I agree with the distinction you make between targeted and non-targeted. But I think being able to easily accomplish targeted attacks on SSL/TLS is a cause for concern -- and indeed that's what I'm thinking of. My…
The traffic between the attacker and the private network would have been properly encrypted. Assuming they chose a sensible cipher suite, where is the "crypto flaw"? Maybe the problem is not the crypto but the strange…
"... breaks the trust model of SSL/TLS," Certainly some of the encryption one can get via SSL/TLS is worth something. (But then one could use that encryption outside of TLS, too.) And maybe some elements of the protocol…
Does RT still use mrsync? Great program.
Boots from SD card. Uses U-Boot for bootloader. Hardware support in two BSD projects as well as Linux. Godspeed.
That's why I'd prefer a search engine that was not using AWS, or Yahoo. Too many needless dependencies. Out of curiousity I'm starting a counter today. Will post something when this IP addr fails. Feel free to take a…
Why do they say "duckduckgo-owned"? It appears they are using AWS. Who really owns the server? echo 50.18.192.251 duckduckgo.com >> /etc/hosts Avoids needless DNS lookups; saves DNS logs from your footprints.
So it's not possible to log on without enabling Javascript? I guess that's one way to coerce the user into enabling Javascript, at least temporarily.
"We started out collecting this information by accident, as part of our project to automate everything, but soon realized that it had economic value." Is he saying the end results of the project to [insert stated…
Stallman's writing is reminiscent of The Jargon File or FOLDOC. There are many "silly" terms like the ones you mention in those collections. (More on textfiles.com.) Stallman was a part of that era. Maybe he's just an…
"...I'm not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet..." No. The opposite. I'm trying to draw attention to the fact that besides free open source software, improvements in the network allow…
I'll bet Zuckerberg and countless Facebook employees have used software written by Stallman. At the risk of being wrong, I'd even go so far as to say they need this software. But does Stallman ever need to use software…
OP: "... cemented them as assholes in my mind." That's "name-calling". But I understand the need to detach the silly hyperbolic responses my comment triggered. I was not expecting those. Please accept my apologies for…
"... linux laptops were being reformatted to run windows." Microsoft/Windows is a cancer. Ballmer once said Linux was a cancer. He later retracted, after it was well-known Microsoft itself uses Linux. There's nothing…
In the late 1990's when they started, around the same time as Metafilter, maybe Google was honestly trying to rank websites based on href's, as some perceived indicator of website popularity. But over time how much has…
Well said. As a result of advances in technology, news, scholarly research, books, music, film, etc. can all be created and distributed by _anyone_, because it can be done at lower cost. This is bad news for some old…
The way they word these releases certainly makes it sound like they have users' best interests in mind. But honestly, as you have highlighted, these announcements should be insulting to users' intelligence. "Dear Users:…
Page looks great in my text-only browser (no ad-blocker needed). Thank you AdTech Operator, even if it was not intentional.
Do you think there could be any bias when the newspapers, or for-profit search engine projects, who rely on selling advertising "space" as their "business", report on the practice of filtering out advertising? Not me.…
"This is cool." Not just cool, but useful. "UEFI" should have been a Forth-like REPL like Sun, FreeBSD, OLPC, etc. The output of rappel reminds me of an "assembly level debugger" I used for many years called "ald".…
http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/1997... Keep in mind that in the 1990's it was rare for Windows uptime to exceed 24hrs and Microsoft demos of new features barely worked if at all. Not to mention…
This seems like what a sensible person would do. On the other hand, placing evergreen confidence in "TLS", believing that it is "good enough" or concluding "it's all we've got" are lines of thinking that not make sense…
"I hate that there has to be a cost..." Is there an assumption hidden in this statement? That the cost of map data _must_ be sending personal information to Google? Why can't the cost be a dollar value? What if it was?…
Opinion: If interfaces is the most important software engineering concept, then the most important interface is the one used to control I/O. Different approaches. Fun to think about.
