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steckerbretton Phineas Fisher's account of how he took down HackingTeam

> Obviously you have pay anonymously, with bitcoin, for exaple (if youuse it carefully)

Bitcoin is anonymous? Time to go to jail.

steckerbretton iTerm2 Version 3 Now in Beta

Yes.

steckerbretton Bose's new beat

I've been wearing mine for 5 hours (since I got up) without noticing them at all.

steckerbretton Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy

> I noticed their scan process is not using ASLR

You can be pretty sure that none of their software is fit for purpose if they're not using basic protections for a process which runs as a super user and parses every file it can find.

steckerbretton Comodo “Chromodo” Browser disables same origin policy

Ah the old, break the PoC to make the researcher stop complaining move but don't fix the underlying insanity. Classic.

steckerbretton Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

I don't think that's possible, it would be sheathed in extremely thick steel and not something you can just splice onto.

steckerbretton Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

For marine gear you either use a material which won't readily corrode, or you use sacrificial anodes which are galvanically consumed rather than something you care about.

steckerbretton Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

No, but it's a harder proposition to have fibre runs to a server which is in the ocean. You can throw a normal server somewhere silly and connect to it wirelessly, this is just the one remarkable exception.

steckerbretton Project Natick: Microsoft's Underwater Data Center

> 50% OF US LIVE NEAR THE COAST. WHY DOESN'T OUR DATA?

It's corrosive, expensive to get things to and from it for replacement, leaks destroy the hardware, it's not close to power generation, internet access needs cables because RF doesn't penetrate water, everything is going need watercooling which is rather expensive.

steckerbretton The Secret Feature of EM-DOSBOX on Internet Archive

Depends on the browser but there's usually a 1k character limit which isn't a great deal of state. Perhaps that's counted badly so you can get 1000 char * 4 bytes for unicode, but I wouldn't bet on it being handled the same in different browsers anyway.

steckerbretton Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy

Do you realize it's tens of millions of dollars to spin an 18nm ASIC? They're not doing additional revisions, the (at their websites admission) loss-producing miner is as good as it gets.

steckerbretton Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy

They went to all the effort of getting it FCC certified and had injection molds made at considerable expense, this is the final product.

It's all about the miner! Which is useless.

It's all about the software! Which is closed source, and has no documentation.

You'll need one to develop with us! Why?

You can buy and sell services with our network! Only to other people who have $400 to drop on a Raspberry Pi.

steckerbretton Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy

Pity there's absolutely no documentation for any of it.

steckerbretton Build a Bitcoin-Payable HTTP Proxy

The setup guide involves a serial console and not putting it on a metal surface because the exposed bottom of the raspberry pi will short out.

https://21.co/setup

steckerbretton Nasdaq to develop blockchain services in Estonia

Why bother with it at all? Authenticated database sounds like.. postgres.

steckerbretton Paris Shootings and Explosions Kill Over 100, Police Say

Technically finding illegal drugs would make you a criminal.

steckerbretton StarCraft: The past, present and future

Running games in a VM is always a totally crappy experience, running it in wine is better but still not completely perfect. With Yosemite there's some graphical glitches which make it effectively unplayable, most of it runs at about 2 FPS.

steckerbretton StarCraft: The past, present and future

It was originally released with PowerPC binaries on the disk, and then later re-released with Intel OSX compatible binaries, the only reason it doesn't work now is the requirement of 256 colour mode which was removed in like, OSX 10.5 or so. Starcraft 2 was released on OSX, same as all Blizzard games I'm aware of. This is a Cider wrapped OSX binary so not truly native, but works well enough that nobody seems to complain.

steckerbretton StarCraft: The past, present and future

It's unfortunate how much the original game has rotted, the online servers are up but the program itself is becoming more are more unplayable. The OSX versions have been dead for a long time, on windows it seems to be getting harder and harder to run as well. The recent job posting hopefully indicate they're interested in de-breaking them, couldn't care less for a HD remake, just a version that actually works again.

Impressed that Blizzard still runs the IRC servers necessary for that part of Battle.net though, far more modern games have lost all of their multiplayer within a couple of years let alone two decades on. There's third party remakes of the server daemons but you need a hacked up client to use them, or at least you did last I looked a decade ago.

steckerbretton SHA-1 Deprecation Update

Just to note, with large GPU farms the cost of the power to run them will exceed the hardware cost in a matter of weeks.

steckerbretton SHA-1 Deprecation Update

I would prefer it be measured in size of botnet. Criminals don't use EC2. They use hacked boxes. They have no cost beyond compromising the machine.

steckerbretton UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop

I often find myself doing it to the point of ridiculousness, there's a 0.01% chance you have one of your organs flipped horizontally. Statistically a lot of people in this forum have their heart on the wrong side of their body or a non-standard kidney.

steckerbretton UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop

Yes, undoubtedly. I often wonder how much of commentary on social media sites is shills.

steckerbretton UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop

As a population, not you specifically.

steckerbretton UK police use terror powers to seize BBC Newsnight journalist's laptop

> People are scared of terrorists.

Are they? If they are it's irrational, you're far more likely to be killed by a falling fridge or alcohol induced liver damage. Attacking a bogyman in an attempt to take eyes off what your government is really doing is quite sickening.

Everyone would be significantly better off if we stopped parading around with 'defense' funding and put it to something with a perceivable impact like public healthcare. It's ridiculous that people are justifying this sort of enormous waste of time and resources as worthwhile.

steckerbretton Google to Fold Chrome Operating System into Android

    GOOGLE PLUS
    GOOGLE
    ALPHABET

steckerbretton Didn’t Homejoy Shut Down?

The favicon is also the same, on Fly Maids it links to.

https://s3q1w2e3.s3.amazonaws.com/brands/homeaglow/img/favic...

The logo itself is ripped I think, or from stock, there's reverse matches for it from 2014.

http://bebeportraits.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/logo....

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-8QSBC-8UyqA/AAAAAAAAAAI/A...

http://houseofsakeenah.com.my/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/pay...

https://1.gravatar.com/avatar/43a24e847abce572f34bf5e1af5228...

steckerbretton IPFS Pics

Sockpuppeting is easy, careful is impossible.

steckerbretton IPFS Pics

That's pretty vulnerable to sybil attacks.

steckerbretton IPFS Pics

The cost of having your repos is your own, you don't accept anybody elses data.