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by gwu78 12y ago
Did you see the other thread that made the HN front page shortly after this one? It was regarding "deprecating" plain text HTTP traffic. It seems some readers believe there is a "requirement" to involve third parties w
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by gwu78 12y ago
Well-stated. You are not the only one.
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by gwu78 12y ago
I run CurveCP servers on my computers and they can serve encrypted HTML. It is possible. See curvecp.org/httpcurve.html If you want a working example, see curveprotect.org
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by gwu78 12y ago
The first problem can be addressed by the CurveCP prototype, which uses NaCl. tinysshd (see tinyssh.org) coupled with curvecpserver is a working example.
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by gwu78 12y ago
"SSL doesn't require relying on any third parties" The word "require" was in quotes for a reason. I have changed the sentence to say "encourage". In practice many people using SSL do rely on third parties
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by gwu78 12y ago
Humble opinion: It is easy to block apps from sending sensitive information over the internet by running your own DNS cache and root along with a packet filter. Humble opinion: If someone really wanted to send sensitive information over the
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by gwu78 12y ago
Ask yourself a simple question: Where does ICANN derive its "authority"? Does it even have any "authority"? To do what? Is there anything to stop anyone besides ICANN from setting up a network of FTP mirrors that offe
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by gwu78 12y ago
mknod: "nowadays of extremely limited usefulness" Interesting perspective. I use it almost daily. The syscall as well as the provided utility of same name.
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by gwu78 12y ago
"Like I have time to read the code of every project before I decide to use it." I can only wonder how you make your decisions on what projects (binaries?) to use. About pages, Google searches for x vs y, blog posts, forum comments
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by gwu78 12y ago
Assuming that someone has created such a system but has not released it, and that this person asked you what you might do with her system, what would you answer? Do you envision that users would want to run such a system, e.g., if there was
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by gwu78 12y ago
Are you associating x64 assembly with "smart" or "10x genius"? How do you make this connection? Do you think that Python is more complex than assembly or vice versa? Are you suggesting that being able to program a comput
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by gwu78 12y ago
Fortunately it still remains easy to convert almost any blogger/blogspot blog to a simple HTML file with no gratuitous Javascript or CSS. Then open the file in your browser of choice. Here is one quick dirty way using only shell, sed,
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why use this instead of sed, awk, flex, lua, etc.? sed does the job and on almost all UNIX clones it never needs to be installed. Because it's already there.
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by gwu78 13y ago
It seems hard to believe someone doing something like this would not at least try to cover their tracks. export HISTSIZE=0? And how do you know these were unmodified versions of netstat, who and ps that you ran? Do they have mtree in
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by gwu78 13y ago
Why not use the non-printing char as the comma instead of the record separator. 1. Replace all the commas in the text with the unique non-printing char before converting to CSV. 2. Convert this char back to a comma when processing the CSV f
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by gwu78 13y ago
I also like his poker hand sed script. Best part is he uses BSD sed. No newlines as patterns. We use tr(1) for that.
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by gwu78 13y ago
The author compares DNSSEC with other protocols like SSH and HTTPS. DNSSEC suffers from some of the same problems as SSL PKI, namely 1. it requires placing authority in people who you may not trust and 2. it's too easy to make configu
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by gwu78 13y ago
"... an industry that never should have become an industry."
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by gwu78 13y ago
There is no such thing as an "exciting" computer language. But there's also no shortage of big, slow, verbose languages designed for dummies. Worse, these actually form the majority of the world's most popular computer l
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by gwu78 13y ago
Well done. What language did you use to write it?
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by gwu78 13y ago
djb once wrote a FORTH-like interpreter. Anyone get that old code to run today? I have always thought think LISP/Scheme's "best" use is to write code generators (e.g., that output C or asm). I know there's at least
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by gwu78 13y ago
-static
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by gwu78 13y ago
Everytime I have to read one of these "blogspot" blogs, I find myself rewriting my "one-off" solution again so I can read the blogger blog posts without Javascript. For the 1 or 2 people out there reading who like to
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by gwu78 13y ago
Is implementation really about what you name the functions? I thought naming functions was "programming style". And implementation was about the math. The quality of the latter being measured by profiling and performance.
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by gwu78 13y ago
Did you post your implementation to the mailing list? I highly doubt Python or Matlab beats q, but I'm biased. I'm not sure I understand the comparison to a "native implementation". You mean C? How about assembly? Why
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by gwu78 13y ago
I use a TCP client written by another UIC math professor and sed for most of my scraping needs. Can you or anyone give me an example, _that is likely to be seen on any website_, that you believe cannot be solved with sed but can be solved w
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by gwu78 13y ago
"...the only true way to be safe is to boot up a live Linux distribution..." The only true way? Are you sure about that? There are other OS's besides Linux and Windows. And there is something called rump(3).
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by gwu78 13y ago
s/attrition/attribution/
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by gwu78 13y ago
Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't tcpdump had several buffer overflows in the past? Personally I prefer multilog + pflogd + some other tool to examine the pcap file. My old favorite is nc-data -d. The entire program fits on one
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by gwu78 13y ago
I'm not going to rant about how Apple products make gratuitous network connections to remote computers for questionable reasons. Nor the requests that many AppStore apps send out over the open internet without telling you, or how poor

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