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by pilif 9y ago
High Sierra has also removed telnet which is useful not for unencrypted access to remote shells, but for quick testing of TCP port availability at remote end. Yes. There’s nc to do the same thing, but then there is also muscle-memory built
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by pilif 9y ago
>Puffin is a victim of Apple’s abuse. Puffin is a server-based web browser where web browser sessions are executed on the cloud servers You and me know to not use something like this for any kind of sensitive site. But the common iOS u
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by pilif 9y ago
AFAIK, you still need to have your devices certified with apple and you still owe them a percentage of the cost. But you don't need to put a physical authentication chip into your devices any more. This lowers the cost and allows for r
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by pilif 9y ago
It's still a real issue though: As an ISP you can't run a mail server that doesn't accept mails from the one client that's most used among your customers. Yes. Outlook isn't conforming to the spec, but it's als
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by pilif 9y ago
In most cases that won't require a fundamental change in the architecture though. And when it does, then the bridge is rebuilt in accordance with the new requirements.
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by pilif 9y ago
> But it worked, and the core software stayed secure are you sure? How can you be sure that your custom patches didn't affect the security of the core product? qmail wasn't designed to be extensible. It had no plugin interface.
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by pilif 9y ago
> Every response is return asynchronously, we can achieve nonblocking. same goes for UDP which DNS runs over normally. Like the original commenter, I fail to see how stacking DNS over HTTP over TLS over TCP over IP is going to be faster
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by pilif 9y ago
Something to keep in mind with regards to qmail is that it's extremely feature-poor and it never got features beyond its initial design goal. This makes it much easier to keep the bugs out, to the point that making software under such
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by pilif 9y ago
Keybase doesn’t support forward secrecy. The signal protocol does, though I can’t say whether that’s true for Skype's implementation of the protocol
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by pilif 9y ago
The dialog for kernel extension doesn't contain any of those labels though. Instead it offers you to open the "Security" preference pane where some additional UI will be displayed. If you blindly click buttons you will not ac
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by pilif 9y ago
>No one who wanted wool for consumption was actually paying those prices, it was all wool merchants buying each other out Kinda reminds me of Bitcoin. Or these free to play apps that force people to look at ads of other free to play ap
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by pilif 9y ago
Well. If he knows your passcode, TouchID won’t be of any help anyways. Neither will FaceID of course
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by pilif 9y ago
Imagine the complexity of maintaining the software when every patch must anticipate a fragmented mess of different pieces of patches being installed on target systems. Imagine the explosion of testcases required. At that point, it’s probabl
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by pilif 9y ago
They can also push new browser releases though. They are also auto-installed by default. The exception is that an addon can do slightly less damage than a compromised browser itself.
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by pilif 9y ago
I wonder whether this rollback was caused by them actually listening to their users or the huge dip in revenue as people stopped donating. Well. Either way. This looks like a good thing. Until the VCs start again to pressure for more revenu
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by pilif 9y ago
I did something similar too - I was typing in the password while the Mac was being unlocked by the watch using that unlock-with-the-watch feature. I was used to hammering return a few times to wake the machine up, then typing in the passwor
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by pilif 9y ago
It only works after getting physical access once to enable the root user by gibing any password UI the root user with no password (which will enable the local root account, which is also why it fails the first time around)
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by pilif 9y ago
A quick mitigation workaround: If you follow the steps here https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204012 to disable the root account until the point where you open and authenticate the Directory Utility, in the Edit menu t
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by pilif 9y ago
As so often, it really depends. Let's say you've just detected that you're going to send incorrect data because you've ended up in an indeterminate state. If the remote end is going to ignore that data anyways, would it
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by pilif 9y ago
How do you make sure that grandma only does this if you tell her but not if the app she wants to watch that movie in or that email with your brother's address in the from field tell her to?
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by pilif 9y ago
> It doesn't require wear leveling like SSDs do. It's like RAM in that regard Are you sure? The article lists a fixed durability of 30 drive writes over 5 years. If it wasn’t wear leveling, those 30 writes would be reached ve
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by pilif 9y ago
When I did the quiz (5/5), I assumed based on the query and the information given that the index was being helpful in the first example, so I assumed it was index scanning. In that case it does have to recheck the additional condition
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by pilif 9y ago
Apple owns the CUPS source code. They can already do whatever they want and are not bound by the GPL. In fact, the current GPL licensed CUPS already comes with an exception clause to make sure macOS printer drivers don’t have to be released
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by pilif 9y ago
The difference is comparable to the difference between a traditional vibra Motor in a phone and the Taptic Engine based vibration in iPhone 6s and later, including all the haptic feedback tricks provided by later iOS versions running on the
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by pilif 9y ago
If you ever have to change a fields meaning or add a new field and provide the old fields value for older clients, you can't just make it private and add a public setters and getters without breaking compatibility for all your users -
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by pilif 9y ago
That way, Chinese people would be worse off security and privacy wise though. Think it through: Apple pulls out of China, the Chinese government makes the use of iPhones illegal, the Chinese people lose access to iPhones and with that to th
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by pilif 9y ago
> iOS 11 must be the buggiest piece of s I've ever tried. that might be true in general, but this calculator bug exists since iOS9 and only surfaced now.
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by pilif 9y ago
I honestly prefer an early crash to random memory corruption
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by pilif 9y ago
And yet... in our case, the false-positive rate went from about one a month to one a year when we stopped using UPX. For a binary that didn’t change, mind you. You'd think that after reporting a false positive once, an AV vendor would
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by pilif 9y ago
> 1) Have there in fact been any known phishing attacks in Apple's App Store using this method? no attacks are known. But that doesn't mean a thing. It's very easy to do this, so you'd have to assume that it is bein

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