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by xoa 1y ago
> I am a bit concerned about their security track record given how bad their soho products are, so I ended up sticking with my opnsense router at the perimeter as the first line of defense. Ubiquiti has had plenty of bad security issues
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by xoa 1y ago
Based on having migrated multiple clients from UniFi to Omada but still has UniFi deployed across a few sites too, I'll give you a different take from the replies you've gotten so far. TP-Link's Omada is a newer, direct compe
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The man with the golden blood (2014)(medium.com)
2 points by xoa 1y ago|0 comments
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by xoa 1y ago
> Ad hominem attacks are not part of the scientific method Sure, but then again neither are arguments from authority. The thing is that we're not practicing the scientific method here on HN in general. Yes, from time to time on spe
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by xoa 1y ago
You might have gotten lost on the steps involved in clean-room reverse engineering here? > extracting/copying a firmware blob is not clean-room design It's stage 1. Clean-room reverse engineering is about working with the natu
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by xoa 1y ago
This list of "why self host" focuses almost entirely on privacy/sovereignty which, as the author admits, has come to be a pretty standard reason given. But I think there are plenty of purely practical ones as well, depending
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by xoa 1y ago
Thanks in turn for the details, always fascinating (and useful for lessons... even if not always for the party in question dohoho) to hear a touch of inside baseball on that kind of incident. > But someone thought they were exceedingly c
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by xoa 1y ago
> However, symmetric algorithms are not nearly as vulnerable. There is one known quantum attack using Grover's algorithm, but with quadratic speedup all it does is reduce the effective length of the key by half, so a 128-bit key wil
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by xoa 1y ago
Whew, that's actually a hard one! It's been long enough since I was getting into it that I'm not really sure what's the best present path on it. In terms of books, JP Aumasson's "Serious Cryptography" got
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by xoa 1y ago
> I can't reveal any details but it was a lot more than just a given storage point Sorry, not brain not really clicking tonight and used lazy imprecise terminology here, been a long one. But what I meant by "store point"
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by xoa 1y ago
> I'm aware of a big cloud services provider (I won't name any names but it was IBM) that lost a fairly large amount of data. Permanently. So that too isn't a guarantee. Permanently losing data at a given store point isn&
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by xoa 1y ago
> Using encryption, which is known to have backdoors and is vulnerable to nation state cracking? WTF are you talking about? There are absolutely zero backdoors of any kind known to be in any standard open source encryption systems, and
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by xoa 1y ago
And now you're pretending republicans aren't actively destroying institutions as fast as they can, let alone merely not wanting to. And that they haven't actively gutted the filibuster repeatedly, including again not just thi
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by xoa 1y ago
My biggest issue with hosted email for awhile was the disconnect that has developed between how most services now seem to bill and how over the now many decades (yeesh!) I've ended up using email. I have my own domains, on a technical
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by xoa 1y ago
> Due to the filibuster rule in the senate, the clean CR could not continue without 60 votes. It's amazing how people who graduate from high-school are unaware of the basics of US politics. What's amazing is how somebody who c
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by xoa 1y ago
No, it's entirely true despite you weirdly canvassing this thread spouting your lies. The Republicans have the majority. They can pass any budget they want, whenever they want, with no cooperation required. They (and you) now want to h
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by xoa 1y ago
I don't know but I'm still not seeing the relevance? The threat/target scenarios in general for FDE are physical theft of a device, hardware servicing by 3rd parties, and dealing with end of life (either due to replacement or
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by xoa 1y ago
Kinda struggling to think of what, beyond the well understood risks of using password-based SSH at all. But that's easily ameliorated by sticking it behind Wireguard or something similar. I think this is a pretty welcome change vs turn
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by xoa 1y ago
> there was a rich woman that drove into a lake on her estate and drowned because she couldn't open the door in time. Just to expand a bit on vkou's sibling reply, exiting a car that has already gone under water is absolutely
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by xoa 1y ago
>> "something they have neither the ability nor the desire to do." > 100% they could add client side scanning, why do they think its impossible? I think you've misread that sentence. It's saying that they don&
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by xoa 1y ago
> That is not exactly how I remember things. Everyone bought domains from one registrar (was it Network Solutions?) and the cheapest domain started at around $100 By the mid to late 90s (my own earliest domain) yes. But a quick whois on
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by xoa 1y ago
> It can be helpful to remember that while less efficient, for scenarios where ssh as root is a no-go you can ship snapshot syncs (including incremental ones) as files: This capability can also be extremely helpful for bootstrapping a b
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by xoa 1y ago
> Serious question: how long do you expect cloud hardware vendors to support the servers for their products? 10 years? 20? 30? Serious answer: I do not expect any specific lifetime at all (though legal return period is an obvious floor)
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by xoa 1y ago
It does sometimes feel like lack of secure chain DNS, however exactly implemented, is one of the original sins of the modern internet that has caused a lot of headaches and layers upon layers of bandaids ever since. Doesn't mean it&#x2
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Mis-issued certificates for 1.1.1.1 DNS service pose a threat to the Internet(arstechnica.com)
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by xoa 1y ago
> It's not elitist to remark that people tech skills are atrophying. It is elitist though to not go into why that's the case and instead just assume it's because, what, people are dropping in IQ? A lot of (though not al
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by xoa 1y ago
> do you think the public at large knows what VPS are? How to set up a VPN? Do you think the general public NEEDS to know those things right now? Because that's what actually mostly drives what people put in the time to learn. This
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by xoa 1y ago
> Physics has a surprising amount of drama for such a hard science, and I have a theory about that: Physicists, more than chemists or biologists, need more of a solid foundation in logic (of the Aristotle kind), and they really don'
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by xoa 1y ago
> He is not, nor am I, but I don’t see a reason you and I shouldn’t get the same legal protections as other groups But what ARE those legal protections? That's the really complicated bit isn't it? ADA does not simply mandate a
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by xoa 1y ago
Yes, in the US at least copyright is specifically about reproduction/distribution, not use . This goes to the core of things every HNer encounters like open source licenses vs EULAs for example. A copyright license only governs somebo

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