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by brown9-2 13y ago
If the issue can be caused by inserting null bytes into the session, then it sounds like the signed cookie verification might have stopped at the first null byte, allowing the attacker to place other data after the null byte which the appli
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Is it people in power? How many interns and aides do you think work in Congress?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
What if you don't stream the copywritten work, and instead download it for later viewing/listening?
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Prism was not a day later. From the very article linked to above: Although the Guardian and the Post published nearly simultaneously on the PRISM story, it looks like the Post may have beaten the Guardian, only just, in getting the story l
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's worthwhile to point out that the people who write editorials and opinion columns for the paper are often firewalled somewhat from the actual journalists, so you can't really reduce it to a single belief that the entire organi
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I'm curious if Huffington could get the same price today.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Also great - the @WhatIfNumbers twitter feed: https://twitter.com/whatifnumbers
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Isn't this how the march of technology always works? Governments knew how to tap analog phone lines well, and when cell phones became popular they had to adapt methods. Governments knew how to capture or analyze mail traffic, and when
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Almost every other paragraph in this article diminishes the strong-sounding headline British Foreign Office brushed off the significance of the German move. "It's a loose end from a previous era which is right to tie up," th
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Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?(vanityfair.com)
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Does that lessen the probability that someone saw it on Facebook and called the police?
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Google ‘pressure cooker,’ get a police visit? Maybe not.(washingtonpost.com)
49 points by brown9-2 13y ago|40 comments
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by brown9-2 13y ago
What you've described is a trait of human beings, not politicians and lawyers.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
You have a typo in this sentence: We believe that the future of Two-Factor Auth is one were our devices will do the work for us in order to provide us a greater and simpler security.
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House Party: Working and Living at the Office(online.wsj.com)
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's also not effective if h) TLS was never used in the first place. Facebook hasn't always been all that secure to eavesdropping.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
How long has https been an option with Facebook and messages? I don't think it was always required, if ever.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Those are the Five Eyes countries: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Eyes
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High Performance Browser Networking - read online for free(chimera.labs.oreilly.com)
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's not clear to me that the opposition of the "Democratic establishment" in 2005 was so much the idea of wiretapping some Americans by the NSA, but the fact that it was done without warrants nor was it authorized under any
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by brown9-2 13y ago
The fact that someone is using an argument that was also used at one point in time by someone who has a loose relationship with the truth (like Cheney) doesn't make that person today into an automatic liar. If the argument was wrong wh
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by brown9-2 13y ago
This is speculation, but it seems like in the result of a true loss of the redis-master or it's datacenter, someone would have to reconfigure one of the slaves to become a master and reconfigure the applications that use it (or perhaps
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's incredibly unfair to come up with your own reasoning behind a statement someone has made (especially for a person who has been upfront, and verbose, on this topic as tptacek). It's also quite self-defeating in that it allows
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It seems like existing Netflix customers have a strong incentive to "buy" the Chromecast since it is essentially free as long as your Netflix plan is $12/month or more: Once your Chromecast ships, you will recieve an email w
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by brown9-2 13y ago
This presumes that the Russian government actually cares about that supposed demand.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
I don't think you need to look that far into Russia's past to find more relevant ironies, just look at the Navalny case: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16057045
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by brown9-2 13y ago
It's not in the post, it was in the company.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Or Congress could pass new laws that remove any ambiguity that allows for a different "interpretation" than what was intended.
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Taxes are the means of transferring worth to folks like firefighters, police officers, construction works etc... You know, the folks who hold up infrastructure and need to eat food and stuff. And I can count on one hand the number of peopl
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by brown9-2 13y ago
Instead of voting to block funding for programs, why not repeal the laws that enable those programs in the first place? I don't understand this logic.

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