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901.
by trotsky 15y ago
Sure you can spoof MAC's but most people won't, so it's an easy solution that works for most incidents. No telling why you are getting banned over and over, but if it's for a legitimate reason that you're unaware of you're certainly not goi
902.
by trotsky 15y ago
I really wanted to like Gnome 3 and gave it an extended trial run. I really like the gnome shell for the most part, overview mode, left dock, dynamic desktops. It felt right on my 14" 16x9 laptop screen. However, it took a serious hit in te
903.
by trotsky 15y ago
It was suggested to me recently that the widespread push into trucking and away from rail for freight had something to do with busting strong railroad unions. I didn't think much of the idea at the time because of historically how powerful
904.
by trotsky 15y ago
A lot of physical world techniques. Human intelligence, bugs, covert entries, tailing and surveillance. Also financial analysis, who is paying the bills.
905.
Recently discovered OS X backdoor Olyx has been in use for over two years(contagiodump.blogspot.com)
1 points by trotsky 15y ago|0 comments
906.
by trotsky 15y ago
Sure, I mean you need a good manual on how to use all that persona management software effectively. http://www.scribd.com/doc/49137822/USAF-RFP-BLOG-WARS-PERSON...
907.
by trotsky 15y ago
The documents and addresses used for high end spear phishing usually come from a recent previous compromise. You'll see a sender that you frequently get mail from and know personally and the document attached will be a new version of someth
908.
by trotsky 15y ago
I believe that is weasely at best, I've been given the impression previously that over 50% of the tokens in active use had been switched out before the public announcement of the free replacements was made. Perhaps they're doing something l
909.
by trotsky 15y ago
The truth is that both are happening. When you talk to people who are pragmatic and watch the strategic elements they are often saying things like "or someone operating with chinese cover". There is definitely evidence that other actors are
910.
by trotsky 15y ago
How sure are you about the less than 1% thing? https://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/media-formats.h... https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/VLC_media_pla... And asking someone to use an un-patent-encumbered format is r
911.
by trotsky 15y ago
Hasn't blizzard been previously quite aggressive about how game breaking player driven cash economies are - i.e. gold selling and the such? But now they think it's a fine idea as long as they're getting a real world cash fee? Seems to sugge
912.
by trotsky 15y ago
Sure it is. You can verify it yourself. [tsl@pepper ~]$ strings -n 20 ~/.bitcoin/blk0001.dat | tail -3 :TXXXWw,_ "), ,wWT: ::TTXXWWW lXl WWT: ----END TRIBUTE---- [tsl@pepper ~]$ The bitcoin blockchain contains a record of
913.
Len Sassaman memorialized in the Bitcoin block-chain(pastebin.com)
68 points by trotsky 15y ago|28 comments
914.
by trotsky 15y ago
There is a considerable amount of intelligence that continues to be gathered in the private sector about exploit authors, chinese hacking groups, and the actors involved in ongoing intrusions. Many of these groups conduct a fair amount of d
915.
by trotsky 15y ago
I do agree that there comes a time when you have to look at current the current security environment and realize that you need to enable the private sector to do more to defend themselves than appears possible currently. Relating of course
916.
by trotsky 15y ago
The total amount of these bounties are more or less meaningless. No one can make a living, 1st world wage with them - at least not consistently. All of the programs will pay you significantly less than what you'd get paid for an equivalent
917.
by trotsky 15y ago
It's a rather compelling monologue until you realize it's published at Tech Crunch, a division of AOL that demonstrates much of the same behavior that AOL's Huff Post does, is run by a wanna-be Angel / VC, and regularly shills for vacuous s
918.
Anonymous no more - Amateur facial recognition in the social networking age(economist.com)
2 points by trotsky 15y ago|1 comments
919.
by trotsky 15y ago
The write up certainly implies SQL injection but it seems pretty unlikely that's true. If the target of a DDOS also had a sqli vuln it's much more likely it'd be exploited directly. It's also very unlikely pastebin has an active sqli given
920.
by trotsky 15y ago
I wish Arrington didn't try to make himself the story so much - I know it's his schtick but it's very distracting from the actual story here. He's obviously on HN regularly - if he had a problem with the way he was characterized in a HN com
921.
by trotsky 15y ago
That Can't Be Dodged Very interesting article, but the proclamation you can't avoid it seems a bit too far. When my browser exits it both deletes cookies and clears the cache, which looks like it's enough to break the tracks.
922.
by trotsky 15y ago
I voted for provide a merge mechanism, but I think there are real issues with that approach that would need to be solved. Merging makes a lot of sense for multiple stories on the front page at the same time, but depending on which story you
923.
by trotsky 15y ago
It seems like the author didn't have these problems with his phone (that he loves), his friend(s) didn't have those problems with the nexus s, I've had four Android phones and I've only had any serious problems with one due to design failur
924.
by trotsky 15y ago
Shouldn't this be "Why my Mom Bought a Samsung Charge from Verizon, Returned It, and Got an Apple iPhone" ? Kind of strikes me as similar to writing "Why I bought an American car, junked it and bought a BMW M5" - the american car part isn't
925.
by trotsky 15y ago
But within months, Newzbin's source code began circulating on the Internet, and anonymous parties with servers in Sweden relaunched the service at the same domain. This colors the event somewhat oddly. To be clear, once the service was de
926.
by trotsky 15y ago
Seems hard to believe their motivation for seeing a ton of consumer web traffic on third party sites is to improve the world. I mean, obviously google analytics isn't some altruistic attempt to help people track their web usage better.
927.
by trotsky 15y ago
Yet reports seem to indicate Apple is planning on rolling out a "budget" price point phone [1], so they probably are worried about market share after all. Apple is on a long term digital media dominance play. They want to be the one stop lo
928.
Funding the Government after August 2 - Running QE2 in Reverse(rhsmith.umd.edu)
10 points by trotsky 15y ago|4 comments
929.
by trotsky 15y ago
get user-agent info from twitter, or provoke them into visiting a link, and possibly load malware. no browser is really safe in a targetted attack This is certainly the most direct way. I'd be pushing exploits from the twitter data center
930.
by trotsky 15y ago
The newly released affidavit was offered in support of a search warrant for the home of an Arlington, Texas couple and their son, who were among the July 19 targets, and have not been charged. The house was the source of 3,678 packets in a

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