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hobbes300··on XSA-108 Advisory
There is a general assumption amongst virtualised environment administrators that guests are securely separated. And yes, more code to run means more vulnerabilities.
hobbes300··on Did you ever wonder why December has 31 days? (1997)
Contradicting Wikipedia does not equal a lack of truth.
hobbes300··on Stop using Nagios (so it can die peacefully)
>what would it take for you to trust an external service to manage your logs?

For a publicly traded company, a relaxation of relevant law to allow arbitrary data to leave the company.

hobbes300··on Atom
Hardly, it was well advertised when Lion came out.
hobbes300··on Atom
Why wasn't she using versions?

http://support.apple.com/kb/PH14378

hobbes300··on Ask HN: Do we need another email service?
IF and only IF the spam filters are as good as Gmail.
hobbes300··on NHS England patient data 'uploaded to Google servers', Tory MP says
Because it's illegal to put MY data on a server in the US.
hobbes300··on Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge
I don't need to copy ANYTHING to tailgate.
hobbes300··on Density.io
Collision avoidance mostly.
hobbes300··on Show HN: I redesigned the Microsoft employee badge
Sounds unbelievable to me. How is a picture of a card going to mean that you can copy the RFID/chip needed to actually access anything? It would be a first warning/stern telling off event at most.
hobbes300··on One Ad to Rule Them All
The Ryanair one is particularly apt.
hobbes300··on Yale censored a student's course catalog site. I made an unblockable replacement
That's fine, I suspect the %age of Windows users at Yale is fairly small.
hobbes300··on NHS patient data to be made available for sale to drug and insurance firms
Except several people have shown how to de-anonomyse the data.
hobbes300··on Dogecoin now accounts for more transactions than any other cryptocurrency
Bitcoin IS an investment.
hobbes300··on 1% rule (Internet culture)
I am the 1%
hobbes300··on All Norwegians become crown millionaires, in oil saving landmark
Being left-wing doesn't mean you agree with all government spending
hobbes300··on The NSA Reportedly Has Total Access To The Apple iPhone
Providing an XML feed that lists banned apps does not equate to remote file system access.
hobbes300··on I Transcribed Glenn Greenwald's 30C3 Keynote
Crypto is a tool, not a solution.
hobbes300··on Algae to crude oil: Million-year natural process takes minutes in the lab
> I struggled with the question of how to transport that energy to where we'd like to use it

Lasers

hobbes300··on Bruce Schneier leaving British Telecom end of this month.
I wouldn't read too much into this at the moment. If Bruce is leaving because of GCHQ snooping he will certainly let the world know, I can't see him signing a gag order.
hobbes300··on Show HN: Minecraft clone in 2500 lines of C - even supports multiplayer online
Until you go back to it in a year's time and can't remember any of the reasons for your design decisions.
hobbes300··on Reform Government Surveillance
People won’t use technology they don’t trust. Governments have put this trust at risk, and governments need to help restore it.” —Brad Smith, General Counsel and Executive Vice President, Legal and Corporate Affairs, Microsoft

That makes it pretty clear to me why this campaign is being orchestrated by the companies involved.

hobbes300··on What the Fluck
It's very long? Do you have the patience of a gnat? This is exactly the kind of journalism that should be championed instead of short, fact-less articles about the latest celebrity to accidentally release a sex tape.
hobbes300··on Never Heard of It
One of the best pieces of wisdom I have received that relates to the IT industry hugely is "no matter who you are talking to and how experienced they are, there is always something that you know that they don't and vice versa".
hobbes300··on PayPal Redesign
Why is the 'Search for transactions' field so far away from the list of recent transactions?
hobbes300··on PayPal Redesign
Design with images that are retina display ready.
hobbes300··on California woman ticketed for wearing Google Glass while driving
She should be ticketed for wearing Google Glass, regardless of whether she was driving or not.
hobbes300··on Does life end after 35?
The point is that you can still be successful after your 30s.
hobbes300··on Can a drug make you tell the truth? Reporter tries sodium thiopental
It might make you hug the interrogator but not much more.
hobbes300··on Chrome's insane password security strategy
Your logic doesn't follow. According to your rules we shouldn't have doors on houses as all they do is provide a false sense of security.

Don't forget, all security, regardless of how good it is, is just a delay mechanism. It's perfectly valid to delay the easy attacks as well as the hard ones.