Datamatrix?
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by atoponce 12y ago
This seems like an overly complex Diceware. Not only do I have to remember the phrase (Diceware), but I have to remember the first three letters of each word in the phrase. Interesting, but cumbersome.
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by atoponce 12y ago
People, please, for the love of everything good and holy, stop developing tall websites. At first it was cool, but it get annoying really fast. I however have not read any of to comments, but I'm guessing there is probably some negativ
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by atoponce 12y ago
Debian GNU/Linux
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by atoponce 12y ago
I used to think this way. In fact, when applying for a job, I would only submit my resume in PDF. I've stopped this. I know you think you're doing good to the world by telling people to shove it, by adhering to your standards. But
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by atoponce 12y ago
Let's start getting a list together then.
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by atoponce 12y ago
Your site... in under private invite, with a CSS spam popup? TC;DR
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by atoponce 12y ago
3 billion Internet users have PGP keys? I must of missed that. At last count, I was aware of about 350,000 total, many of which are expired, clearly fake identities, or generated many times by the same user, either because they don't u
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by atoponce 12y ago
I love that the prime numbers after 10 are red, and that you end on a prime number. Even better, is I love the divisions of each number, showing the multiplication factors. Well thought out, solid design, and has randomness incorporated int
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by atoponce 12y ago
I have a unique password for every single one of my accounts (including computer logins and SSH keys). Each password is randomly generated, and meets sufficient entropy to withstand sophisticated attacks from even the most determined hardwa
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by atoponce 12y ago
"However, OpenPGP has not been widely adopted among individuals, and thus there is no large web of trust as originally indented." I guess the author is not familiar with the PGP strong set, the largest connected OpenPGP Web of Tru

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