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by munin 14y ago
you don't need to load unsigned drivers to modify the boot loader, you can do that with administrative permissions alone (as far as I know). the best you can hope for is locking out unsigned code. we have platforms that do that, like chrome
782.
by munin 14y ago
it could get administrator permissions but, to run a device driver, the device driver needs to be signed. to patch a device driver on the system would invalidate its signature and that modified device driver would no longer load. so you mod
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by munin 14y ago
this article is from 2010. have there been any new developments?
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by munin 14y ago
all this talk about pride is hilarious. if you're the CEO of a startup or small company, you're not working for a paycheck - you're working for a payout of millions of dollars. I'll do the dishes if it leads indirectly to a $1.2bn exit. I'd
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Narcotweets: social media in wartime(research.microsoft.com)
1 points by munin 14y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft on{X}(onx.ms)
2 points by munin 14y ago|0 comments
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by munin 14y ago
when I started using linux, I went through two phases. the first one was marked by knowing, generally, which commands to invoke from the command line to make the computer do what I want. I had very little idea of what was going on in the op
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by munin 14y ago
if firing someone like that are the kinds of decisions the boss is making, then perhaps it is time for the business to die
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by munin 14y ago
"which employs a bunch of 40-something suburbanites" right, because only 20something kids in cutoff jeans and tshirts who live in SF/NY are capable of writing truly excellent code.
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by munin 14y ago
drug cartels can recruit people to build their own submarines and cell phone networks, so ...
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by munin 14y ago
when I receive email from people on non-Google hosted domains, I sometimes check the headers and see that mail was delivered to my gmail with ESMTPS, using TLS. so a lot of non-google hosted mail on the internet will use ESMTPS for delivery
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by munin 14y ago
"It’s easier to hide a small file than a larger module." my mind is blown. small files are not like small rocks. it's a computer!
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by munin 14y ago
> (I'm not too familiar with undergraduate studies in the US, but it seems that as long as you show up and do the homework, you pretty much get an A in the class) that is emphatically untrue (either that, or myself and all of my classma
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by munin 14y ago
that's not true. a friend of mine was 22, she tried to buy individual health insurance with a blank medical history and discovered that no insurer offered polices for her gender and age group in her geographic region (VA) no one would sell
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by munin 15y ago
"If this situation existed anywhere else where we paid tens of thousands of dollars, people would be outraged." oh you mean like your iphone? or how about your android? or the software that runs your television? or how about your car? you'r
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by munin 15y ago
okay. if the terrorists stuff a 4yr old child full of explosives and blow me up, they win. I give up. not being groped in public is worth being blown up.
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by munin 15y ago
yes I know, that's the point of my question ;) everyone is all positive about "open source" until they have to dive into a few millions lines of complicated system-level C code and then...
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by munin 15y ago
the OS X kernel is open source. so why aren't people reading it to figure out where this bug is?
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by munin 15y ago
apparently, this was published in 2006: https://twitter.com/mdowd/status/192986878138523648
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by munin 15y ago
>At least at an amateur level, it's harder to make a critical, near-irrecoverable mistake in Go -- there's not as much of a snowball effect making an advantage into a bigger advantage. That makes it feel less stressful for me when playi
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by munin 15y ago
orbital does space vehicle launches on FFP contracts ...
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by munin 15y ago
are they? have you ever logged in at home, suspended, and then gone to work? or the coffee shop?
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by munin 15y ago
so now it is only a matter of time until the keylogging software that everyone is so terrified of is modified to also take the session cookie from your browser that authenticates you to gmail. you know, the thing that makes it okay for you
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by munin 15y ago
you can't use an app specific password to login to the gmail web interface and change your password. so while you could use a compromised application specific password to do horrible things (download all your email and send e-mail as you),
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by munin 15y ago
this is a good skill to have. however, there are a lot of problems / domains where reading the source isn't enough. debug the operation of compiler logic, for example. what's really important is to know how the algorithm has been implemente
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by munin 15y ago
if the one thing this article does is take you to http://www.openflow.org/ and get you to read some things, I think it's served enough of a purpose. openflow is really neat and will let you do things with your network that you probably th
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Draw a line in the sand(phrack.org)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
"No security agency on earth has the experience and pattern-recognition skills of TSA officers" really? having watched three TSA officers debate for five minutes over whether or not peanut butter was a liquid and concluding that "well, pean
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by munin 15y ago
see: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin the "pasting" and "opening" sections cover this
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by munin 15y ago
you are missing something, read their project page which states: "The key is never transmitted to the server, which therefore cannot decrypt data." but it does seem like the resulting queries could be stored in the servers logs, as the key

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