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by kyboren 10y ago
"ASIC" is usually used as a stand-in for "standard cell ASIC", meaning (with some hand waving) that the chip is implemented with suboptimal, general building blocks. In contrast, Intel CPUs are traditionally "full
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by kyboren 10y ago
> You don't get a choice on having a port open With a bit of effort, you can have a service that is 1) nearly invisible to anyone not 'in the know', 2) allows incoming global connections without opening any ports, and 3) i
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by kyboren 10y ago
No. You will pick up your checked baggage before being diverted to a search area at the exit, where openly Trump-supporting CBP officers will, after violating the Hatch act, treat you like shit, ridicule and attempt to humiliate you, rumma
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by kyboren 10y ago
CBC should not host that site on such a distinctive subdomain, as the hostname "securedrop.cbc.ca" will leak in the clear during the TLS negotiation. It would be far better to host the same content at, say, https://cbc
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by kyboren 10y ago
> Japan was worried that the US would cut off all oil exports to Japan, so they attempted to gain control of the pacific in order to solidify access to oil. Errr, the US did cut off all oil exports to Japan in August 1941. As you say,
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by kyboren 10y ago
Not only are you not required to route traffic over Tor, but you can create arbitrary tree network topologies for all VMs. For example, see the screenshot on https://github.com/kbrn/qubes-app-print-vm-status . VMs can
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by kyboren 10y ago
I don't discount that being female may indeed make it more difficult to be taken seriously, but as another commenter pointed out, the vast majority of people have no idea whose comment they're reading/replying to (insert joke
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by kyboren 10y ago
I host multiple onion services, mainly for email proxies and firewall traversal, and this is exactly the reason I use stealth onion services. With this setup, only those client machines onto which I pre-load a cookie can decrypt a per-clien
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Burr-Feinstein Draft Bill to Compel Decryption And/or “Technical Assistance” [pdf](justsecurity.org)
4 points by kyboren 11y ago|0 comments
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by kyboren 11y ago
I'll just leave this here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8621791
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by kyboren 11y ago
Yes, but there's a good security reason to have those labeled/colored dom0-drawn window decorations. However, if you want, you can still manually put any window in proper full screen mode. It's just a right click away, at le
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Synthesize Scala Programs from Formal Constraints(leon.epfl.ch)
2 points by kyboren 11y ago|0 comments
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by kyboren 11y ago
They don't seem to want to outlaw encryption, but rather force service providers to always be in the middle of their users. Of course, terrorists, child pornographers, moderately-intelligent criminals in general, foreign-made and&#x2F
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by kyboren 11y ago
TL;DR: First steps to a new type of PUF. What follows is my definitely-not-expert analysis. I'll try to answer your questions as best I can. ===== Before ===== Traditional PUFs are considered "unclonable" because they rely o
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by kyboren 11y ago
Check out Qubes: https://www.qubes-os.org/ You can use Fedora, Debian, Whonix, or Windows in "seamless" mode with minimal effort. It has a composable networking architecture (e.g. easy to make all a VM's tra
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by kyboren 12y ago
> ... almost no one does it. I've heard an anecdote that Altera kept getting pestered by customers asking why they don't have it--"but why not? Xilinx has it!". So they implemented it just so they could say, "We
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by kyboren 12y ago
> Back in the day I learned about using VHDL to design circuits, is that the kind of compilation also used for FPGAs? FPGAs can implement any digital circuit which fits, with some caveats. So yes, VHDL is commonly used to describe desig
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by kyboren 12y ago
To: Amy Pascal From: GC <batmansenior@me.com> [note: George Clooney] Subject: "Re: knowing this email is being hacked" ... And so you know... According to Scotland Yard.... We are being hacked
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Deal Reached on Fast-Track Authority for TPP(nytimes.com)
5 points by kyboren 12y ago|0 comments
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by kyboren 12y ago
What jbangert said is the crux of the JITing problem: "compilation" for FPGAs is not really at all like compiling software, and can be hugely computationally expensive. On top of that, pretty much the entire synthesis, mapping, a
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by kyboren 12y ago
Sorry to be so flippant, but you know how to click links, right? http://www.nyclu.org/files/20150331-ComplaintInfoReports-000... Most incidents read like, "ASSIST TOWN OF HAMBURG POLICE WITH CELL TRACKING REGARDIN
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by kyboren 12y ago
This bug's existence and its patch have already made some worried. From the Qubes OS developers: [1] Additional thoughts by Qubes Security Team =========================================== We see several problems tha
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by kyboren 12y ago
- At most sizeof(char *) bytes can be overwritten (ie, 4 bytes on 32-bit machines, and 8 bytes on 64-bit machines). Bytes can be overwritten only with digits ('0'...'9'), dots ('.'), and a te
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by kyboren 12y ago
I hypothesize the most reliably useful information is the metadata concerning each flow itself: what device is on the local end, what IP's on the other end, with what public key and cert chain in the KEX, at what time of day, and how m
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Cameron Announces GCHQ Hunt for Online Paedophiles(theguardian.com)
3 points by kyboren 12y ago|0 comments
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by kyboren 12y ago
Bloomberg reports, "The incident began when a picture of a skull appeared on company computer screens, the entertainment website Deadline.com reported yesterday." [1]. Also, the Reddit thread which seems to have started the media
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by kyboren 12y ago
China, Russia, Iran--now North Korea is the "cyber boogeyman"? Attribution is an incredibly difficult problem. Color me skeptical. Does anyone know where the rumors of North Korean direction started? Any explanation below see
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by kyboren 12y ago
> Is capitol really the biggest barrier to moving the world forward at this point? It seems that we the only way to move and shake things is to have an individual with a ton of capitol so that people can't get in the way, which is r
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by kyboren 12y ago
"Gigabit speeds", free access, ostensibly physical-only advertisement for financial support... wow, sounds perfect! But if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is. What else might these hotspots do? Insert header "per
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by kyboren 12y ago
> ... so seems like the current approach only impacts genuine photographers and concerned citizens. I suspect this is also true for the FVEY dragnet surveillance. Those terrorists who are vulnerable to such surveillance are unfit and wil

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