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by ymyms 1y ago
This is a goldmine of a thread. Thanks for linking it. In it at some point, you say, "I tend to be pretty chill about little islands of mTLS, like "all the Consul clients need a cert". That, to me, solves a practical problem.
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by ymyms 1y ago
Not everything is a website and not all connections are from people. Sure, you can use a token to authenticate with but how do you get that token? Yeah, a person can use a password or a passkey through some OAuth flow and get a token as a s
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by ymyms 1y ago
I am also bummed out by this change. I really like the idea of using a certificate as a single identity for a service. Things could connect to a service using normal TLS but the service could also authenticate itself to other services using
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by ymyms 2y ago
Network connectivity would need to be in the set of checks to determine if an update was successful. Also, there should hopefully be QA. If you only have one smoke-test for a firmware image it should be whether or not it can upgrade/do
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by ymyms 2y ago
FWIW, my background is in B2B hardware and that's the perspective I am coming here with. Out of curiosity though, how do you weigh your value of control vs. security vulnerabilities? Modern speaker systems allow some form of wireless c
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by ymyms 2y ago
Great points! As an addendum to this, if #2 becomes untenable for whatever reason (such as a vulnerability in the factory firmware image), then this #3 would be good to strive for as well: 3. have a set of conditions to mark the running fir
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by ymyms 2y ago
I think it's saying something like: what if it's impossible for a civilization to grow big enough or quick enough with our current technological path to make the bigger steps like harnessing the energy of our star and becoming spa
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by ymyms 3y ago
Disable? This is the type of thing that enterprises make the conscious effort to pay for a higher tier license and enable.
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by ymyms 3y ago
I've been thinking about something like this recently. I was raised Catholic but have since become atheist. I've connected the health benefits of fasting and eating less red meat to some of the practices in Catholicism during lent
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by ymyms 3y ago
"Short-term" is also relative. Reading what the original author wrote, I interpreted it as them working backwards from the severe punishments for underweighting bread and what might cause them. Perhaps it's not the original b