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Osakaon Global nuclear facilities 'at risk' of cyber attack

Due to the nature of critical infrastructure it would not be advisable to force lockout rules and rate limiting on devices.

The main issue comes from the long life cycle of equipment and companies not wanting to change to new securer methods due to fear of costs implementing it.

Osakaon Google Is Now Listing SourceForge as a Malicious Site

AFAIK: U-Block Origin is a fork of U-Block which hopes to stay in sync with U-Block, but maintain a per-site block/allow feature which was removed from the newer version of U-Block.

Osakaon The Grooveshark Settlement [pdf]

I'm curious to know what will happen with all the user data on their systems. There was a site floating around which allowed you to access your playlist information just by entering your account email. I assume that was old public data.

And with services like this, is there any threat to users who access 'illegal' material?

Osakaon Ask HN: What I should do with my life?

Look into R+D. I was in the same boat as you. Then I decided to take a look at research, now can't get enough of it. There are government funding for PhD's (Search Department of Education and learning (DEL) Funding.)

Osakaon Ask HN: What do I use in place of Microsoft Clip Art now that it is dead?

The creative commons site provides links to popular search engines with with Create Commons licenses. Though these are not Clip art, there is a lot of material which you can use. Just needs a bit of searching.

http://search.creativecommons.org/

Osakaon [dead]

Consider it deleted :D

Osakaon Chaos Computer Club Website Blocked by UK ISPs

It appears to be only Three and Vodafone[1]at the moment.

[1] https://www.blocked.org.uk/results?url=http://www.ccc.de

Osakaon GnuPG 2.1.0 “modern” released

It's all well and good adding support for new algorithms, and streamlining the UI. But still, access to the key servers are done over plaintext[1]. Which could allow an attacker to modify your request/response from the keyservers.

Am I correct in believing that this is a critical issue not to address?

[1] "Support for keyserver access over TLS is currently not available but will be added with one of the next point releases. " -- https://gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html

Osakaon Y Combinator Female Founders Conference LiveStream

Q the electric club music for the break!

Really good talk though.

Osakaon Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007)

Merci

Osakaon Encrypted E-Mail Company Hushmail Spills to Feds (2007)

Could you explain how rot13 helps?

"The algorithm provides virtually no cryptographic security..." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ROT13