cynwoody

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by cynwoody 10y ago
The xfinitywifi access points I've come across (just about everywhere I go) are unsecured but not free. You need an account before they'll handle your traffic. IOW, useful to Comcast customers but nobody else.
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by cynwoody 10y ago
If I were the jury, I'd be laughing my ass off. Then I'd have so much empathy that the guests would end up owning the hotel. Hotel rooms that can't be opened from the inside should be strictly verboten! Edit: That is, unles
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by cynwoody 10y ago
Some years ago now, I came upon a lovely essay entitled "Hackers and Painters†". Here is how it begins: When I finished grad school in computer science I went to art school to study painting. A lot of people seemed
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by cynwoody 10y ago
Thanks! I didn't know about this mysterious sci-hub, but now I do. More info on sci-hub: http://bitesizebio.com/28268/access-science-free/
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by cynwoody 10y ago
Comparing Firefox to Chrome on Android (Galaxy S7 Edge), I find Chrome works better. In Firefox, the results section is too wide, resulting in text that is either too small to read or that requires left-right scrolling. However, the filter
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by cynwoody 10y ago
On my S7 Edge, the page is too small to read (except for the headline, obviously). However, I can pick a column and double-tap it. The Android browser smart-zooms, and I can read the content just fine. If something's too small, I can f
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by cynwoody 10y ago
I just tested my T-Mobile LTE using Ookla. I'm in suburban Boston. The local time was about 00:30. Results: 69.39 down, 20.70 up, 36 ms ping (to Norwood). The test used about 170 megabytes of my 3-gigabyte monthly quota.
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by cynwoody 10y ago
It's not very relevant to the current discussion, but there is a security advantage to requiring a public password vs totally open. For instance, a store could post a sign reading "Welcome to N Guy's Burgers; our WiFi passw
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by cynwoody 10y ago
That's what I do, too. If it's a spam call, often you will hear nothing until you say hello. When their auto-dialer hears you talk, it connects you to a real person, who informs you that the Windows box you don't possess is i
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by cynwoody 10y ago
Geoiptool thinks I'm in Romania. As does Maxmind's free IP location database[1]. However, Google thinks I'm in New Delhi, until I grant permission to upload my actual location. Then it puts the marker right on my rooftop in M
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by cynwoody 10y ago
The stock symbol DEA is already taken†. It belongs to Easterly Government Properties, a REIT which leases commercial property to federal agencies, such as "the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the I
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by cynwoody 11y ago
>how is the spliced data actually exfiltrated back to land? During the Cold War, they periodically returned to the site of the tap and changed the tapes and batteries. One of the taps was installed on a Soviet telephone cable across the
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by cynwoody 11y ago
Here is a MongoDB named voters† that claims to be 472166432768 bytes long (a little short of 2500 bytes per voter, if there are 191e6 voters). I'm not familiar with MongoDB and don't have the time to learn right now. But do check
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by cynwoody 11y ago
I just tried it again on the Mac, this time with a shallow browser window. It worked. My previous window was close to 1600px high. I noted earlier that it worked fine on Ubuntu using an old version of Chrome. That machine's monitor is
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by cynwoody 11y ago
Same on Mac OS X using both Chrome 43 and Firefox 39. However, it works fine on Ubuntu using Chrome 21.
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by cynwoody 11y ago
Kidding? LOL! 102†. Albert Hofmann survived. Will you? † https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Hofmann
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by cynwoody 11y ago
No, you are not. seq 100 -7 0 ruby -e '100.step(0,-7) {|n| puts n}' python -c 'print [x for x in xrange(100,0,-7)]' Humans should think; machines should work.
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by cynwoody 12y ago
I used to have an ATM card with an 8-digit PIN. When entering the PIN, I noticed the screen would flash after the fourth digit. Subsequently, I discovered I actually only needed to enter the first four. That continued until the bank got tak
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by cynwoody 12y ago
Back in the day, it was said you'd get in trouble at IBM if you went home with your desk not locked. Looks like it's still the case: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/37916/what-are-t...
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by cynwoody 12y ago
It shimmers using Chrome on OS 10.6 on an HP LP3065. The kitty looks like he's about to barf. All in all, a substandard image. Here's a screenshot. It doesn't shimmer, but it is ugly! http://goo.gl/8Cekr8
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by cynwoody 12y ago
That's why you have to click. Before the a:visited exploit was patched, a simple loop with GetComputedStyle would have sufficed. If you do that in a modern browser, all the squares come back color gray. The content script only gets to
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by cynwoody 12y ago
Yes. And the only reason you have to click the red squares is to let it know which ones are red. If you try to look up the color of a square using GetComputedStyle, it always comes back gray. That was the resolution of privacy Bug 147777† (
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by cynwoody 12y ago
Related is the question of why newspapers arrange their text in columns. According to another stackexchange thread†, studies as far back as the 1880s indicated that the optimal width for reading prose is 3.5 to 4 inches. Of course, code isn
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by cynwoody 12y ago
I remember Computer Shopper. I used to have a subscription at work. I would keep the issues in a bookcase. Back in the mid nineties, each perfect-bound issue was the size of a major city telephone book and consisted of perhaps a 100 pages
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by cynwoody 12y ago
> I do reminisce about the pre-Internet days, when all I needed was my brain and a simple reference book! Once upon a time, I had a bookcase full of three-ring binders containing plural "reference books", updated frequently vi
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by cynwoody 12y ago
Your little script performs amazingly well on my Mac, coming in at about 165 ms, quite a bit faster than I expected. If your script is too fast for you, you could consider reading the dictionary into a bash array instead of using sed. My &#
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by cynwoody 12y ago
> Additionally can you explain how he got the architecture "wrong"? See Moxie Marlinspike's post from last November: http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/lavabit-critique/ You can't entrust a s
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by cynwoody 12y ago
1994, based on this usenet post: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/rec.aviation.stories...
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by cynwoody 12y ago
Indeed. The page is refreshingly free of JS and CSS and weighs in at a measly 18.8 kb. But it would have been helpful to have included a full date. Somewhere? Anywhere. Even (especially!) the URL? Sheesh! A quick google indicates this took
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by cynwoody 12y ago
The problem with browser crypto is that code is downloaded from the server ... nothing to install, so convenient. Right? The danger is that you are back to trusting the server. If they are compromised, you could get served special crypto co

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