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by jdsnape 7y ago
I'm not sure this is a great analogy as yes, we permit people to have doors and locks but society also provides a mechanism for the government to lawfully get access to them. If the Police have a legit reason to access a property they
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by jdsnape 7y ago
I'm not convinced IP-based blocking can be more effective than DNS blocking. Very often many different sites are hosted on one IP address (e.g. a CDN in the 'worst' case), and IP blocking would mean lots of things become inac
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by jdsnape 7y ago
Probably a radio time signal: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock
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by jdsnape 7y ago
In the UK (at least) we had a similar CD encyclopaedia from Dorling Kindersley which I used to use at the local Library before we had a computer. I particularly remember the Space and the Universe one ( https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by jdsnape 7y ago
Ah, but now you’ve posted that publicly anyone who wants to target you knows what to do! :)
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by jdsnape 7y ago
What sensor did you use? All the ones I’ve seen tend to be pretty expensive
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by jdsnape 7y ago
I think that command is showing you the total number of hours the system has been running, not the uptime - so it could have been rebooted for patching [Edit] - Slightly pedantically, it's the number of hours one of the disks has been
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by jdsnape 8y ago
This is the paper which explains the research: https://regmedia.co.uk/2019/02/12/sgxmalware.pdf
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by jdsnape 8y ago
It’s a little more subtle than that AIUI - they’re only personal if you have a way of linking them to a user. E.g. if someone logs in with an email and you record that with the IP, or if you’re an ISP. I don’t think the IP is personal if yo
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by jdsnape 11y ago
pacman is the package manager for archlinux: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/pacman
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by jdsnape 11y ago
The way they've reported on this seems a bit misleading. Isn't it just that the third-party repairers haven't reset the security mechanism after replacing the home button?
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by jdsnape 11y ago
Good find, and pretty shocking! What's the legal status of something like this? I think in the UK it would be counted as bypassing authentication and technically you could be prosecuted under the CMA (happy to be corrected on that...
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by jdsnape 11y ago
I'm not sure I agree - maybe I'm lucky to work in an organisation where we have a good understanding that infsec is all about risk. We build this into pretty much everything we do, and the only way to get stuff done is by demonstr
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by jdsnape 11y ago
I think that one was MS15-077 which is a local privilege escalation. My guess is someone at Microsoft noticed today's issue while fixing that one.
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by jdsnape 12y ago
Looks like another case of Chinese traffic being tampered with to load resources from another domain - in this case Baidu searches: http://insight-labs.org/?p=1682
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by jdsnape 12y ago
I think a slight change in approach is needed. In a lot of cases, your network had a hard outer perimeter which was treated as unbreakable, and within that was considered 'trusted'. I think we're now finding that doesn't
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by jdsnape 12y ago
If you're interested, some friends of mine at work launched one last year http://funcube.org.uk/
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by jdsnape 12y ago
Most of this stuff was published a few months ago and completely debunked - the ip range was just chosen because it isn't routable. The BTAgent is there to manage the devices - e.g. Updating them. Its possible that some stats are there
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by jdsnape 12y ago
That's because the Ofcom regulation of BT has lead to one of the world's most competitive broadband/telecoms industry In other countries, e.g. the US, there tends to be one Telco per region which both owns the infrastructure
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by jdsnape 12y ago
I remember he came to my school and talked about beagle when I was in my early teens and I found it very inspiring - part of the reason I'm working in tech today.
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by jdsnape 12y ago
I agree with what you're saying about having better recovery, but I think you need some balance between the two. I'd rather look through a week's worth of changes to work out what borked the restart than two years worth!
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by jdsnape 13y ago
This shows another of the benefits for the community of open sourcing code - because we can see exactly where and what the bug was steps can be taken in other projects to stop it happening there (I think Adam mentioned he was going to check
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by jdsnape 13y ago
I was surprised by the tweet saying she was glad she lived in a state where it was illegal to fire her...does this imply there are states where it would be legal to fire someone who was transgender?
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by jdsnape 13y ago
Exactly my thoughts when reading these comments. I'm in my first year in employment after graduating from University, and I get 27.5 days holiday a year...if you don't take it you get in trouble with HR (although I can carry 5 day
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by jdsnape 13y ago
Do you have a source for that last example? Seems like it would be a bit difficult to keep a tunnel of that scale secret.
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by jdsnape 13y ago
I'm always wary of 'for life' claims. A few years back Three in the UK did a 'free Skype calls for life' promotion to encourage 3g take-up, of course they have now stopped honouring that promise
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by jdsnape 13y ago
Sure, but this is talking about a whole room of people. What's the chance that no one would benefit from taking notes?
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The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office(bbc.co.uk)
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by jdsnape 14y ago
I'm not sure how they've worked it out, but Cisco has a registered trademark for IOS, which is their operating system for network equipment: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6537/products_ios_sub_...
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by jdsnape 14y ago
It sounds like LloydsTSB to me too, not only is the process for sending money as above, but you don't need your card to login (there is a User ID number, a password and a "memorable phrase" which you have to give three digits of). While it'

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