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Russia has developed a cyberweapon that can disrupt power grids(washingtonpost.com)
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by bqe 9y ago
Software Engineer | DefenseStorm | Seattle, WA | ONSITE https://www.defensestorm.com DefenseStorm is a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage the deluge of security data that they produce.
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by bqe 9y ago
In Washington state, ranchers are subsidized. They are allowed to graze their cattle on public land for free, and when wolves kill their cattle, Washington state Fish and Wildlife uses helicopters to kill the wolves at over $1,000/hour
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Mastodon(github.com)
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by bqe 10y ago
> "Is everyone really going to open a separate application, unlock the vault every time they want to use it (due to timeout), Ctrl+F for the URL, and then Ctrl+C out the username and password every time they want to visit a site? Al
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by bqe 10y ago
Haven't used it, but it looks like there are a few apps for iOS: https://mssun.github.io/passforios/ KeePass is a good solution, too. It also has iOS apps.
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by bqe 10y ago
It's a risk, albeit a small one. Individual passwords are easy to change if compromised. I have personally never miscopied them. Both pass and KeePass will automatically clear your clipboard a little while after copying the password. H
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by bqe 10y ago
Here's a question you should ask yourself: do you want malicious webpages or malvertising to have direct API access to your password manager? This is the case with all password manager browser extensions. A desktop-based password manag
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by bqe 10y ago
The argument is pretty straightforward. According to this paper, vegetarian philosophers argue that livestock live lives not worth living because of the cruel treatment they receive. The paper then argues that wild animals receive worse tre
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by bqe 10y ago
This might be true, but AWS's support is not good. To get good AWS support for when their ELBs aren't working, or when half of your EBS volumes have multi-second IO latency, you need to pay for premium support, which is 10% of you
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by bqe 10y ago
At best, this make it looks like sama is talking without considering his words carefully. At worst, it confirms many people's fears of how those in Silicon Valley view the world.
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by bqe 10y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that a large portion of the crypto/security community is so inherently biased that you can't trust their expert opinion on the field that they're expert in? Who do you trust?
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by bqe 10y ago
It's much easier to remember TicketBleed than CVE-2016-9244. It also conveys severity.
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by bqe 10y ago
Given the litany of serious, exploitable flaws major AVs have had recently, nothing is better than something.
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by bqe 10y ago
This is also the case for Elasticsearch. In fact, to get a proper username/password/ACL setup, you need to pay for professional support.
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by bqe 10y ago
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert Caro If you're interested in the complex history of LBJ, the Senate, or America during that time, I'd recommend this (or really, any) Robert Caro book.
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National Popular Vote Interstate Compact(en.wikipedia.org)
19 points by bqe 10y ago|7 comments
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by bqe 10y ago
This is why I use Firefox on Android, actually.
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by bqe 10y ago
DefenseStorm | Seattle, WA | Software Engineer/Security Researcher | ONSITE We're a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage the deluge of security data that they produce. We take all of the s
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Stanislav Petrov(en.wikipedia.org)
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by bqe 10y ago
This paper also describes an attack on Argon2, which lowers the amount of memory required by an attacker.
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Balloon Hashing: A Function Providing Protection Against Sequential Attacks [pdf](eprint.iacr.org)
62 points by bqe 10y ago|21 comments
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by bqe 10y ago
DefenseStorm | Seattle, WA | Software Engineer/Security Researcher | ONSITE We're a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage the deluge of security data that they produce. We take all of the s
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by bqe 10y ago
DefenseStorm | Seattle, WA | Software Engineer/Security Researcher | ONSITE We're a cybersecurity startup that helps banks and other financial institutions manage the deluge of security data that they produce. We take all of the s
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by bqe 10y ago
As an anecdotal counterpoint, I have tried meditation (both guided and solo) many times and have found it to have little to no benefit long term. I get none of the benefits mentioned above.
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by bqe 10y ago
They have a history of trying to explain away their security problems as not really their fault. That alone should give any LastPass user pause.
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by bqe 10y ago
How could their pricing page be clearer? It says per host in fairly large letters underneath it. I'm asking because I will be designing a similar page soon (that's also billed per host) and I'd like to avoid the same mistakes
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by bqe 10y ago
Time spent at work is easy to measure. Productivity is difficult to measure.
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by bqe 10y ago
When I was in college, the I-35W bridge collapsed and many people died. In my differential equations class the next day, my professor was handing back our tests and told us–a class of engineers–that every red mark on our tests was another d
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by bqe 10y ago
The challenge of leadership is that of leading people, not of writing code. Dealing with people can be messy, frustrating, and depressing, but it's what needs to be done. As a CTO, I code about 30% of the time, but I expect that to go

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