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This is the most tricky issue about 2FA: who's going to authenticate the authentication system? From what I've seen in practice, if an account is lost, there are two primary ways for recovery. (A) Secret key. When a user is settin
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Machine Learning in Compiler Optimization [pdf]
(twin.sci-hub.tw)
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8y ago
In fact, the primary motivation of locking down an AP with a WPA password, from an infosec perspective, was NOT ABOUT stop people from using free Internet connection, BUT to harden against the technical limitation of WPA/WPA2 - the pro
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8y ago
I recommend the bridge mode + a better router solution.
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8y ago
Well, sure, but it depends, in practice the security risk is smaller. I've seen many modems with a web interface, but it's often not routable to the public Internet in actual use, as the connection was bridged and the job of getti
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8y ago
A pure DSL/cable/fiber-optics modem is relatively okay, assuming it's a sane unit, it only does modulation-demodulation on Layer-1/2 with little attack surface. The bad thing is nowadays they usually came from the ISP as
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8y ago
It's a surprise to me that nobody has pointed to the EFF whitepaper and recommendations on this issue. Digital Privacy at the U.S. Border: Protecting the Data On Your Devices https://www.eff.org/wp/digital-privac
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8y ago
Thanks! I was always searching for this license, but I had previously only found The Clear BSD License , the BSD license with a PATENTS-NOT-INCLUDED clause (oops), and the Universal Permissive License , which is a general permissive licen
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8y ago
When I was saying a "trust-based system" in the original post, I was thinking about Silk Road - from what I've read from news, its eBay-like rating system reportedly, significantly increased the safety and efficiency of trans
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Although Apache-2 is sometimes seen as a license-of-choice by major proprietary software companies like Google, the license itself is actually well-written. It explicitly offers a patent clause to protect contributors and distributors from
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8y ago
This article talks about the fraudulent practices by the vendors. But this title made me think of the fraudulent practices by the buyers. It's a well-known problem in China, a small percentage of scammers will always try to abuse the s
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Apparently Stage 1 - 7 were classical ciphers, followed by brute-forcing the 56-bit DES, and factoring RSA-155 though distributed computing. > Compaq provided access to one of their benchmarking computers with four 667 MHz Alphas and 8