elmo2you

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by elmo2you 6y ago
> Keeping the log file on the boot partition was the first mistake Wrong assumption. With logs on a full system (but not) disk, your system can still grind to a halt during boot. Sure, if you do have access to the bootloader, you can do
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> Everyone should be using logrotate, and if they actually read the things, shipping logs to ELK or Splunk or Greylog or whatever. Certainly they should. That is, if they have that much control over the server and if it's not some l
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Did you ever had the "pleasure" of a server grinding to a halt because the logs filled up all the space? To where you had to mount the disk to another system and clean it up before it wants to boot from again. Can be a bitch if it
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> It’s an useless anecdote because SSH bruteforce attempts are not a threat and cost you nothing. I can say from personal experience that this anecdote is both accurate (20 years ago and up till today) and meaningful. No idea where you g
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Obscurity doesn't mean undetectable. Also: you would still need to do a more elaborate (and therefore more "expensive") full range port scan, compared to scanning just the standard ports. That doesn't scale so well for s
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by elmo2you 6y ago
It indeed is. If a port scanner does any analysis on the welcome banner, it's pretty obvious when you're dealing with an SSH server. That is, unless someone decided to run with a custom banner, which isn't something I have co
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> Why would they nées certification ? Compliance with regulation .. things like ISO, PCI, etc.
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by elmo2you 6y ago
The reasons for using the NIST curve might have less to do with technical merits or security aspects, and more with regulations and certifications. Certifying something including cryptography already certified (NIST curve) is easier/ch
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by elmo2you 6y ago
You can bet on it. Also, these people will be highly motivated and not just be "doing their job". They'll be made well aware that their "way of life" and "reality as they know it" literally depends on the
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> .. in the United States, it will likely be excluded as irrelevant because the Espionage Act does not allow a public interest defense. Remind me again, what made the USA any better than North Korea or any other off-the-rails criminal re
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by elmo2you 6y ago
As already being mentioned by someone else, the live link breaking down (coincidental or not) or being intentionally muted by the court (for whatever reason), could seriously obstruct the assessment of a fair trial. Spoiler alert: it alread
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Thank you for the clarification. Appreciated. I'm not particularly upset by Customs in general, but I get upset when they stretch or abuse their already far reaching authority and privileges. Mainly because I strongly believe that all
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Last time I checked, quarter notes, lack of controls, hard shiny plastic, silver rings on a cylinder's end, nor the color white are properties/concepts that Apple has (nor ever should) exclusive control/ownership of. Same goe
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by elmo2you 6y ago
You said that correctly: counterfeit products. While Apple fanboys no doubt will claim that these OnePlus products are counterfeits of Apple products, that's mostly just their ignorance or wishful thinking talking. From what I can see,
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Looks like rather generic design to me, especially since a substantial parts of are basically dictated by the human anatomy. So regardless the questionable nature of design patents in the first place, this design certainly does not warrant
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I fully agree with that, but I think it's a manifestation of a far wider trend that might be far more worrying. In this age of information overload, where the struggle for people's attention has become nothing short of warfare, I
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by elmo2you 6y ago
You make it sound as if the USA has a high standard from any of those topics. Its national security concerns keep violating laws and even the constitution. Or, take violating laws abroad and numerous international treaties. It doesn't
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by elmo2you 6y ago
If that's true, and I have to admit that's a big surprise for me, then I'm glad to hear that. At least for Australia. I'm not even sure if the following is uniform across the EU, but I have always assumed (maybe even bee
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Do consumer laws apply to businesses in Australia? Because afaik, in the EU regretfully a lot of laws that protect consumers against abuse from vendors, do not apply to B2B/enterprise transactions. On the other hand, there have been pe
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I am glad you mentioned this. I don't know the legal situation in the USA, but I know that many countries have restrictions on importing any biological/organic matter. Seed, dairy products, meat, etc. Usually explained as needed t
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by elmo2you 6y ago
I get what you are trying to say, but I don't think that's ever a valid argument. Illegal actions are just that: illegal, no matter who commits them. I don't see why a "good" person should get away with it. To drive
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Don't be daft. They'll argue that in the exceptional case of state security, exposing any kind of secretive information (illegal or otherwise) is still a crime. They'll just argue that only "normal citizens" shouldn
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That particular piece of history sure doesn't help. But Apple excluding all of Epic's products from their store (the technical reasons aren't that important, the effective result is), while only a single product is actually v
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> I'm not sure if that is clear to outsiders Depends a bit on the outsider, I think. Also to which extend they might be a product of their own country's propaganda. To me it certainly is clear, even from people I personally kno
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by elmo2you 6y ago
> Which is why I'm highlighting the account for pushing a 100% political agenda. Fair enough, as far as I'm concerned. My main purpose was to (hopefully) give some context and explanation of why some people might write response
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by elmo2you 6y ago
That could be true. But please, do know that there are many individuals outside the USA, who regularly roll their eyes and feel triggered when yet another article accuses China or Russia of yet another "anything". Don't get m
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Little more than a typical "protection" racket, only dressed up in a modern/tech jacket. Antitrust issue for sure. Despite many making a reversed-logic assumption: because a company is not legally punished (yet), shows that w
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by elmo2you 6y ago
Which, I would argue, says at least as much about the HN crowd as it does about whoever posted the article under this specific title. EDIT: more specifically .. it's rather ironic how judgmental (and honestly: pretty darn pretentiously
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by elmo2you 6y ago
One might argue that "context" is a valid discriminator for that, but your point certainly has validity too. They are just two different arguments. The argument of arrogance in claiming an absolute right from wrong, and the argume
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by elmo2you 6y ago
This certainly bends the needle on my bamboozle bullshit meter. They sure crammed a maximum amount of specialized words in there. Words that a majority of people will not understand. After reading just this excerpt, I instantly lost the ner

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