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by ryanlol 6y ago
So uh, why is this such a horrible mistake? Traditional media screws up things like this all the time.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> it basically means that for young children there needs to be an at home adult most of the day even though children go into school for a few hours Do kids in Massachusetts go to school at a younger age than in the rest of the world?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
So how do you keep MSS and NSA from planting bugdoors in the open source alternatives?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Often they are, yes. It’s relatively easy to use an USRP to generate alerts when someone is using TETRA nearby. But sure, other agencies may generate false positivies.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> the work other Anonymous members do such as?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
FWIW the .ssh/authorized_keys command= restriction for sftp doesn’t prevent arbitrary command execution if your system is configured with procfs. https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2014/Oct/35
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Reproducible builds are a red herring, they do nothing to defend against bugdoors.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Open sourcing whatsapp would solve precisely zero of these problems. There’s no way to know if a bugdoor is a backdoor or just a mistake.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> Posting on Twitter is now the equivalent of standing in a public square and yelling your protest Don’t you think it’s more akin to standing in a privately owned square and yelling your protest?
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Why not use md5 then? You can always add more rounds.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>Why? Because Europeans are weird about this, there isn’t really any reasonable explanation.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
3-D secure is still extremely vulnerable to phishing. And when you do get phished, you’ll generally be in a far worse position than you’d be without it. Sane solution? For merchants, maybe. For consumers, no.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Your bank doesn’t enforce this, the merchant accepting the payment chooses to require this.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Codeshare agreements, for example British Airways sells Vueling (budget airline) flights under BA flight numbers.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
This happens every day.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Marcus Hutchins simply didn’t understand the business side of things.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
In Europe “I’m sorry, I didn’t take my passport with me, but I remember my passport number” has had a 100% success rate for me.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
>Nothing accidental about that. He didn’t know it was the kill-switch domain, seems pretty accidental to me.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
It’s not at all obvious that going to work in a factory that’s operating against a county order is breaking the law.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
So whats the point of rewriting coreutils in rust? If you’re passing attacker controlled inputs into grep you’re probably doing something wrong anyway. It doesn’t seem like there’s much to be gained here. Network facing software is where th
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by ryanlol 6y ago
The Russian campaign has been widely discussed, yes. Little has been done to establish whether it actually worked. The mere existence of such a campaign does not suggest that it actually impacted election results.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
Show some evidence that the misinformation actually had a significant effect. I know it’s been widely discussed, but I haven’t seen any significant efforts to quantify the impact.
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by ryanlol 6y ago
> 2016 US elections showed western education doesn't help much in defending against misinformation campaign. How exactly did they show this?
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by ryanlol 7y ago
> As an aside I like the idea of using the EICAR anti-virus test file[1] as a way to "auto-delete" your data. Nobody detects EICAR when it’s surrounded by other data. Strings like <script type="text/javascript&
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by ryanlol 7y ago
>If a site is silently taken over, the state actor would either need to ... Why would they need to do that?
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by ryanlol 7y ago
This is stupid, people working on investigations obviously aren’t going to have access to fbi.gov or tbe analytics accounts for that.
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by ryanlol 7y ago
THC vape cartridges are very common in Spain and UK.
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by ryanlol 7y ago
> simply because we used to live in a smaller town where that was no problem Is this a problem anywhere outside the US? (I’m sure there are a few exceptions)
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by ryanlol 7y ago
“Books? For kids, yes. But dildos? No!” This guy has really weird standards for what qualifies as essential.
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by ryanlol 7y ago
> delivery times have moved from 2 days to up to 1 month At least here in the UK those items showing delivery estimates a month away still show up in a day or two.

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