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by phlo 9y ago
Same goes for the fuel tanks. It's considered good airmanship to do a quick visual check of the fuel level and compare it to what the gauges tell you. And to drain some fuel from the lowest part of the tank to check it for water or oth
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by phlo 9y ago
> The worst thing that happens is the sensor breaks and then they become manual headlights... Don't be too quick to disregard automation dependency. I agree that a headlight switch is probably quite low-risk, but every action you a
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by phlo 9y ago
Yes, cryptography will become the standard. No, that won't protect you from the little brothers mentioned in the interview. Your email will travel securely, so the government can't read it. It'll travel securely from Chrome o
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by phlo 9y ago
You can add your own domain to Gmail if you use G Suite, the SME offering. It's $50/user/year, but in exchange, you get to turn off ads, and I think there's some support included. Google can still terminate your account
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by phlo 9y ago
The part of Kickstarter you're describing isn't worth any significant fraction of these $500m. If it were, Indiegogo, Gofundme and all others in the space would need to be well on the unicorn track. A saying goes "Ideas are c
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by phlo 9y ago
For contrast, I'm Swiss, and all of my debit cards have either been Maestro or PostFinance (in Switzerland, the Postal Service runs a bank which maintains its own debit card scheme). Maestro is technically a MasterCard debit card, but
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by phlo 9y ago
Regulation can greatly improve things. Within the Single Euro Payments Area, credit transfers (i.e. bank transfers) have been free for almost a decade and will be instant (<10s), effective November of this year. Another regulation, Payme
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by phlo 9y ago
Minor nitpick regarding the "except for certificate-pinned websites" part: HPKP does not validate pins if they resolve to a user-installed trust anchor like an intranet CA. The RFC [1] leaves behavior undefined (see Section 2.4),
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by phlo 9y ago
No. China will have to pay more than today because a lot of their parcels will fall into the (now more expensive) bulky letter category. The US remains highly-developed, so you can expect terminal dues to remain cheaper than the retail rate
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by phlo 9y ago
The change to the regime for bulky letters and parcels is not the same as the group mergers. I was referring mostly to the former, which will increase the dues for bulky letters and small parcels to a higher per-kg-rate than the current rat
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by phlo 9y ago
These costs were related to the terminal dues that USPS (and other postal services around the world) charge each other in exchange for distributing parcels in their respective countries. [1] The system dates back to the 1960s and was implem
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by phlo 9y ago
As has already been pointed out, EMV transaction flows go through many steps. From what I understand, the protocol was designed with a focus on flexibility, and little attention was paid to low latency. Until some years ago, most terminals
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by phlo 9y ago
Metasploit is a bit like a knife. You can use it to chop vegetables or stab people, and depending on who wields it, and in what circumstances, either of the outcomes is more likely. I'm not arguing against the development on Metasploit
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by phlo 9y ago
What you're describing happened to Ethereum this week [1]. On one exchange (GDAX), a large sell order pushed the price down by 30% or so, which in turn triggered a lot of (market) stop loss orders, pushing the price farther down. In th
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by phlo 9y ago
Sometimes, a bit of obscurity will improve security. To get something like WannaCry to work from a security patch, you'd have to do the following: 1. Analyze the update, determining what parts of the system it changes 2. Analyze
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by phlo 9y ago
I couldn't quite tell what 'Bagpipe' refers to from the headline. That's a minor complaint as the site loads quickly and is very readable. As a suggestion: 'Bagpipe: a DSL enabling verification [...]' would hav
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by phlo 9y ago
Yup, pretty sure we will. Actually, they've been around for a couple of years now [1, 2]. I think there are smart-grid-enabled electrical heating systems as well. "Smartening" appliances can lead to surprising security issues
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by phlo 10y ago
Using what information one can gather from their salary calculator [1, 2], the distinction seems to be mostly related to the staffer's location. Staff from US, UK, NL, IN, CN, BE are hired as employees (with a salary multiple ranging f
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by phlo 10y ago
Nick and Filippo also went into some more detail at their (excellent) 33c3 talk in December: https://media.ccc.de/v/33c3-8348-deploying_tls_1_3_the_great...
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by phlo 10y ago
Thirded. On a recent trip to Bangkok, we'd usually have an easier time finding a Grab car than an Uber. In both cases, the experience was positive, while Uber drivers seemed to have slightly newer cars, at a slightly higher price.
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by phlo 10y ago
My preferred line of argument to overcome such assumptions: My time is too valuable to waste navigating a car through traffic, and hiring a driver (permanently or per-trip) woulnd't make financial sense. Yes, driving there may save you
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Introducing the Uber SSH Certificate Authority(medium.com)
1 points by phlo 10y ago|0 comments
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by phlo 10y ago
Swiss person here. Not quite sure what to make of this. From what I can tell, it's a generic job board without a search function and a whopping total of 204 job ads (which don't seem to be exclusive to jobwire). FWIW, I have previ
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Symantec may have mis-issued several certificates for example.com and test.com(groups.google.com)
1 points by phlo 10y ago|0 comments
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by phlo 10y ago
It seems more meritocratic, to me. The bar to enter is low, and the criteria for continuing their studies is proficiency in the subject at hand, not standardized test scores, extracurricular activities in high school or the best-written app
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by phlo 10y ago
The mentioned schools are grouped into the 'Ivy plus' label and ranked as even more selective than the 'elite' group.
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by phlo 10y ago
Wow. So they're offering a reputation check for URLs at 3 cents a pop. That seems rather steep, compared to the free SafeBrowsing API. Anything I'm missing?
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by phlo 10y ago
I think you may be mistaken about amounts of energy. Typical modern domestic-use light bulb (ccfl) are rated around 20 watts. 100 W was the typical maximum in incandescent light bulbs for domestic use, excluding some very bright halogen bul
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by phlo 10y ago
As another comment already pointed out, you are probably seeing your card issuer's risk-based 3D Secure system in action. If your system (IP address, location, user-agent) and/or the transaction (merchant, sector, amount) look f
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by phlo 10y ago
3D Secure is used to authorize credit card payments, while Sofort and iDEAL send wire transfers . Big difference. With 3D Secure, you provide the normal card data (i.e. card number, expiration, name, CVV/CVC) to the merchant and are

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