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by zkms 9y ago
> Their entire claim of a horror story relies on having physical access and the passcode, which would be game over on basically any device anyway. If i understand correctly, prior to 11, you needed to know the iCloud password to, say, re
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by zkms 9y ago
> Am I missing something or is the fix a little computer in the fob to cryptographically sign a one-time challenge sent by the car? I mean, RSA isn't that hard, is it? The problem has nothing to do with cryptography. Given radio sig
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by zkms 9y ago
> Over the past month of testing, Facebook has initiated more than 100 “wellness checks” with first-responders visiting affected users. “There have been cases where the first-responder has arrived and the person is still broadcasting.” I
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by zkms 9y ago
> Show me a regulator who is able to do any of those things with cash transfers of USD? Holding and/or transporting large amounts of cash is extremely fraught, especially across borders. US legal authorities regularly seize cash wit
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by zkms 9y ago
Nobody enjoys burning electricity to have a pathetically low transaction rate, but that burning ~100KWh per transaction is a rational choice over the extant financial system should tell you something about the latter . If it was possible t
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by zkms 9y ago
> Not doable today, I think they use seismic sensors. Those are circumventable. Trigger the seismic sensors (before making access to the vault) a bunch of times until the alarm gets ignored or the sensors get temporarily disabled.
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by zkms 9y ago
> The GP is simply wrong on many/most of its technical claims I concur. Also regarding: ACPI, there often is an auxiliary microcontroller used to do power management and keyboard interfacing called "embedded controller" (s
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by zkms 9y ago
> I think many discussions miss the nuance here. The problem is that the functionality is hidden, not necessarily that the function is there. > If they were more transparent, then they could be used by normal users for remote administ
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by zkms 9y ago
> Between housing and real estate prices, insurance, taxes, lack of government support, environmental protections, requirement to pay for health insurance for employees,layers of regulations, minimum wage laws, sexual harassment lawsuits
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by zkms 9y ago
> your ME probably can't access the network and probably doesn't contain a Web server > probably Therein lies the issue. The real objection with ME isn't that it's "proprietary" or "non-libre" o
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by zkms 9y ago
> It's their job to surveil and monitor the airport to the best of technology and law. It is our job to regulate what big brother can and can't do. While security is ridiculously dystopian and over the top, the climate of our w
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by zkms 9y ago
> I don't really get why it's specifically dystopian that you are recorded by a camera while you stand in line to hand over your government issued photo ID to a government agent with pretty broad discretion to make your day pre
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by zkms 9y ago
They already have this at Gatwick, there's security gates/turnstiles where the system doesn't let you pass until it's scanned your face and associated it with your boarding pass, and IIRC they scanned faces again right b
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by zkms 9y ago
> This pictures reminds me about what one's can see under psychedelics. All sensory input basically begins to break down to that kind of patterns The neural structures in human brains that recognise edges/textures/surfaces
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by zkms 9y ago
> This sounds extremely confusing indeed. Having this kind of inconsistencies under high pressure is something that would need a really experienced and steel-nerve person to handle. It's made even more confusing by the fact that the
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by zkms 9y ago
> I don't want to take this off on a tangent, but this theory of the AF 447 crash keeps getting repeated online despite the fact that the accident report did not conclude that the UI was a factor. This is incorrect. The BEA report e
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by zkms 9y ago
I know SIV doesn't address release of unverified plaintexts and iirc, AEZ and RIV ( https://fse.rub.de/slides/fse_talk_lucks.pdf ) do. Are there any robust AE schemes nearing standardisation / deployment /
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by zkms 9y ago
No. You were actually initially right, I searched for that actual part and it is indeed a bimetallic strip along with a heater (that turns off when the strip moves away from a contact) and not a device with a solenoid/relay. Apparently
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by zkms 9y ago
> My old Dodge instruments need 5 volts, so there's a mechanical device to convert 12V to 5V. It involves heating a bimetalic strip that opens and closes a circuit quickly, i.e. buzzing, which produces 5V. Are you sure that this is
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by zkms 9y ago
Yeah, I have vague recollections of taking apart an analog electric organ (like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hammond_organ ) and seeing an "optocoupler" with an incandescent bulb and an LDR in a little enclos
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by zkms 9y ago
I've been beta-testing this for a while and have found it very useful for its stated purpose (and have found the developers very responsive when reporting issues). The feature that I feel lacks is that there's no way to properly q
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by zkms 9y ago
> It constitutes yet another breach of the universally accepted norm against nuclear testing; a norm that has been respected by all countries but one since 1996. I'm chronically heartbroken that I was born too late to attend a nucle
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by zkms 9y ago
From the paper > Our analysis focuses on the AMD K8/K10 microarchitecture since these CPUs do not use cryptographic signatures to verify the integrity and authenticity of microcode updates. Note that Intel started to cryptographical
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by zkms 9y ago
When flooding was imminent; all operations should have been shut down and all energetic (they manufacture organic peroxides) materials requiring refrigeration should have been removed from the site -- either by on-site destruction or by tra
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by zkms 9y ago
> What baffles me is why nobody else reports drive failure stats? My wild-ass guess is that organisations with enough hard drives to make reliable estimates give performance/failure data to whoever installed/designed the arrays
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by zkms 9y ago
Securing the communication links between the ground and the aircraft -- along with other signals such as GPS -- needs to be properly addressed before such a system can be "hijacker-proof".
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> There's a reason that 18650s aren't generally sold directly to consumers They are, but IME the sourcing on some of those (especially through Amazon.com, which comingles items from different sources) is hinky. That 18650s can
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by zkms 9y ago
There's a lot of money to be made with overdraft fees and offering pseudo-banking services (cheque cashing places, refillable debit cards that can be ACH-deposited into) to the unbanked, so US banks have a very strong incentive to ke
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by zkms 9y ago
> One of the nice things about ACH is that it's dirt cheap, especially compared to the credit card network. So is UK's Faster Payments, which is near-real-time and far cheaper than the ACH numbers you gave: http://ww
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by zkms 9y ago
Venmo (and paypal and friends) are just little proprietary walled gardens, and if you want to exit the walled garden, you have to go through ACH. More rent-seeking walled gardens -- who only exist because the default payment infrastructur

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