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by jascii 7y ago
> CVSS doesn't work, for the reasons I gave You didn't give any reasons. If you want to have a civil discourse, at least try to justify your opinions.
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by jascii 7y ago
> CVSS is a ouija metric without any real merit. Tell that to the hard working folks that define the standard, I'm sure they'll appreciate it.. Like any such metric, CVSS is far from perfect, however, in the real world you are
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by jascii 7y ago
> I have a device that used the brcmfmac driver on Linux until today, and am hoping I won't have to shelve it forever. No need to shelve the device, just don't treat WiFi as a "trusted zone" and use better encryption
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by jascii 7y ago
Less sensationalist and more informative link: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-15126 (CVSS Severity Base Score: 3.1 Low) Eh yeah, you shouldn't use WPA2 as your sole defence against data exfiltratio
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by jascii 7y ago
Pay? No. I have been exclusively using FOSS software since the first Linux releases. I have been known to donate or contribute though.
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by jascii 7y ago
You realize that heavy metal poisoning is cumulative right? There is no safe dosis.
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by jascii 7y ago
Aqueducts are specific structures to span valleys when needed and certainly were not the primary structure to deliver water.
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by jascii 7y ago
Archeological evidence suggests it was: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6594
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by jascii 7y ago
Yes, acidity plays a role in it. No, Rome is not Flint, and --if you want to believe archeological evidence-- its water supply was NOT ok. https://www.pnas.org/content/111/18/6594
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by jascii 7y ago
As it was made out of lead, I'm not sure Roman plumbing would hold up to today's definition of "clean drinking water". But yeah, todays access to clean drinking water is largely an economical issue, not so much a technic
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by jascii 7y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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Ask HN: Satellite Pagers for Alerting?
1 points by jascii 7y ago|1 comments
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by jascii 7y ago
I figure it has something to do with the top two stories atm: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22361282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22370667
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by jascii 7y ago
Anecdotal evidence is no evidence. The vote-count statistics in high-minority districts do not back up your suspicion.
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by jascii 7y ago
> Clinton outspent Trump in 2016. Do we have any any hard numbers how much was spend by various nation-states to benefit the Trump campaign? To be fair, there are so many loopholes in campaign finance laws that it is hard to get accura
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by jascii 7y ago
I am mostly just disappointed in the absolute lack of creativity in their suggestions. Even The Anarchist Cookbook is a better read :(
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Swiss crypto company backdoored by CIA for decades(bbc.com)
59 points by jascii 7y ago|20 comments
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by jascii 7y ago
That would make the holiday season one day longer, with all the pain and suffering indicated by the suicide statistics of that period..
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by jascii 7y ago
Chain of custody is one tool used to satisfy part of the burden of proof regarding correctness of the evidence. There are others like sworn testimony or corroborating evidence. This only is meaningful in a courtroom situation, a lot of &quo
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by jascii 7y ago
Found it, thanks!
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by jascii 7y ago
Should they? I know of no such law or theory. They have a burden of proof regarding the correctness of evidence and the defence can question the legality of collection methods if the evidence gets used in court. As far as I know, that&#
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by jascii 7y ago
I have searched and reread the article to find this "explicit mention" and have come up empty. Can you be more specific?
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by jascii 7y ago
That seems fairly trivial considering he was in the business of renting out webspace.
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by jascii 7y ago
I suspect that if you have a useful understanding of information security there are better/easier/less risky ways to make money then crime..
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by jascii 7y ago
The central premise of the article is that there is no disclosure regarding the vulnerability used, suggesting the existence of some unknown zero-day exploit.. Various well documented analysis have linked this incident to "EgotisticalG
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by jascii 7y ago
Airborne emissions maybe, the eventual mechanical breakdown of plastics will deposit microplastics into our water systems.
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by jascii 7y ago
While both are valid concerns, pretty much the entire scientific establishment disagrees with your priorities.
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by jascii 7y ago
"This green energy movement" as compared to what then? perpetuum mobile?
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by jascii 7y ago
I'm always a bit sceptical about all the reports about scandinavian countries "happiness" when they also seem to consume global record numbers of antidepressants and alcohol..
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by jascii 7y ago
More often than not: "and still turn the same profit"

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