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by m0nastic 15y ago
I'm from Quincy (separate city from Boston, but I don't bother to distinguish when I tell people where I'm from as no one knows where it is), so I can appreciate the fact that you're trying to promote accuracy. That said, every article I've
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I suspect most decent-sized organizations would have a fit over this. Almost every company I do work for has a fairly uniform IT setup. Most places have a standard policy: - You can't install software of any kind on your system (unless it's
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I realize not everyone finds infosec/vulnerabilities super-interesting; but I think reading the nominations (and associated links to research) shows an interesting "state of the union" in security research for 2011. The first nomination (fo
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2011 Pwnie Award Nominations (Security Vulnerabilities)(pwnies.com)
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I work in the security industry, so my point of view about both the incidence and importance of security vulnerabilities (and subsequent hacking disclosures) is probably unrealistically skewed. I offer my bias as a caveat. That said, I don'
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PGP WDE vs. Lion Disk Encryption(blog.romant.net)
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DDOS is indeed normally conducted by botnets; however, Anonymous uses a tool called LOIC‡ to carry out DDOS attacks. Unlike a normal DDOS attack, people actively coordinate the attack (ie: it's not automated), and apparently, do so from the
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Yeah, I think the model around which Microsoft licenses Windows was designed to be "hands-off" (Anti-trust/non-competitive issues aside), and now they're reaping the results of that. I'm not going to second-guess Microsoft that it wasn't th
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My understanding of how that works (which I admit is an outsider's understanding) is that PC vendors subsidize the price of new PC's by installing crapware on them. The race to the bottom in PC pricing basically left them scrambling to find
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I think one of the main benefits to the Windows stores (besides the fact that they sell Windows Phones, and by all accounts don't actively try to talk their customers out of buying them) is the fact that they sell systems there which are pa
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The market for high-priced computers "saturated" in the mid-nineties when computers started to cost less and less. I think if Apple's sales were going to flatline because of saturating the market for high-price computers, they'd have alread
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The note field on the application being limited to 140 characters is a nice touch.
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I don't know about "startup opportunity" specifically, but it's pretty much the raison d'être for most application security consultancies. Usually when first engaged, you deal with operational issues (making sure all the applications they k
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by m0nastic 15y ago
As I type this, my laptop (without an external antenna) sees: 8 Wireless Networks with no encryption at all, 15 WEP, 4 WPA Of the WPA networks, only one isn't using PSK (coincidentally it belongs to a satellite apartment to the Vietnamese e
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I think a more accurate statment is that I'm acting foolish (I don't recommend other people adopt a similar mindset). I'm fortunate that my income has always outpaced my compulsive buying tendencies, but it took a long time to keep it from
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Once or twice a year I'd prune out all the movies that I was certain I'd never want to watch again (Shallow Hal, I'm looking squarely at you). I did the same thing with CD's when I was younger. Thankfully, the universe ran out of music that
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They were mostly movies I'd already seen, and just wanted to have a copy of. When I first started buying DVD's, I got it in my head that I didn't ever want to be in a situation like: "Oh, I feel like watching movie X, but I don't own it." I
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I pay ~100/month for cable. I've had a Netflix subscription for ~6 months. Since subscribing to Netflix, my girlfriend and I have watched less than 20 hours of television via cable. We maintain a cable subscription for pretty much the same
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by m0nastic 15y ago
Removing your shadow from a photograph is most likely an aesthetic decision, which is an area of reportage photography that you dare not tread. Photojournalsim has enough to answer for regarding selective composition/cropping (for example f
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The photographer was a freelancer, so it's possible that he wasn't familiar with the AP's guidelines. That said, not manipulating images is the first thing that gets drilled into you as a photojournalist (either in school, or when you start
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by m0nastic 15y ago
I haven't picked up the 2nd edition yet, but I can attest that the first edition at least, was indeed very good.
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I certainly wouldn't go so far as to bet that Windows will go away, but I think that previous predictions about Windows demise were predicated on it being replaced on people's PC's with something else. That never happened (and I agree may n
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by m0nastic 15y ago
The DOM. I'd take it out back and shoot it in the head.
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I feel like there's some sort of universal karma at work. A merger of companies that deserve each other.
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I'll get to put this to the test in another month or so as I move from DC to NYC. It helps that DC is almost as expensive, everything I've seen so far apartment-wise looks like I'll be paying the same amount of money for a 2 bedroom that I'
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by m0nastic 15y ago
To be fair, a random group posting to patebin isn't limited by things like "probable cause" "search warrants" and "lawful behavior". They admit in the document to "backhacking" the targets, which already puts them at an advantage against la
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So I work for an "enterprise company", and if you install Firefox on your computer, it will be automatically removed within an hour, and an email will be sent to your manager. (Unfortunately, the same thing happens if you try to install IE
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Javascript Hypertext Preprocessor(webreflection.blogspot.com)
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I wouldn't be surprised if SSD's somehow had information like that stored in them (or at least the ability for it to be stored). Thankfully I got out of the Forensics racket before they were mainstream.
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The FBI has the capacity to clone drives quickly, absolutely (although amusingly, the process is actually slower now than it was then, as drives are larger). However, field cloning is absolutely not the desired procedure to use (for a lot o

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