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jlgaddis
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According to the linked wiki page [0]: > To process OpenPGP messages, GnuPG stores secret keys, public keys of correspondents, and trust information for public keys in its own file format. Thunderbird 78 will not reuse the GnuPG file fo
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At my previous job (small ISP), I had several such machines running various public-facing services. It was (as best as I can recall) perhaps a year or so after RHEL 6 dropped and, naturally, I was planning to use CentOS 6 for several new se
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7y ago
I miss the good old days of the Internet, when men were men, women were men, and children were FBI agents.
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Also, Jimmy Hoffa was his partner in these deeds. "They" don't want you to find out about that either. sigh
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7y ago
I cringed a bit at that and the end of the next paragraph: > Once he did that, he would see: 404 error: Destination unreadable. Sounds like somebody got their ICMP types and HTTP response codes mixed up but, hey, they're journalis
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jlgaddis
7y ago
Even out here in the rural part of the country, the 900 MHz band is already so crowded and full of interference. I can't imagine what it looks like in more heavily populated areas!
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"Oracle" and "free" in the same sentence? Has hell finally frozen over?
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In this particular (Netflix) case, what's the worst that could happen? One of their OCAs panics and falls over... and all customer traffic gets shifted to another OCA in the same or another location? Sure, they might run into some bug
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7y ago
"If Grandma had balls, she'd be Grandpa."
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7y ago
You mean like when FBI got warrants to exploit Tor users?
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> I independently investigated ... Care to elaborate a bit? Strictly speaking, I "independently investigated" JFK's death. Of course, my mother was still in diapers when he was killed.
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7y ago
The Raspberry Pi has a HWRNG onboard.
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> You might be surprised how many people make this problem go away by running havaged, [sic] which provides very dubious entropy. My personal favorite is: # rngd -r /dev/urandom -o /dev/random
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VLANs, huh? I'll have to Google that sometime. ;)
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I used to do the same exact thing. At some point, though, I noticed that "something" [0] still managed to "get out". After running some packet captures, it became clear what was going on. Although the device was using th
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7y ago
And, if you're like me and have dozens of tabs open for weeks on end, the OneTab extension is pretty awesome too.
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7y ago
> 5. Reach out to the most senior person with a relevant role at each company with a personalized 1-on-1 email. So, spam them, basically? I'm not even "the most senior person" and I get tons of e-mails along these lines
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7y ago
> If Google was the one offering DoH, ... Related: With Chrome 78, Google is starting to "experiment" with ("an auto-upgrade approach" to) DNS over HTTPS (DoH) [0], as previously discussed [1] a few days ago. There
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The only thing I can think of that sounds even remotely close to what you're describing is when Congress made it illegal [0] to listen in on cellular phone calls a few decades ago but, notable, pager traffic was specifically excluded
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jlgaddis
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You're doing it wrong.
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jlgaddis
7y ago
Yeah, you can re-configure Pi-Hole to use DoH (with your preferred servers). unbound can be configured to use DoH as well.
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That's exactly what their plan is -- and if you have experiments enabled, they may have already started sending your DNS queries to Cloudflare.
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I didn't see it mentioned in the article. Has Mozilla said whose servers they will be sending unsuspecting users queries to by default? (IIRC, it was Cloudflare previously. Any reason to believe this has changed?) --- If, like me, you
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That's what /etc/motd was intended for
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Are you aware of $IFS?
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Especially if (as it sounds) it's happened more than once!
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Ethernet.
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90% of my YouTube "consumption" is on a Roku which doesn't show video descriptions, comments, etc.
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As mentioned (in large print!) in the article: > “How the exploit happened is impossible to determine at this point, as the machine in question has been decommissioned."
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> “It appears that a build/test system was compromised some time last year and the exploited added to code in the directory from which packages are built (and file timestamps modified to make this change not show up in a git diff),
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