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by loginusername 11y ago
"All software is large." FALSE. But this statement does not surprise me. It is this distorted view of programs that is a large part of the "security" problem, in my opinion.
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by loginusername 11y ago
The "security line" is not simply a question of "doing a lot" and "giving a lot back", ex post facto, or setting an "example" in the "security industry". It also has to do with design goals
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by loginusername 11y ago
Would anyone agree that complexity provides a foundation for insecurity while simplicity makes audits easier? Large software with many parts have more potential for flaws. Small software with few parts have less potential for flaws becaus
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by loginusername 11y ago
"Microsoft was once the epitome of evrything that is wrong with security in technology." Certainly they have improved over the last decade, but who hasn't? Not to mention they have boatloads of cash to throw at the problem.
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by loginusername 11y ago
Bootloader? Can we use our own? Network settings? Is this like Chromecast where they try to prevent the user from changing them (gateway, DNS, etc.)?
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by loginusername 11y ago
So are the choices listed at the url below not going to be available in the future? I always liked that there are choices of different sized images (.img not .iso), including xfce and especially the minimal "standard". And also th
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by loginusername 11y ago
Must answer question: Worth to whom? Not every potential buyer will agree on the "worth" of X. Ultimately X is not worth anything unless and until X is sold. Perhaps the tense is wrong. Not what _is_ X worth, but what _will be_ th
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by loginusername 11y ago
"There's more money being made from advertising than consumers are putting in." Should we care how Google, Facebook and others make so much cash? Should it matter? Honest question. (The author suggests the firesales by these
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by loginusername 11y ago
"... and there is no option to opt-out of this form of cross-device tracking." Does it work with Javascript disabled? Does it work with text-only browsers? How about netcat? Do I have to get a "smartphone" to make this w
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by loginusername 11y ago
"John W. Backus suggested to IBM a language to replace assembly language." And today, in a world with far more CPU homogeneity, we have an endless stream of nerds suggesting to HN languages to "replace" C. I am never sur
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by loginusername 11y ago
"kill UEFI" Sounds good to me. I see UEFI as an added, redundant, poor quality OS. I'm a connoisseur of bootloaders and live in a TTY so UEFI is another command line that I do not need. You said it best: its features are &q
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by loginusername 11y ago
Does not seem to work without Javascript enabled.
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by loginusername 11y ago
If I could, I would upvote this.
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by loginusername 11y ago
Has anyone ever fuzzed fuzzy lop itself using fuzzy lop?
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by loginusername 11y ago
Cloudflare posts to HN should be in the same category as post about YC companies that are hiring. Ads. No voting. It is difficult to believe that CF does not have a "special relationship" with YC, give PG's close ties to Pro
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by loginusername 11y ago
After I first read this book years ago, I wanted a one pass assembler.
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by loginusername 11y ago
This is a good question. Obviously it becomes easier the more you understand the subject area. As student you might have little understanding. That's why you are studying! In my case, initial downloads were readings for my courses or
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by loginusername 11y ago
"... the labour of academics, freely give, paid for by the government and student tuition." Even more, it is student tuition that underwrites for the exorbitant annual license fees the university libraries are forced to pay. I alw