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by drvdevd 10y ago
It's interesting to think of it this way. Clearly, the attackers (being ISPs in this case) don't see it this way or don't want to see this sort of MITM this way. Following one of the links in the article [1], you get some gre
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by drvdevd 10y ago
What new rule(s) are coming into effect in 2017?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I find that reading fiction improves my overall desire and ability to read in general - thus improving my ability to take in technical content as well.
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On the modern web, ISPs are one of your threats (2015)(utcc.utoronto.ca)
150 points by drvdevd 10y ago|61 comments
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Ok. That's a great summary and good point about non-trivial userspace bits. I hadn't considered how complex "booting" as a process has become...
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by drvdevd 10y ago
This is a great movie! Tempted to watch it right now.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Though I take your point and mostly agree, is there any reason this couldn't be done with a static boot binary entirely in RAM? Since the kernel is modular anyway, much of the special purpose cruft loaded by the initramfs could just
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Exactly. And why should you? Especially if your own efforts to make something "production worthy" are shut down -- indicative of both a social and a technical problem.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I've been on both sides of this equation: not wanting to be availble outside of "business hours" and also feeling frustrated when colleagues aren't available when I need them. I view this as an engineering and social pro
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Security isn't easy. It remains to be seen whether regulation will actually be helpful in getting it right. Personally, I don't believe that it will, but that's just my opinion. As with most things in this field, it's
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Actually, after re-reading your scheme it doesn't sound too bad either... the main problem would seem to be then if the encryption was fundamentally broken (ie: if the encrypted bits are recoverable after the second factory reset and
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Of course it depends on the phone. Many qualcomm based Android devices seem to have had their Full Disk Encryption scheme broken at the moment [1], for example. But either way, if your disk encryption scheme doesn't fully wipe the disk
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Another interesting point they mention is "recovering years long deleted texts." Consider the filesystem your phone uses for volumes it's writing data to and how it (probably just) unlinks files when deleted... [edit] and I s
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by drvdevd 10y ago
My thoughts exactly. It's a fairly set and forget plant and looks pretty cool as well.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
From the article: > We, on the other hand, didn't plan a thing. > We just built ourselves a powerful apparatus for social control with no sense of purpose or consensus about shared values. I strictly disagree. We must never forge
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Yes it is actually the architectural history of all this that makes it interesting to me as well. It's the hidden landscape within/around/between/under our cities that's quite fascinating. It's also a prescient
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by drvdevd 10y ago
To me, it very much looks like a giant telco Central Office... where shifty surveillance stuff has been happening since at least 1885 [ https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Corporation ] Note that The Intercept's
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Good question. My use case is pretty boring comparatively. Mostly it's typical shell session stuff - SSH, vim, etc. I would classify that as my 'actual work'. And macOS is fine for that of course, except mostly I end up worki
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by drvdevd 10y ago
That's an interesting take. I think it's important to also remember there's a fine line in breadth vs depth learning in this field as well. So called 'Taco Bell' programming does encourage you, in a way, to learn
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I personally feel my choosing macOS over any other OS is almost entirely cosmetic at this point. I might as well just use iOS. Because most of my actual work needs to happen elsewhere anyway. How locked down the platform is is something I&#
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by drvdevd 10y ago
> algorithmically Perhaps in the near future, the only "journalists" anyone will trust will be algorithms. Of course, any system can be manipulated. But I think we are dealing with such an unprecedented deluge of information,
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Translating C99 to Rust(jamey.thesharps.us)
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Well, I'm upvoting you because I can say that while I think the show has some pretty good moments, its not great and I feel it pulls on my "depression strings" quite deliberately, and I have a pretty damn dark sense of humo
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by drvdevd 10y ago
All of these companies in the mobile space seem to be constantly suing each other though right? Microsoft is no more hostile than Apple or Google in this regard?
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by drvdevd 10y ago
We must also not forget that other companies have since proven that the idea of a proprietary operating system (or just kernel) as the main base of IP has started to look somewhat obsolete anyway. Now we have proprietary services and syst
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Interesting point I had never considered, thanks. Yet another reason why I'll probably be purchasing a PC running Linux as my next laptop.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
The fact that this is apparently more nuanced than Yahoo's NSFW model (and open source at that) means it would certainly have applications in porn censorship , if that's your stance on the issue.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
I have no doubt that its a mess. I suppose I've just bought into the hype about what (U)EFI was supposed to be when it came along. Maybe one day it or something like it will make this all easier.
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Very interesting thank you. You may already be aware, but when I first saw the replies here mentioning Option ROMs I immediately thought of the thunderstrike EFI vulnerabilities for Macbooks. I've yet to actually mess with them, but ap
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by drvdevd 10y ago
Thats interesting. I've booted UEFI machines using PXE and judging from the PXE ROM versions displayed, the PXE code hasn't changed much, on my boxes at least. I would agree that UEFI is an OS of its' own. But thats the who

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