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by throwaway125 13y ago
This reply to monster seems a lot more productive than the one from the OP. It got me to look up blue jeans cables and I found a youtube video[1] where Kurt Denke (the person who wrote the C&D reply) talks about the difference between a
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by throwaway125 13y ago
Giving another company the ability to serve content (javascript) on a subdomain would make ad companies prime targets for all kinds of hacking campaigns. Their ability to serve javascript and probably access session cookies on a large numbe
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The future of reverse engineering: Dynamic Binary Visualization (Derbycon 2012)(youtube.com)
3 points by throwaway125 13y ago|1 comments
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by throwaway125 13y ago
What bothers me personally the most is the way in which downvotes seem to happen. Don't get me wrong, a lot of users downvote in a good way, so it's not all bad. Still, I often find grey comments that are brought in a completely respectable
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by throwaway125 13y ago
You can hardly call that good. It's like saying that Diginotar being compromised was good because then we could untrust their CA. It's true that we could do that, but their original purpose was to protect us in the first place. The same is
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by throwaway125 13y ago
I assume the giant comment is what we're supposed to see, but I'm not sure how that's supposed to have any impact on SEO at all. Seems more like a tribute than a SEO hack.
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by throwaway125 13y ago
There are still some restrictions on exporting cryptography. For example, under US law you can't export strong crypto to Iran, North Korea, and a few other countries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_in_the_U...
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Thanks to the internet archive we can still enjoy this article: http://web.archive.org/web/20110225075111/http://tomayko.com...
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by throwaway125 14y ago
To clarify I never meant that the limit is a security issue, just that it's a valid technical limitation to limit the length of a password.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
For how much people like to repeat the "Use bcrypt!" mantra I'm amazed no one has mentioned the password length limit of bcrypt. The hash output of bcrypt stops changing after 72 characters but almost all bcrypt documentation mentions a 55
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by throwaway125 14y ago
The following line in your vimrc will make vim not expand tabs for every file named "Makefile". au BufRead,BufNewFile Makefile set noexpandtab
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by throwaway125 14y ago
If the people use a word that happens to be trademarked in a way unrelated or semi related to the trademark then yes, they can and will do that.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
exact same story with a https link is already up at the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5419071
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I'm really disappointed in the way this story is getting buried. It's quite clear people want to talk about this.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
148 points https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416021 I believe this was the first one to be posted, it was on #1 for a bit before it disappeared.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416514 This isn't merely pushed off the front page, it's actively declared dead, possibly by automated means.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Someone mentioned the flags are ignored after a post gets 10 upvotes and suggested that maybe the anti spam system is triggered due to the many upvotes in a short period of time. I think the anti-spam system would not be that quick to react
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Possibly true, but that would mean the flag system can be abused to get rid of any articles you don't like. If this is the case that should definitely be looked into. If it's human intervention then I really don't understand why it's happen
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by throwaway125 14y ago
I really don't understand why these articles keep being removed from the front page. It's quite obvious people want to talk about this.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Same for a venturebeat article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416301 I assume this one is next, but why? Is the information false? (perhaps the social accounts are compromised?)
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by throwaway125 14y ago
guess this thread is also gone from the front page now.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
comment thread of that link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416021
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by throwaway125 14y ago
It's also on their twitter. Recent tweets seem to indicate it's real: https://twitter.com/SendGrid/status/314768776577036288
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Public shaming shows only one perspective. Furthermore this perspective can potentially be fabricated. Public shaming is akin to vigilante justice, and we as a society decided that was a bad way of "justice" for very good reasons.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Checked out some European countries and most seemed to have reasonable results until I got to Iceland. The results from Iceland do indeed suggest the sample set is way too small for some regions.
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Agreed, this is a really bad ad. I don't even know what SoapUI does for me and the slides didn't say anything but "APIs are dangerous, protect yourself!"
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by throwaway125 14y ago
The users at hackforums are terribly incompetent. These kids all run their command and control center on their local computer. The RAT has one (or several) free dns name(s) embedded and the user keeps updating those with his home ip to rece
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by throwaway125 14y ago
That is definitely true, it's not good enough to secure yourself against a persistent attacker but I do think it's a good captcha: It's a topical captcha that the target audience of the site will recognize and most likely enjoy. It's signif
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by throwaway125 14y ago
Always allow your users to opt out of a security question during signup. Give them a friendly warning that you won't be able to assist with lost accounts, but allow them to make that choice.

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