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by darkr 11y ago
Sounds like potentially, either: 1) The individual IP address(es) used by your server were used for spamming/phishing/bad things. or 2) The larger address space owned/used by your hosting company is seen as sullied.
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by darkr 11y ago
> It would be like trying to program your own switchboard or run your own phone lines You mean like a PBX? Most companies with >= 50 employees do this. Smaller/newer ones will definitely tend towards a managed service for this th
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by darkr 11y ago
More like 10 years. UK + Europe rollout of chip+pin/EMV + incentivised liability shift was around 2005/2006, and has reduced card fraud by around 70% in most countries. Contactless/NFC payment facilities have been pretty wide
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by darkr 11y ago
Any idea why SHA384 is used over SHA256? Presumably it's not for collision avoidance, and it's not like anyone's going to be hitting the maximum message size of SHA256 with anything stored in CDN.. Edit: So it seems that all
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by darkr 11y ago
Depends on your definition of secure - last I heard, default BBM was still using a globally shared key and logging your messages; BB has on several occasions handed messages over to governments at request (such as during London riots etc).
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by darkr 11y ago
40M might cover capex & rent on a reasonably sized imprint in an existing DC for three years (say 100 racks/2000 servers)
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by darkr 11y ago
Seems to still be receiving commits as of a few days ago > https://github.com/google/end-to-end I was waiting on smartcard support in that project myself
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by darkr 11y ago
> The Advocate General Bot agreed with Schrems that the EU-US Safe Harbour system did not meet the requirements of the Data Protection Directive Wonder if she's based on Hubot, or something else entirely.
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by darkr 11y ago
Can't vouch that this is the case with keybase, but where I've seen this done before, the hash is calculated in combination with some kind of time-based shared secret at both at the server and the client and then compared, with th
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by darkr 11y ago
Edit: Actually I found some OECD stats[4] on that suggest that _public_ spend in the U.S is actually higher than the _public_ spend in Canada/UK/France (though for the latter two they are almost in margin of error territory) so th
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by darkr 11y ago
Though the publication date of that article would suggest that it is an April fools; it actually refers to an amendment made in March to a "royal decree" announced in January[1] 2014 that defines as a terrorist act, punishable by
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by darkr 11y ago
You have to state the storage class at object creation time. Prior to this, there was only standard (the default), and reduced redundancy.
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by darkr 11y ago
> Long ago in college I met some libertarians handing out literature. Dude, those were librarians.
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by darkr 11y ago
Means they can run a closed pool on a secure network - reduces/eliminates (depending on implementation) risk of forking due to Chinese ASIC farms etc. My understanding is that the first usage of blockchain would just be an inter-bank s
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by darkr 11y ago
bool and float32, surely. If you'd have been using an IDE...
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by darkr 11y ago
Notes is _terrible_ from a UI perspective. The server side (domino) though was light-years ahead of anything in terms of ideas at least. Combining a CA, distributed, document-oriented database(think mongodb, couchdb), LDAP server, web serve
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by darkr 11y ago
Can someone explain the benefits of using flocker (on ec2, using ebs) over using an EBS sidekick-type container with fleet?
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by darkr 11y ago
Currently using isync for those exact reasons. Only issue that I have with it is that it doesn't support nested folders.
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by darkr 11y ago
> world war two has left a deep scar on Europe which has made it overly cautious and allergic to necessarily addressing unjust violence. I'd say it's probably far more likely due to more recent episodes of liberal interventioni
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by darkr 11y ago
It's supported encryption since last year or thereabouts. I really like the look of camlistore and have done a bit of playing around with it. Was considering deploying it a while back but the docs are [still] lacking and far as I can t
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by darkr 11y ago
One could argue that, but I'm not sure what recalled eggs relates to in this analogy?
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by darkr 11y ago
It was "Hoary" rather than "Horny" :)
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by darkr 11y ago
I guess that /usr is probably on the same partition as his root.. But depending on the distro, and how the system is managed; it may be the case that every single file in /usr comes from a package, and can be cryptographically ver
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by darkr 11y ago
Software Collections aren't "supported" in the same fashion that core RedHat packages are (i.e timely security fixes, backported if needs be, for the lifetime of the OS release). From the ruby193 SCL page you linked to: &quot
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by darkr 11y ago
Yup, but RedHat commit to backporting security fixes for the duration of the release (so 30/11/2020 for RHEL6)... Not sure that this is the case for software available via any of the collections. edit: SCL's aren't suppo
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by darkr 11y ago
RPM 4.12.0 brought in support for weak dependencies, which implements the tags Recommends, Suggests, Supplements and Enhances, which provides analog functionality from apt > http://rpm.org/wiki/Releases/4.12.0
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by darkr 11y ago
> Meh. I have encrypted /, /home and swap. I've disabled Secure Boot, and the TPM, and use legacy boot. I don't really trust my laptop manufacturer to get all this stuff right. Without secureboot, how do you know your
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by darkr 11y ago
A pro, or at least someone comfortable with averaging 25mph over a long distance; given a relatively flat course, would probably require an average power output in the region of 300 watts. So even if we take the higher speed into account th
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by darkr 11y ago
> So there are windowsservercore containers. Are they real windows? "Server Core is a minimal server installation option for computers running on the Windows Server 2008 R2 operating system. Server Core provides a low-maintenance en
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by darkr 11y ago
AFAIK google doesn't use hardware-based arrays in their servers. I think the reference to batteries would more likely be in reference to a DRUPS (Diesel Rotary UPS) which most datacenters run, sometimes with some form of battery in com

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