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by casca 13y ago
For more info on the how and why of US car dealerships, here's a good Planet Money podcast: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2014/03/14/290241292/episode-...
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by casca 13y ago
Amusingly, with Hangouts down, Skype video chats have become unusable. Time to move to Jitsi[1]? [1] https://jitsi.org/
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by casca 13y ago
Comodo PositiveSSL: $9/year, works with all modern browsers and email clients: https://www.namecheap.com/security/ssl-certificates/domain-v...
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by casca 13y ago
Their Data Protection Register submission confirms that "When this is needed information may be transferred to countries or territories around the world". For those not familiar with the UK Information Commissioners Office (ICO) p
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by casca 13y ago
Remotely exploitable vulnerabilities in commonly used languages and systems are not the same as "every security bug". These are important because knowing about them allows people to make a (usually) easy fix to protect themselves
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Python socket.recvfrom_into() remote buffer overflow(pastebin.com)
77 points by casca 13y ago|19 comments
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Now I know why the wealthy and privileged are low achievers(irishtimes.com)
1 points by casca 13y ago|0 comments
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IOS secure coding guide from Apple (2014-02-11)(developer.apple.com)
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Fake SSL certificates deployed across the internet(news.netcraft.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Thank you!
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by casca 13y ago
Do you have any material or guidance that could be used for people wanting to set up a similar programme in other parts of the world?
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Four easy ways to protect your Mac from malware(blogs.sophos.com)
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Massive German hack sees one fifth of population’s passwords stolen(digitalstrategyconsulting.com)
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Focus - An endangered species(whatsthetrick.com)
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by casca 13y ago
While the Hawthorne Effect is widely cited, even after many years the results have not been reliably reproduced so it should be invoked cautiously.
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by casca 13y ago
While physical access on almost any hardware (without whole-disk encryption) will always allow full access, it's good that this is sometimes raised as many people either don't know or don't internalize this. A more interestin
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by casca 13y ago
Agreed, but I'd have thought that it was worth raising for those who are not familiar with where Docker is in the development cycle.
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by casca 13y ago
"* Please note Docker is currently under heavy developement. It should not be used in production (yet)." [1] [1] http://www.docker.io/learn_more/
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by casca 13y ago
For a very good (if long) explanation about Bitcoin in general and why this information is potentially relevant to the progress of Bitcoin - http://www.michaelnielsen.org/ddi/how-the-bitcoin-protocol-a...
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by casca 13y ago
Perhaps he's more skilled at Windows than at Linux? In which case, if he were to switch to a platform that's unfamiliar, he would be more likely to make an error that would lead him to being vulnerable. I'd suggest that by us
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by casca 13y ago
Can you please explain why? Is there some evidence you have that shows that Windows is less secure than any other OS? Please take into account the huge market share which means that malware writers will spend a disproportionate amount of ti
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Inside Evasi0n, The Most Elaborate Jailbreak To Ever Hack Your iPhone(forbes.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Juniper were making good inroads into the corporate firewall market at the expense of Checkpoint. It'll be interesting to see whether this sees a move back to Checkpoint as the firewall product of choice.
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by casca 13y ago
This patent was originally owned by Certicom, now part of Blackberry. One of the inventors was Scott Vanstone who's excellent book, Handbook of Applied Cryptography lives on my desk. The patent seems to indicate that Dual EC is known t
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by casca 13y ago
While patio11 has undoubtedly made a vast contribution to HN, your posts are consistently exceptional and always worth the time taken to digest.
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Linux backdoor squirts code into SSH to keep its badness buried(theregister.co.uk)
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Google Zeitgeist - what did we search for in 2013(google.com)
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Bots now running the Internet with 61 percent of Web traffic(news.cnet.com)
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by casca 13y ago
Sadly not. For example, for an individual app I might want to block access to the analytics services like Flurry but allow access to necessary services.
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by casca 13y ago
For those on a jailbroken iPhone, firewallIP[1] is the best way to control apps' access to the network. Every time a network connection is requested, you get a system popup that controls access to individual destinations, wildcards, wh

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