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by exikyut 5y ago
Their side of the ethernet cable?? Is this situation really that bad? D:
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by exikyut 5y ago
You could use https://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chrome_cache_view.html to extract your browser cache, then grep the whole thing for something like `UC[A-Za-z_-]{20,30}`. That'll probably find an overwhelming amount of
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by exikyut 5y ago
TIL comments can be downvoted enough to be grey but upvoted enough to float to the top of the subthread. https://i.imgur.com/tqlQeTW.png
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by exikyut 5y ago
I am very curious to get a tad more context about the bank issue, if that's straightforward. Also, I have no idea if this will work, but: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19418165 - a bit of quote-googling (recom
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by exikyut 5y ago
*Headdesk* D:
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by exikyut 5y ago
:) I hope OP got in touch. Thanks for doing the thing. Reading the thread made me think of a curious idea. It's got a couple layers of nuance, but could ultimately be really cool. In short: have a proactively-updated list somewhere tha
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by exikyut 5y ago
Well, the person who posted this nice-sounding comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30402432 has an email in their profile. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Worth giving a go at least... My anecdotal experience (just poking around) i
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by exikyut 5y ago
Just thinking out loud, I wonder if this falls afoul of the GDPR for users in the EU in any way. This "access is blocked" position kind of leaves hanging whether data has explicitly been retained or deleted; so in scenarios where
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by exikyut 5y ago
HA, same here!! IBM 300PL by any chance? Mine (256MB, 8GB) ran Windows 98, and (record scratch) a copy of Visual Basic 1.0 that I'd stumbled on an abandonware copy of while attempting to figure the internet out at the local library. lo
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by exikyut 5y ago
I've long wondered what I might be able to keep an eye out for during onboarding/transfer that would help me tell overstuffed kitchens apart from optimally-calibrated engineering caves from a distance. I'm also admittedly ext
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by exikyut 5y ago
I've heard of those, they sound mildly interesting to play with, if just to go "huh" at and move on. I get the impression the main reason they developed a... strained reputation was their strong tendency to want to do RAID
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by exikyut 5y ago
Tangential thinking out loud: this makes me think of a sort of interleaving or striping mechanism that tries to leave a small proportion of every track empty, such that ideal power loss flush scenarios would involve simply waiting for the d
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by exikyut 5y ago
Same here! Down to a T. I actually think the consideration to hide it came from the fact that everyone *else's* votes are hidden. Incidentally, rather than a custom style sheet to hide the score, I have the entire top bar set to the ka
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by exikyut 5y ago
* Large rueful sigh * I feel your pain. It's stuff like that that just makes you know, they not only have no idea what they're doing, the level of agency and access they have mean it's just a question of when they finally a
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by exikyut 5y ago
Unexpected update: the parent comment has been downvoted further since being edited. I am officially lost.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Whoa , this has 95 points after only 20 minutes.
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by exikyut 5y ago
Now that Windows 11 has 32- and 64-bit x86 emulation this has the potential to do some interesting things in the long tail of the market. I honestly wonder if there's a monetary opportunity here? (This used to read a little differently
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by exikyut 5y ago
Be careful. Down this path lies "the ISO is asking us to formally specify the mechanics of DOOM" and then the only resulting end game of that is "we got DOOM running on the ISO committee!" Naturally I agree with you th
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by exikyut 5y ago
> Benjamin Franklin would probably be really angry about how normalized it has become to give up liberties for some false sense of security. I honestly think it's even worse than that, because the status quo has made it so we don&
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by exikyut 5y ago
That would require multiple submissions, or a fairly comprehensive bit of API tooling :/
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by exikyut 5y ago
Sideline question: > My phone spends four to five seconds trying to tell Google about incoming calls, then raises a notification about its failure, resulting from my failure to configure it correctly, and only then does it activate the
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by exikyut 5y ago
At the end of the day I honestly can't see how keeping this secret improves security overall. Something'll give eventually. It might be in something protected by these modifications, it might not, you have no way of knowing, so it
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by exikyut 5y ago
> One indicator of a compromised device is a reduction in perceived performance. That doesn't work because of the hilariously wide performance swings induced by antivirus software overhead. :( IMHO the tab-isolation model you desc
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by exikyut 5y ago
Hmmm, this could be interesting for high-voltage/current isolation applications, eg generator or battery bank control/monitoring. Would be really cool if there were prefabricated Ethernet-to-<this> boards out there. A quick
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by exikyut 5y ago
Alternative hypothetical perspective, stated factually as my brain reasons about it, but potentially subtly/grossly incorrect: The pinpoint of the boundary between the buildup and the punchline was the point you said "split".
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by exikyut 5y ago
No, that's all firmly within the consumer class end of the spectrum. IIUC (this is speculative presumption, the worst kind :P) the Ethernet port may use a form of USB, or at least what looks like a USB-like connector, possibly to pro
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by exikyut 5y ago
So basically you have 2FA for workstation boot. That's really quite cool. Of course I want to know how and where the keys are stored :D so I can do the same thing myself! Arguably security systems in this class demonstrate their integr
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by exikyut 5y ago
I was wondering what the situation was, hah (and hoping my totally presumptuous read of the situation wasn't totally off lol... yay it wasn't). Ugh, incompetence enforced by policy is the most flat-out frustrating thing ever. One
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by exikyut 5y ago
That's interesting to hear that you can remote-unlock machines that are waiting for a disk encryption key. I presume the remote-unlock case is the primary one. I've long been curious how early boot works on Google servers (and T
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by exikyut 5y ago
I've slowly come to appreciate Google's emphasis on process/police over engineering coherence (and real security :P), so maybe I'm describing the infuriatingly futile here, but... - Box with Ethernet port that connects s

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