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by tgragnato 5y ago
I'm quite disillusioned about the future of the Union because of ridiculous stunts like this. Using English exposes people to a certain way of thinking that is more linked to a set of cultures or traditions. It's an undeniable fac
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by tgragnato 5y ago
Last week I saw a friend using dot net software that scrapes the Catalog, automatically downloads all patches and applies them to the system. It's apparently common in enterprises without an ESU subscription... I was quite surprised an
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by tgragnato 5y ago
> How long did it take to find Bin Laden? Bin Laden used couriers in place of digital communications. And the trail that led to him began with his most trusted courier. Allegedly, al-Kuwayti was uncovered, some of his communications were
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by tgragnato 5y ago
Are there iOS apps that replace Photos with your own remote storage?
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by tgragnato 5y ago
On most of my Linux systems Perl is only installed as a dependency of debconf or git. I’m sure the Linux kernel community is still using it, but FreeBSD even managed to remove it from the base system. It’s still ubiquitous… “standard”?
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Russia’s Latest Hack Shows How Useful ‘Criminal Groups’ Are to the Kremlin(defenseone.com)
1 points by tgragnato 5y ago|0 comments
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by tgragnato 5y ago
If Belarus does not have a tight control over international money transfers. Moving will be easier if citizens will be able to carry some savings. E.g.: people moving from HK to the UK are usually converting their HK$ to a cashier of foreig
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by tgragnato 5y ago
If you are thinking about a scenario like xkcd-538, it’s even worse. Pass-codes and pass-phrases are protected under the 5th amendment, while biometrics are not. The investigator will get a warrant for the biometric in question, refusing to
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by tgragnato 5y ago
Yeah they apparently had Russian passports and the full support of the Russian state. Maria Zakharova even wrote that “It is shocking that the West calls the incident in Belarusian airspace ‘shocking,’”. She is the Director of the Press Dep
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by tgragnato 5y ago
I would be pretty shocked if Facebook was not doing this. It’s probably done on the device, with suspicious links and media sent to the servers for further inspection. We are also sure some of their engineers worked on methods to detect byp
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by tgragnato 5y ago
I think someone caught the app dumping private keys to crashlogs.whatsapp.net But a MITM should still be visible More details?
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by tgragnato 5y ago
The first I've seen was boards for AMD APUs (2011+). https://www.manualslib.com/manual/628934/Sapphire-Audio-Pure... (soldered CPU in the low res picture) But it's not specific to AMD mbs, many Intel Ato
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by tgragnato 5y ago
“desktops”: it’s somewhat common with mini-ITX and Intel NUCs
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by tgragnato 5y ago
The way EU does things is getting tiresome. I'd love if we could blackhole their ASes. > “As the Hamburg DPA’s claims are wrong, the order will not impact the continued roll-out of the update.“ ... blocking the assets of criminals d
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by tgragnato 5y ago
Who is currently offering ARM VPSes to small businesses? I only knew about Graviton
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by tgragnato 5y ago
The equivalent of ME and PS in Apple’s ARM processors is the “Secure Enclave Processor”. https://www.theiphonewiki.com/wiki/Secure_Enclave_Processor
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by tgragnato 5y ago
I agree with you. My sentence thinks over the top comment and the one you are replying to, both highlight irrelevant factual positions. Both are interesting details for techies, but in the real world they have no practical value.
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by tgragnato 5y ago
Iranian getting their centrifuges hacked probably has to do more with geography than cyber. Israel is a powerful ally. I would compare South Korea more to a US protected country than to an ally. Given the dynamics with China, the Asian regi
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by tgragnato 5y ago
Only someone who never tried to compile AOSP can write seriously that "Android is open source". That the platforms are open source is a moot point too.
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by tgragnato 5y ago
> A 1TB IPhone with a good internet connection [...] P2P possible Battery life would be terrible. Personally, I'm still waiting for the coupling of mobile and "personal servers". Micro servers at the exclusive use of one p
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by tgragnato 5y ago
> If you can't figure out a way to satisfy your desire for your devices to be resistant to surveillance tools with legal means, well, then you can't satisfy that desire. I fear this part of your argument is fallacious. A peacef
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by tgragnato 5y ago
We got a movie about that! Idiocracy (2006)... I’m a huge fan
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by tgragnato 6y ago
Which is not "nobody", but it is not even close to the statistical threshold of "enough use, helps prevent the spread of the disease"
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by tgragnato 6y ago
I only have positive things to say about our contact tracing application. It’s open source https://github.com/immuni-app . It’s simple: contact tracing only, easy for non technical people. And has minimal tracking (I only se
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by tgragnato 6y ago
> These are uploaded to crashlogs.whatsapp.net [...] Using the strings tool against the dumped heap data, one can easily identify plaintext conversations, and more interestingly Noise protocol key pairs, encoded in base64 form.
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by tgragnato 6y ago
Benjamin Savage doesn’t look polite to me. Is it because I’m not a native speaker?
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by tgragnato 6y ago
This is great for non-techies, but I want to control my own traffic, customize the behavior of my VPNs, ... Any deviation from the standard implementation, open source or not, is a hindrance.
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by tgragnato 6y ago
Can you provide more details about the breach? Did they get in via munin?
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by tgragnato 6y ago
> The fact that Western countries aren't spending billions to comprehensively subvert the Great Firewall is a significant strategic failure. I have strong opinions in this matter. The GFW is only possible because of metadata leaks t
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by tgragnato 6y ago
> XYZ got hacked, bad IT sec at XYZ In this particular case I can't follow this part of the reasoning. It was a counterterrorism operation using sophisticated exploit chains. Would you clarify what's the bad IT sec? "nobod

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