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by w8rbt 7y ago
You should have seen it when it was just AT&T. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakup_of_the_Bell_System
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Have you read the "Policy on Policies" yet?
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by w8rbt 7y ago
They have metadata (ips, ports, date, time, bytes, etc.) and can be compelled to release it. This can be (and is) used to correlate activities and make accusations, obtain warrants, etc. Metadata is very powerful and is captured on every ne
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Get them a linux laptop, or a ChromeBook and enable 2FA on their Google accounts.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Many old, hard problems are still hard even on quantum computers (SAT, TSP, etc. cannot be solved in polynomial time on quantum computers). Factoring can be done in polynomial time on quantum computers. FFT can be made even faster. But agai
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by w8rbt 7y ago
"Linux may fall into the Macintosh trap: smug isolation leading to (near) obsolescence." Well, that did not happen.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
I think you mean... P = NP. Which is very unlikely as we could do away with mathematicians if that were true.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
It's nearly impossible to unscramble the hash if it is random. It's trivial to unscramble hashed dictionary words with 123! or 2019! appended to the end. Google should somehow note that distinction as it is important.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Go wanted to deprecate OpenPGP support. But, it looks as if they have walked that back a lot: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30141 "We will be deprecating the packages listed above, except openpgp&#
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Exploit Code for CVE-2019-0708(github.com)
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by w8rbt 7y ago
I'm pulling for Walmart! I've seen the death of so many stores that I dearly miss (Sears, JC Penny, etc.). I can no longer get good hand tools or good t-shirts locally. And, the online stores are full of rip-offs and forgeries. Wa
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Poison toothpaste and pet treats from China have been ongoing problems for the last decade: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/cms_ia/importalert_207.html https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/news-eve
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by w8rbt 7y ago
It may replace C++, but it will take decades to do so. The C and C++ ecosystem is gigantic and has been around for 30 to 40 years and will will be around for the next 100 years or more years IMHO.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
I've never used either. I seldom travel to large cities. I was in Atlanta for GT's commencement. I live in a more rural college town and I don't really need the service routinely, but I can see the value when traveling. It wa
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by w8rbt 7y ago
I did not mean to imply it was cheap, only reasonable. I would have paid more. Nice cars, polite drivers and quick service.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Neat. Thanks for sharing that.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
I just recently used Lyft while visiting Atlanta. I'd never used Lyft or Uber before. The app and service were both fantastic. I hope they keep it up. Awesome service at a reasonable price.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
I put all the 'Have I been Pwned' SHA1 hashes into a bloom filter: https://github.com/w8rbt/bp
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Zero it and install Linux. Problem solved.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
net commands, kerberos tickets, etc. You can really only 2FA web interfaces, VPNs, RDP and interactive console logons. You can 2FA LDAP, but it's a real pain to do so (I've seen it done). Just think of any backend protocol that th
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Yes, they are two very different things.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Insightful comment. I call this 'working on the car more than we drive it'. You see that a lot in tech. It's fine as a hobby, but not for production. You do need both as the tinkering helps us to master concepts and systems a
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Very smart people have tried for a very long time to show one way or the other. We don't know if P = NP (seems unlikely) or if P != NP (seems likely). But there is no proof either way. If P = NP, then we can generate solutions to very
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by w8rbt 7y ago
What's the runtime of 75^4096 mod 236?
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by w8rbt 7y ago
Right, it's a pity RSA does not use 32 or 64 bit ints.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
O(n^2) is polynomial and perfectly acceptable for many use cases. Basic multiplication is O(n^2), as are many other operations. for i = 1 -> n: for j = 1 -> n: do something Although, if the outside n diffe
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by w8rbt 7y ago
So is Machine Learning. It can be dangerous too: https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentat... James Mickens is awesome BTW.
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by w8rbt 7y ago
SSH Brute force bots... beware ;)
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by w8rbt 8y ago
Reminds me of this Knuth quote, "Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things." Source: https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.e
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by w8rbt 8y ago
That picture made me cringe. Who sets a cup full of coffee right next to their laptop keyboard and phone?

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