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by mentat 12y ago
Seriously, if your root account and all full admin accounts aren't using MFA you're just asking for it. Also if you're not using purpose specific access keys, you're just asking for it. If the first thing you do isn&#x27
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by mentat 12y ago
You have a name and credit card number which may or may not belong to the person using the service.
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by mentat 12y ago
I've been using this to transform the output of ElasticBeanstalk environment queries into things I can feed into environment updates since moving between versions is a PITA. Should post that code sometime...
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by mentat 12y ago
Reducing the incentive to host uncompressed DVDs / BluRay?
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by mentat 12y ago
That will make things interesting. I think people elsewhere in the thread really aren't grasping the privacy implications.
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by mentat 12y ago
Usually the optical port is an easier interface. There are python libraries around somewhere I believe. Ping me on email and I'll follow up with my contacts.
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by mentat 12y ago
Did you read the article? It gave the sources for the data for both cities.
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by mentat 12y ago
For quite some time I was downloading things over bitnet ftp to email proxy since we didn't have raw IP available. Crazy times...
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by mentat 12y ago
I think given the various side channel attacks, the actually encryption being very good might be overstating it.
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by mentat 12y ago
Privileged network positions are sort of a joke with the current state of wifi security.
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by mentat 12y ago
That's part of the problem, that they think they deserve to get treated this way by making a sound and considered choice.
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by mentat 12y ago
Risk minimization as an overriding strategy is fundamentally flawed as it is never complete. It also appears that people are really bad at understanding the costs for very small benefits.
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by mentat 12y ago
So we're not responsible for making judgments and we should now call someone paid to do it? Really?
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by mentat 12y ago
Is this case even remotely discussable as "middle ground"? There was no malice except on the part of the police and the bystander. Your responses to this thread show a deep lack of understanding of practical parenting or human res
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by mentat 12y ago
"than any Linux distro ever did" - Remembering my stack of 32 floppies to install slackware and the level of understanding it took of drivers and hardware, I'm pretty sure that's not true.
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by mentat 12y ago
A current real alternative that uses native binaries to avoid the JS issues is WebPG[1]. I've been using it for about a year and while it has its rough edges, it's a pretty solid tool (and approach). 1. https://webpg.or
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by mentat 12y ago
How about BEAST or CRIME?
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by mentat 12y ago
1) I'm not sure this is true 2) If you have valuable skills, you will not be off-shored 3) If you are then you can pick something else up If you're just an average programmer you can probably still go program enterprise software s
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by mentat 12y ago
Seriously, downvotes? Calling out Bing is interesting.
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by mentat 12y ago
I have to agree with Maps issues as well. Latest release was the worst directions I've ever received electronically which is saying something...
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by mentat 12y ago
"Spotlight makes it easier than ever to find things on your Mac. And now it finds information from Wikipedia, Bing, Maps, and other sources, too."
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by mentat 12y ago
Perhaps there are other ways to meaningfully compromise site security? It's not just a zero day that breaks out of the web browser sandbox and installs a rootkit, it's the hostile javascript running in the context of the page that
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by mentat 12y ago
"The states" are not the Bay Area.
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by mentat 12y ago
Because it's provably possible to make a car that drives better than the average human. It's not about guarantees, it's about improvement.
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by mentat 12y ago
Because it would have to immediately take the action without any sort of verification check? I wouldn't want to ride in that car either, but that's not how anyone remotely intelligent would design it. We're not talking about
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by mentat 12y ago
How about something simple like telling the car, "back up 10 feet" or "move to the spot across the street". This is dead simple short range routes...
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by mentat 12y ago
I actually made a similar argument in a graduate psychology class at an ivy league as things got a bit heated over whether animals could suffer. I might have said something like, "If you get hit in the face in such a way you can't
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by mentat 12y ago
My brother who is deaf used this to communicate with all this friends and family. No point in having voice minutes when you can't used them. Integration with relay services made it the most important device you could have to always be
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by mentat 12y ago
I current deal with ISO messages for debit cards a bit so I was more asking about the underlying protocol messages involved.
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by mentat 12y ago
Sub-10 min settlement times for what sorts of messages? You're seeing 220s land in that amount of time?

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