effdee

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by effdee 13y ago
Russia is the only safe place for him. If he hadn't gone to Russia he'd be either dead by now or living in a cage wearing an orange suit.
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by effdee 13y ago
Good ol' ping can also be used to send data. Some implementations support the -p flag which allows to send 16 bytes of user-defined data.
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by effdee 13y ago
What this world needs is leaders, not followers.
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by effdee 13y ago
"But goto is considered harmful" GOTO _was_ considered harmful back in 1968(!) when structured programming was still in its infancy. Code of that time was usually peppered with GOTOs and therefore a pain to read. Using GOTO for cl
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by effdee 13y ago
I bet it is also capable of launching precision air strikes in /friendly/ territory...
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by effdee 13y ago
You make it sound like it happened by chance. However, it's more like "Special Forces kill top terrorist in Absurdistan" (as in, went an extra mile, tailored operation, high-value target). edit: speling
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by effdee 13y ago
Uhm, yes?! Because, like, it's their damn job to break crypto?!
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by effdee 13y ago
Two quotes come to mind: "Never send a human to do a machine's job." -- Agent Smith "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of
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by effdee 13y ago
Tragic... but why the fsck is this on HN?
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by effdee 13y ago
Paranoia is the wrong word as it implies that there is no real danger. Hysteria describes the current situation far better.
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by effdee 13y ago
Normally you connect to a remote system and run a shell there (e.g. via SSH). This usually requires some sort of authentication. If you cannot authenticate yourself (like, because you're an evil hacker) but found a way to run a code on