pieter_mj

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by pieter_mj 10y ago
What I never get with these huge acquisitions is what about the user's privacy? They never agreed with Microsoft to have their data but somehow ms automatically gets access to it?
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by pieter_mj 10y ago
Allowing these type of programs to autonotify of updates and self-update should be considered bad practice and a high security risk. Why risk a malicious MITM-ed update? The keepass site should just provide portable zips and off-site hashes
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by pieter_mj 10y ago
> But SHA-1 is thoroughly deprecated, and will be broken in the next few years. Why is this a problem? sha1 is not broken by design, it's only broken by current and future computing power.
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by pieter_mj 10y ago
no ;-) leif.be
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by pieter_mj 10y ago
I recently witnessed my uncle's euthanasia. There's a few things to consider and discuss with your leifarts (as the euthanasia assisting doctor is called in Belgium) : - death is instantanious (within 15-30 seconds of administrati
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by pieter_mj 11y ago
As a Belgian, i can't wait until the British vote themselves out of the European Union. GCHQ is the prime reason. They and other organizations like them are the cancer of a modern democratic society.
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by pieter_mj 11y ago
previous discussion : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8647943 I used this (on windows) to easily convert/resize videos i had saved earlier using a file:/// url, but this possibility has been removed
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by pieter_mj 11y ago
When you've got the NSA dragnetting the whole world, stupidity becomes equivalent with malice.
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by pieter_mj 11y ago
As with previous presentations, the author has struck educational gold so to speak.
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by pieter_mj 11y ago
Security and privacy would be my main concerns. - full libre gpl3'ed codebase including plugins and extensions. - immediate disclosure of all security problems (in the hope they get fixed promptly). the socalled "responsible"
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by pieter_mj 11y ago
When you've put your passwordfile in the cloud, you should assume it's fallen into the wrong hands (NSA) already. I've put my keepass file in the cloud for extra backup, and I know I can only rely on its cryptographic streng
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
A good windows strategy to avoid bundled crapware is to look for portable software that needs no installation. I always try to install a new program as a limited user (sadly, most programs that come with an installer require administrative
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
http://www.websense.com
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
fyi, the test on that page will also be positive in the case you have any other mitm certificate - eg company proxy software.
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
You're referring to https://cs.nyu.edu/~yap/classes/os/resources/EWD74.pdf while 'passering' and 'vrijgave' are already mentioned in http://www.cs.utexas.edu/user
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
What we should expect is that facebook has enough computing power to bruteforce 12 to 13 characters in a reasonable timeframe. Did you ask NSA for a full 16-character bruteforce? :)
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
Many of the scientists operating/designing these facilities Bamford mentioned in the article were actual Nazis brought into the US through operation paperclip. Hardly surprising the organisations that employ them feel they're abov
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
Lots of needtoknowers will have their eyes opened, that's for sure.
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
Microsoft paid 2.5 billion dollars to stay cool.
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by pieter_mj 12y ago
The windev development environment ( http://www.windev.com/ ) file types (wdd, wdm, ...) are not listed.
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by pieter_mj 13y ago
No, they banned the downloading of copyrighted material from illegal sources. You may still copy and/or download copyrighted material from legal sources for personal use. The law hasn't changed. It's been clarified by the Eur
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by pieter_mj 13y ago
Why is is so important to know wether this bug was left deliberately or not, or even sneaked in by the NSA? To the more important questions 'Did the NSA almost immediately discover this bug' and 'Did they exploit it', I
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by pieter_mj 13y ago
True privacy on a smartphone can only be expected when software and hardware are 100% open sourced. This of course includes the source code for the 3 Os's that typically run on a smartphone. Anything that's running server-side can
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by pieter_mj 14y ago
i fear the same will happen as with the stagnation or even decline since the late nineties of vertical (and horizontal oc) screen resolution : due to advancements made in other fields of technology (mobile-soon-to-be-desktop-as-well ARM cpu