fiberoptick

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by fiberoptick 5y ago
The perfect example for how bloated, inefficient, and wasteful the bureaucracies of higher education can become. How did $40m of fraudulent spending go unchecked for literally years? It seems to be that even at the largest private sector or
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by fiberoptick 5y ago
This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services
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by fiberoptick 5y ago
Well, at companies that actually care about 100% rollout of "corporate, invasive crapware" on computers that _they own_ and that are used to process _company data_ and access _company resources_, the alternative is usually just t
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by fiberoptick 5y ago
End of an era... Are there any viable alternatives to Kubernetes and Nomad?
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
I wonder where this leaves the AWS-sponsored Open Distro for Elasticsearch? ( https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/ ) Seems to me that they have no choice but to hard fork off of the last Apache-licensed releas
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
Copyright law is the basis for the legal enforcement of software licenses. License violations usually get pursued under copyright law
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
There are state laws that require financial institutions to do this actually. Their hands are tied here. It's called "escheatment". https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersescheathtm.html
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
> does not directly answer to any legislative, judicial, or executive authority. This is patently false. The Securities and Exchange Commission accredits and oversees all national SROs.
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
Should be corrected to "Vendor-Locks", as well.
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
Does this defend against any additional attack surface that wasn't already defended by the UEFI Secure Boot standard?
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
Your comment is technically correct, but misleading. In fact California specifically does not tax ex-residents for income arising from the disposition of stock acquired with ISOs, which is usually the way pre-IPO employees acquire shares.
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Yelp lays off or furloughs more than 2k employees due to coronavirus(cnbc.com)
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
Bad, in my view. (Although I am not a lawyer, and would definitely appreciate input from one here!) Hardware offload of a network protocol is an extremely generic concept and this patent seems to describe that concept (without any kind of n
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by fiberoptick 6y ago
And emerging QUIC acceleration technology is likely to be stifled by intellectual property laws. Intel has already filed (in 2019) for a European patent that seems to claim inventorship of the generic concept of hardware offloading (as it a
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by fiberoptick 7y ago
I noticed that throughout this thread you have been making this assertion. Could you share any data or citations to support this? Would you feel any differently about the value of this bug if it affected, e.g. Google or Facebook?
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by fiberoptick 7y ago
Wow, an ATO exploit that only received a $6,500 bounty? This signals to grey-/black-hat researchers that their research efforts or Slack bug disclosures are best directed elsewhere..
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by fiberoptick 7y ago
The FOSS community would be a lot safer if Oracle didn't exist.
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by fiberoptick 7y ago
Are there any decent alternatives to Unifi APs or home switches and routers? Willing to pay a modest premium, even.
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by fiberoptick 7y ago
There's a subtle difference between AGPL and the Commons Clause licenses. AGPL requires network-accessible code to be disclosed & licensed under an AGPL-compatible license. The Commons Clause license outright prohibits SaaS-style o
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by fiberoptick 8y ago
The third demo screenshot [1], which contains a toy implementation of AES in CBC mode, is a great example of why cryptography is hard to get right. Implementation is best left to cryptographers. AES-CBC requires a random IV to be used as a
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by fiberoptick 11y ago
Why did they publish his SF-86? This seems like a very irresponsible invasion of Brennan's personal privacy; nothing in there could possibly be of legitimate public interest.
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by fiberoptick 11y ago
Describing a contract as "bulletproof" and drafted by "top attorneys" is likely considered puffery [1] under the law, and should be fine in my opinion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffery
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by fiberoptick 11y ago
I've never understood why so many companies are comfortable giving Amazon such leverage over their business infrastructure. Could someone explain why this is a good move in spite of the risk that Amazon could jack their prices up in th
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by fiberoptick 12y ago
It's highly dependent by the state in which you work. Github is in California, an "at-will" state [1], which basically means that you can get fired for any reason, including no reason at all. The only exceptions to this rule
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by fiberoptick 13y ago
Why were they storing the PINs?