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by tetrep 11y ago
Looks like they have support for the nexus 5: http://maruos.com/#/hardware
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by tetrep 11y ago
I haven't been in security very long, but this is the most egregious backdoor I've seen in a commercial product. It's not even accidental, by virtue of the patch, which took 7 months to actually get deployed, was purely aesth
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General Motors Salvages Ride-Hailing Company Sidecar for Parts(bloomberg.com)
1 points by tetrep 11y ago|0 comments
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by tetrep 11y ago
it doesn't look like their prelude has any stdout printing functions, so it's probably easiest to test your code in a repl. you can check what functions they do give you by looking at the stuff before the "where" here:
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by tetrep 11y ago
Indeed. Unless there's a promise of migration support once funs inevitably run out or some sort of lifetime fixed price/discount, such that the nonprofits or whatever can make an informed decision about the real cost of their in
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by tetrep 11y ago
> I am an Adobe Creative Cloud customer and even I am aware of how their billing works. To my knowledge, this is exactly the same as to how any subscription works. They always auto-renew, although some let you opt out. Heck, it's pa
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by tetrep 11y ago
> Don't you agree? Nope. I wouldn't want to PR this any more than I would want to patch PHP. I'd rather run the other way very quickly and use a well designed technology. To use an analogy, they didn't forget to lock
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by tetrep 11y ago
kinda sad that a web app for managing security failures has XSS directly via the UI (you can just copy/paste HTML into it). I'd be extremely hesitant to put sensitive information into an application that lacks even a basic underst
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Security firm sued for filing “woefully inadequate” forensics report(arstechnica.com)
3 points by tetrep 11y ago|0 comments
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by tetrep 11y ago
Interesting. I started biking to/from work and was wondering why going home always felt harder. I suspected it was because my body was a bit tired just from being awake for the past ~8 hours (desk job, so not the work itself) but I nev
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by tetrep 11y ago
>I would tend to wonder if there was a connection between how many Mac users who don't buy or need malwarebytes but this article is critcal of the FUD that is being spread from poorly drawn conclusions about CVE statistics. they&#x2
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HTTPS Bicycle Attack [pdf](guidovranken.files.wordpress.com)
1 points by tetrep 11y ago|0 comments
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by tetrep 11y ago
i would assume mouse controls are used because they are less likely to have a breaking change pushed out silently by netflix than the "private" JavaScript APIs.
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by tetrep 11y ago
In addition to all of the above, it creates one of the greatest impetuses (impeti?) for programmers, an arbitrary and voluntary constraint. I don't really have any evidence other than anecdotes, but every programmer I know loves them i
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by tetrep 11y ago
This is pretty interesting because it's actually a vuln in JODE, which is used by FireEye's devices to decompile and inspect JARs for malicious code. I'm curious as to the thought process behind JODE's developers when th
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by tetrep 11y ago
why not textsecure? it's free and open source.
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by tetrep 11y ago
This is pretty interesting because it's actually a vuln in JODE, which is used by FireEye's devices to decompile and inspect JARs for malicious code. I'm curious as to the thought process behind JODE's developers when th
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by tetrep 11y ago
> I doubt they are actually doing it this way as I imagine the overhead would be very high It wouldn't be very high, they could easily put the burden on the client to do the encryption and like all practical public key encryption th
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by tetrep 11y ago
> Do the site owners get paid for the 'eyeballs' from the subscribers? Google contributor basically puts you in the same position advertisers are, you bid to advertise to yourself, and if you win, you don't see any ads :)
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VW says rulebreaking culture at root of emissions scandal(arstechnica.com)
45 points by tetrep 11y ago|56 comments
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Patent troll claims HTTPS websites infringe crypto patent, sues everybody(arstechnica.com)
3 points by tetrep 11y ago|0 comments
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by tetrep 11y ago
In case they think it wise to remove that blurb (it's on various product pages): https://web.archive.org/web/20151123183352/http://www.dell.c...
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by tetrep 11y ago
It's not a phrase made up by Taleb. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_in_the_game_(phrase)
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by tetrep 11y ago
> Majority of people drive at or slightly below the speed limit. For my entire driving experience, from the North East of the US to Northern California, to specificially the portion of the road this car was driving on, this is false. Peo
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by tetrep 11y ago
i don't think you fully appreciate how cheap (relatively) boats are, it's why trade between the US and China works even for the cheapest of goods.
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by tetrep 11y ago
Indeed, it even validates the use of mass surveilance to begin with. After leaks of the keywords that would "put you on a list" at the NSA, some people seem concerned to exercise their liberties, like googling for things in an att
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by tetrep 11y ago
that product already exists[0], running watch have been around for many years and do exactly that. [0]: https://www.google.com/search?q=running+watch
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by tetrep 11y ago
Not just that, but also: > Hey—charge me for the damn upgrades if they can come bereft of some insane advertising model that somehow underwrites your cost. I find the thought of my device being held for ransom to be incredibly disturbing
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by tetrep 11y ago
companies doding bad reviews means that companies with good reviews will stand out, making selection easier. as a consumer, i don't care about crappy products unless i end up purchasing them. i can avoid crappy products by only going f
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by tetrep 11y ago
If you're concerned about applications using network resources, I'd highly recommend an outbound firewall. Not only can you actually guarantee your applications aren't making arbitrary network connections, but you can also us

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