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by chflags 10y ago
I agree with the distinction you make between targeted and non-targeted. But I think being able to easily accomplish targeted attacks on SSL/TLS is a cause for concern -- and indeed that's what I'm thinking of. My thought
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by chflags 10y ago
The traffic between the attacker and the private network would have been properly encrypted. Assuming they chose a sensible cipher suite, where is the "crypto flaw"? Maybe the problem is not the crypto but the strange system devis
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by chflags 10y ago
"... breaks the trust model of SSL/TLS," Certainly some of the encryption one can get via SSL/TLS is worth something. (But then one could use that encryption outside of TLS, too.) And maybe some elements of the prot
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by chflags 10y ago
Does RT still use mrsync? Great program.
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by chflags 10y ago
Boots from SD card. Uses U-Boot for bootloader. Hardware support in two BSD projects as well as Linux. Godspeed.
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by chflags 10y ago
That's why I'd prefer a search engine that was not using AWS, or Yahoo. Too many needless dependencies. Out of curiousity I'm starting a counter today. Will post something when this IP addr fails. Feel free to take a guess
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by chflags 10y ago
Why do they say "duckduckgo-owned"? It appears they are using AWS. Who really owns the server? echo 50.18.192.251 duckduckgo.com >> /etc/hosts Avoids needless DNS lookups; saves DNS logs from your footprin
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by chflags 10y ago
So it's not possible to log on without enabling Javascript? I guess that's one way to coerce the user into enabling Javascript, at least temporarily.
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by chflags 10y ago
"We started out collecting this information by accident, as part of our project to automate everything, but soon realized that it had economic value." Is he saying the end results of the project to [insert stated project purpose h
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by chflags 10y ago
Stallman's writing is reminiscent of The Jargon File or FOLDOC. There are many "silly" terms like the ones you mention in those collections. (More on textfiles.com.) Stallman was a part of that era. Maybe he's just a
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by chflags 10y ago
"...I'm not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet..." No. The opposite. I'm trying to draw attention to the fact that besides free open source software, improvements in the network allow
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by chflags 10y ago
I'll bet Zuckerberg and countless Facebook employees have used software written by Stallman. At the risk of being wrong, I'd even go so far as to say they need this software. But does Stallman ever need to use software written b
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by chflags 10y ago
OP: "... cemented them as assholes in my mind." That's "name-calling". But I understand the need to detach the silly hyperbolic responses my comment triggered. I was not expecting those. Please accept my apologies
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by chflags 10y ago
"... linux laptops were being reformatted to run windows." Microsoft/Windows is a cancer. Ballmer once said Linux was a cancer. He later retracted, after it was well-known Microsoft itself uses Linux. There's nothing m
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by chflags 10y ago
In the late 1990's when they started, around the same time as Metafilter, maybe Google was honestly trying to rank websites based on href's, as some perceived indicator of website popularity. But over time how much has Google itse
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by chflags 10y ago
Well said. As a result of advances in technology, news, scholarly research, books, music, film, etc. can all be created and distributed by _anyone_, because it can be done at lower cost. This is bad news for some old school money-making sc
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by chflags 11y ago
The way they word these releases certainly makes it sound like they have users' best interests in mind. But honestly, as you have highlighted, these announcements should be insulting to users' intelligence. "Dear Users: Pleas
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by chflags 11y ago
Page looks great in my text-only browser (no ad-blocker needed). Thank you AdTech Operator, even if it was not intentional.
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by chflags 11y ago
Do you think there could be any bias when the newspapers, or for-profit search engine projects, who rely on selling advertising "space" as their "business", report on the practice of filtering out advertising? Not me.
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by chflags 11y ago
"This is cool." Not just cool, but useful. "UEFI" should have been a Forth-like REPL like Sun, FreeBSD, OLPC, etc. The output of rappel reminds me of an "assembly level debugger" I used for many years called &q
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by chflags 11y ago
http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/1997... Keep in mind that in the 1990's it was rare for Windows uptime to exceed 24hrs and Microsoft demos of new features barely worked if at all.
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by chflags 11y ago
This seems like what a sensible person would do. On the other hand, placing evergreen confidence in "TLS", believing that it is "good enough" or concluding "it's all we've got" are lines of thinking t
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by chflags 11y ago
"I hate that there has to be a cost..." Is there an assumption hidden in this statement? That the cost of map data _must_ be sending personal information to Google? Why can't the cost be a dollar value? What if it was? How
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by chflags 11y ago
Opinion: If interfaces is the most important software engineering concept, then the most important interface is the one used to control I/O. Different approaches. Fun to think about.
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by chflags 11y ago
When what it's really about: Are remote "software updates" to a buyer's phone, under the sole control of the seller of the phone, at any time (even after purchase), for any reason (e.g. the one being proposed here), a go
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by chflags 11y ago
Content alone loads faster than loading content plus ads. Making one DNS request is faster than making several, including ones for domains related to advertising. There are the speed gains that Google can offer and then there are ones that
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by chflags 11y ago
"Nothing at all is user-centric anymore..." In my observation, this has certainly been the trend. In my experience, in this climate you have to look harder to find it user-focused software, and to some extent you have to write som
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by chflags 11y ago
Would be nice if we could run images in Bochs. Possible? Less overhead than having to install Qemu, which has grown to be quite heavy, IMHO.
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by chflags 11y ago
re: content There are some who believe that distribution channels are actually more valuable than any content that passes through them. That is, content distribution is potentially a higher value business than content creation. Assuming th
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by chflags 11y ago
The big lie: www search, sharing photos on a www page, www-based chat, www-based email, etc. would all "disappear" if Google, Facebook and others cannot act as gateways/funnels into a medium -- the www/internet -- and se

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