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by vallismortis 7y ago
I can't stop thinking about that Lyre bird. I was wondering if it could be trained to establish a modem connection and transfer a file. What would its baud rate be?
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by vallismortis 7y ago
That is a fair point. It used to be that way, but around 2016 we started noticing bots and scrapers that use that use full webkit implementations to run JavaScript. Those clients should be triggering Google Analytics just like a desktop bro
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Holy cow, that was fascinating and disturbing - I wonder how much more that bird is capable of, it reminds me of Whistler from Sneakers. I think the species that was imitating the cell phone was a rose-breasted grosbeak, and it wasn't
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I never said they were on my network. When I see patterns in traffic coming from 45,000 one-off hosts for a month straight it is clear that there is a distributed botnet behind the requests. When I see a vulnerability scan from an Azure clo
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Right, you got it. Sometimes I feel like we're being attacked by bespoke systems, but it really must be off-the-shelf stuff since our full content is easily licensable. We shouldn't be worth the trouble. We just weren't getti
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I knew this would be coming eventually, I just expected it 10 years ago, not now. The one non-subscription device I own finally goes subscription. They are so late to the game. Just yesterday there were articles here about subscription fati
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I've been seeing some traffic like this recently as well. We've been getting a lot of traffic this year from addresses that were marked as DoD and Redhat as recently as 1 year ago. It is like a new form of domain name squatting, b
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by vallismortis 7y ago
It is about time they started calling out state actors. It doesn't even matter if they are taking active countermeasures as long as the public is made aware that this kind of thing is happening. It might be more effective if instead of
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Great question. I've been dealing with APTs from Russia (and to a lesser extent China) for two years now, and there is nobody out there to help independent sites. GDPR recently drove us to build our own application level firewall from
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by vallismortis 7y ago
I asked a question about this exact topic on Information Security over 4 years ago, which received very little attention but the one answer it received came to the same general conclusion (possibility of protocol differences): https:/
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Anecdotally, I swear that in the late 90's one of the bird species in Michigan switched over to the Nokia ring tone.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Actually, it was brilliant because it pointed out how flawed the system is, that it can be passively broken or circumvented. This could be used to invalidate all citations that were issued from agencies using that software.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Sarnia, Ontario has an entry labeled "Dumpster (edible)". It sounds like something you'd encounter in Nethack.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
That would put patents solely into the hands of already-established corporations and the already-wealthy, making them inaccessible to anyone else.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Thank you for citing the rules. Most of the comments here are based on assumptions.
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Look in Public Pair for the Office Actions. The 101 will usually be the first objection raised if it applied. There are many ways to overcome these, even in a Final Rejection, by narrowing the claims or revising the specification (however,
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by vallismortis 7y ago
Not such a bad thing. Each rejection results in a narrowing of the scope and claims of the patent. The resulting claims that are granted will be far narrower than scope of the original specification.