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by wepple 2y ago
I went straight to your Arm instruction disassembly because I’ve been writing one too; did you consider using a data structure like a trie rather than deeply nested conditionals? Any particular reason for one vs the other?
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by wepple 2y ago
Is there not a liability of people getting sick or trawling through nonsense and bad quality products?
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by wepple 2y ago
This isn’t just an sim/T-Mobile issue Most customer service representatives are on very low incomes (especially in other countries) and it’s not hard to find one who will take actions for a (western) small amount of money. CSRs often h
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by wepple 3y ago
Why
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by wepple 3y ago
Technically, yes? But there has never ever been non-trivial software that has been completely free of such defects. In other words (in my opinion), iOS is probably better than most other platforms against this type of attack.
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by wepple 3y ago
I suspect anyone who works in tech is completely unsurprised. Sure, the tech exists to make this thing possible, but it requires an Apple-sized company to execute on it, and even then it’s utility would be doubtful There’s been a lot of pul
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by wepple 3y ago
Very well written > No services for government, schools, health available only on proprietary and "smart" platforms I wish this were a movement, I feel very strongly about this.
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by wepple 3y ago
The social side of things is very difficult to work around. Public institutions, however, should not be restricting information dispersal to third-party private companies who force even a casual viewer to agree to extensive legal contracts.
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by wepple 3y ago
I’d aggressively support legislation against this. Luckily with Elon doing crazy things to X, NYC has divorced a bunch of public services from it. But not enough
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by wepple 3y ago
If you’re using a fully-fledged OS for your secure comms (and using telegram off of a mobile device to start with), this probably isn’t your biggest threat. Disabling of automatic media parsing as suggested is absolutely a wise choice. This
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by wepple 3y ago
Yeah, there have been a bunch. The last one I remember was a fairly well used security camera. VPN was how they streamed video back to storage. A really “simple” solution to turning a LAN-based video camera into an internet-connected one. I
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by wepple 3y ago
This advice massively reduces the largest risk, but “problems all go away” is wildly wrong There are a ton of remote access and update functionality in these things that make them fully exploitable even with no internet exposure. Theyll do
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by wepple 3y ago
Amazon, Apple, Google tend to ship hardware that at least doesn’t having gaping 1997 style vulnerabilities everywhere. Cisco have had some doozies but overall aren’t terrible. Everything else is probably bad.
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by wepple 3y ago
> You do what the payment card industry has been doing for decades What? Mandate a bunch of paper-thin worthless rules that tie up security & engineering teams and don’t actually add measurable security improvements? I’d be very inte
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by wepple 3y ago
I stand very corrected. The Liberator mentioned in GPs post only has a single metal component, a nail used as firing pin. Apparently the 380 cartridge doesn’t explode upon firing
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by wepple 3y ago
I assumed even “3d printed” guns required a metal barrel. Can polymer withstand even a single round being fired? Are we talking 22LR only or something? Breach only makes a lot of sense. That would indeed be hard to detect, and would likely
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by wepple 3y ago
What kept you on their platform this long if you don’t mind my asking?
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by wepple 3y ago
I’ve read previously that folks who pay their card in full monthly are internally known as “deadbeats”, because there is no interest to be gained from them. This seems to run counter to that - there is revenue, perhaps less?
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by wepple 3y ago
11 years to get the technology to a place where it can reasonably replace gas. I have my doubts that we’ll have the range and capability by then, perhaps if automakers are smart we’ll see more series hybrids and range extender models.
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by wepple 3y ago
I’m not sure that attackers “win” this arms race; the cost has gone through the roof and their chance of detection constantly increases. Indeed, defenders are often outgunned, but at a minimum we’ve pushed the level of effort way into natio
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by wepple 3y ago
Plus, detection is likely to be be very different.
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by wepple 3y ago
I expect a lot of people will be doing a whole lot of thinking along these lines over the next months. Code review? Some kind of behavioral analysis? IMO the call to system() was kind of sloppy, and a binary capabilities scanner could have
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by wepple 3y ago
TOTP has substantial security gaps to make it a non-starter. Maybe a pubkey system where you choose your own client would be what you’re looking for?
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by wepple 3y ago
> I thought this site was for intelligent comments? Comments like this add nothing of value toHN discourse, somewhat ironically.
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by wepple 3y ago
I strongly agree with the general gist of your post; I don’t use any social media and a piece of me dies anytime a twitter link is shared that I can’t read because I don’t have an account. That said, I don’t think the technologies and solut
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by wepple 3y ago
Gas and electric charge for “delivery” as a flat fee, then actual usage on top of that. If streaming services did similar, you likely wouldn’t be that much better off Plus, but not unsubscribing, you’re reinforcing their current business
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by wepple 3y ago
“It's a well known phenomenon at this point that social media exacerbates scepticism and pessimism. Which makes sense - busy people with a lot going on spend less time online than loners and depressed people.” That does such a great jo
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by wepple 3y ago
He never uses “fun” He says you have to be interested in it, it should excite you, and it should be your own project. That’s absolutely not at odds with solving a problem. In fact, there’s a good chance that people are interested in solving
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by wepple 3y ago
IIRC a copyright notice was added to the bottom of the site, because in early user testing, people thought the page was still loading because it was so barren
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by wepple 3y ago
+1 rage against walled gardens

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