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by stordoff 7y ago
Before using a password manager: I'm using short, memorable (often repeated) passwords that are rarely, if ever, changed. After using a password manager: I'm using long (generally 64 characters), unique passwords, and if one is co
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by stordoff 7y ago
I took ready to go to mean "run a command and it spins up a plausible fake system". The tech of TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt, AFAICT, seems sound, but maintaining the contents of the fake system (so it's not an obvious decoy&#x2F
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by stordoff 7y ago
The VeraCrypt guide recommends "You should use the decoy operating system as frequently as you use your computer. Ideally, you should use it for all activities that do not involve sensitive data." You don't need to fake it pe
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by stordoff 7y ago
It's not quite ready to go, but it's doable with TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt: https://www.veracrypt.fr/en/VeraCrypt%20Hidden%20Operating%2...
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by stordoff 7y ago
I'm tempted to do the same, but as someone who is buying _new_ music on CD this doesn't particularly help. It seems CTDB provides access to MusicBrainz, so that might be my alternative. http://cue.tools/wiki/C
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by stordoff 7y ago
Message I got a few weeks ago whilst at the theatre: "An Amazon delivery driver need help with your order. Reply STOP to stop receiving texts from Amazon delivery drivers. Hello, my name is [name]. Yor please [sic] in the bin" &qu
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by stordoff 7y ago
I disagree with this. If they can't follow the formatting requirements of the application, then "what else are they overlooking, or likely to overlook once operating?" is a valid concern. They don't seem to indicate that
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by stordoff 7y ago
Which jurisdictions are these? Googling "used mattress illegal" returns this post as the seventh result, and most of the other results (such as https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0099-shopping-used-mat... )
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by stordoff 7y ago
I think every mattress I've ever used has been used. Paying a tenth of the price for something that is good enough is a no brainer when you don't have a lot of money.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> you need an ID to check in Not necessarily - it depends on the hotel. I've twice booked a hotel in London recently, with a card that is not in my name, and checked in with nothing more than giving my name.
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by stordoff 7y ago
Assuming a direct business relationship, there's no reason they couldn't hand-pick or filter out the good hosts, and then put the rest in the general pool.
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by stordoff 7y ago
It's not: > This Agreement grants a non-exclusive, non-transferable license to install and use the Software on a single Website. Additional Software licenses must be purchased in order to install and use the Software on additional W
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by stordoff 7y ago
The path in the thumbnail really gives it away - /var/customers/webs/timvisee/saferequest
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by stordoff 7y ago
I've seen that in one of the default apps on Windows Phone (fairly sure it was the Photos app - quite recently too).
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by stordoff 7y ago
Possibly these two: https://twitter.com/garmin/status/669341873895563264
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by stordoff 7y ago
How is this inefficient?
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by stordoff 7y ago
Also reminded me of CERN - Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire, despite it now being the Organisation Européenne pour la Recherche Nucléaire/European Organization for Nuclear Research.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> I've since discovered Dial-a-Ride Which does nothing to help visitors. My own trips to London would be significantly more problematic without black cabs.
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by stordoff 7y ago
In terms of security vs convenience though, I'm not going to enter a decent passphrase into my phone many times per day. A short passcode can trivially be shoulder-surfed, so FaceID is still better security than what I otherwise would
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by stordoff 7y ago
It was done to Ulbricht: > But at 3:15 p.m., the quiet was broken when, out of nowhere, a young woman in street clothes charged toward Ulbricht yelling, "I'm so sick of you!" and grabbed his laptop. Ulbricht leapt from his
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by stordoff 7y ago
It's surprisingly sensitive as well. I've just try tried focusing on a spot 5cm to the side/above my iPhone 11, and it reliably wouldn't unlock until I glanced at the camera.
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by stordoff 7y ago
I read it as Eat, Drink, and Be Werry, and it took me a second of mild confusion to realise it was Wary, for much the same reason.
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by stordoff 7y ago
La Liga: > The Spanish football league La Liga has admitted that its official smartphone app has been making audio recordings in order to identify pirate broadcasts of football games. > The league said its app detected the location of
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by stordoff 7y ago
> though if theirs is the deciding vote on a measure, a new vote takes place without them Doesn't this mean they effectively can't vote? It seems they can only vote on things that would have passed (or been rejected anyway.
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by stordoff 7y ago
> Every bitcoin exchange I’ve used required me to physically write something on paper and show it to a human I'm curious - what did you have to write? Is it just part of proof of identity, or something more?
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by stordoff 7y ago
They are a private business means there is not legal impediment to what they are doing. They are free to do this all day long. That doesn't mean as an individual I have to support them. There's no contradiction between saying ther
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by stordoff 7y ago
I think OP means that the collection of visited prefixes can be indicative. If foo.example.com, bar.example.com, and baz.example.com are "undesirable" sites, and you have requested hash prefixes matching those for foo.example.com&
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by stordoff 7y ago
If you want to condition people that a site is bad but more subtlety than a outright block, it is a viable method. If you can visit it, but every time you do you are misleadingly told it is malicious, then that may have a subconscious effec
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by stordoff 7y ago
I saw someone use this for their email address a few years back. Say their name was Jane smith (anonymised for obvious reasons), their email address was j@nesmi.th (actually using a .ch domain).
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by stordoff 7y ago
If I'm reading the report correctly, it's not clear they ever replaced the cables. The plane was new to the fleet (and was the only plane with stainless steel cables), and "Air Moorea specified on the parts follow-up document

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