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by bsamuels 9y ago
anyone who actually admits to owning millions in crypto in this thread can expect to spend the next couple of months getting spear phished
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by bsamuels 9y ago
bluetooth will generally "just work" when using two devices with the same manufacturer's chipset (this is not a rule by any measure though). in my experience, many bluetooth hiccups are caused by manufacturers having alternat
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by bsamuels 9y ago
what precisely has he done to education in the US that makes you doubt him?
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by bsamuels 9y ago
so whats the latest way of getting past the paywall?
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by bsamuels 9y ago
Depends on the kind of stock RSUs are already taxed, so not selling them is like a conscious decision to buy the company's stock.
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by bsamuels 9y ago
I'm sorry, but we're looking for social skills, not empathy. -Facebook Recruiter
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by bsamuels 9y ago
i have the same feelings about "cracking the coding interview" the day someone unironically asks me to "Write an algorithm to print all ways of arranging eight queens on a chess board so that none of them share the same row,
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by bsamuels 9y ago
there's a little more to this than autodialing; dialing the entire keyspace would have taken several days. presenter used some manufacturing defects to narrow the keyspace into something that could be cracked in 45 minutes.
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by bsamuels 9y ago
a good content security policy goes a very long way towards allowing workable custom html
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by bsamuels 9y ago
cali community college is around 500-600/semester in tuition. you can get the tuition waived completely if youre from an economically disadvantaged background.
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by bsamuels 9y ago
this is really freaking cool how do you generate the maps? maybe you can sell that to companies so they can index their internal documentation into mind maps
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by bsamuels 9y ago
the "radar" is back. instead of using the old 1-3 steps system to gauge distance, it says which pokestop the pokemon is closest to
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by bsamuels 9y ago
Didn't really have any other choice. We had tons of users calling in last week panicking over what to do about cherryblossom. Without a sample of the implant or confirmation from the CIA that the documents are legitimate & unaltere
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by bsamuels 9y ago
There were no vulnerabilities included in the cherryblossom leak. If you have any information about RCEs, Cherryblossom details we may have missed, or any other vulnerabilities in Linksys devices, please email me directly at benjamin.samuel
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by bsamuels 9y ago
A factory reset _is not_ enough. A factory reset will just clear a part of the NVRAM that holds configuration - any firmware implant will still be on the device. There were no vulnerabilities included in the cherryblossom leak. The firmware
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by bsamuels 9y ago
Linksys security guy here - we got that firmware update tidbit from the cherryblossom documentation. The firmware implant (aka flytrap) reproduces all of the router's normal functionality. On page 122 of the cherryblossom docs, it says
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by bsamuels 9y ago
if you move from washington to a state where non-competes are unenforcable, can amazon still sue you?
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by bsamuels 9y ago
i dont answer phone calls from numbers i dont recognize because 90% of the calls i receive are telemarketing if they dont leave a voicemail i assume it's not important enough for a phone call
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by bsamuels 9y ago
how does road salting affect the value of leasing versus financing a used car?
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by bsamuels 9y ago
dont think i've ever seen packaging that advertised that a router works well in a crowded environment
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by bsamuels 9y ago
> If you lost power, you still probably wouldn't be able to move the stick, or it wouldn't do anything. item of interest: some commercial aircraft have a mechanical flight control mode where the pilot can mechanically control s
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by bsamuels 9y ago
because then the vast majority of users wouldn't know how to use it. even if you include instructions you'll have a huge proportion of users who will either return the device because they couldn't figure it out, or call your
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by bsamuels 9y ago
usually the firmware for these devices was written up to 10 years ago, when the threat landscape was very different from what it is today. you'll notice that newer devices on fresh codebases (ie: mesh routers) are much more up to par s
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by bsamuels 10y ago
I dont get everyones gripe about the lack of HTTPS as long as there's firmware signing. HTTPS as a protocol ages extremely fast, trust anchors always change, and there's no guarantee that today's state of the art won't b
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by bsamuels 10y ago
unfortunately, you're not going to get very much machine learning mileage out of an AMD GPU like Scorpio is using
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by bsamuels 10y ago
Thinkpad T420. Replaced the hard drive with a 128gb SSD, and added an extra 4 gigs of RAM. It does everything I need, has a fantastic keyboard, good aesthetics, and has a great aftermarket for additional upgrades.
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by bsamuels 10y ago
so basically they're ASICs? Would love some tech details, but it seems that the paper wont be published until 5pm today
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by bsamuels 10y ago
> it was like a game of Diplomacy more than anything else. Maybe that's why the EVE Online guys were able to hold their own so well against the larger and more popular games right next to their logo :)
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by bsamuels 10y ago
your advice is excellent for makers and hackers, but if you're building a product, arduino/raspberry pi is far too expensive
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by bsamuels 10y ago
it's very easy to say "wow they should have tested for that" in retrospect with any vulnerability

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