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by pilif 10y ago
Many if not all of the acme clients out there store the key and certificate as a file. Just copy that to the various machines terminating the SSL connection. In our case, there's a script on the frontend machine running HAProxy that&#x
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by pilif 10y ago
> From previous statements, I believe WoSign's plan is to resell another CA's certificates during the period that they don't have a root of their own in the trust store. or find/buy another currently trusted CA that
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by pilif 10y ago
> He needs good friends who host VPNs for him then the state actors would just bug that good friend.
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by pilif 10y ago
Potentially, yes. In our case we're doing a bit of additional work to prevent this from happening though. Other sites would get access to the built-in web server, but they wouldn't get anything apart from a 403 error.
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by pilif 10y ago
Dropbox and Github both use it to talk to their installed desktop clients from the website. It's very useful as it by just installing an app, a website can get more access to the local machine's hardware without having to resort t
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by pilif 10y ago
I'm running nginx linked against LibreSSL on our frontend since February. We've not seen any issues and LibreSSL has been a perfect drop-in replacement for OpenSSL so far.
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by pilif 10y ago
Yarn is currently being powered by a service running at https://registry.yarnpkg.com - at least that's what's referenced in the yarn.lock file that's created. I see no documentation nor code for the service poweri
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by pilif 10y ago
These two books were hands-down the best thing I have ever read in my life. Be careful though - it takes a while to get going, but halfway into the first book the universe is fully established and the thing really takes off. Also, be extra
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by pilif 10y ago
We use it, but we don't suffer slow queries in our case.
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by pilif 10y ago
While it's ok for our purposes, I would wish for a bit better customisability of the text parser and it definitely needs better support for compound words to be perfect. The first issue is with relation to https://www.postgr
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by pilif 10y ago
>And when I change phones, more often than not, I end up losing all my old texts (because Apple hasn't figured out idiot-proof migration). curious: How do you change phones? I have never lost any messages in iMessage when I was mo
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by pilif 10y ago
No. But they can find other means of proving that the defendant has done what you know they have done.
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by pilif 10y ago
easy fix for the prosecution: Use parallel reconstruction. I'm sure they're on this as we're commenting here. Once the information has been gathered, it's out there. You can't unsee it. It will always be there. Now,
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by pilif 10y ago
Well. The article you are commenting on says that 50% of all smartphone users don't want or need these features
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by pilif 10y ago
Thank you very much for posting this. This is nearly unbelievably bad and also reminded me of last weekend's discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12511202 and brings that into a completely new light: W
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by pilif 10y ago
Both ends of my USB C cables are identical and reversible.
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by pilif 10y ago
I would say the barrier to launching a social network is considerably lower than the barrier of launching a newspaper. Getting a significant amount of users is tricky of course. But that's also true for both newspapers and social netwo
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by pilif 10y ago
Once you type your password into the Apple dialog, you grant Dropbox root access. That's the purpose of this dialog in all cases.
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by pilif 10y ago
> why Dropbox needs the circumvention I'm not affiliated with Dropbox, but compare the UX of Dropbox (type in your admin-password and that's it) with the one of Steam (opens the System preferences and forces you to make manua
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by pilif 10y ago
At first I was really impressed by `1qaz2wsx3edc4rfv5tgb6yhn7ujm8ik,9ol.0p;/`, but then I watched my keyboard and all became clear. These brute force tools are getting better and better at trying useful combinations to the point where
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by pilif 10y ago
> my hard drives are SSD Of course that's entirely irrelevant as the page completely fits into the ram of the server (or even the CPUs cache for that matter)
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by pilif 10y ago
>I was never contacted by any law enforcement agency Not yet. Good luck trying to prove to law enforcement that it wasn't you downloading child porn. And even if they believe you, the can still arrest you as accessory. See https:
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by pilif 10y ago
>is an evolution of the company’s stance on the 2012 incident what a nice way to say that they lied before and that they are now finally coming clean - three years too late.
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by pilif 10y ago
Not really. You'd still be liable for any misuse happening from external users. Or if not liable, you'd at least have an uphill battle to fight in order to prove that it wasn't you that did the thing that got you into trouble
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by pilif 10y ago
Windows 10 also still has this. There's also a keyboard-shortcut to open the menu: Alt-Space. To open the same menu in a child window of an MDI application, use Alt-- (Alt-Minus). Which was intuitive in the windows 3.0 days because the
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by pilif 10y ago
> I can't imagine a valid use case for that outside of developers working against a local machine it's very useful to talk to locally installed applications without having to write specific browser plugins for all browsers. D
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by pilif 10y ago
It's definitely not trivial to do this in a secure way. Every bit of additional code is code that could contain security flaws. Also, looking at how the banks are doing over here ("your password can't be longer than 16 char
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by pilif 10y ago
For me, Apple Pay has two advantages over a contactless card: - it's only active after explicit user interaction. There is no way for somebody with an rogue device to steal money from me. - conversely, there's no limit after which
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by pilif 10y ago
And yet, MSI is the official package manager format. Saying that you prefer shipping your product with a InnoSetup or NSIS installer is akin to saying that you prefer self extracting shell scripts to .deb or .rpm packages under Linux. Asid
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by pilif 10y ago
Anyone else thinking of the beginning of the utterly excellent "Pandora's Star" by Peter F. Hamilton?

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