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by mentat 15y ago
I didn't realize how much having an editor in the web browser would make playing with this sort of development more seamless. I'd experimented with GAE before but I usually code in vim so switching from terminal to browser to terminal broke
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by mentat 15y ago
Crypto hardware acceleration is commodity. I believe that Broadcom sold the chips for <$5 over 5 years ago. To say they don't scale horizontally doesn't make sense either. If they're integrated with PCIe then you can get a lot of crypto
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Power grid change may disrupt clocks(old.news.yahoo.com)
5 points by mentat 15y ago|2 comments
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by mentat 15y ago
Probably iOS5 NDA implied.
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by mentat 15y ago
I'm not sure that the 1000 really will make sure the software is well tested, etc. Given that I haven't seen things on that scale, but the scales I have seen, the non-superstars don't seem to get why they should do any of that work or how
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by mentat 15y ago
Flag and move on. I stopped replying to articles that I thought we bogus and just flagged them. It's lead to the satisfaction of seeing several of them dead with my flag. HN has a way to deal with this, people should be encouraged to use it
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by mentat 15y ago
Good article. I had the chance to spend some time with Marcus Ranum back around that era and it was formative to my career focus in security. However, I think there there's a second part of this historical narrative you're laying out. It's
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by mentat 15y ago
This right on. Reading a lot of the comments here, I think people have already given up that freedom and just hope that no one makes them see what they've done. This discussion has certainly opened my eyes in regards to this. One freedom is
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by mentat 15y ago
It's interesting that there's an overall theme here that the only action government takes is more laws. This is recognized as an issue right? But people just don't think there's anything to do about it? That scares the hell out of me. If th
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by mentat 15y ago
This is a good point. It's not just the "used in a court of law" or "national security" instances where this is dangerous. Corporations don't have to follow any formal legal process. If you're using a proxy or they're otherwise monitoring o
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by mentat 15y ago
They saw some things they believed might be brute force attacks against weak passwords, so they reset the passwords of people who the attempts had been directed against. They also changed they way they handled repeated password failures to
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by mentat 15y ago
So let's think about how traffic gets onto the network and what steps might make sense to limit that. I have some "crazy" ideas about this including per device reputation enforced as close to the device as possible. Yes, if we say that anyo
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by mentat 15y ago
The impact of their attacks has more been a strong motivation to "get my house in order". I'd been using LastPass for some time but decided that I should get the YubiKey for two factor auth. I also started becoming quite a bit more vocal at
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by mentat 15y ago
Then we need to fix the infrastructure so that the current generation of attacks don't work. To just say, "oh, well bandwidth is limited so there's always going to be an attack" is not useful. Think of ways you can structure the infrastruct
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by mentat 15y ago
There is a need to develop systems that aren't subject to DDOS (at least the current generation). It used to be very easy to DOS anyone's network stack (think SYN flooding). If people hadn't shown that it was an issue by doing it, the Int
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by mentat 15y ago
What's wrong with people making subjective judgments about the work of others in a community they share? You have to have a certain level of karma to down vote, which means (theoretically) you have to have done things that created sufficien
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by mentat 15y ago
As the grandparent says, this is a purposeful decision in this community. There's a goal of encouraging useful conversation, not just conversation. I do a lot less posting than I might otherwise and I make sure my comments have content befo
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by mentat 15y ago
Yeah, this made no sense to me. There's no way a native build solution will be comparable to a high end many core, large cache x86 solution.
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by mentat 15y ago
You're also never supposed to rely on GPS while flying (AFAIK). Has that changed?
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by mentat 15y ago
Probably not since I too have encountered people who use this as an excuse for anything.
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by mentat 15y ago
So, if you bought a song and didn't pay to upgrade, it's not upgraded. This doesn't seem surprising to me. If you paid to upgrade and suddenly it'd DRMed again, that would be an issue. Which of these two is it?
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by mentat 15y ago
Engineers ideas are not necessarily ranked by business value when you have more than just a few customers.
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by mentat 15y ago
It doesn't matter if it was store unencrypted if they could capture the credentials used to decrypt it. It was previously disclosed that they managed to get credentials and administrator / root level access through large parts of RSA. Do yo
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by mentat 15y ago
I agree, it's quite frustrating to not know where you input location is. I've also had issues using multiple VMs you can have multiple cursors all of which are blinking. Nonetheless the blinking cursor is an important queue when focus doesn
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by mentat 15y ago
Except that SMS is not guaranteed and becomes less likely between carriers. "Message delivery is "best effort", so there are no guarantees that a message will actually be delivered to its recipient, but delay or complete loss of a message i
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by mentat 15y ago
It wasn't that by the end they didn't understand the problem, but rather that by just attacking "build a human powered plane that can do <x>" they were not making progress. Realizing that in order to "make a human powered plane that
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by mentat 15y ago
The problem starts often with professors who don't want to be teaching, or at least not teaching to anyone who disagrees with them. I was quite frustrated at the tendency to try to pigeon hole my position and put a nice label on it instead
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by mentat 15y ago
"No sign" is classic headline overstatement. I have a bachelor and a masters in non-CS subjects but have spent most of my time programming or doing security. When someone needs to talk to the "business" people, that's usually me and it's be
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by mentat 15y ago
From the article, "the time stamp reflects the time that your device established a connection to the [billing system], not the time that you sent or received data." Note the "your device".
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by mentat 15y ago
So AT&T relies on nightly checkins from the device reporting how much data it uses? They don't do the accounting in the network? That seems crazy . So on a jailbroken device you could just tell it to report 10% less and it would all be

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