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pudquick
12y ago
This information was released in an Apple mailing list: http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2014/Sep/m... The direct download pages are published first. It should be showing up on the updat
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12y ago
Do note: This addresses CVE-2014-6271 and CVE-2014-7169 only. There are currently 6 CVEs listed on the Wikipedia page (not sure which are accurate): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shellshock_%28software_bug%29#S... Some
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12y ago
You misunderstand. OS X has shipped with python for quite some time. In addition, OS X python started including a build of pyobjc since OS X 10.5 You literally can fire up python from the terminal on OS X 10.5 and later and type: import Fou
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12y ago
This is because you don't need to. Especially for this particular script. If you're using the natively included python, pyobjc comes free. As soon as I saw that mentioned in the documentation, I knew this project was going to have
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12y ago
Really? Do you know what you linked to? Have you actually gotten an APK from that site? It looks like a 100% fake site that takes you through never ending scam surveys and sign ups.
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12y ago
Wrong. http://bgr.com/2014/07/23/vcap-and-illegal-downloads-laws-in...
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12y ago
You're not the intended market. The people likely to be buying this are those who would have had a wood-based camping stove / sat around a campfire anyways.
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12y ago
Then include your device, powered on in airplane mode, in an easy to reach pocket. Easy to prove it's on, just don't take it out of airplane mode until you arrive at your destination. In flight you could power it off & back on
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12y ago
Which is one of the reasons why http://www.graphicsmagick.org was started. You should check it out if you haven't already. Almost identical commands, much healthier dev environment.
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pudquick
12y ago
The "better battery life" point is a claim from Apple that their DRM implementation is less CPU intensive than the current Silverlight method.
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12y ago
You could also suggest using a free service like: http://wwwizer.com/naked-domain-redirect It'll 302 redirect naked domains to www.domain, which will resolve to whatever you've configured it for. This should let y
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12y ago
Binary file search was my primary motivator as well. I really do love the functionality of the tool.
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12y ago
It doesn't. You are correct. For any unencrypted WiFi but with a paywall / login page for actual usage - if the software is worth anything, DNS is hijacked and re-routed for unapproved clients.
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12y ago
No. They prohibit on-device dynamic native code generation (ie. no JIT and no interpreters that attempt to mark memory as executable). They also (generally) prohibit interpreters that download code from the network and execute it. If you&#x
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13y ago
RE: "whereas Ruby has had decent Unicode support for a while" Really? I'd love for some examples for where Ruby shines when it comes to Unicode handling when dealing with web content. I know a lot of work was done in Ruby 1.9
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13y ago
Can someone using S3 Glacier as a backup destination please provide some concrete costs? Even if no retrieval is involved, I'd just love to see: "I pay $XYZ and am backing up ###GB worth of data." I see the calculator floatin
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13y ago
Not sure where the conspiracy part is? American branded "milk chocolate" (and specifically the process that Hershey's does) has much lower cocoa solids (and additive control) requirements than elsewhere. http://en.
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13y ago
- Add a trusted CA: will prompt for credentials - Configure proxy settings: prompt for admin credentials - Launch arbitrary: already admitted as much - Delete all users files: yup, that's a problem But the problems I illustrated aren&#
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13y ago
In my situation, I've never used an iTunes plugin and see no need to personally. So the solution helps me, but you're right that it's a stopgap measure that's not universally applicable.
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13y ago
You're right. I re-read what you wrote. And all you did was echo the lower portions of my own comment where I admitted that "fake alert" style applications could also take these details. And I'm sure other styles of atta
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13y ago
... Nothing about this article or my comment said anything about security in iOS. I have no idea what your statement is about.
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People unfamiliar with the Apple ecosystem of products might not realize what a problem this is. It's not an attack in its own right, but a powerful step in a non-elevated attack against Apple products. If someone were to end up runnin
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13y ago
If you'd like an in-depth discussion of what Mt. Gox has screwed up and how: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1x93tf/some_irc_cha... They didn't discover anything - they were warned, qu
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13y ago
Solutions I've seen in the past before are: * Buying copies of your app as gifts (you get 70% back eventually), getting the codes, and sending those. However, gifts are per national App Store, so you have to know the store their Apple
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Barnes and Noble Nook readers use it, I believe. Plus lots of other vendors that don't have their own hardware chain. Powell's books, for example. Or anyone attempting to self-publish a DRM'd ePub without putting it in Apple&
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I'm not sure I agree with this sentiment here regarding "wise". > And of course Kindle and Apple customers won’t even notice, thanks to those companies’ wise decision to use their own DRM. About the only thing "wise&q
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Fortunately they haven't done this for 2 years. They killed it when they flipped on DNSSEC because the practice of NXDOMAIN hijacking is incompatible: http://dns.comcast.net/index.php/help#faq2 Now no customers fr
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13y ago
Just wanted to give a quick reply – I purchased your app when it first came out and I love it to death. Thank you for that!
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13y ago
Duo Dock floppy drive, likely (Howdy! -- friendy@Freenode)
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13y ago
... And in the end, for that trivial difference of $125,000 over 30 years ($350 a month) - you get to stop making mortgage payments on the house . And you can sell your investment in the house at any point during or after those 30 years. Y
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