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by wepple 9y ago
Didn't find anything of interest at all + did a foolish, possibly illegal thing. Why is this blog post being upvoted?
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by wepple 9y ago
Everything I wrote is referring to this Wikileaks release. There is zero evidence Microsoft colluded to help the CIA write this malware.
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by wepple 9y ago
Neither. This was not written by Microsoft. This is not an exploit. Further, you never "identify an exploit" - you identify a vulnerability, and the exploit is what you build to take advantage of that vulnerability. This is softwa
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by wepple 9y ago
Safari on iPad here, terrible loading time then really clunky/slow. Only just had the patience to let it load.
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by wepple 9y ago
Perhaps your comment didn't add anything useful to the discussion other than a lightweight opinion? However, HN downvotes do seem to be trending toward "I disagree" recently too, in my experience.
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by wepple 9y ago
Seems like a fairly non-sequitur paragraph to me. Hundreds within the first few hours could mean 210 pizzas in 5 hours because of novelty factor, then tailing off.
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by wepple 9y ago
For anyone who still sees ML as a big of a magic black box, I can't highly recommend this book enough: https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Own-Neural-Network-ebook/dp... it does a fantastic job of breaking down the c
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by wepple 9y ago
I agree with your basic premise, and I definitely use some kind of fuzzy gut feel metric when doing my own evaluations. That said, if someone is claiming to do an unbiased review, we need more than gut feel. If your goal is no logging and o
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by wepple 9y ago
> Extremely bland, stock-photo website. I felt uncomfortable giving them my email address, let alone my payment info. That's not valuable information. > A heavily marketed product lacking inspiration which I ultimately couldn&#x2
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by wepple 9y ago
> a person should be able to do as they wish with what they own. Even if it affects others? I should be able to turn my apartment on the floor above yours into a nightclub, because it's my property? If I choose to Jailbreak my iPhon
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by wepple 9y ago
> As an added bonus, instead of all that money going to a large corporation, it will go to an individual. Give it a couple of years and professional landlords using AirBNB will look no different to a corporation.
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by wepple 9y ago
There's evidence he knew of Kronos in the wild on his twitter feed. Why wouldn't he alert someone that his research proof of concept had been leaked? Provided the source code to LEA.
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by wepple 9y ago
You are suggesting he spent time and energy to build a proof of concept whose explicit task was to demonstrate banking theft from browsers, and he chose to never release it but keep it secret, and a friend decided to sell it on the dark web
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by wepple 9y ago
Don't get me wrong, I'm not taking the US government's word here. I just disagree with a journalist stating that the indictment is unclear. It's very clear what the FBI are trying to argue.
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by wepple 9y ago
The plane hacking on Scorpian still wins for absolute worst scene: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=buHaKYL9Jhg
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by wepple 9y ago
> It is unclear from the indictment if Hutchins would have been aware his work was being used maliciously The indictment specifically states he sold the malware. Unless he was completely convinced the buyers of Kronos were using it for r
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by wepple 9y ago
> If true, then the guy would have to be incredibly stupid and naive to live such a double life. If they're suggesting the crimes were committed 2014-2015 there's a good chance he found a legit income and retired from selling m
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by wepple 9y ago
Unfortunately there will likely be a nice parallel construction to ensure we never find out exact how they snared him
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by wepple 9y ago
Be properly waterproof, never need a charge, and take abuse for 30 years like a $150 automatic?
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by wepple 9y ago
Same here. And haven't seen android on a wrist for many months.
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by wepple 9y ago
Misleading title, there's no real discussion of how you get to the cloud over an air gap.
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by wepple 9y ago
To nitpick your argument, this doesn't change customer security in the way that letter discusses. Apple is still protecting the devices they sell, it's just unfortunate thay China implements network-level controls at a national le
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by wepple 9y ago
Hit some bounties. Earn some income and it generally looks good on a CV that you can deliver real world results. Just try and go deeper.
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by wepple 9y ago
I'm curious; why aren't we dropping the use of passwords in favor of U2F? I guess for one; not everyone wants to buy and carry a key. But we're at the point where you have to have a password manager anyhow, a token isn't
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by wepple 9y ago
I'd rather store it as text. Exposing more of your code to null bytes for no good reason doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade off. And if you suggest it's for performance, a b64 decode is going to be a tiny fraction of your C
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by wepple 9y ago
Versatile connectivity? What does it have that a Mac mini doesn't have? Macs have twice the number of USB?
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by wepple 9y ago
you forgot "without adding anything novel to a well understood class of bugs from the 90s"
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by wepple 9y ago
It's interesting to play with their ranking editor. It really does highlight how variable some of these lists are depending on what you consider to be part of a "top" language. For example, I'd personally completely remo
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by wepple 9y ago
Yeah, valid point. I forget that people use browser integration. My use case is iOS-only, with sync across a small number of devices, which dropbox is perfect for. Fairly simple to build.
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by wepple 9y ago
Given the change to their business model I am concerned they can push an update, where the next time I unlock my vault it syncs my master password and/or decrypted vault to their cloud. Maybe time for an open source password manager?

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