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by kevinchen 10y ago
> I feel like this post is essentially someone from the first group criticizing the last group, saying their methods are not applicable to him. Probably more accurate to say that it's the first group criticizing others in the first
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by kevinchen 10y ago
You can also continue to call Uber rides with location using Apple Maps, even if you don't give the Uber app location permission.
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Visually Identifying Rank (2015) [pdf](oneweirdkerneltrick.com)
2 points by kevinchen 10y ago|0 comments
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by kevinchen 10y ago
App signature checks aren't required to succeed on macOS -- the user has the ability to override it globally in System Preferences, or add an exception using the right-click menu.
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GifCities – The Geocities Animated GIF Search Engine(gifcities.org)
5 points by kevinchen 10y ago|0 comments
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by kevinchen 10y ago
So near the end of the article, author actually shows that it's easy to write a scraper that finds other URLs by enumerating their IDs.
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by kevinchen 10y ago
But that assumes hardware vendors' signature verification code is correct -- and crypto is really hard to get right
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Opt out of cell carrier location tracking in the UK(optmeoutoflocation.com)
1 points by kevinchen 11y ago|0 comments
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Sensitivity strikes again: RoboCop Kaggle competition edition(kevinchen.co)
3 points by kevinchen 11y ago|0 comments
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Yes, if you could recover the SE key (or factory-burned SoC key for older phones), you could crack the passcode on your own cluster rather than being limited to what the phone hardware/software can do.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
> They wrote the OS, they designed the phone, they know where the JTAG connectors are. Cracking the phone apart and putting is logic board up on a debugger would likely enable them to bypass security. When a passcode is entered, the SoC
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by kevinchen 11y ago
No, because the flash chips are only decryptable when they're installed in the phone. The user's passcode is tangled with a long key burned into the SoC, so you need both to decrypt the flash.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Sure, if the radiation was caused by bomb tests where the government knew about the risks, and the machines were running a large percentage of life-support systems.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
For Amex, adding the card to Apple Pay will notify you of all transactions.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Ran the program with some slight modifications and couldn't reproduce it #include <iostream> #include <sstream> int main(int c, char **v) { std::stringstream s("1.5"); double x; s >>
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by kevinchen 11y ago
You listed a bunch of things without substantiating. For example, how would free software prevent the NSA from spying? Internet backbone taps don't care if your HTTP implementation is running under Windows or Linux...
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by kevinchen 11y ago
I don't know much about Android NDK, but in general, people use clang because: - Clear and readable diagnostics -- especially useful when debugging nasty C++ template stuff where the type signature is a page long. (GCC is catching up i
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Nice catch - fixed. Too early for arithmetic.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
The interview you quote is from 1986, nearly 30 years ago. People change their viewpoints over 3 decades - it would be stupid if Gates always thought the same things even after learning from others or having new experiences. So he's no
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FastMail: The endless battle against spam(blog.fastmail.com)
2 points by kevinchen 11y ago|0 comments
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AP: Global supermarkets selling shrimp peeled by slaves(bigstory.ap.org)
3 points by kevinchen 11y ago|0 comments
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The Zebra firewall manager(blog.fastmail.com)
42 points by kevinchen 11y ago|2 comments
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Yes, that's entire point of the article.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Because out of the box, Redis binds to 0.0.0.0 (and many people don't bother changing the defaults)
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by kevinchen 11y ago
It's possible that the efficiency of having a plant specialize in recycling paper makes up for the energy used in transportation.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
This is my favorite quote from the post: "You’ll still be able to purchase secure certificates through the DreamHost control panel... Functionally, they’re the same! Financially, they are fifteen dollars more expensive than free certif
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Let’s Encrypt and DreamHost(dreamhost.com)
3 points by kevinchen 11y ago|1 comments
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FastMail's Homepage Through The Ages(blog.fastmail.com)
4 points by kevinchen 11y ago|0 comments
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by kevinchen 11y ago
ISS has laptops. I've heard that they do everything by using Remote Desktop to a NASA box on the ground, but presumably there's some part of the client that uses a web view with some JS e.g. to show formatted text.
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by kevinchen 11y ago
Here's a paper that proposes GPS authentication based on signing and statistics about the signals (lots of math): http://radionavlab.ae.utexas.edu/images/stories/files/papers... Paper from Los Alamos wi

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