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About the security content of macOS Catalina 10.15.5(support.apple.com)
82 points by vngzs 6y ago|38 comments
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by vngzs 6y ago
It took me an embarrassing amount of time to realize this wasn't an official MongoDB product. But that's a compliment! The landing page is great. Really interested in behind-the-firewall options. Nobody should punch a hole in thei
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by vngzs 6y ago
Thanks for the critique. A conversion tool like that is a much better approach. It seems like ronn[0] does roughly what I want, as mentioned below. [0]: https://github.com/apjanke/ronn-ng
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by vngzs 6y ago
I've always wondered: are there any efforts to bring manpages into a modern, easy-to-write text format such as Markdown? I'm sure there are people who would like to write manpages, but are intimidated by the relatively arcane file
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by vngzs 6y ago
Great! Maybe this will serve as an introduction to terminal editors for people who otherwise stray from the more advanced variety (Emacs, Vim). But I wish people would stop distributing apps via `curl | bash`. It has a number of pitfalls[0]
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ScoutSuite: Multi-cloud security auditing tool(github.com)
89 points by vngzs 6y ago|21 comments
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by vngzs 6y ago
Cryptocurrencies transfer the risk of fraud from a company to the user. Good luck getting your funds back if someone scams you. I agree that it's not clearly better than what we have.
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by vngzs 6y ago
I think AirDrop works without a third party, but email passes through numerous hops - often in plaintext on the open Internet - before arriving at an inbox. Maybe encrypted messaging like Signal is a better analogy. Yeah, it still passes th
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by vngzs 6y ago
Wireshark -> [select the field you want] -> Right Click -> Copy -> All Visible Items
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by vngzs 6y ago
You can read the SNI without decrypting[0]. You can see it in the ClientHello when I connect to news.ycombinator.com: Internet Protocol Version 4, Src: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx, Dst: 209.216.230.240 Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port:
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by vngzs 7y ago
Do you think a phone call is high enough bitrate for these attacks, or are you implying parabolic microphones could be used to make this happen? The mentioned paper contains a remark: > While recording from the third keyboard, we get sev
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by vngzs 7y ago
The US lags just about every developed country on testing for Covid-19 disease.[0] ‘It’s Just Everywhere Already’: How Delays in Testing Set Back the U.S. Coronavirus Response[1] [0]: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health&#
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by vngzs 7y ago
Digital Ocean used to hand out SSDs without scrubbing them. https://github.com/fog/fog/issues/2525
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by vngzs 7y ago
Here's a source indicating that from 2018: https://www.switchingtomac.com/tutorials/ios-tutorials/backu...
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by vngzs 7y ago
Given the "unsafe guts" most of Rust stdlib contains, there's going to be some baseline of unsafe code that every project has. I could thus see this confusing new authors and users - you could have a project with zero unsafe
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by vngzs 7y ago
This could use a copyedit: > The question comes down to, does Facebook have your best interests at heart when it collects all the data this device is capabal [sic] of collecting on you.
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by vngzs 7y ago
(2013-2019) Gwern did a statistical analysis predicting Google product closures. It's useful context for discussions such as this: https://www.gwern.net/Google-shutdowns
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by vngzs 7y ago
Oliver: How many of those documents have you actually read? Snowden: I've evaluated all of the documents that are in the archive. Oliver: You've read every single one? Snowden: Well, I do understand what I turned over. Oliver: But
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Convenience and Security in Third-Party Authorization(medium.com)
3 points by vngzs 7y ago|0 comments
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Functional Programming Paradigms in Our Persistence Layer(paxos.com)
3 points by vngzs 7y ago|0 comments
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by vngzs 7y ago
Yeah, it should let you finish the problem and alternatively show the answer once you're done.
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by vngzs 7y ago
Even alcohol breathalyzers are regularly miscalibrated or defective and found to produce false positives. Legal pressure from manufacturers keeps this quiet. https://www.zdnet.com/article/draeger-breathalyzer-breath-te.
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by vngzs 7y ago
This appears reasonable. Votes are anonymous. Every person gets one vote. The software basically always works. I would scrap the whole "mobile ID" thing, however. You should fill out a voter registration card to get a unique priva
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by vngzs 7y ago
Here are a couple of the broken links: "EARLY DEPOSIT BANKING", Meir Kohn: https://cpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/sites.dartmouth.edu/dist/6/116... "Bagehot was a Shadow Banker: Shadow Banking, Central
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Istio Mesh Expansion on AWS(paxos.com)
3 points by vngzs 7y ago|0 comments
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by vngzs 7y ago
Is it unreasonable to believe that companies will block disposable Apple email addresses, just as they do, e.g., mailinator.com emails - often for authwalls intended purely for tracking users?
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by vngzs 7y ago
You can use a closure to pass in the configuration. def configure_memcache(client_ip, port): client = pymemcache.client.Client((client_ip, port)) @ring.memcache(client, expire=60) def get_url(url):
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by vngzs 7y ago
I started caring a lot more about my education when I was the one footing the bill.
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by vngzs 7y ago
Here is the proposal[0]. There are important real use cases for this. I authored an implementation of the FNV64 hash function[1] at my last job. I needed to use the BigInteger.js[2] library. It truly surprised me that Javascript in 2018 did
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by vngzs 7y ago
Vim Koans: https://sanctum.geek.nz/arabesque/vim-koans/

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