maltalex

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by maltalex 9y ago
You're right, the system is not fair, and it's FAR from being perfect. The "innocent until proven guilty" part bothers the heck out of me. But the story doesn't end with me or you. Recall that there are actual crimi
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by maltalex 9y ago
> The thing I find funny is that they aren't acknowledging the fact that they used to solve crimes before cell phones existed. What did they do back then? I'm not a big fan of government surveillance, but I find this argument p
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by maltalex 9y ago
I'm sure they would if that's possible. But if microcode can only be updated by the BIOS, you'd need a BIOS update.
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by maltalex 9y ago
Any guesses as to which vulnerabilities they're going to patch? Some of them? All of them?
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by maltalex 9y ago
I don't think that's the case. They're patching the issue in CPU microcode.
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by maltalex 9y ago
Yeah, well, let's not break out the champagne yet. According to your link: > The BIOS (or UEFI) updates the CPU microcode during boot, however most of the time either the motherboard vendor won't issue frequent BIOS/UEFI u
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by maltalex 9y ago
How does one patch a CPU? Does the update come in the form of a BIOS update? If so, then the patch still has to travel through the PC manufacturers, like when Google patches Android. Or can it be somehow applied directly? Edit: Apparently t
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by maltalex 9y ago
I'm all for P2P solutions and a more distributed Internet, but I'd like to add a few items to that list. - Security in a P2P system is harder to get right. The system is distributed and each member has to trust more parties. This
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by maltalex 9y ago
It's a good question and I bet there's going to be a lot of speculation and pointing to documents and people that predicted these issues years ago. But it's important to remember that hindsight is 20/20. All of us probab
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OpenNIC – alternative DNS root(opennic.org)
6 points by maltalex 9y ago|0 comments
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by maltalex 9y ago
Reading this as someone who writes mostly in statically typed languages, the whole exercise seems odd. Having so much dynamically typed code to maintain that you need to run production code using a separate tool just to figure out the types
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by maltalex 9y ago
> I worry that the "culture" argument has dangerous implications if true, as it can be used to discriminate on so many grounds outside of age: gender ("If I'm with a bunch of my bro's, why mess it up with a girl?
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Exploit him or her with false promises. FTFY. Yeah, there's that too. But let's not even go there and assume that everything is strictly aboveboard. Otherwise we'll derail the discussion, and I think that the cultural as
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by maltalex 9y ago
The discussion here is interesting, but I haven't seen any psychological and sociological aspects of hiring mentioned yet. Not all hiring decisions are rational. First, there's a culture thing - when a company is composed out of 2
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by maltalex 9y ago
It's not just you. Take a look at the google trends data for "iphone slow": https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=iphone%2...
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by maltalex 9y ago
This screams "planned obsolescence". If battery scaling is a feature, then why isn't it mentioned by Apple? Why do we need a Reddit thread and a third party benchmarking tool to figure it out? Also, why does the google search
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by maltalex 9y ago
Related, from three days ago: Tax Bill Would Curb Breaks for Sexual Abuse Settlements ( https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/16/us/politics/tax-bill-hara... )
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by maltalex 9y ago
Try this: https://www.fakespot.com/
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by maltalex 9y ago
Extra Credits made a video about Sesame Credit a couple of years ago. It's 7.5 minutes long, and well worth the watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI Being a game design channel, they discuss Sesame Credit
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by maltalex 9y ago
> I think governments should regularly perform live tests to check whether their countries' AS's can be hijacked. That's a waste of money and effort. They should just write "yes" on a piece of paper, there's
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by maltalex 9y ago
It's not just the public, it's professionals too. There are probably more brain surgeons on earth than people who understand how BGP works.
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by maltalex 9y ago
> but is hard because you have to identify the bad actors, or paths that lead to them. It's worse than that. There are few truly "bad actors". Many BGP hijacks are performed by completely legitimate networks, which later c
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by maltalex 9y ago
Everyone should be. It's surprising how vulnerable and fragile Internet routing is.
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by maltalex 9y ago
I've asked around the company and unfortunately I can't talk about attacks (and/or suspicious "configuration errors") we've detected. There are legal issues involved, plus some of these cases are currently bein
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Nyan Cat painted by smartly managing the routing of 175 /24 prefixes(labs.ripe.net)
2 points by maltalex 9y ago|0 comments
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by maltalex 9y ago
Bad idea. These are customers he's talking about. If you want to stay in business, naming and shaming your customers isn't a good strategy.
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by maltalex 9y ago
Yes, but to be honest, it's not just BGP. One of the things that BGPMon won't tell you about since they're in the business of monitoring BGP is that the same attack is often performed by changing forwarding tables i.e. in net
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by maltalex 9y ago
It's not really better today. Possibly even worse. In 1998 there were fewer than 5000 different networks (Autonomous systems) on the Internet. Today that number is over 80K. Network operators used to personally know each other and thei
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by maltalex 9y ago
Sure, it's a reason to blackhole the isp, but this is the Internet we're talking about. So say its upstream providers will backhole it, say even the tier 1 providers do the same. That won't stop it from connecting to smaller
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by maltalex 9y ago
> Is it fair to say BGP in general relies on “good will” trust model? Yes. > I wonder if there exists an authoritative mechanism similar to browser punishing rouge or incompetent CA Not really. Although if you get a reputation for bei

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