therealEleix

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by therealEleix 5y ago
Even if caller id had been used in this situation, he could have easily spoofed the number to appear to be coming from the neighbors house since they would have already had all the information necessary to do so. The Caller ID system you&#x
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by therealEleix 5y ago
The methods in use by Pegasus make it impossible to avoid. "Zero Click" malware allows them to take over a device without any interaction needed by the user so even if you factory reset the device, heck, even if you reinstall the
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by therealEleix 5y ago
This is sadly true. We need to return back to the Unix Philosophy of do one thing and do it well. None of these multi-purpose tools that have terrible feature creep and try to take over everything cough systemd cough . In all seriousness
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by therealEleix 5y ago
I don't doubt that, it's also trivial for anyone to spin up their own local root mirror to resolve against, I'm just pointing out that maybe Verisign shouldn't be holding onto two. It's even pointed out on their Wik
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by therealEleix 5y ago
I would also love to remind everyone that this is the same company who controls not 1 but 2 core root DNS server addresses. A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET That means Verisign controls 15% of the global roots while everyone else holds
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by therealEleix 5y ago
"Natural Competition" in this space can never be. What you're seeing is exactly how this space turns out. Verisign controls the registry for the .com TLD. They run the centralized authority that ultimately says if a .com doma
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by therealEleix 6y ago
Impossible due to how cryptocurrency works. In any cryptocurrency there is something called an "emissions target" which will only up to X amount of coins to be "released" on the discovery of a new block. This is also com
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by therealEleix 6y ago
Forks are generally required to maintain the original licensing of the originating source. That would be like taking part of the Windows source code and "forking" it with the only change being the licensing. Just because you forke
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by therealEleix 6y ago
You're right, I completely spaced about DANE. My idea for letting the trust being tied to the Root and TLD master keys was more in spirit of allowing people to have more say in SSL. The Internet is technically centralized to the IP and
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DNSSEC-Like Trust for Certificate Authorities(gist.github.com)
1 points by therealEleix 6y ago|6 comments
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by therealEleix 6y ago
Asking for discussion. Original text goes over HN's character limit for text entries.