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by eganist 5y ago
That's a consequence of certain characters not reappearing in the hash as compared to the hash of the actual password. This would become more apparent if this traded in sha512s instead.
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by eganist 5y ago
I ended up crossposting it to the few security rooms I'm in for quick laughs But for what it's worth, this also serves as a great initial CTF-type introduction to how debuggers work in web browsers.
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by eganist 5y ago
> "Nah, we're just gonna do it all, we have an email where the merchant refused to honor a warranty, they have no leverage." From the bank's perspective, this makes sense: better you keep your money with the bank than
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by eganist 5y ago
> I've read countless articles like this by now, where you go through the whole 'novel', and the information you were looking for is on paragraph 67 out of 103, and it's basically the line "Well, we don't re
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by eganist 5y ago
Likely orthogonal, but it wouldn't surprise me if Brian Cuban's story and battles against substance abuse served as an additional motivator. Brian's pretty public about it. Wrote a whole (and great) book, "The Addicted L
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by eganist 5y ago
> We’re going places – and we hope you'll join us. Become a Wander Founding Member today for $100 to unlock the following benefits. For a limited time only. --- > 2.4 No Subscription Refunds. Except as expressly set forth in thes
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by eganist 5y ago
first submission by a new account, guessing from a throwaway behind tor so that the question can't be tied back to a specific person or company. That's why it's useful for a handful of people to have showdead enabled: so that
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by eganist 5y ago
Yes, hence my question, because in many cases an environment like this would be sandboxed away so that a researcher doesn't accidentally break anything in production.
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by eganist 5y ago
> Let's be honest, the real reason for making this opt-out again is that you hope lots of people won't notice and you can start collecting their data. Please reconsider. I'm keen on seeing if there's any legal code or
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by eganist 5y ago
They only barely glossed over it, but I'm keen on finding out the lift that was required for reproducing their paid services in a sandbox the way they did for CumulusFire.
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by eganist 5y ago
I appreciate the concept here, but I have to ask: do you have a security page for this that documents the controls in place? I get that that's probably not a priority for a startup, but the risk in someone relying on this for contract-
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by eganist 5y ago
> To be more clear, no charges of sedition were filed until nearly a year after the "riot" had been branded an "insurrection". The branding of the riot to insurrection occured about 45 minutes after someone sat in Pe
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by eganist 5y ago
Until it's studied (anecdotes inform experimental and observational studies that could clarify this), it's hard to say for certain. The problem is how much data is available from The Before Times™; it'll be hard to find peopl
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by eganist 5y ago
> The US had a riot on Jan 6th 2021 and it’s been portrayed as a crisis on the scale of 9/11 or Pearl Harbor. Millions of Americans think it was an insurrection. I don’t know if your theory holds up. To be clear, there was a riot,
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by eganist 5y ago
> I said to explain how this is misinformation and dangerous, not show me episodes you don't like. prohobo, you may wish to read the links for concrete answers to your request. The how is answered very directly, especially conside
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by eganist 5y ago
> You're gonna have to back those bold claims up, otherwise what's stopping us from claiming that you are the culprit and should be gulag'd? There are six in here: https://www.insider.com/joe-rogan-podcast-
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by eganist 5y ago
> like a wilting tulip context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulip_mania
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by eganist 5y ago
> Let this be a lesson that the business comes first. Security is important - but the business is more important. Sound security practices enable good business, e.g giving teams a paved road ( https://www.slideshare.net/d
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by eganist 5y ago
I'm probably drawing early conclusions, but it's not a surprise hearing an engineering head or ex-CTO type eliminate security given security is often seen as a roadblock, even in Twitter's case where their leadership and team
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by eganist 5y ago
tackled the georgian translation question during my lunch break. My approach (spoilers): 1. figured out that there's probably a decent 1-1 correlation between letters/sounds between the two languaged, intuited this from comparing
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by eganist 5y ago
correct, thanks for the heads up. Fixed
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by eganist 5y ago
I intuited a probably-inaccurate trick with exponentially raising a small prime (e.g 7*7*7etc), doubling the multiple (*2), and subtracting 1 (to get an odd number). That got me two substantially-different primes and narrowed my numbers a l
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by eganist 5y ago
> People getting evicted from a two bedroom apartment aren't going to a homeless shelter, they're going to a studio apartment that costs half as much. Why are we certain that a family getting evicted from a 2 bedroom apartment
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by eganist 5y ago
> Landlords don't evict people because they want their properties to be empty. Evicting a tenant and taking in a different one has no effect on the number of people with housing. I'm not sure where I made the impression that l
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by eganist 5y ago
> If eviction rates are “approaching pre-pandemic levels” then isn’t the real shocking headline that eviction rates are lower than before the pandemic despite the eviction moratorium? What am I missing? Home is the only shelter many peop
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by eganist 5y ago
> eganist is a reddit moderator, that's all that needs to be said. Regrettably, we've lost lives on the subreddit in question owing to people taking their own lives or being murdered as a consequence of threads posted to it. S
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by eganist 5y ago
> It is. And always will be, no matter how much or how little the "vocabulary police" like you (is that acceptable or is that, in your small mind, (incorrectly) an ad-hominem too?) decide what language is "acceptable"
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by eganist 5y ago
As another commenter stated, there's a good argument against all of these words too. More on the regulatory and medical usage 'moron' once had: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moron_(psychology) Pejoration
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by eganist 5y ago
Closest I can think of is Safe Mode, at least based on the definition - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safe_mode - but running on reduced resources isn't exactly the same, so I'm sure there's a better ans
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by eganist 5y ago
> Task Manager will load in reduced mode if resources are short, like only loading the Processes page if that's what's needed to get going. It's one of the very few apps that won't just "fail and bail" when

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