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by nikcub 13y ago
That is exactly it. Because of the instability in the economy during the 90s where most Russians abandoned the ruble and used USD the Russians heavily regulated all non-ruble currencies as a way to force stability. This notice is more a rem
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by nikcub 13y ago
It is 'illegal' in the same way all foreign currency (more accurately, anything that isn't the ruble) is illegal - that is, you need specific permission to trade, hold or settle in any other currency. In Russia currency is ex
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by nikcub 13y ago
Such a long way to go on this issue, these documents only emphasize telling the truth under oath, they don't talk about warrants and evidence. I really can't see how parallel construction can be performed either legally or in a wa
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by nikcub 13y ago
The irony here is that Facebook are extremely aggressive about protecting their own name. They have sued other companies for using generic words as part of their names, like 'face' or 'book' or 'wall'. http:
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by nikcub 13y ago
I read it as the opposite - that safe-mail didn't cave in. All the messages are from Shrem's work account and unencrypted private messages between BTCKing and clients on Silk Road. The ???btc@safe-mail.net patterned addresses came
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by nikcub 13y ago
Facebook must be one of the only large sites that hasn't been hit directly with serving malware, closest I can recall are incidents like this: http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002172.html
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by nikcub 13y ago
Completely agree. To add, IMO the most valuable application of this exploit would have been to deliver drive-by malware. There are some groups that pay $0.5-3 CPM to get their Javascript onto much less targeted web sites. The Yahoo malware
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by nikcub 13y ago
The part of the work you don't see is the hours, days and months spent, usually unpaid, spent auditing code to find the bugs. It is like the anecdote of Tesla and Ford and knowing where to put the X[0], you aren't paying for time
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by nikcub 13y ago
Single mother in Chicago working at a state college? Straight up middle class. I don't buy the premise that you need to be poor to have an appreciation of risk. Risk isn't just financial, there is also career and personal risk. Th
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by nikcub 13y ago
He wasn't born a celebrity millionaire. He dropped out of college (scholarship, and his mother was a professor there who didn't approve) to pursuit a career in music, took him a decade to break out.
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by nikcub 13y ago
First thing I did is to check the directory, there are 6 nodes that i've checked so far (starting from the bottom) that are still listed : http://82.94.251.203/tor/status-vote/current/consensus I see no
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by nikcub 13y ago
You can include or exclude particular exit nodes in your torrc file, syntax is: ExcludeExitNodes <node>, <node>, <node> .. to exclude. to only use particular nodes: ExitNodes <node>, <node>, <no
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by nikcub 13y ago
They certainly weren't, there is no way you can call and have a federal agent show up to a movie theatre in the space of a couple of minutes. They are almost certainly former federal or other agents who now work for private security fi
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by nikcub 13y ago
security and privacy - separate rings of trust for different websites. to me the idea of trusting every website on the internet with all of your cookies, extensions and plugins is crazy.
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by nikcub 13y ago
Start off with two profiles and go from there. I use virtual desktops (spaces on OS X) to manage it. Space 2 is gmail, space 3 is logged in sites, space 4 is development, etc. Once you get used to it you instinctively switch without thinkin
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by nikcub 13y ago
I achieve this by having multiple users in Chrome. My main user is signed into my google account and has no extensions installed and all plugins disabled, I only access gmail and google services with it. My second user account is logged int
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by nikcub 13y ago
Ive been using namecheap for years and I still get lost in the menus and interface every time I login to do a simple task.
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by nikcub 13y ago
Ive been thinking about how to implement a dead mans switch for passwords or private keys. A remote server that is synced with your local login and will change the password to something random every x hours unless you 'check in'.
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by nikcub 13y ago
I always thought you would get a lot of work via HN people. It surprises me but I don't find it hard to believe. Why it doesn't surprise me is because security and pen testing work is as much about sales, marketing and presentatio
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The Cybersecurity Blogger Hackers Love to Hate(businessweek.com)
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by nikcub 13y ago
I just realized that the MP3 is also behind a login wall, here is a mirror: http://files.nikcub.com/mirror/takingphpseriously.mp3 37.8MB
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by nikcub 13y ago
> 5% of Google More like 0.8% - $3.2B purchase on $375B market cap. Or it is around 10% of annual gross profit, or 6% of their cash reserve of $54B.
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by nikcub 13y ago
slideshare link, for those who want to avoid the InfoQ marketing signup maze: http://www.slideshare.net/zerutreck/taking-php-seriously-kei...
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by nikcub 13y ago
Wordpress don't allow non-GPL themes and plugins in their directories, there was an entire dragged-out debate about it. That is about as far away from "corrupted by money" as it gets. Wordpress is the victim of being popular.
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by nikcub 13y ago
They weren't, whoever broke in was sniffing/intercepting the authorization and dump data - and they were there for a while.
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by nikcub 13y ago
> But encrypted PIN blocks are useless to a hacker. You write them to a card and then you have a dupe that can be used in card-present credit card transactions. These dumps are all over the underground forums, they are easy to buy - that
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by nikcub 13y ago
Notice the pattern to all of these - the hacks are only discovered after the cards have already been charged and the card companies piece together where the possible source could have been by looking at common purchases. That is the stat
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by nikcub 13y ago
Exactly. This is all about corporate tax rates, capital gains, transfer pricing, etc.
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by nikcub 13y ago
> The results of the strategic review announced that not only will the Coalition’s plan cost almost as much as the originally announced NBN plan That isn't because it is more expensive, it is because the estimate on the original pla
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by nikcub 13y ago
> and Google has no way to know that all of those point to the same image. They could do content hash-based caching rather than URL-based caching. It would be more private, as the email senders would have to generate a unique image for e

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