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841.
by wepple 10y ago
I sold my X100 and it's the biggest regret I've ever had. I have a D600 with all the glass and an E-M5, both been sitting in the closet for too long now.
842.
by wepple 10y ago
Whilst I mostly agree, I think the key difference is that the US has a majority control of international media, and whilst they love to hype up domestic concerns for viewer ratings, they're significantly more reckless when talking abou
843.
by wepple 10y ago
duolingo, weekly classes, then spent 3 months in the destination countries [spanish]
844.
by wepple 10y ago
It's funny they go on to speculate whether he worked alone or not. If creds show up on a billboard broadcast to the general public, I doubt he needed to call in a favor from the Dark Army to pull this caper off.
845.
by wepple 10y ago
Different angle: Possibly a great opportunity to start low with CPU architecture, memory layout, and basic concepts in OS design. It'll really help further down the line and doesn't require any computer to execute code on.
846.
by wepple 10y ago
why not?
847.
by wepple 10y ago
what are you doing about offline attacks against the SSD crypto?
848.
by wepple 10y ago
Classit ford pinto: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Pinto#Fuel_system_fires.2...
849.
by wepple 10y ago
I get your point; I don't buy an iPhone and then complain when it won't load android. however , I've been able to load linux on almost any laptop I've bought for the last 20 years, so they are making a significant chang
850.
by wepple 10y ago
the jeep hack (IIRC) got code exec in userland remotely, but relied upon talking to drivers to be able to flash the CAN chip. Of course, the whole thing was broken anyhow as everything was running root. But in almost everything else, I agre
851.
by wepple 10y ago
I get the point of your comment, but at a minimum if this were indeed NSA work, at least they could monitor for exploitation of the same bug against targets they want to defend (which, given their network reach could be both public and priv
852.
by wepple 10y ago
Minor correction: The secure enclave was introduced in the A7 chip on the iPhone 5s
853.
by wepple 10y ago
It would be most excellent to describe roughly what this is in the title, expand upon <company> <random word>
854.
by wepple 10y ago
I'm actually also very intrigued as to how ARRL seem to wield so much influence. Don't get me wrong, I'm currently studying to get my technician license and think it's great, but the privileges and allowances given to ha
855.
by wepple 10y ago
I'm currently going thru the process. It seems quite simple, buy the book[1], sign up for a $15 exam, do a bit of study (there's a test quiz trainer app on iOS), and you should be good. [1] https://www.amazon.com/AR
856.
by wepple 10y ago
The title has an unfortunate cut-off, I assumed this article was about 'people watching', not 'people watching porn' I wonder if there's an opportunity to provide useful information to the homeless via these systems
857.
by wepple 10y ago
For starters, the ethics of vulnerability disclosure are such a broad subject, you're going to get 10 very different answers. A generally common approach is: * try to contact them via phone/email * if no response, contact a CERT a
858.
by wepple 10y ago
Snowden didn't directly release anything; he relied upon the Media to apply filters to what should and shouldn't be public. And they've done a reasonable job at that. > I can't name one good thing that has come from
859.
by wepple 10y ago
I feel like these aren't that substantially different to things that have been useful since the stone age, slightly repackaged. Further, "by 2020" is a bit of a misnomer; these things are currently very useful.
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by wepple 10y ago
There's a certain threshold in terms of added-value that has to be met in order for "yet another" app to live on my home screen. This pix app looks like it may have a bit of cool technology behind it, but will I install it? b
861.
by wepple 10y ago
my biggest realisation of this was when reading the opening chapters to Michel Zalewski's Tangled web [1]. He does an excellent brief intro to how we got to where we are, warts and all. Things like content sniffing where a browser can&
862.
by wepple 10y ago
Yeah, unfortunately my only exposure to owl lisp is wishing that Radamsa wasnt written in it so I could understand/modify radamsa better. Radamsa is seriously awesome.
863.
by wepple 10y ago
I'd argue there's a very undefined grey line where companies cross over from just being a small scrappy startup doing something with tech to being a significant influencer of the public with a significant degree of control and imp
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by wepple 10y ago
I'm going to dig into this and find out, I've wanted to know for ages. If the LED == LED_TORCH, then it looks like it may be possible: https://github.com/patjak/bcwc_pcie/blob/8cc44d67f3c924f30a8...
865.
by wepple 10y ago
You don't think a direct attack against the customer would be better spent energy than hitting Linodes APIs?
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by wepple 10y ago
I've recently dusted off my original RPi that'd been collecting dust, installed the lite[1] non-X raspbian distro, and plan to see how long I can survive with it as my sole desktop at home, using my phone when I desperately need t
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by wepple 10y ago
> Yeah it lost signal when held wrong but was still superior to other phones. My definition of 'superior' doesn't involve having to hold a phone a particular way for it to make a call.
868.
by wepple 10y ago
To play devils advocate: who's not to say that these tools weren't sold under the pretense of being used against criminals, only to have them turned at humans rights activists instead? For the record, I do not believe that at all.
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by wepple 10y ago
I'd suspect there's a disconnect between the group selling/providing the tools, and the group using them. A webkit 0day could've been delivered via a watering-hole attack or something even just a tiny bit more sophistica
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by wepple 10y ago
dumb phones generally don't have the capability to do end-to-end crypto or full disk encryption and other desirable things.

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