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by cantrevealname 5y ago
The following is entirely from memory: FLEXlm was originally written by just one guy. I think I remember his name -- his initials are M.C. if anyone would like to confirm that I'm recalling correctly. When he sold his stake he got ~$10
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
Based on the photo in an article linked to from the original article, the device appears to be this: https://www.xiaomitoday.com/product/texin-bg-e8/ Quoting from the ad: "The BG-E8 signal jammer weighs only
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
> Prosecutors say Holmes purposefully frustrated the government's effort. An email from Holmes' attorneys included the password, but failed to mention the private key ... before destroying the original database. If this was d
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
Heirs in the United States don't pay capital gains tax, but doesn't the estate of the super rich guy have to pay up to 40% in estate taxes on all his assests (with an exemption on the first ~$5M)? Jeff Bezos is worth $200B. If he
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
Thank you for researching that. That should be the top answer. I looked at the links above: the first two are definitely data centers[1][2] and they were definitely hit by ransomware. All the other replies on this page are assuming that dat
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Operation Monopoly: plan by FBI to build tunnel underneath the Soviet Embassy(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by cantrevealname 5y ago|0 comments
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
The tunnel I would love to see is the espionage tunnel built in complete secrecy under the then Soviet embassy in Washington DC constructed by the FBI and operated by the NSA, costing hundreds of millions of dollars, and about which we le
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
Anyone remember Napster? There were extremely obscure musical recordings that were instantly found on Napster that are impossible to find even today. It took a long time for anyone to rebuild that data to the level of usefulness that Napste
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
You said it happened twice. I haven't yet had to face this level of intrusiveness, but I fear that it's coming for all of us. May I ask what companies these were? If you don't want to name the exact companies, could you say t
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
> The transfers represented payments made by Colonial that had been transferred to an "address" whose password or "private key" was known to the FBI, which then recovered the money. It would be interesting to hear s
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Majority of $4.4M cryptocurrency ransom payment in Colonial Pipeline recovered(usatoday.com)
3 points by cantrevealname 5y ago|3 comments
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
> Bob's WhatsApp client reads the message and reports it back to the WhatsApp server. In every copy of the app, WhatsApp explicitly says, "Your messages, calls and status updates stay between you and the people you choose. N
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by cantrevealname 5y ago
It would be terrific to find a way to reproduce this. What do you believe is the likely reason for the link to be deleted? Do you think that the organizer (your friend) did something at his end that caused the link to be deleted everywhere?
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
Reading some of the comments here about entering your phone number on this site, I don’t believe there’s as much as risk as people seem to think. If the site were asking you to enter your username and password to check if it’s on a pwned
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> website operator can immediately search Facebook for the user name I’m not seeing that. If Facebook recognizes the phone number, it offers to send an SMS to that number or to send an email to an obfuscated email address (like r***@**
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> physical phenomenon of short-term aging as a route to detecting hardware Trojans Does anyone understand how this is supposed to work? As near as I can understand it, the idea is that an IC with a trojan horse will behave correctly fo
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Detection of Hardware Trojans Using Controlled Short-Term Aging(engineering.nyu.edu)
1 points by cantrevealname 6y ago|1 comments
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
That PDF you gave makes such an excellent argument that I thought it would be helpful to quote the best part: "When criminologists examine prison populations, they see a concentration of repeat offenders , most of whom will recidivate
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> Then use something else. Sure, until that feature is built into almost everything and it becomes mandatory to use it. Filing an income tax return? You must use this online system that captures every edit and every keystroke. There is
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
This is going to open a huge can of worms when lawyers demand the document history for discovery. You think that the final contract, patent application, user manual, or product specification you wrote is what matters? When the lawyers, re
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> Duration 4 years (02017-02020) ... a single event within a six month period starting no later than Dec 31 02020 Am I the only one who finds the terms above terribly ill-defined? Let's suppose an event happens on Dec 31 2020, and
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
I hope this is not too obvious a thing to mention, but if you want a really bare bones plaintext password manager on Linux, then use vim with its encryption mode: To create your list of usernames and passwords, create an encrypted file as
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
Wikipedia has a cause of death section for almost every deceased person. In your opinion, should Wikipedia remove cause of death from biographies? Remove them until legal implications are resolved? Remove some of them but not all of them?
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
Cause of death should be standard information when someone has passed away. If we're not supposed to talk about cause of death, then why should the age be mentioned? Why should the location where the person passed away be said? Why inc
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> installed 2015-2016 based on satellite imagery Unless the artist practiced very good OpSec or was so disciplined that he never checked for satellite imagery of his monument, someone with the right credentials -- like the government wit
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> Where did $8 billion go: health, science, education, and social action Other than science, those are some very bloated and inefficient causes. $1 billion to Cornell? Aren't most of the prestigious universities already swimming i
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> “Companies like Uber are the caretakers, not the owners, of customers’ personal information,” said U.S. Attorney Anderson (for the Northern District of California) [1] I would like that to be true, but everything I've read indica
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
> severe AMT vulnerabilities (basically allowing complete takeover of the PC through the network) Does this mean when the PC was connected by ethernet cable? Even by wifi? The exploit could have worked by visiting an arbitrary website?
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
I've been hearing about Intel’s Active Management Technology for years, but I'd like to see a demonstration of how an attack would work. I have an unused laptop with: 1. an Intel CPU that supports the vPro feature set 2. an Intel
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by cantrevealname 6y ago
I want to love that book -- it's everything I'm interested in -- but oh my god that book is so verbose. For example, he spends 1.5 pages describing what the clouds in the sky look like and it has nothing to do with the plot. I t

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