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by zurn 11y ago
Microsoft uses licensing discounts to bribe PC manufacturers into force-bundling Windows in jurisdictions with weak consumer protection laws. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bundling_of_Microsoft_Windows#...
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by zurn 11y ago
It's implemented a bit more widely still in storage: it (or close relatives) is used in all current disk and tape drives.
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by zurn 11y ago
OpenSSL does optional assembly implementations for many primitive+platform combinations, but also many of the algorithms under crypto/ have zero or one architectures covered. And many asm implementations predate widespread concerns abo
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by zurn 11y ago
Sure: http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/workspace/nsa-xkeyscore-vpn-... http://www.hacker10.com/internet-anonymity/secret-documents-...
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by zurn 11y ago
> The power draw related to cooling for this rack versus a rack of conventional servers is about 1-5/th to 1/10th as much. Do you mean your Mac Pros dissipate 1/5 to 1/10th as much heat as other x86 server hardware, o
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by zurn 11y ago
Because the description was one sided and neglected to mention NSA's VPN related activities. Eg that they actively seek to discover and keep track of VPN users. And that traffic analysis is generally as powerful as content inspection o
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by zurn 11y ago
http://www.renderlab.net/projects/WPA-tables/ wifi security is a pretty soft layer of additional security and definitely should be considered cheaply penetrable for purpouses of defense. But like I said you can ju
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by zurn 11y ago
You vastly overestimate the difficulty of spoofing a password-protected wifi network. Even without that, acquiring access credentials is hardly rocket science. (eg. grab one of these pumps or any other wifi device lying around and read the
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by zurn 11y ago
So is the procurement process in medical organizations so feeble that nobody notices these, or is there such widespread apathy about this state of affairs that it all gets ignored, or is there some kind of culture of secrecy that results in
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by zurn 11y ago
For maximum effect, remove it at 40-70% and store the removed battery in the fridge.
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by zurn 11y ago
TLS doesn't require CA. Browsers just decided they do, so they're rejecting any such https connections (anon DH and anon ECDH connections).
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by zurn 11y ago
Java did a lot to strengthen the C++ style static dispatch branch of OO. The Smalltalk/Python/Objective-C school of OOP might have fared a lot better of there was no type safe language in the opposing camp.
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by zurn 12y ago
Transparency International publishes this thing so we don't need to go by gut feelings re. corruption as judged by the public: http://www.transparency.org/cpi2014/results Spoiler: Big differences across Europe
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by zurn 12y ago
> It sounds like the slovak government was trying to implement its own version despite the europe-wide law being struck down. EU countries first decided to create the directive, and then implemented this while it was in force. There was
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by zurn 12y ago
Thanks to their unique approach to product support, Google won't have this problem though.
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by zurn 12y ago
If you need to carry more groceries than fits on a normal bike, a bike trailer or christiania bike will fix that. It's really not a problem. (But you can use pretty big panniers on a standard bike too)
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by zurn 12y ago
The PDF link is sadly dead... (The ml message references heavily to the PDF)
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by zurn 12y ago
Yes, that's what I was talking about. Current dbus is is using local AF_UNIX sockets for transport -> the current transport is plenty fast enough to push encoded video over.
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by zurn 12y ago
You don't fling uncompressed video between apps like that, it goes straight to the hardware-accelerated h.264 (or whatever) encoder and then a low bandwidth stream comes out. Local AF_UNIX sockets (aka userspace dbus) provide ample ban
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by zurn 12y ago
You can save/load 80-bit values to memory with the regular x87 instructions, it's just called "extended precision". And the accelerated "save FPU state" instructions save the full 80-bit state. Otherwise it wo
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by zurn 12y ago
For just one technique, read up on DNS rebinding attacks vs home "routers". Same works against NAS devices. These devices are so common that it is cost effective to do against a bunch of device+vuln combos in a mass drive-by fashi
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by zurn 12y ago
No, that's 90s thinking. Current methods don't require the boxes/services to be directly internet-addressable. An exception is when you have a completely isolated LAN that's not serving internet-connected computers. But
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by zurn 12y ago
"Great Firewall of Belgium only allows ingress traffic from non-Belgian source addresses" wouldn't prevent IP spoofing inside or outside Belgium. Nor would doing it the other way around. If such national firewalls existed in
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by zurn 12y ago
A NAS box is going to get hacked (X), have backups neglected/misconfigured/misdelegated and then have data accidentally deleted or experience disk crashes, etc. You can improve your chances by investing time and energy on taking g
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by zurn 12y ago
That article is a year+ old. It was predictably shot down. Remember that the EU parliament is pretty toothless. https://euobserver.com/news/128133 & http://blogs.wsj.com/brussels/2015/04&#
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by zurn 12y ago
"Working with silicon companies to ensure hardware-assisted security" doesn't mean that much though. A MMU is already hardware-assisted security. https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/introduction/ says &
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by zurn 12y ago
http://techcrunch.com/2013/12/12/gmail-open-rates/ "[...] Google spokesperson I emailed said that’s not entirely correct. (The spokesperson declined to be quoted.) Instead, they said marketers who t
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by zurn 12y ago
It's not hard to find references to such studies. See eg "Scholars and polling organizations have also noted a consistent gender divide in public opinion on military action, beginning with World War II through the most recent U.S.
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by zurn 12y ago
Well spotted. But why is this article still on the front page 4+ hours later? Are people disagreeing, ignoring the comments, or appreciating this for historical reasons?
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by zurn 12y ago
Compiler optimization is obviously a sleeping field currently. There's nothing that's made it into practical compilers to address the bottlenecks shifting from ALU work to data storage and layout considerations. Consider all the g

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