kronusaturn

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by kronusaturn 15y ago
This problem extends way beyond hacking laws—the average person in the US probably commits several felonies a day: http://www.threefelonies.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
RC4 has known weaknesses, but it's still extremely difficult to crack when implemented correctly. Attackers want to go for your weakest point, which is almost certainly not RC4; typically it's far more difficult to crack RC4 than to steal
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
I suggest ddrescue. http://www.gnu.org/s/ddrescue/ddrescue.html
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
As I understand it, defending a patent suit is not cheap even if you're completely in the right.
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
But the article talks about installing WordPress. So the confusion is understandable.
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
No, that was a completely different issue. Before ATX the power supply could not be controlled by software at all—it only had a mechanical switch, often near the back of the machine rather than in front, because that's where the power suppl
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
Linux has kept its main public interfaces stable for all of its several hundred post-1.0 releases, so using that scheme would mean Linux would have to use rather odd-looking version numbers like 1.632.5
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by kronusaturn 15y ago
But we're talking about bitcoins, which are extremely easy to just leave sitting on your hard drive rather than invest.
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
> debtors (is that what they're called?) OP is a debtor who needs to negotiate with his creditors.
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Ironically, WikiLeaks got its start spying on a Tor exit node.
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Call them on the phone and ask them to read you their cert fingerprint. Or use this: http://www.networknotary.org/firefox.html
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
DNS spoofing on a Wi-Fi network is quite simple, the whole MITM process including certificate generation is already automated with a wireshark-like tool. http://monkey.org/~dugsong/dsniff/faq.html
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
It's not inherent to SSL/TLS, it's a general issue. If you can't verify that the encryption key you're using actually belongs to the person you think it does, you're only protected against passive eavesdropping. Which buys you only weak p
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Since Linux distributions mainly distribute open source software, they can just unilaterally disable self-updating features in any applications that have them. But imagine the uproar if Microsoft or Apple tried to do that.
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
It's from the Coral Cache, which as far as I know is a legitimate and useful service. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coral_Content_Distribution_Netw...
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Yes, you're misunderstanding the statistics a bit. If you're choosing your moves randomly, your win rate will always be 1/3 no matter how non-random the computer's moves are... even if it keeps choosing the same thing over and over.
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
If you walk across a minefield, you might step on a mine. Singling out minefields as particularly hazardous because of mights smacks of FUD. Joking aside, this is a false dilemma. Patent trolls actually exist, inadvertent patent infring
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Are you trying to say you think it's more effective to encourage users to buy Windows 7 (and most likely a new computer to support it) than to encourage them to install Firefox or Chrome for free?
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
lame --preset extreme
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Partly because cyan and magenta pigments good enough that you can mix them with yellow and get a decent red and green are a relatively modern invention. Partly because the reds and greens you get still aren't nearly as vivid as unmixed pigm
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by kronusaturn 16y ago
Nope, .co.us was (and is) intended for Colorado. There never has been a second-level domain under .us specifically for commercial organizations.