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by fabulist 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMA_attack Edited to add; This is heresay, but my friend just told me that this is the first thing techs do when they set up a computer at Los Alamos National Lab. (He knows some people wh
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by fabulist 12y ago
I'm worried for this individual's safety.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Governments need to stop using private contractors for such sensitive projects. It exponentiates their attacks surface, and as Peter Zatko pointed out[1], they have little incentive to defend themselves; if another state steals a covert cap
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by fabulist 12y ago
Thats embarrassing, shows what I know about Word Press. Thank you for clarifying.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Please correct me if I'm wrong, but this doesn't seem like responsible disclosure.
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by fabulist 12y ago
This is already being done in Portugal. I don't think the new addicts you're imagining would materialize. If you want to do meth, it isn't hard. Legalizing it doesn't make it that much easier. You get addicted to meth be
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by fabulist 12y ago
This is chilling. What are the odds that this wasn't "insider trading" with the attackers?
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by fabulist 12y ago
His handle was mgrunin[1]. He made some posts about how much money he'd sent to CoinBase, and how they still hadn't sent him BTC. A google of his name (at the time, at least) revealed a lot of ostentatious pictures tagged things l
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by fabulist 12y ago
I think self-promotion like this, where it is relevant and clearly disclosed as such, is good form and very constructive. Additionally, its quite common on HN.
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by fabulist 12y ago
I've read some great books from Packt, this wasn't really one of them. When the first thread was on HN, I got excited because I love Python and had been looking into starting some investments. Namely, I want to implement a low-ris
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by fabulist 12y ago
To be fair, their aims were lophty even if their methods were crude.
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by fabulist 12y ago
Its not that I think Soros should be "blamed" per say, it just doesn't speak highly of his character. He put profits before the wellbeing of the British people. Clearly he doesn't feel an ethical obligation to them. I wo
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by fabulist 12y ago
"In light of this development, we're starting a Fiscal Policy Bug Bounty program...."
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by fabulist 12y ago
If a car dealer knowingly sells you a lemon, is it a consensual exchange? I don't think was Soros did was absolutely unethical, but its ridiculous to pretend that it was squeaky clean. One party thought this to be an ordinary transacti
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by fabulist 12y ago
Actually it was you who misunderstood. He made money because everyone saw the writing was on the wall, and that the pound was going to plummet; Soros became the triggering event. He had a first-mover's advantage. If everyone thought th
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by fabulist 12y ago
I think you guys may have missed something. The protagonists feels a lot of emotion, but they mourn in a sad and silent way. They spend the whole story trying to get over what happened to their family. Its far from clear that the Internet i
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by fabulist 12y ago
I'm a little confused why this is on HN...?
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by fabulist 12y ago
They've been abusing it for a long time, and GitHub has taken steps to remediation the situation. There are also other avenues, such as PasteBin. I've seen a bunch of people post, say, router configurations to PasteBin to share th
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API Keys on GitHub
7 points by fabulist 12y ago|2 comments
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Stalking the Wily Hacker [1988] [pdf](pdf.textfiles.com)
1 points by fabulist 13y ago|0 comments
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by fabulist 13y ago
I like how the torsion wrench works, thats clever. I used to carry a similar card. It was a fake credit card that opened up, and had a small set of picks inside. I kept it in my wallet in case I was ever locked out.
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by fabulist 13y ago
On a legal note; IANAL, but I did a little research before getting started in lock picking a while back. iirc, there are no federal laws against having picks. However, states often have laws against "possession of burglary tools".
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by fabulist 13y ago
If you could present fashion in a way that appealed to me as a programmer, I'd buy it at any price. Whenever I try to investigate this area, it seems like fashion and software engineering are both accelerating very fast in completely o
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by fabulist 13y ago
I don't think its insane at all. I don't think Seggelman backdoored OpenSSL, but he did come up with the idea, write the buggy implementation, and then submit it over a holiday when it was least likely to be carefully scrutinized
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by fabulist 13y ago
To clarify what thrownaway2424 said, in case some people really are unfamiliar; You can't take the password out of RAM. It would be pretty insane to store it in RAM once the login process is done. This exploit can't read RAM. Bein
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by fabulist 13y ago
Thats fascinating, do you happen to remember the reference?
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by fabulist 13y ago
Pardon me if I'm being blunt, but I believe I can answer your question regarding downvotes. You seem to have found a niche you're good at, all I'd counsel you is to get better at managing impressions. I think what you want to
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by fabulist 13y ago
I've no idea, but I think having a verbose server header like that indicates an indifference to security already....
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by fabulist 13y ago
Thank you for sharing your insight.
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by fabulist 13y ago
Its also important to choose your security battles. I imagine there was another severe bug or two in a project as large as OpenBSD. That being said, thats a petty and ridiculous reason not to deal with someone's code. This gentleman st

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