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by cataflam 6y ago
Correct. If you fetch mail, you're vulnerable (at least that's my understanding). You can use third-party apps, or Safari if it's a webmail.
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by cataflam 6y ago
Since it is a bit buried in the comments, and not explicitly mentioned in the article, here is a working mitigation. From the founder/CEO of ZecOps twitter directly: https://twitter.com/ihackbanme/status/12529
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by cataflam 6y ago
From the founder/CEO of ZecOps twitter directly: https://twitter.com/ihackbanme/status/1252990118945681409 Q: If a user turns off mail sync for their accounts into the mail app, is that a mitigation? A: Yes.
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by cataflam 7y ago
I don't have a source handy, I think it was Prof. Drosten, but I've read that in Germany, there were many such anecdotal stories as well. The blood serum of these people got tested, and there was no indication that any of them had
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by cataflam 7y ago
> I find it fascinating how committed everyone now is to Zoom when, at least in my circle, almost nobody had used it before two weeks ago. Anecdotally, almost every startup/VC/etc. in my circle has been using Zoom for the past
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by cataflam 7y ago
I'm going to make a wild bet that active FitBit users are not representative of the population on that matter, and will try to maintain a higher level of activity.
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by cataflam 7y ago
You can read this report from a doctor there (translated in English on reddit): https://www.reddit.com/r/medicine/comments/ff8hns/testimony_... (the original links in Italian are at the bottom of the pos
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by cataflam 7y ago
Blizzard battle.net used to do that, and probably still does: transform to lower or upper case (then hash because I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt), instead of dealing with customer support at a large scale of people messing up
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by cataflam 7y ago
Isn't this a fairly recent change?
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by cataflam 7y ago
On that topic, a tool named f3 exists to test the capacity of that flash drive/card you just bought from Amazon. https://github.com/AltraMayor/f3/
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by cataflam 7y ago
All marketing email has an unsubscribe link if it didn't before, and you know it actually works now to stop the emails, not just confirm your email address works. You also know you can get all the information a company has on you, and
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First stable release of Black: the uncompromising Python code formatter(github.com)
3 points by cataflam 7y ago|0 comments
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Signal Android bug: users can still share media with a group they left(github.com)
2 points by cataflam 7y ago|1 comments
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by cataflam 7y ago
Oh right, my bad. I've since realized it's a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19963640
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by cataflam 7y ago
I think the author is https://twitter.com/PavelDoGreat And the source is https://github.com/PavelDoGreat/WebGL-Fluid-Simulation
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by cataflam 7y ago
That was only true in coastal North America (and even there, the tales of disgust have probably also been exaggerated), not Europe. There are traces of it being appreciated going back to the Romans and Greeks. http://www.foodtime
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To improve, focus on your strengths (and ignore your weaknesses)(summation.net)
3 points by cataflam 7y ago|0 comments
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by cataflam 8y ago
The explanation that made me understand git reset the best is "Git Tools – Reset Demystified" from the Pro Git book [0]. Everything has been crystal clear since. I highly recommend it if you use git. [0] https://git-scm
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by cataflam 8y ago
Not exactly the same, but the EU has commissioned audits and just started a bug bounty program on some important open source projects. https://juliareda.eu/2018/12/eu-fossa-bug-bounties/
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by cataflam 8y ago
Not the parent, but probably because 1. It's notorious that hard drives have a higher failure rate at the beginning of their lives than in the middle (see bathtub curve [0]). So it's not absurd to test them hard early on before wr
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by cataflam 8y ago
Mirror as the bugtracker seems to be taking a beating from the post: https://archive.fo/Dmtwo
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by cataflam 8y ago
WiFi chips and baseband processors are particularly attractive targets for exploitation, since they are network entry point for devices, and running systems that have probably been less investigated (at least publicly). Very nice research a
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by cataflam 8y ago
> not really an OS, just a super-fast way of dealing with I/O streams Saying this without any animosity, but you would probably be interested in reading about the history of operating systems. Desktop OSes are a (very visible) minor
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by cataflam 8y ago
> hope he didn't write 300K lines of Terraform code. If you look at the company, their product is providing infrastructure code, it was not a byproduct.
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by cataflam 8y ago
There is (at least) one company providing this kind of services. They tag in the movie all the content with timestamps, and can provide it to a player to skip or not depending on the tag (nudity, violence, etc.). As far as I know, it was ma
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by cataflam 8y ago
It's We Really Don't Know How To Compute! by Gerald Jay Sussman
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by cataflam 8y ago
Fun stuff! The article has an old vibe of hacking articles published in the '90s/'00s (in a good way). > obviously, it was password protected Not obvious at all. Last time I checked, WhatsApp or Telegram didn't passwo
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Managing PostgreSQL backup and replication for very large databases(medium.com)
4 points by cataflam 8y ago|1 comments
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by cataflam 8y ago
That's not for your benefit, that's for them to verify you're a human / not a spammer / collect information (at least that seems like the most reasonable explanation to me).
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by cataflam 8y ago
Interesting. They do have Mark Russinovich of colossal SysInternals fame as Azure CTO though.

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