jlgaddis

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Any plans for articles covering the "device identity" and "device inventory database" components of BeyondCorp? Slapping an proxy server to handle SSO/SAML in front of your web sites is the easy part. I'm curio
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The S.O.P. around here is to disclose any affiliations when recommending products -- especially commercial ones. You failed to do that twice just in this thread. For many of us, it's a trust thing. -- ETA: Speaking of trust, I just
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Routing TCP/IP, Vol. 1 & 2 .
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Perhaps, but Microsoft "loves" open-source now, remember?
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What, exactly, does "sending your IP all around the internet" even mean?
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> Afaik the U.S. no longer sponsors terrorists. I find that very hard to believe, considering the activities of the CIA -- just the ones we know about -- over the last several decades (or, really, since its beginning). -- Side note: Do
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Thanks for sharing your perspective as an Iranian, I find it quite interesting. I'm curious if: 1) you still live in Iran and/or have immediate family who do? 2) is your opinion common amongst Iranians (and/or Persians)? 3) d
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> ... sanctions and export control laws tend to be fairly strict, and penalties for knowing non-compliance are harsh, including the possibility of jail time. Yeah, no kidding. It's not even " knowing non-compliance", th
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The former image is from a blog post entitled "Shell Startup Scripts" [0] which I've just submitted [1] separately because it's so much more informative (it's been posted to HN previously but never really provoked m
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Shell Startup Scripts(blog.flowblok.id.au)
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> Some Or, typically, "A small portion ..." You might also have noticed that they almost always mention percentages ("less than 3% of users") instead of real numbers ("one million users") to make these inc
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Thank you for your wonderful, enlightening contribution to the discussion.
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Prepare to be astonished, seriously! I'm a die-hard Firefox user (see my other comment here) but it's outrageous -- and (part of) the reason why my preferences file is so huge.
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Exactly! I've been using Firefox for a looooong time -- since before it was "Firefox", actually! My name's in that full-page ad that was placed in the New York Times to commemorate the 1.0 release and, of course, I u
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> ... some help pages on the web are still recommending git-svn as a conversion tool for migrating Subversion repositories to git. DO NOT DO THIS. You may damage your history badly if you do. -- http://esr.ibiblio.org/?
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Remember that English isn't everyone's primary language. You obviously understood what they meant, as did the rest of us.
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> Can you recommend which tool they used? From [0]: > The software used for the conversion is a slightly modified fork of svn2git, as used by the KDE project. > It requires a rules file to map svn trees and/or revisions t
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Meh, blogspam. The source has more information, including detailed specs: https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/20/odroid-hc4-low-cost-...
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You can modify /etc/gai.conf to prefer IPv4 over IPv6; cf. gai.conf(5).
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I've got plenty I'm not using, I'll give you one. Here, this one's an easy one to remember, you can have it: 127.1. Enjoy!
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> Easy, just declare that the entire IPv4 address space is ::x.x.x.x in IPv6 and Bob’s your uncle. No idea why they didn’t do this other than sheer solipsism. They did [0,1]: The "IPv4-Compatible IPv6 address" was defin
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Dear Palo Alto Networks, In response to your " Cease and Desist " letter of 4 September 2020 to Avi Shua of Orca Security, we refer you to the reply given in the case of Arkell v. Pressdram [0]. Sincerely, The Internet -- [0]: h
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> The whole concept of root is you are root no exceptions. Wait until you learn about mandatory access control [0] ... -- [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandatory_access_control
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It is deeply political! It was filed by the Trump administration's DOJ and 11 states -- and the attorney general of each of those 11 is a Republican. However... There's also (supposedly) another lawsuit by a bunch of Democratic s
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Were those imported into the base system? I ask because I see that the wireguard-tools package (which contained just those two binaries) still exists for 6.8.
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Take the "drop database" bit (on the production database) away from your developers, too. As well as pretty much every other privilege they don't legitimately need to use on a daily basis -- which, for prod, should be most of
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Convenience and/or laziness, typically. Things like this would have been much less likely to happen in the past -- you know, when the developers only had access to the development database. But then someone had an idea... think of
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> the number of people with access to the database in prod is severely restricted And of those people, there should be an even fewer number with the "drop database" privilege on prod. Also, from a first glance, it looks lik
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The wonderful thing about computers is that they do exactly what they are told to do. The worst thing about computers? They do exactly what they are told to do.
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There isn't a STIG for MySQL... yet. Supposedly there is one being worked on, however. There's been a Postgres STIG for, I dunno, "a while" now. -- DISA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_Informa

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