hannibalhorn

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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
Everybody's situation is different, but American Express paid the Global Entry fee for me as part of the annual fee I already pay them. I believe Chase Sapphire does something similar. They actually now do the Global Entry interviews
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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
It's a different animal than property taxes (which we have in Colombia too.) If you want to comparison shop high speed internet access, for example, you have to get a quote from each provider, as the rate is based on your estrato. Thi
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by hannibalhorn 9y ago
I don't have a real problem with this - physically accessing target systems to install spyware is exactly the way they should be doing things, as opposed to finding exploits that affect us all and keeping quiet about it.
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
The PDF's released as proof are the same size, so if size and checksum are the same, git could certainly be fooled at checkout time. So I could imagine in a large source file, it would be possible to have some malicious code plus some
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U.S. Visitors May Have to Hand Over Social Media Passwords: DHS(nbcnews.com)
4 points by hannibalhorn 10y ago|2 comments
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
I keep all my 2FA stuff in 1Password, with all my crazy long passwords and random answers to security questions. Unfortunately doesn't work with Authy (used by Cloudflare) so that's separate, but they allow recovery via your phon
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
The paper says that the biggest delay is in the "scan" phase, just getting a list of all the available APs in the area. This would be the same problem addressed by Apple's "try to associate to all known SSIDs on powerup
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
From what I gather, Let's Encrypt meets the guidelines to be considered acceptable, but is not really mentioned anywhere, neither in the linked page nor on https.cio.giv - is there any feeling one way or the other on the use of Let&#x2
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
Go started out to address the problems of a particular large corporation with a gigantic C++/Python codebase, and was conceived by a small team of well respected industry experts. Rust started out as the new generation engine of an ope
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
I think it is very relevant - the author of "The Cathedral and The Bazaar" tried out two fashionable new languages, one coming from a corporate team and one designed by a community ... and went with the Cathedral option. As a fan
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
It's worth noting that the author is Eric S Raymond, who we all know of... I'd definitely agree that at this point Go is better for network services, and the learning curve / documentation / infrastructure of Rust is a b
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
I actually keep my FDE password separate just because I use such a long password it's not practical to type every time my screen locks. The GUI doesn't expose it, but you can encrypt your root volume independent of your user acco
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
And apparently with macOS Sierra it's possible to once again use a Yubikey to configure login on a Mac. I'd missed that news, will have to go dig mine out of the drawer!
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
JavaScript Intellisense in HTML This is awesome - I was just this week looking at using Vuejs for a new project instead of React, but the lack of Intellisense in "Single File Components" with VSCode was a deal breaker for
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Dell error hands Mexicans $33 laptop bargain(bbc.com)
1 points by hannibalhorn 10y ago|0 comments
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
That sounds a little high to me - sure, I'd bet it's around 50%, but there's plenty of other things going on, whether it be tax evasion, prostitution, fraud, etc. Political corruption, for example, is common in the developing
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
Did you read it? I see that they're guaranteed 5 (out of 100) senate seats, which by my math is definitely not 10-30%. I doubt most normal folks will vote for them, especially in the countryside where people have been the most affecte
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
So, it sounds like Snowden going public forced them to tighten up security, in effect locking out the Russians that previously had access to the source code of taxpayer sponsored malware? Lovely, that.
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
I was intrigued by the "why are traffic lights red, yellow, and green?" question at the start .. and then the article didn't actually give an answer! Decent overview of the origin here: http://www.todayifoundout.c
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
Serious question - why not just open it up to third party developers? Just provide a sanctioned API to play (& save offline) tracks, and then let independent apps compete to come up with the best interface, tailored to individual taste
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
Perhaps there should be some sort of bug bounty on all government (at least federal, ideally state, and in a perfect world local) sites? Would be awesome if, say, the US CTO spearheaded an effort to implement one.
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by hannibalhorn 10y ago
There's a real possibility that once driverless trucks become widespread, human behavior will change as well. A very aggressive driver may take advantage of the fact that an automated truck will brake for them, and start routinely c
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
Do we have any documentation that indicates it's impossible to do firmware updates without the user's passcode? That's what the government seems to believe that it could (at present) do, given Apple's cooperation. The
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
Forcing Apple to develop said backdoor aside... I have to wonder if it wouldn't be much easier, legally speaking, for the government to force Apple to hand over it's firmware signing keys? Those undoubtedly do already exist. Onc
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
Sure, but the signed firmware could be written to delete any stored keys when it accepts an update and the phone's passphrase has not been provided. That's assuming that it manages it's own update process, has the firmware s
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
According to a former apple engineer that worked on this stuff, the enclave's firmware is indeed a signed blob: https://twitter.com/JohnHedge/status/699882614212075520 The key thing would be for it to lose al
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
One example of a library that has started out this way is lodash, and I think most now consider it superior to the original underscore library. So starting an effort like this sometimes has great results. Of course, anybody considering usi
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
Charging a different price for credit cards is generally against the terms of the contract a merchant has with their card processor.
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by hannibalhorn 11y ago
I wasn't sure what you were talking about, with respect to the other side of the story, but after searching ran across this article: http://blogs.artvoice.com/techvoice/2015/09/17/reverse-engin... N
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Ahmed Mohamed: 'Clock boy' seeks $15m from city and school(bbc.com)
73 points by hannibalhorn 11y ago|94 comments

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