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by forgotusername 14y ago
The special feature of these "pseudo USSD" codes on Android is that you don't have to press the call button. Simply typing the digits is enough. Note I have no idea if this particular attack actually works.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I tried reproducing it using a "USSD" that works on my venerable Nexus One (radio debug - * # * # 4636 # * # *), but on entering dialler app the input box is empty. This might simply mean the debug activity was started and got focus before
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Page text was: the USSD code to factory data reset a Galaxy S3 is *2767*3855# can be triggered from browser like this: <frame src="tel:*2767*3855%23" />
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Just some more oil for the fire. Having worked primarily in Python for over 10 years (and generally been a huge enthusiast during that time), I'm pretty comfortable at this stage with the notion that exception handling languages contribute
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Pretty sweet, although I'd prefer seeing it as an optional user agent feature than a web page feature. When reading long articles, I regularly use the text selection highlight to back-reference as I continue reading, or to mark my spot whil
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Article includes an example where linking to the iPhone wouldn't work.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Or, you know, 'tent'.
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'm saying I haven't tried to crack a password in about 12 years :)
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by forgotusername 14y ago
AV companies like to share samples with each other, so guessing they had at least a bit of a head start. Still, brute forcing a 10 character password that uses the full ASCII printable character set looks like it'd require.. 9,500 years on
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DWP previously confirmed its IPv4 block is used and too costly to renumber(itnews.com.au)
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by forgotusername 14y ago
It's worse than that. It replaces sys.modules['sh'] with something that isn't a types.ModuleType in the middle of the module's initialization. Cute, but definitely on the list of things I'd remove on sight if encountered in a commercial pro
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I just gave you a reason. Without coordination of private network addressing, those networks essentially speak different protocols, needing horrendous transforms like NAT which only works in specific situations and myriad crap over the appl
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Under all circumstances: I'm sure we've all been faced at some stage with the unplanned need to route between two RFC1918 subnets, only to find they collide, in situations as simple as a home VPN connection dialling into the office LAN, up
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'm not sure about the definition of 'unused', just because a network is not visible from the Internet and has no publicly registered ASNs doesn't mean its numbers are not in private use (which AFAIK, was always a legitimate use-case for ge
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Colour me stupid, but is there something to prevent inserting indeterminate padding while sending headers? e.g. imagine a request like GET / HTTP/1.0 X-Pad: GET / HTTP/aaaaaaa Where X-Pad randomly repeats previous bytes, and pe
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by forgotusername 14y ago
9 times out of 10, tmpfs is explicitly not for use mounted as /tmp. The only obvious exception I can think of are cluster nodes where the workload is specialized and the node has no local storage whatsoever. I guess it only takes one sill
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Any comments on why alecco's (seemingly informative) comment is dead? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4496441
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Seems just before you replied I deleted the parent comment, due to it stretching my analogy a bit too far, and into realms I'm far from authoritative in (or comfortable debating :).
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Doubtfully a popular opinion, but I'll throw it out there anyway. In finance it's common to assume the winners (aka. those that float to the top of hedge funds, investment banks, etc) are worth observing as a result of their apparent succes
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by forgotusername 14y ago
You do realize basically all these rules applied to the ras. pi when it was first announced too? Considering that was over a year ago, and comparable parts have been regularly available from China (e.g. Allwinner A10) for many months, it's
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by forgotusername 14y ago
A reasonable response, although the problem with this is that it's impossible to manipulate persons without causing their values to be copied (which might not even be possible given the other members of the type - which might not even be un
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I'm confused. You double clicked an application icon, and the application opened? You seem to be conflating the popular hate for focus being stolen due to some non-consensual event, and the consensual starting of an app. If GIMP didn't have
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by forgotusername 14y ago
And of course, not forgetting repair permissions, a quick shake of the blessed ju-ju stick in an easterly direction, and the feeding of at least 2 manna cookies to the Jobs voodoo doll. More seriously, has SMC/PRAM reset ever fixed anything
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by forgotusername 14y ago
551 words spilled on a simple question, with a simple, obvious answer: E-mail. * Immediacy: if a post has been made by someone I follow, I can see it in my timeline right away (or close enough that I don’t notice the difference). "E-mail" *
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I wonder how the German data protection office might respond if they realized Google probably have the largest database of images in the world, is trying to put cameras in everyone's glasses, and already owns 2 face recognition companies (N
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by forgotusername 14y ago
The way I see it there's two distinct problems being coupled together, kinda like inventing HTTP but defining it only to be used with (html, gif, png) or something. The reality is that if your solution gets even some adoption, conventions w
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by forgotusername 14y ago
"Let's replace `cd` with a macro that knows some things about my workflow!". Runs script KABOOM. Oh crap, guess I need to make that macro only run for interactive shells. How do I do that? 2 hours later [expletives deleted]. "I want ssh
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by forgotusername 14y ago
I've quickly jotted some thoughts here: http://damnkids.posterous.com/rich-format-unix-pipes Regarding this version, standardizing on a particular transfer format is a bad idea. If history has shown anything, it's that we like to reinvent
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Sarcasm failure? The comment's intention was to suggest that it is directly and unequivocally in the interests of AV and infosec companies to dress up these daft events to make them sound as evil as possible, as the resulting fear drives
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by forgotusername 14y ago
Applying Occam's razor we're left with a teenage drop out who has found a way to sell bank account details on the black market, to fund his new car. But of course not, obviously it's Al Quaeda. How else will the security industry succeed in

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