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by rietta 10y ago
Mr. Camp has written about this topic before, see More Encryption Is Not the Solution (2013) https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2508864 http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/it-security/escaping-the-dr
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by rietta 10y ago
It's the cult of the API. I have personal experience with this. Because of the lack of reliable iCal sync, a project I worked on had to spend over a week and a half of developer hours implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining Goog
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by rietta 10y ago
A bug that tricks the secure password management tool into revealing your Twitter password to a website that is not Twitter! That's a pretty major security vulnerability due to a bug in URL parsing.
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by rietta 10y ago
Another case of how bad defendants make terrible caselaw. The court doesn't want to let the bad guy get away on a technicality and thus rulings like this happen.
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by rietta 10y ago
Gosh. It's almost worth it to never resell anything. Just throw old electronics away even though that's bad for the environment and squanders value both for the owner of no longer needed gear and the potential new user of it. The
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by rietta 10y ago
For PGP encrypted, yup, it's not allowed. PGP plaintext signatures are presumably allowed as they do not obscuring the meaning of the communication. That was my thesis in 2004 and I believe it to still be true based on Part 97.
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by rietta 10y ago
I wrote an extensive piece on this as part of a presentation in 2004, called Authentication Without Encryption for Ham Radio - https://rietta.com/blog/2009/08/17/authentication-without-en... . Gave exampl
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by rietta 10y ago
Site without a paywall - http://www.ajc.com/news/business/home-depot-visa-and-masterc...
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by rietta 10y ago
Because usernames and passwords can be implemented without reliance on 3rd party infrastructure and they are culturally accepted and understood - however poorly - by everyone. We're still using 80 character lines in programming because
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by rietta 10y ago
Don't know why, but the CatChurn game jumped out at me as being written by Yahoo Software in 1982 (the year I was born). There does not seem to be a Wikipedia entry for this company, but the address appears to be a residential condo as
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by rietta 10y ago
I dislike this change. I specifically only access Facebook on my phone via the web app because (1) it saves significant battery and (2) I absolutely do not want the popup bubbles during the work day from church and other social groups I am
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by rietta 10y ago
And one has to be mindful of that time you ran: export AWS_CREDENTIAL=xpXfLVsY/77Nr+m1mKmys719h0m2z2BCYSv9d5r That is then an increased risk of breach because it is kept around for a long time. YMMV. Defense in depth, don't use pr
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by rietta 10y ago
NOOO! That's how I go back! And use the space bar to scroll up and down!
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by rietta 10y ago
The oldest code that I wrote that I suspect is still in use is RoboGen, an editor for robots.txt files, that I wrote in Visual C++ 6 with MFC. I remember working on it while not paying enough attention in my high school physics class. We we
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by rietta 11y ago
That's what I am thinking while looking at my seemingly cramped kitchen with by comparison massive 24 inch deep countertops with only 4 outlets (5 if you count the one hidden behind the refrigerator). Much more than 18 inches apart. I
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by rietta 11y ago
Just having extra outlets though would not help with that much if more than 1 or 2 appliances were drawing that much load and did not have their own breaker. The standard 15-20 amp breaker powering all or most of the copious outlets can sti
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by rietta 11y ago
An outlet every 18 inches seems like a lot! A standard double sink is about 32 inches wide. What on earth is the motivation?
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Calls to Ban Effective Encryption Continue Despite Data Breach Crisis(rietta.com)
2 points by rietta 11y ago|0 comments
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by rietta 11y ago
Please tell us more about this Merb workaround! Was it merged into Rails or did it fall away?
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by rietta 11y ago
It would be a pipe dream, but at the conclusion of the gag period there should additionally be a disclosure requirement - like a data breach notification. That would help balance out the desire to keep these things under wraps.
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What Is an Abuser Story (Software)(rietta.com)
7 points by rietta 11y ago|0 comments
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by rietta 11y ago
It would seem that no US person could package or distribute such open source crypto without becoming a covered entity.
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by rietta 11y ago
This is not just govt access. For a judge to be able to order your computer unlocked, means people at Microsoft, at Lenovo (or whoever you use), and at your ISP all have the keys to unlock your data even if you used an “encryption” feature.
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U.S. Senate Bill Seeks to Ban Effective Encryption, Making Security Illegal(rietta.com)
10 points by rietta 11y ago|0 comments
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by rietta 11y ago
Not profitable in this contex probably means they do not have the cash flow nor the means to pay a higher wage. The options are 1) increase revenue, which may not be easy or possible in a given market or 2) pay fewer people more. Now if you
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by rietta 11y ago
Seperates those who remember their math from those who don't! Brilliant. I love the Gauss equation for this (had to look it up, I need to review math more).
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by rietta 11y ago
Just be ready for copy+paste from Stockoverflow.
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by rietta 11y ago
Which is why large cash transactions are heavily regulated and reported on. In the US, one cannot just withdraw $10k or a series of smaller transactions that add up to $10k or more without the bank reporting on that to the authorities. That
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Commercial Information Security Classification System (2014)(rietta.com)
2 points by rietta 11y ago|0 comments
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Why CMS's Suck (2014)(blog.codelation.com)
1 points by rietta 11y ago|0 comments

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