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by dhx 9y ago
How do you plan to source alcohol? In most countries, alcohol importation is tightly regulated, with duties and taxes payable on any amount of import (see [1], [2]). It isn't the duty itself which is expensive--it's the paperwork
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by dhx 9y ago
IANA has already assigned TCP port 465 for "submissions" as described by RFC8314. See https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/... The other service already assigned TCP port 465 was U
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by dhx 9y ago
Here's a quick sample of some of China's computer donations to parliaments, defense and foreign affairs departments and police and immigration departments in recent years: PNG: http://pg.china-embassy.org/eng/
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by dhx 9y ago
Is there any chance this could be exploitable from within a guest virtual machine, or does Intel's architecture only allow a hypervisor to communicate with the firmware?
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by dhx 13y ago
Further technical details and quotes from the paper are available at: http://www.securityweek.com/researchers-outline-how-crack-wp... The methodology appears to be as naive as a brute force attack against the Pre-Shared Key
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by dhx 13y ago
The Anderson Report[1] into scientology stated that the E-meter[2] is used: "...to assume, intensify and retain control over the minds and wills of preclears. Fears of its abilities keep them in constant subjection. Its use can be so m
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by dhx 13y ago
There was significant discussion and concern in the academic community[1][2][3] during the early 90's in response to NIST's draft standard for digital signatures (DSS). The academic community was concerned that field parameters co
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by dhx 13y ago
Popular libraries such as OpenSSL and GnuTLS support TLSv1.2 (NSA Suite B Crypto[1]). Typically this means preferring or forcing TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 with elliptic curve CURVE-SECP521R1 for maximum security. Refer to [2] for m
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by dhx 13y ago
The "world's most private search engine" pops up the following error message when searching: "You may be using a privacy-oriented browser extension that conflicts with Startpage. Please disable this extension and try you
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by dhx 13y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casio_F91W#Claimed_use_in_terr...
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Cost to store all US phonecalls made in a year in cloud storage(blog.archive.org)
6 points by dhx 13y ago|1 comments
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by dhx 13y ago
Around minute 25 there appears to be a very awkward waiting-for-the-Steve-Jobs-applause moment after Elon explains the updated navigation system. A few more announcements are made without applause and then finally, just before the 31 minute
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by dhx 13y ago
Also interesting with this update is the suggestion[1] to use open source multimedia DirectShow filters including LAV Filters and ffdshow. LAV Filters appears to ship with DeCSS code[2] -- something which appears to be legally usable within
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by dhx 13y ago
Presented at Black Hat USA 2009: Global Spying: Realistic Probabilities In Modern Signals Intelligence https://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/TOPLETZ/BHU...
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by dhx 14y ago
Automatic Identification System (AIS)[1] is used for tracking ships and is also unprotected/unencrypted. This is not particularly an issue because ships inform government port and coastguard authorities of their source and destination ports
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by dhx 14y ago
These images would be a fantastic resource on Wikimedia Commons (for use in Wikipedia articles). The licensing (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License) is compatible as per [1] and [2]. I've got things started with the 74HC595 di
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by dhx 14y ago
To explain further in the context of WebRTC, traffic analysis of the encrypted data could determine the pace and duration patterns of speech between multiple speakers. This could: (a) narrow down or uniquely identify each party (b) provide
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by dhx 14y ago
It may be encrypted -- but is it protected against traffic analysis? The following papers are a good starting point: [1] Guessing the URLs being browsed by users over an encrypted TLS session: https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people
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by dhx 14y ago
The licensing is unfortunately non-free and is therefore incompatible with free projects such as those operated by the Wikimedia Foundation. It is however a slight improvement on arXiv. At least terms of use are available in the footer of e
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by dhx 14y ago
Eric Brewer[1] describes why ATMs are not designed for consistency[2] at [3] (scroll down to the last two sub-headings). [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Brewer_%28scientist%29 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem [3] ht
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by dhx 14y ago
The current record is 32.5m and was set in Prague over the days of 5-9 September 2012. Refer to the following site for a comprehensive list of historical LEGO records: http://www.recordholders.org/en/list/lego.html
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by dhx 14y ago
To combat sabotage of productivity within an organisation it would likely be necessary to employ techniques that ironically reduce creativity, increase levels of distrust and breed a culture of caution and inaction. From this perspective on
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by dhx 14y ago
Some further information on this chess variant from a 2006 blog post: http://pmburgess.blogspot.com.au/2006/06/singularity-chess.h...
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by dhx 14y ago
and even in the event they [cloud providers] found out it would be impossible for them to gather data on the users. The encryption key that is providing disk encryption on the VM instances would be accessible to the VM host. The V
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by dhx 14y ago
There is no licensing information at the bottom of each page within http://docs.webplatform.org/wiki/* Can someone clarify what the licensing situation is?
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by dhx 14y ago
Thanks for the link to the presentation. As is the case with other mobile platforms I noticed a wide array of button styles. Small symbolic buttons in applications such as the photo gallery and messages screen, large glossy buttons for the
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by dhx 14y ago
Most of the discussion so far has focussed on the development environment (APIs, languages, etc) and performance issues. I would therefore like to raise the question “how will Firefox OS encourage a consistent and usable experience across a
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by dhx 14y ago
For data going back to 1990 see [1] and [2]. In figure 2, the paper [3] tries to fit the data to an exponential curve starting at 2004. The longer term data at [2] does not appear to support this fit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List
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by dhx 14y ago
Diamond is only the hardest known naturally occurring material. For the hardest known material, take a look at this paper from 2005: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2005ApPhL..87h3106D Or the Wikipedia article for a more general treatment
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by dhx 14y ago
38 bits of entropy for authentication may be plentiful if other security controls are put in place. Bank card security would not be noticeably increased by having 6 or 8 digit PINs instead of 4 digit PINs. The risk is mitigated by account l

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