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by euank 12y ago
Of course, the entire premise of this operating system is that VMs are secure, even though there have been exploits targeting them in the past [0]. Disabling virtualization capabilities in the bios is a semi-common recommendation for secur
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by euank 13y ago
Not necessarily that the distro security team codes the patch even. In most cases, upstream (e.g. openssl here) should have an official patch/commit that is private, but is given to these trusted distros. The security team only has to
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by euank 13y ago
Not so; companies like RHEL understand the importance of disclosure timelines and won't leak it early. The importance of telling large distros doesn't lie in them immediately releasing a fix; it lies in them being able to prepare
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by euank 13y ago
Ah, yes, certificate patrol[0]. However, your argument, I think, is not valid. Sure, it's technically possible for him to know if any cert changes, but in reality very few people are going to install the extension and those that do mig
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by euank 13y ago
I personally use the silver searcher[0], also known as ag, which is .gitignore aware and I find quite quick and useful. In fact, ag references git-grep in its readme while this blogpost makes no mention of ag. I suspect the author just does
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by euank 13y ago
That sort of power through USB is unrealistic. The other bit, motion detecting, would rely on closing the lid not sleeping the computer (as a thief will generally close the lid before taking the item)... Most people have that, but it can be
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by euank 13y ago
On the https://couple.me/alice page, to make text appear a little at a time they setup a long series of timeouts set to trigger at different times (as you can see here: https://couple.me/javascripts/ali
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by euank 13y ago
I can't help but think that they already were in a sort of informal alliance. It took Google dropping prices for both AWS and Azure to drop... clearly they were both skimming profits off the top for the last while. Of course, a company
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by euank 13y ago
Both AWS free and GCE require a credit card before doing anything at all, so that's not a barrier. As for the actual price... GCE's cost of .013c / hour is so tiny that I don't see how you can say it's a "huge
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by euank 13y ago
It would be nice if glass came with a physical cover attached that can be slid over the camera lens. Thus, you could have the lens normally covered and still use the glass without others being uncomfortable. As long as the cover became a wi
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by euank 13y ago
Though it's not advertised on the landing page, Lightbeam has a block functionality: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/lightbeam/ It's also endorsed by mozilla, which makes me trust it more. I've been u
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by euank 13y ago
I personally don't like this idea. Different people will have drastically different standards. What is wrong or right for a project, to me, depends on the standards of the developers and users. In this case, the jury is neither. In som
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by euank 13y ago
It's not mickey mouse, the extension of copyright that resulted. The point he's making is that a big business (Disney) can sway legislature for their own benefit. If you're not aware, the copyright period has been extended se
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by euank 13y ago
You can transfer cash to someone else cost free, tax free, and paperwork free if you don't mind breaking the law. If you transfer money by other means (e.g. the bank, bonds, etc) there are perks that make up for the additional cost gen
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by euank 13y ago
>more efficient way to transfer money In addition to your stated issues (which actually are probably fixable), there's the computational power requirement. That cannot be fixed. Bitcoin requires thousands of times (or more) more com
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by euank 13y ago
A sophisticated attack can completely imitate 2FA. The first bit: It starts by asking for a username+pass and it uses javascript to async-post it. The evil server then tries to login to google. If google returns that a 2FA is needed it prom
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by euank 13y ago
I think you got a detail wrong. I think that the app can only access all users registered with its api key. Same for passwords. You say "all users registered on the site", the api says "Note, this can't be used to lookup
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by euank 13y ago
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7358532 , my reply a to a sibling comment.
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by euank 13y ago
That still does not follow. It proves that he lied about not knowing what bitcoin is and it proves that he had bitcoins. Those two facts do not prove that he is Satoshi. It is not obvious. Here, I'll give you an alternative explanation
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by euank 13y ago
Unfortunately, that proves nothing. Early on, there were so few people mining that practically everyone had a "large volume". As such, if you pick any arbitrary bitcoin transaction at that time, it's highly likely it will hav
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by euank 13y ago
It's a shame this is being upvoted so highly when it's factually incorrect. A rebuttal can be found here: http://nmav.gnutls.org/2011/05/is-really-gnutls-considered-h... It's rather silly that the n
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by euank 13y ago
He addresses that. The browser has a different security model than the OS. The OS's model is based off of the user being the unit of security. If a user runs a piece of software, that software can interact with all files owned by the u
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by euank 13y ago
Consider trying Tox, http://tox.im/ ... It's open source and actively in development, but already at a usable stage. It's meant to be akin to skype, but open and secure.
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by euank 13y ago
If you read the context, it's quite clear that he's only referencing his own bitcoins. [12:02] <JonWickedFire> How much did you lose yourself? [12:04] <MagicalTux> Well, technically speaking it's not &qu
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by euank 13y ago
We aren't "running out of bits", but we have a highly limited amount of time and screen real-estate. The reason it was marked as such was so that other people didn't waste time on an unreproducible problem until it was f
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by euank 13y ago
Not him, but I can see a few good reasons. GPL is rather limiting in how you can use the code. A large company (e.g. Apple) won't let something gpl be used heavily internally if they can help it since they won't be able to apply p
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by euank 13y ago
You can get out of vaccinations in many situations with a) a doctor's express diagnosis that you should not be vaccinated or b) claiming to have a religious reason that prohibits vaccination. These methods might not work for all univer
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by euank 13y ago
No, they can't. The websites allow anyone in the world to make a guess at a password. Keepass doesn't since it requires having the private database file which you store locally. The websites allow for a vulnerability in third part
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by euank 13y ago
There were 439 lines changed in this commit. Clearly it was an exaggeration, though it was an oddly specific one.
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by euank 13y ago
I think this deal is poorly thought out since, coincidentally, all of your bitcoin wallets are in fact data. I'll happily pay whatever sum of BTC into a wallet in exchange for that wallet + some more data. Nothing but gain.

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