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11y ago
Many virtual cards before you have ran into issues of being flagged as prepaid or single use cards and having their BINs blacklisted by merchants. How will you be combatting this?
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11y ago
The classification is not outdated, and did not originate with colonialism. Being in the "third world" simply means your country elected to not join NATO or the Warsaw Pact, and as a result did not receive the economic stimulus of
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11y ago
Game replays (including all the fun data like player clicks, unit selection, movements, and exact timing) are stored in an easily parsable format. https://github.com/GraylinKim/sc2reader/wiki/Replay-Format-H..
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11y ago
Because they are willing to burn 0day to gain credibility. The top team got $140k for what was easily $900k+ worth of exploits.
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11y ago
It gets expensive when you want all the bells and whistles, but yes the base model is a little north of a grand. Thanks for the link to Hopper, I know what i'll be doing this afternoon...
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11y ago
To be clear, it is still a plugin for a ~$5000 application. Nonetheless, thanks Google for lowering the bar for entry into professional security work!
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11y ago
A car sharing company accused me of leaving a dirty vehicle. Apparently I had picked up smoking and gotten a dog without knowing it. They were quite adamant about charging me a cleaning fee until I got American Express involved.
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11y ago
I once asked my father (a lifelong auto mechanic) why servicing high end vehicles is so expensive. Roughly from memory, don't quote me on makes/models/etc: Most cars require special, often model specific, tools to service the
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11y ago
My current company, for example, contractually obligates our vendors to never mention us.
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11y ago
Hangouts Video is whitelabeled from Vidyo with some weird bolt ons to make it Googley. You could try going to them directly.
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11y ago
I'm currently considering a startup that is 90% cloud software, and 10% on site hardware (think a small custom designed sensor). Having no experience or expertise in custom hardware design, how would you recommend finding someone who c
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11y ago
I have yet to hear a logical explanation for why we don't tax and licence bikes in major cities. Paying your "fair share" of road use taxes gives you an equal voice when asking for specific use lanes, and licence plates allow
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11y ago
This was my favorite part, and a good lesson for every startup. Skip over all the overrated recent Stanford grads and Box alumni, THIS is the guy you want to hire: "Only one person in the entire Department of Defense, a technical off
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11y ago
> If I find myself shelling out to grep with pcre flags, I am using unix pipes as intended Fixed that for you.
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11y ago
Nobody is asking them for free customer security. There is an expectation in the web hosting industry that when a bad site (child porn, phishing, etc) pops up on your network, you take it down. CloudFlare effectively shields who is hosting
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11y ago
It is the Akamai model. Get a customer in the door, keep selling them new addon services every chance you get. Then when a competitor comes along they aren't "feature competitive." The best magic trick Matthew Prince has pull
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11y ago
When you are proxying web traffic to an obvious phishing site, you could... you know... stop?
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11y ago
Register.com has been breached at least once. They are also now part of the Web.com/NetworkSolutions congolmerate. http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2015/03/18/FBI-lookin... MarkMonitor an
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11y ago
_netblocks.google.com includes only the servers that handle Gmail and corporate email.
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Glibc vulnerability was identified in uClibc and fixed 6 years ago
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11y ago
My guess is "Work" is a ploy to get Facebook un-blocked by corporate firewalls. The business functionality has already existed (since FB uses its own platform internally), so its comparatively minor in engineering effort.
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11y ago
I don't think anyone in the security industry ever took Norse seriously. They spawned an amazing parody pretty early on: http://threatbutt.com/
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11y ago
You should read up on the differences between a police department and a sheriffs department, and why both exist.
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11y ago
Fortunately git is distributed and lets you work offline. https://git-scm.com/about/distributed
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11y ago
The general rule of thumb for building big things that work long term is build anything in-house that you can't source from multiple vendors.
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11y ago
http://bbcattic.org/
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11y ago
It is based on my reverse engineering of a lottery terminal. I can't vouch for the quality of the RNG, as I alluded to in my previous comment, but the local RNG isn't used in any meaningful fashion. I can point you in the directio
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11y ago
"Quick Pick" numbers are not generated at the store. Regardless of if you pick the numbers or let the computer do it, your request is sent in real time back to a lotto office where the real ticket is securely generated (with a TRN
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11y ago
So ... people with massive amounts of computing power can decide what to decrypt? Isn't that the exact opposite of what we want?
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11y ago
Same here. The only people dismissing TCP anycast at this point are folks who haven't been running anycast deployments. It also helps to respond to DNS with multiple VIPs within your anycast /24. Browser retry logic is pretty nift
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