mysteriousllama

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by mysteriousllama 12y ago
Tasker for Android can help notify you if this is happening to you. From the documentation I've gathered stingray devices appear to impersonate a cell tower with a stronger signal than the real one in order to get the device to associa
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by mysteriousllama 12y ago
I remember picking up an Omni magazine when I was a prepubescent tadpole. The cover had this amazing art that caught my eye. Guess who had drawn it? Only later did I read it and become fascinated with science. Guess what I do now? It's
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by mysteriousllama 12y ago
I suppose this is as good a place to ask as any. I can't be the only one in this boat! I currently use an ancient Droid2 because it has a hardware keyboard with most of the characters I need for programming and SSH sessions. It's
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
My apologies. Being unfamiliar with UK law I mistakenly made the assumption that the blacklisting is legally required. However it might as well be. According to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Watch_Foundation#Bl
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
The answer may surprise you. We all know the UK has internet blacklists managed by various agencies such as the IWF[1]. These blacklists are highly granular and allow blocking of individual HTTP resources. Virgin is intercepting your DNS tr
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
To add to this: Cache and cache invalidation. Without proper caching and a good invalidation strategy your databases will get pounded. Use redis and memcache to cache everything possible. Don't even connect to the database unless you h
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
I do wish they would tell us if EMET[1] is an effective mitigation for this vulnerability or not. Considering it involves memory corruption it's likely.. But finding out the hard way would be no fun. [1] http://support.micro
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
What you are describing is autoconf, not make. Make by itself is actually a very handy tool for performing tasks that have a dependency graph. Autoconf.. Well, I can't disagree. It's a hack built on top of a hack and should probab
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
Has anyone else pondered what would happen if knowledgeable people were to help Australians perform a civil protest in the form of a resource consumption attack? Even with data caps in place I'm sure one could perform quite a few reque
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
Working at non-vaporware startups is hard. Very hard. Bootstrapping one is even harder. Long hours, little time for family. After a big push I'll be entirely strung out and exhausted, staring at a wall mumbling random thoughts like som
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
It's really horrible that happened to this guy. It's not really AirBNB's fault but I am happy to hear they are helping him out regardless. Letting someone into your home should be a rather big deal. Just because some websit
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
Boxcrypter uses EncFS. Combined with the vulnerabilities discussed in this audit, this is pretty bad.
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
Is parsing lines of plaintext really so hard that people would want to change a well established protocol to json? I fail to see the benefit here.
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
My solution to cloud storage has always been encryption. TrueCrypt, Boxcryptor, gpg with a frontend, etc. If your files are properly encrypted you can safely store them anywhere you like, using whatever technology that best fits your usage
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by mysteriousllama 13y ago
I read this a few weeks ago and it was pretty eye-opening. It really goes into the economics and underhanded ways that are used to move traffic cheaply. Even if you're just a buyer of transit this is worth a read as it can help you neg