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by jvdh 10y ago
Windows handles a lot of abstractions, to hide users from the nitty gritty details (OS X does the same thing). One of those things is hiding as much of the file system as possible. Unix usually has users engaged at a lower level, adding a s
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Dedup Est Machina: Memory Deduplication as an Advanced Exploitation Vector [pdf](ieee-security.org)
3 points by jvdh 10y ago|0 comments
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by jvdh 10y ago
He completely forgot his laptop, moved away from the security check and only later figured out he was missing his laptop. With hundreds of people moving through those checkpoints, I do not blame the TSA agents for handing stuff out to compl
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by jvdh 10y ago
Alternative title: Guy forgets laptop at security checkout and blames TSA for his stupidity. > I emerged from the scanner without any problems, collected my 2 bags and incidentals, and proceeded into Terminal 5. After awhile, I looked i
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by jvdh 10y ago
The life and the work back then is very different from the life and work that we have now. A big factor is that there is no war to motivate people to work hard. Another is that labour circumstances are very very different now than what they
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by jvdh 10y ago
The best information is at the very end of the report where all the tables and graphs are. They show that munition workers are at peak production at around 50 hours or so. There are many many caveats for drawing conclusions from these resul
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by jvdh 10y ago
They will run into it when they submit an update however.
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by jvdh 11y ago
There is no way at all to handle duplicate location names. Another nice example is wttr.in/denhaag which uses the South African city of "Den Haag", which is so small even Google Maps searches for it end up with the South Afri
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An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles [pdf](rfc-editor.org)
4 points by jvdh 11y ago|0 comments
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U.S. Will Renegotiate Wassenaar Arrangement(lists.alchemistowl.org)
1 points by jvdh 11y ago|0 comments
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by jvdh 11y ago
That is the point, the rats would have been introduced by the Europeans when they visited.
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by jvdh 11y ago
Exactly, their statement has been made in October already: https://letsencrypt.org/2015/10/29/phishing-and-malware.html That statement did not contain anything on other kinds of reports. They do have an email
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by jvdh 11y ago
Yes, just about any PRNG is more robust than DUAL_EC. It's hard to implement correctly, its performance in software "is rotten"[0]. And even before the backdoor was discovered, the constants were suspect, and you can never ge
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by jvdh 11y ago
Medical ethics committees have ethicists, but the main advice is from medical experts. I would not want anybody else judging the ethics of medical experiments, as no one else has the expert knowledge. I see absolutely no reason why this sho
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by jvdh 11y ago
Morality is subjective at the edges. We all share a common morality, otherwise our society would not function. Most of the common morality is captured by laws. I completely agree with you that law enforcement officers will see it that way.
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by jvdh 11y ago
Computer scientists (and any self-respecting scientists) HAVE to separate their ethics from the interests of state institutions. Why? The paper argues exactly to the opposite in the first part, describing the atomic-bomb scientists,
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by jvdh 11y ago
The statistic points at an average of 100grams of sugar per person per week in 2000. Considering that a single can of coke already contains 30 grams of sugar, the statistic seems to indicate raw sugar intake, and not added sugar or other su
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by jvdh 11y ago
Do you have link to evidence to backup that claim? In my view sugar has been used more and more as an extra ingredient in other foods. Additionally, there are different kinds of sugar, which may influence your statistic: http://t
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First Raspberry Pi Zero Hack: Piggy-Back WiFi(hackaday.com)
1 points by jvdh 11y ago|0 comments
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by jvdh 11y ago
The name-calling referenced in this article also influenced a talk by Theo de Raadt on a new security feature for OpenBSD: http://www.openbsd.org/papers/hackfest2015-pledge/mgp00003.h...
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by jvdh 11y ago
Note that this is not an official statement, this is something that an agent at a conference: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2015/10/28/did-the-fbi-real... has the official statement: The FBI doesn&#x27
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by jvdh 11y ago
To me the quote you use from the original post talks about people who move (physically) from the EU to the US. These people remain EU citizens, but can hardly be distinguished from US people, as they have a US address. As EU citizens they h
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by jvdh 11y ago
Haven't amalgam fillings been phased out yet? At least in the Netherlands most dentists now use composites to fill cavities. Wikipedia seems to suggest that the performance of those is comparable to amalgam: https://en.wikip
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by jvdh 11y ago
Finally someone with credibility who states that regular password changes are pointless, and may even reduce security. It's even backed by scientific publications from Microsoft.
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Making security better: Passwords(cesgdigital.blog.gov.uk)
3 points by jvdh 11y ago|2 comments
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Confidentiality in the Face of Pervasive Surveillance(tools.ietf.org)
28 points by jvdh 11y ago|0 comments
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by jvdh 11y ago
You may want to edit the title, there's a few words missing: "was nearly forgotten"
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Is artificial intelligence really an existential threat to humanity?(thebulletin.org)
4 points by jvdh 11y ago|0 comments
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by jvdh 11y ago
There are both syntactic as well as behavioural changes. A simple example is the print statement, in Python 2 you could do: print "Hello World!" Whereas in Python 3 you have to do: print("Hello World!")
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by jvdh 11y ago
Reading that the patents were about SSL and RC4, I had an evil thought. A patent troll with these patents would actually help make the Internet a safer place. Companies that are still using those should be sued for not securing their consum

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