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by munin 13y ago
something I hadn't really considered about hard disk encryption, before reading this, is how it could protect against compromised disk controllers. if the OS encrypts the data stored on the disk, it would be a lot harder (perhaps, with
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by munin 13y ago
you learn it in the PL class at UMD (that everyone takes) and the compilers class (which is an elective) uses it for everything.
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Apps for Privacy(mimisbrunnr.net)
2 points by munin 13y ago|0 comments
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by munin 13y ago
you can revoke your S/MIME key from a CA (you just need to remember the revocation password you gave them) S/MIME is also built in to (almost) every thick MUA. it works on iOS out of the box, it works in outlook, thunderbird, mail
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The Last Days of Big Law(newrepublic.com)
2 points by munin 13y ago|0 comments
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by munin 13y ago
Hacker News, a real person with real friends and a real family has died. Can you please not make this about your paranoid NSA delusions for at least one day?
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by munin 13y ago
A few points: -LLVM at the IR level still has platform specific information - calling conventions, vector types, pointer widths, etc. -what was true then is still true now: http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev&#x2
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by munin 13y ago
so I think that in an abstract world of arbitrary reality, stating "everything is a file" is okay but we have a lot of evidence that implementing something where everything actually is a file is just too hard. If the philosophy is
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by munin 13y ago
if you run antivirus software, how do you know you're not infected? many malwares now will partially paralyze your antivirus so that it seems all is well, but your computer is operated by someone else. TDSS would do this as long ago as
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by munin 13y ago
this is something I hate about the "unix design philosophy". when you start digging deeper, you realize that "everything is a file" is true, except for network connections, and A/V devices, and input peripherals, an
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by munin 13y ago
this presumes that: - professors have open hours - professors can be found before or after the lecture - professors respond to your email - professors ever go to their offices
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by munin 13y ago
yes, anyone who disagrees with you is just a puppet!
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An Italian freelancer in Syria(cjr.org)
4 points by munin 13y ago|1 comments
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by munin 13y ago
or just assault?
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by munin 13y ago
> handle the below average people who are both unnecessary and not well suited to the life of ibtellectual pursuits. indeed
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by munin 13y ago
this just seems to indicate that the FBI was aware of a plot, by SOMEONE, to attack Occupy protestors. nowhere in the documents do I see information that the FBI itself made this plan and it would make a lot of sense if the FBI was tracking
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by munin 13y ago
even if nouveau is finished, there is still software running on the card that you don't, and won't, have the source code to. same with your BIOS. stallman uses a laptop where all of the software in the BIOS is open source, as well
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by munin 13y ago
an exploit is asking nicely, all I did was GET /????\n\n\n\nfjasdfuisdjflkwenuadfnwerAAJLKJFIEFSEIFJSDLFKJERIWERRISLDKJLDKJF and then I connected to a shell on port 8118? I mean, it just answered the request ...
619.
by munin 13y ago
what, you don't think that Ecuador is capable of chartering a private plane to fly from Moscow to Quito?
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by munin 13y ago
> And I don't want that to happen. Is that too much to ask for? civilization and government are way more nuanced than this. the answer to your question is yes, yes it is too much to ask for. you probably don't want to pay taxes
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by munin 13y ago
no one should have to do what I did. I grew up in the mountains. there were no rich people around. it would be very rare to find a family that my family knew that had a college degree. also my family didn't really have any money and I
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by munin 13y ago
what!? if universities can't have their research funded by grants, they just don't do the research. if a professors grant funding gets cut and he can't pay that grad student any more, they don't pay the grad student out
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by munin 13y ago
you aren't forced, you have a choice. many choose not to.
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by munin 13y ago
I can promise you that there are schools in America where students and faculty see the knowledge gained as the value, it sucks that you're not at one though.
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The Recorded Future(mimisbrunnr.net)
1 points by munin 13y ago|0 comments
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by munin 13y ago
owch yeah. re-reading my words, they could be pretty harsh. I didn't mean for the glibness of my reply to imply that it would be easy - it's very hard! but from personal experience, it's very worth it.
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by munin 13y ago
the law being on your side is a cold comfort when you're fired!
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by munin 13y ago
> (I hate looking stupid, especially in front of strangers, especially in front of male strangers--don't we all though?). You should get over that. It is probably very important for your career (and life) that you not care about loo
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by munin 13y ago
AIUI, both legally and practically, you can! Legally: a lot of graduate student employment contracts bar any other paid employment with clauses like your graduate student tuition deferment being lifted if it is discovered that you have a si
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by munin 13y ago
sure! “Pull out your cock and put her hand on it. Remember, she is letting you do this because you have established yourself as a LEADER. Don’t ask for permission, GRAB HER HAND, and put it right on your dick.“

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