When what it's really about: Are remote "software updates" to a buyer's phone, under the sole control of the seller of the phone, at any time (even after purchase), for any reason (e.g. the one being proposed here), a…
I agree with the distinction you make between targeted and non-targeted. But I think being able to easily accomplish targeted attacks on SSL/TLS is a cause for concern -- and indeed that's what I'm thinking of. My…
The traffic between the attacker and the private network would have been properly encrypted. Assuming they chose a sensible cipher suite, where is the "crypto flaw"? Maybe the problem is not the crypto but the strange…
"... breaks the trust model of SSL/TLS," Certainly some of the encryption one can get via SSL/TLS is worth something. (But then one could use that encryption outside of TLS, too.) And maybe some elements of the protocol…
Does RT still use mrsync? Great program.
Boots from SD card. Uses U-Boot for bootloader. Hardware support in two BSD projects as well as Linux. Godspeed.
That's why I'd prefer a search engine that was not using AWS, or Yahoo. Too many needless dependencies. Out of curiousity I'm starting a counter today. Will post something when this IP addr fails. Feel free to take a…
Why do they say "duckduckgo-owned"? It appears they are using AWS. Who really owns the server? echo 50.18.192.251 duckduckgo.com >> /etc/hosts Avoids needless DNS lookups; saves DNS logs from your footprints.
So it's not possible to log on without enabling Javascript? I guess that's one way to coerce the user into enabling Javascript, at least temporarily.
"We started out collecting this information by accident, as part of our project to automate everything, but soon realized that it had economic value." Is he saying the end results of the project to [insert stated…
Stallman's writing is reminiscent of The Jargon File or FOLDOC. There are many "silly" terms like the ones you mention in those collections. (More on textfiles.com.) Stallman was a part of that era. Maybe he's just an…
"...I'm not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet..." No. The opposite. I'm trying to draw attention to the fact that besides free open source software, improvements in the network allow…
I'll bet Zuckerberg and countless Facebook employees have used software written by Stallman. At the risk of being wrong, I'd even go so far as to say they need this software. But does Stallman ever need to use software…
OP: "... cemented them as assholes in my mind." That's "name-calling". But I understand the need to detach the silly hyperbolic responses my comment triggered. I was not expecting those. Please accept my apologies for…
"... linux laptops were being reformatted to run windows." Microsoft/Windows is a cancer. Ballmer once said Linux was a cancer. He later retracted, after it was well-known Microsoft itself uses Linux. There's nothing…
In the late 1990's when they started, around the same time as Metafilter, maybe Google was honestly trying to rank websites based on href's, as some perceived indicator of website popularity. But over time how much has…
Well said. As a result of advances in technology, news, scholarly research, books, music, film, etc. can all be created and distributed by _anyone_, because it can be done at lower cost. This is bad news for some old…
The way they word these releases certainly makes it sound like they have users' best interests in mind. But honestly, as you have highlighted, these announcements should be insulting to users' intelligence. "Dear Users:…
Page looks great in my text-only browser (no ad-blocker needed). Thank you AdTech Operator, even if it was not intentional.
Do you think there could be any bias when the newspapers, or for-profit search engine projects, who rely on selling advertising "space" as their "business", report on the practice of filtering out advertising? Not me.…
"This is cool." Not just cool, but useful. "UEFI" should have been a Forth-like REPL like Sun, FreeBSD, OLPC, etc. The output of rappel reminds me of an "assembly level debugger" I used for many years called "ald".…
http://money.usnews.com/money/business-economy/articles/1997... Keep in mind that in the 1990's it was rare for Windows uptime to exceed 24hrs and Microsoft demos of new features barely worked if at all. Not to mention…
This seems like what a sensible person would do. On the other hand, placing evergreen confidence in "TLS", believing that it is "good enough" or concluding "it's all we've got" are lines of thinking that not make sense…
"I hate that there has to be a cost..." Is there an assumption hidden in this statement? That the cost of map data _must_ be sending personal information to Google? Why can't the cost be a dollar value? What if it was?…
Opinion: If interfaces is the most important software engineering concept, then the most important interface is the one used to control I/O. Different approaches. Fun to think about.
When what it's really about: Are remote "software updates" to a buyer's phone, under the sole control of the seller of the phone, at any time (even after purchase), for any reason (e.g. the one being proposed here), a…