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by iuguy 14y ago
I've been playing with my Samsung HT-C5500 blu-ray player and 7.1 sound system that also runs linux in my spare time (not that I've had a lot of spare time). The firmware is xor-ciphered, but once you get past that it's similar to a FAT fil
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by iuguy 14y ago
Talk about timing! At 44Con we've just finished round 2 of our CFP acceptance and rejections, so we have this[1] page up for our speakers (although it's not been sent out yet). Hope it's helpful, and if anyone can think of a way to improve
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by iuguy 14y ago
That bullet pointed list for some reason doesn't render properly in the comments, but is brilliant and far more insightful than the article itself. This is precisely the sort of positive constructive feminism that we need in the hacker comm
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Right, because 4chan and the like care so much about evidence and proof before they start sending around rape threats and changing Wikipedia pages to porn. But 4chan isn't a site deliberately set up to 'name and shame', nor does it re
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by iuguy 14y ago
I'm fairly appalled by the bulk of this article and frankly surprised to see it on the front page of HN. There are some potentially good ideas that with some smoothing out could fly, but there's a lot of stuff that's scummy, if not illegal.
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by iuguy 14y ago
The name your rapist idea is terrible in the form the author lays out as there's no requirement for evidence. It would be relatively easy to game such a site to discredit people, which in turn would discredit the site. To be fair, an anonym
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by iuguy 14y ago
You're right. The bigger boys are in various stages of getting it together, it's the ones that don't seem to have immediate column-inch impact (Oracle, SAP etc.) that aren't quite there yet, and then you've got everyone else who lack the re
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by iuguy 14y ago
Ah right, got you now. I was referring to the scalability issue. Of course the great thing about code defects is that updates are just as good at introducing new bugs if the developers don't have proper security processes in the first place
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by iuguy 14y ago
This is stupid. As John Pescatore said, there's no possible positive outcome in this situation. You're feeding the bad guys fake documents, great! They're still on your network, owning your kit, not so great! Defeating this type of threat i
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by iuguy 14y ago
Vivek Ramachandran's Exploit Research Megaprimer[1] is a good video series for the basics. Peter van Eeckhoutte's article series[2] also provide a good hands on for getting started. Vivek's doing a training course at 44Con (disclaimer: I'm
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by iuguy 14y ago
> Exploits do not come out of nowhere. They can't be scaled with demand. Actually they can and are[1]. Not so much the exploit dev bit, but the bug hunting is getting more automated. [1] - http://www.scribd.com/doc/55229891/Bug-Shop
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by iuguy 14y ago
> They making a explicit decision to reap a larger payday by selling the exploits to governments or other companies rather than disclosing it to the original application authors for the standard bug reward. I don't know you but I get th
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by iuguy 14y ago
You're absolutely right on both counts, and thanks for the comment.
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by iuguy 14y ago
> They're making themselves rich at the expense of everyone else. They're a leech on society. No they're not, on both counts. They're not making themselves rich at the expense of everyone else. Their major customers are governments, who
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by iuguy 14y ago
I don't think you understand how my laptop use case works. Hint: I run a lot of VMs and emulators, do a lot of debugging and have a lot of tabs open.
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by iuguy 14y ago
Disclaimer: I know people referenced in this article. Whatever your views on the morality or ethics surrounding this market, the fact is that it exists and isn't going away. In fact it has existed for a long time (I certainly remember explo
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by iuguy 14y ago
Depending on your view, Chris Soghoian is a transparency activist fighting for the rights of others, or a bit of a troll who doesn't know what he's talking about. I err towards the latter rather than the former, but YMMV.
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by iuguy 14y ago
For work, I've not had a laptop last more than 3 years before dying, but I have a habit of punishing them. My current MBP (bought a couple of months ago as I wanted the top end Sandy Bridge with all the kinks ironed out rather than a 1.0 Iv
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by iuguy 14y ago
There's a great three part series[1][2] (well, parts one and two are great) at the Kernel magazine on recruiters as well as an expose on the top recruiting scams[3]. [1] - http://www.kernelmag.com/features/report/2401/tech-recruiter... [2
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by iuguy 14y ago
This post is simple blind conjecture based on the shape of the case. Apple might have moved to iOS or might not. The Darwin core does support network routing, but they wouldn't be able to market it as an iOS device without paying a hefty ch
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by iuguy 14y ago
I went into the apple store in Basingstoke, UK the morning after the keynote. They had a Retina MBP out (only one, it is Basingstoke after all, and not for sale) for people to play with. They were taking orders for pickup in the next week o
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by iuguy 14y ago
There are two parts to the plans for Internet intercept support in the UK, the police and the security services. The police use is primarily for the purposes of stopping crime. The purposes for the security services are opaque and unlimited
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by iuguy 14y ago
For the workplace I'd say what you do is infinitely more important than what you know, although there is a clear relationship between the two. At the end of the day, people can qualify and measure what you do. Trying to externally measure
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by iuguy 14y ago
I have the late 2011 MBP with 16gb of RAM and I maxed out RAM usage earlier today just with Postbox, Steam, a backgrounded 2Gb VM, a large file copy in forklift and chrome. While that's a rare occurence now, I imagine that over time it will
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by iuguy 14y ago
Somehow this term manages to debase both the terms hacker and marketer. Marketing people need to keep up with marketing trends which in a tech startup environment means you now need to have technical knowledge to do this. Good marketers hav
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by iuguy 14y ago
> If you haven't read 1984... I'd also recommend that you read Aldous Huxley's Brave New World for a counterpoint. The sad part is that the way the world is going appears to be a mix of the worst elements of the two. Of course, the perp
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by iuguy 14y ago
It's annoying that I have to do some sort of three finger claw salute. This is just me being lazy but is there any way to reconfigure the shortcut?
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by iuguy 14y ago
> the iPad is no more than than a glorified toy. Not true. I use my iPad every day. My use varies from maybe 30 minutes of email to a good few hours. On my iPad I write, I organise my day, I handle notes and document recipes for things
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by iuguy 14y ago
I've been using Forklift for a while now instead of Finder. Much less braindead, reminds me of Directory Opus on the Amiga. Probably need to spend more time customising it so it's as good as Midnight Commander but it's getting there.
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by iuguy 14y ago
As someone using the 2011 Macbook (bought about a month ago) I have to say some things really annoy me in OSX, some things less so. I'm slowly getting used to the Mac way of doing things, but still occasionally cmd-L to lock my screen only

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