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rjaco31··on Framing Frames: Bypassing wi-fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues
It's written in the paper that the PoC code has been published. But there is no link anywhere?
rjaco31··on Forced rhubarb, a vegetable deprived of sunlight, is having a renaissance (2019)
Do you have any source on that?
rjaco31··on One week of empathy training (2019)
Just add a toggle for a colorblind mode
rjaco31··on Anna’s Archive: Open-source data library
They removed the public DNS, but z-library is working just fine with Tor. I think you even have the .onion url on their Wikipedia page.
rjaco31··on Au Revoir
Wow, thanks for the link. That was a very interesting read & sad story.
rjaco31··on View Counting at Reddit
It might be conceivable on smaller subreddits, but on the big ones it would basically just drown everything into a sea of low-quality threads. I got the feeling that the vast majority of threads never ever make it to the "front page" of their subreddit.
rjaco31··on Iron law of oligarchy
Could you give more context & background please?
rjaco31··on The War ISIS Wants
Well, Robert A. Heinlein took the problem by the other end in Starship Troopers, military service is not mandatory, but required to be able to vote. So the only people that might be capable to rebel are eventually the only ones that won't.
rjaco31··on The War ISIS Wants
That makes you want to get a job or raise unemployment subsidies, not go kill people in the street..
rjaco31··on Could the U.S. Ever Adopt a Six-Hour Workday?
I don't know if the dire state of your average computer program should be taken as an example for how healthcare could be improved.
rjaco31··on Terror on Wall Street
I can't tell if your post is sarcastic or not. If you cannot prevent terrorist acts on your soil, the solution is pretty obvious then, it's not to give weapons to everybody or to hire 20% of your population as cop, it's just to be sure that you're not giving reasons to anybody to come and bomb you.

That's the only realistic & cost-efficient approach given the threat model.

rjaco31··on Our First Certificate Is Now Live
Just browse the truststore of your browser, you'd be surprised.
rjaco31··on Tmux Resurrect – Persists tmux environment across system restarts
You don't need anything beside regular tmux for that, since if your computer crashes but not the remote host, and if you were using tmux on the remote host, the tmux session will still be open, just ssh again and "tmux -a" and you'll jump back into the tmux session exactly where you left it.
rjaco31··on Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys from Leaked Photos
That would restrict it to locksmith basically (professional or hobbyist), as opposed to anyone that can find out how to run a 3D printer. Being a locksmith isn't scalable, using a 3D printer is.
rjaco31··on Lockpickers 3-D Print TSA Master Luggage Keys from Leaked Photos
Well AFAIK, each lock is unique, and while it's easy to pick each individual lock, it's harder to guess or derive from a few of those locks the master key that'll actually open them all.
rjaco31··on Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?
I'm not saying your point is wrong, I'm just saying that the current situation is in total opposition with this statement.
rjaco31··on Ask HN: Do you think we'll see any Twitter/Facebook real-competitor?
> If you think about it, the only thing that RSS/Atom was ever missing from becoming what Facebook/Twitter are today is a central aggregation point in the cloud. A smart startup [...] could potentially spell the death of proprietary timelines.

I've got the feeling you underestimate how important this central aggregation point actually is. Imho I'd even say it's the paramount reason Facebook/Twitter are still the top dogs, people are just attracted to the (unique) aggregator which already has the most people.

rjaco31··on It’s expensive to be poor
Uh? I have Javascript off, and all I see is a giant footer on this page..

http://i.imgur.com/NodrsQH.png

rjaco31··on The sleeping beauty paradox
Uh? The outcome probability is the same if you do it once or if you do it infinitely, it's an independent event.
rjaco31··on Security concerns with minified JavaScript code
Why would you want to obfuscate the source code of a package?..
rjaco31··on Windows 10 users are being banned from torrent sites
Russia has already forbidden Windows 10 use on any governmental service.
rjaco31··on OS X sudoers exploit found in the wild
He could basically be sent to jail for weapon smuggling, receiving any compensation is irrelevant.
rjaco31··on Google’s $6B Miscalculation on the EU
> it is always better to go for the new places where there are no dominant players

It's funny, I've heard several times the total opposite from startup founders ("It's easier to go for a big market and to chunk some % in order to get viable, rather than going on a totally new market in which you'll have to both be better than the competition and convince the clients that's it's actually a promising market")

> If someone offer you a product cheaper than you can make it yourself, take the offer and find something better to do. Everyone looses(sic) by protectionism.

Uh? Protectionism has historically worked exceptionally well to develop your own industry, as a matter of fact, all the big players heavily used protectionism in their time to nurture their industry before being big (England, USA, China, South Korea). You just cannot compete with an on-going industry while starting from scratch, so your industry will never take off.

Protectionism is only good if you're already the best in town & want to be sure that you keep the upper hand, but it helps in no way the under-developed country.

rjaco31··on Behavioral Profiling: The password you can't change
I don't see why you find the idea that strange, an anti-virus is already running on your computer, hooking all your programs, and sniffing on your connections. Offense & defense have always used virtually the same techniques.
rjaco31··on Why Open Offices?
They also are probably smart enough to just seek the most efficient way? I don't think hypothetical founder nostalgia is a strong enough explanation.
rjaco31··on Do we need browsers?
Google hijacking the keyboard to only be able to navigate through their search results instead of letting the user scroll the page with keyboard as usual is indeed pretty annoying imho..
rjaco31··on Facebook’s Piracy Problem
That's bullshit. Most of the greatest music compositors through History were broke as shit, even when being famous while being alive.
rjaco31··on Hacking Team hacked, attackers claim 400GB in dumped data
The massive PR hit they're taking means their company will most likely die. And "compromising" someone merely by letting one download stuff is at best a gamble, any decent infosec professional will examine this stuff with the same precautions as when analyzing malware.
rjaco31··on Front Page Subreddits Go Private in Response to Firing of Reddit Admin
> Banning cleavages again makes sense... Otherwise the site would turn into a softcore cam site with gamers.

Wait what? I've never seen or heard of anything remotely close to "softcore cam" on Twitch, I find it extremely stupid and rather discriminatory to ban cleavage for female gamers. It's a very bad omen for further possible restrictions imho.

rjaco31··on Unreal Engine 4 shots that are unbelievably realistic
Photos and videos are basically no longer valid in court except if taken/recorded in special circumstances AFAIK.
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