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geneseeon WannaCry in-memory key recovery for Windows XP

It looks like Microsoft's documentation suggests it will only work on older versions of Windows. From the README:

> Indeed, for what I've tested, under Windows 10, CryptReleaseContext does cleanup the memory (and so this recovery technique won't work). It can work under Windows XP because, in this version, CryptReleaseContext does not do the cleanup. Moreover, MSDN states this, for this function : "After this function is called, the released CSP handle is no longer valid. This function does not destroy key containers or key pairs.". So, it seems that there are no clean and cross-platform ways under Windows to clean this memory.

I'd be curious where the change happened between XP and 10.

geneseeon White House Indicates Potential Crackdown on Recreational Marijuana

This quote from the article indicates the opposite effect, actually! I'd like to see the study that concluded this, but it's an easy statement for me to believe.

> "As for connecting marijuana to the legal opioid crisis, Spicer has it exactly backwards. Greater access to marijuana has actually led to declines in opioid use, overdoses and other problems."

geneseeon MacOS FileVault2 Password Retrieval

That's defeated by a USB mouse jiggler [1], which is apparently commonly used by the type of people who seize computers in the wild.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/CRU-Inc-30200-0100-0011-WiebeTech-Jig...

geneseeon Windows 10 will come with a command-line package manager

Another benefit of the Nexus program is that it's trivial to achieve root, so you can easily get to the point of removing even the small amount of bundled crapware.

geneseeon Push notification click-through rates

Almost anyone who uses iOS on a daily basis certainly knows how to clear notifications. The lock screen doesn't offer such an option, but the slide-down Notification Center does: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/notifica...

geneseeon Introducing free voice calls from Hangouts

My company, my family, and my friends all use Voxer for this. It's a great free push-to-talk style chat app, and we love the hybrid a/synchronous model of communication.

geneseeon AmazonCart – Add items to your Amazon.com shopping cart without leaving Twitter

How could they block this? It's an incredibly general use case of their API.

geneseeon Magic mirror: One way mirror with a monitor behind it

Add Nest-like proximity activation and you've got a pretty cool bathroom/bedroom installation!

geneseeon Your emails may reveal text hidden in Microsoft Word

Or in OS X terminal,

    pbpaste | pbcopy

geneseeon This Call Is Being Recorded

As someone mentioned below, Google Voice can do this natively if you press a button during a call. It alerts the person on the other end of the line and makes a recording available in your account following the call. Quite useful and works on any phone provided you're using GV.

geneseeon NeoCities

I'd just like to point out that when he said "trashing other people's work," he was likely referring to people overwriting others' pages, not your comment.