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by ax0n 17y ago
You implied blame at the provider level. We might as well run a headline saying "Security flaw to blame for rash of area burglaries" when said security flaw was the failure to lock the front door.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I'd suggest that any way you get around a given system has hack value. As someone else mentioned: social engineers have been called "hackers" before. When I was doing penetration tests a decade ago, some of my best client engagements requir
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by ax0n 17y ago
It wasn't likely to be so much "poor security" as it was likely to be a weakly protected account: a shared ID for everyone or credentials sitting in plain view.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Most auto Stealerships are just using the same old broadband that home users have, with dynamic DHCP IP addresses. As for the provider? I wouldn't likely blame them. It was likely that several dealerships may have set up one shared account
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by ax0n 17y ago
Funny. Also, these are very easy to bypass if you are at all familiar with automotive alarm or remote-start installation.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Basically, Australia has a walmart. Or three.
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by ax0n 17y ago
Look into the public-facing (non-membership) mailing lists used by some of the hackerspaces. They all have their own passions and politics, so the ones I like won't likely be the ones you like. CCCKC has an information-security specific lis
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by ax0n 17y ago
This is quite possibly the first thing I've ever seen that makes me want an iPhone. I hope you release something like it for real computers eventually.
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Dynamic/Interactive Periodic Table(ptable.com)
23 points by ax0n 17y ago|2 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
Welcome to the high tech era, where "Mine is smaller than yours" is usually something to brag about.
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Pennsylvania’s CISO fired after talk at RSA Conference(pennlive.com)
3 points by ax0n 17y ago|0 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
You can count me as one of the unsurprised. The fact is that the sanitizers only work while moist, and they evaporate quickly. You'd basically need to bathe constantly in it (which would destroy your skin, by the way) for it to be effective
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by ax0n 17y ago
Perfect. The karma game is old and tired. This puts the focus on the discussion, not the popularity contests. Thanks, pg!
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Computer. Freedom. Privacy.(lifezero.squarespace.com)
1 points by ax0n 17y ago|0 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
I love requestpolicy, because it DOES let you say "ad company X's ads only display if they're being shown on Y.com"
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by ax0n 17y ago
Wow! You guys are harsh . Love it. I should have been harsher. :P
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by ax0n 17y ago
Neither would I, and that's cool by me. He's not stupid, just naïve and young. I don't wish him to be unsuccessful, but I do hope his reputation keeps him out of journalism and PR.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I'm with you, but it's likely that he won't ever be taken seriously again. That is the sort of thing that IS just punishment, so long as it plays out that way.
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by ax0n 17y ago
+1. Reaching out to someone? Not a horrible idea. Reaching out to Calacanis? What in the hell was he (not) thinking? He's the nosy watercooler gossip lady of the blogosphere.
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Mac OS X North American installed base almost 11%(arstechnica.com)
6 points by ax0n 17y ago|0 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
I know I'm probably one of like 5 HNers who gives a shit about OpenSolaris, but it looked pretty dicey there for a bit, and I'm glad Peter Tribble posted this and that there seems to be some movement and support from Oracle.
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by ax0n 17y ago
I am a complete sucker for all things Life. Awesome!
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by ax0n 17y ago
In these situations: Getting published or landing a talk at a well-known conference helps. So do certifications and degrees, as much as I hate to say it. A lot of the questions asked of your references are less about what you know and how g
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by ax0n 17y ago
For all the "you may know about Bernstien because... " stuff at the beginning of the article, I can't believe "because he's a pretentious, self-important douche" didn't make the list. And it's not that it's completely and totally undeserved
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by ax0n 17y ago
Same here, and IE8 won't even run on this computer.
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Lightning Reveals Its Power in Slow Motion(wired.com)
1 points by ax0n 17y ago|0 comments
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by ax0n 17y ago
I think I noticed my downvote button showed up around 200 karma?
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by ax0n 17y ago
Most certainly. But further, it's possible to write unintentionally exploitable code in any language.
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by ax0n 17y ago
It is not, however, disingenuous to lump him in with the mediocre non-scientists.
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by ax0n 17y ago
No, because I know absolutely nothing about Haskell. I do know that if there was a silver-bullet language that was 100% "secure", everyone would be using it. This attack is x86 machine-code-native, so Haskell in a VM is not vulnerable to th

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