peterwwillis

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by peterwwillis 10y ago
Don't do #1 if you want to reliably accept or send mail. Fun for experimenting/learning, though. Also, you can buy your own domain, and have Google merely act as the SMTP relay and temporary storage. They can also forward your mai
3602.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Well you could design them like all the cities around the world whose primary design focus isn't vehicle traffic and tightly packed skyscrapers. You could design parks and walkways and bike lanes that are for people, and not businesses
3603.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Nothing says connecting with nature more than being surrounded by concrete and steel.
3604.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
It had nothing to do with expensive phone calls. (Although it is true a lot of hacking has been done purely because someone didn't have the money for a given service) Phreaking was (and is) just a way for an overly curious person to se
3605.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Oh sure, a lot was done by hand, but if you're looking at an exchange without knowing anything about the carrier and can't find whatever specific range they're using for op stuff, a wardialer looking for a 400hz tone will sav
3606.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Back in the day all the DATUs and SASS stuff were on regular exchanges, so I don't see why that would change. People like dec0der were indicted for rifling through all the carrier's "special" COs with wardialers to find
3607.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Which may be useful, unless you can use a padding oracle attack or timing attack, or you're using something stupid like ECB mode, or you aren't authenticating your ciphertext. In general, it is safe to assume that whatever counter
3608.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Padding_(cryptography)
3609.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Increase in unsprung weight is also bad for suspension[1] and handling[2]. Here's something they don't mention in the article: the location of the mass in the wheel has a direct relationship to torque. The same mass located in the
3610.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
It's frightening how completely disconnected from the real world this is. The world is full of people who aren’t realizing their potential in large part because their cities don't provide the opportunities and living conditi
3611.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
It doesn't matter if his case is real or not. What matters is, for 17 years, a mechanical engineer basically just lived like a bum rather than trying to get any kind of real job, even something as simple as a fry cook, waiter, janitor,
3612.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Yes, but mainly commercial stuff. It costs 3-10x what the consumer appliances cost but it's usually actually secure and stable. Aruba, Ruckus, Cisco, Meru, etc.
3613.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Nobody's going to invest money into flashing each device with an individual cert just to protect against an attacker MITMing a home user's home wifi network to turn off a lamp. And you'd have to bundle your own whole TLS stac
3614.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
But more to the point: there is no purpose to SSL/TLS on an appliance because it will not have a valid certificate, hence it won't protect anything. You might as well just use WPA2-PSK.
3615.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Has anyone ever bought a consumer network appliance that didn't have shitty security?
3616.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
First off, there is lots of different potential abuse in a tech community. Second, not all of it comes from "rock stars" - the aggregate cases of abuse probably greatly outweigh rockstardom-enabled abuse. Third, the abuse was perp
3617.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
It's disturbing how much they focus on blood and sizzling. I'm not a vampire. I just want something that tastes really good. Honestly, if plant-eaters took a fraction of the time they take replicating meats and just spent it makin
3618.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
> Most of the outlets are having a hard time wrapping their heads around how this could go on so long within arenas whose missions are to fight against injustice and power imbalances, and to champion whistleblowers. So, again, this was
3619.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Here's a more in-depth and easy to read guide for beginners: http://www.computerhope.com/unix/umake.htm If you want to see some interesting/convoluted Makefiles, get a very complex, large piece of software (s
3620.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
What is the web, essentially? Connection. Connecting communication, connecting content, connecting media, connecting communities, connecting trade. The Web is designed to connect things. The web is already decentralized; just ask anyone who
3621.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
There are already lots of specialty condoms on the market, the problem is their availability. Only a few brands and types are carried in stores, so you're left to order condoms in bulk on the internet and just hope that you have a lot
3622.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
It seems like there a bunch of articles there but they're more like notes on how to use a tool specifically with Arch, rather than a guide for everyone. Compare this page http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Quota.html to th
3623.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Yes, upstream vendors would love to have total control over how any user uses its software. But there is no guarantee that at least one of the vendors will not have a really shitty install or uninstall script which will do something like
3624.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
No mention of Intel, IOActive, Matasano, Rapid7, FireEye, CheckPoint, Trend Micro, Kaspersky Labs, UCF, JHU, APL, MITRE, and of course, NSA? Sure, the ones you mentioned have the biggest paychecks. But they won't give you indemnity and
3625.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Everyone you know in infosec is also probably not highly motivated to work around politics. Those that do will be trying to work either directly for a campaign, or the DNC, or companies like NGP VAN, the largest tech contractor for Democrat
3626.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Ask any grey hat or black hat hacker if they've ever stepped on another hacker's toes. Sometimes it gets comical. Sometimes they actually leave big new holes by mistake and you get in and then claim you owned it first. If a big ju
3627.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Fifty million Elvis fans can't be wrong.
3628.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
> Jake’s behavior is representative of a systemic problem, grounded in a star culture that has allowed individual fame to overpower the ability of the community to recognize its collective needs. This is basically personal power in group
3629.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
Back in the day, The Linux Documentation Project had a trove of hundreds of HOWTOs covering every facet of using Linux. By today's standards they seem like "books", but in reality they were step-by-step instructions for anyth
3630.
by peterwwillis 10y ago
You are correct that AES's three key sizes are a result of the legacy of the military wanting "three levels of security" and NIST then asking for them. And since there is no requirement that they actually be more or less se

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