dfcmt

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by dfcmt 7y ago
In this digital age, everything (text, images, audio) can be encoded using integers. Does that mean it's absurd to try to make anything secret?
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by dfcmt 7y ago
\w\d{3}[\s\-]?\d{2}[\s\-]?\d{4}\w should not have many wrong results. You can also try to guess is something is a list of SSNs from the context.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
"A collection of awesome lists for hackers, pentesters & security researchers." They are not using "hacker" in the "Hacker News" sense of the word, they are using meaning breaking into some system. So no &q
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by dfcmt 7y ago
But they aren't transmitted over public wifi. They are transmitted inside of some kind of private network, given that they are transmitted to a server in the 192.168/24 range
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by dfcmt 7y ago
>All extracted information is bundled as a ZIP file, without applying any protection like a password. The ZIP file is then sent via an HTTP POST request to http://192.168.43.1:8080/ . This shows that not only no transport
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by dfcmt 7y ago
What's the vertical axis? What's BA?
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by dfcmt 7y ago
7 deaths in 17 years is not routine.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
People are being killed "routinely" for European football? That's simply ludicrous.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
https://twitter.com/_cingraham/status/1111607604348805120
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by dfcmt 7y ago
This reminds me of a story I read once of a guy who bought a 1000€ GPU from Amazon and got a 100€ GPU instead, obviously from a return. When he got to return it to get his 1000€ back, he was told that he had sent the wrong GPU, that it had
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by dfcmt 7y ago
Sounds like a shitty platitude but yeah, this is why I fear Amazon will eventually reconsider their returns policy.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
That's what happens when you choose not to have a stable API for drivers. Maybe Linux developers should reconsider that ;-)
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by dfcmt 7y ago
Hmm when I signed up for WhatsApp recently it clearly said that I would be accepting the terms of blabla Facebook companies, so...
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by dfcmt 7y ago
It's in the interest of big corporations (like Google, Mozilla, and Microsoft) that making a browser is as complicated as possible so they face no competition.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
C++ is also full of cruft. But you can use a subset of it and it becomes very good. Also this new mantra of "speed doesn't matter" is what brought us to Windows 10, Electron, etc. No thanks. I'm taking a stand against sl
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by dfcmt 7y ago
For me is the fact that PHP is starting to get more useful than Python. That coupled with the fact that it's faster (which doesn't take much, granted) is going to make me think some things over.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
Well, that was his prerogative. I don't think it's the standard.
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by dfcmt 7y ago
Only that Siri doesn't happen on the iPhone, and it's easy to prove: try using Siri with aeroplane mode on.