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gilnimson San Francisco Puts Another Nail in Its Own Coffin

Why stop at businesses? Nancy Pelosi's yearly salary is at $223,500. Maybe she should start paying 0.6 percent of her salary to the city of San Francisco?

gilnimson Thieves Broke into Russia’s Il-80 Doomsday Plane

Not sure if this is true, but I heard from a reputable source that many Russian government workers are fully inebriated during the month of December. If this is the case, which I believe, it definitely could account for lapses in security on this base. However, and I do know this first hand, that plane is a big pile of crap! A general might fly on that plane during a wartime event, but Putin wouldnt be caught dead on that plane.

gilnimson Windows 1803 Update Turns on SSH

It doesn't matter if an SSH server is running or not. This is just another avenue for people's systems to be compromised and for malicious actors to exfil data securely. Couple the SSH addition with Excel natively running JavaScript functions means Windows-based hosts are now more lucrative than ever.

For normal users, they have no use of a command-line SSH terminal, and they would likely not even know what such a function would be used for. Its just shitty decisions made by Microsoft with nearly no value added benefit.

gilnimson Windows 1803 Update Turns on SSH

Granted, for most cut/paste operations, PuTTY falls way short of the mark. However, where I like PuTTY over other SSH terminal windows is the ability to grab entire router/switch configs easily. When it comes to in-depth SSH stuff, I prefer using a *nix VM which offers up more functionality. Lastly, I posted this article because I was completely aghast when I learned Microsoft had not only installed an SSH client but also began accepting connections natively, without the user's knowledge.

gilnimson Cracking the Crypto War

Great article on a very touchy subject. While I doubt Ray's engineering PoC will ever be utilized, at least someone is attempting to quiet both sides of the argument with a seemingly valid approach to privacy and security.

gilnimson First collisions at Belle II

Question - I understand that the particles are guided into collisions by using magnets and directing the path of the two particles. What I don't understand is, how do the researchers know exactly where the particles are located before they have collided? Would not their exact position have to be known to record the collision data and for taking pictures of the collision? Thank you ahead of time for any explanation you provide.