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stulligon Why Is That Dog Looking at Me?

According to Burroughs: "A Virus from outer space"

stulligon On the Security of Password Manager Database Formats (2012) [pdf]

>Unfortunately, most formats turned out to be broken even against very weak adversaries. For this reason, users should carefully consider whether a particular database format is acceptable for storing data in the cloud, on a USB drive or on a machine shared with other users.

Finally, our works shows that it is indeed possible to construct a format that provides security, usability and low computation and storage overhead, using standard cryptographic tools.

stulligon Our First Certificate Is Now Live

Thanks for all the informed info. I was just always weirded out when my browsers forced me to perform 2-4 clicks because of untrusted connections when visiting websites of say the CCC (who just switched to StartSSL apparently).

Or the CACert website itself.

Always seemed to me like some kind of joke.

stulligon Our First Certificate Is Now Live

I still don't get why Mozilla and Google don't accept CACerts. Couldn't a lot of this be solved by just removing the warnings?

stulligon Twitter for the web is down

Twitter App also not working on OSX 10.8 from Germany

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edit: @mods why flagged?

Might have to do with politwoops http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/aug/24/twitter-bl...

(latest update I found is in German: https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&pr... )

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Or is it just me?

stulligon Ask HN: What is your way to get inspiration for new projects?

<3

stulligon Ask HN: What is your way to get inspiration for new projects?

Get high.

stulligon IETF and IANA Officially Designate .onion as a “Special Use Domain”

https://blog.digicert.com/onion-officially-recognized-specia...

http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/iana-designates-onio...

http://blog.explodingads.com/?p=155261

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.onion

stulligon IETF and IANA Officially Designate .onion as a “Special Use Domain”

Any outside links?

stulligon Stop using difficult-to-guess passwords, UK's spying agency GCHQ recommends

lol nice try

stulligon Wordpress 0day with remote code execution

http://blog.malwaremustdie.org/2014/05/elf-shared-so-dynamic...

stulligon Unnecessary OS X System Processes

If anyone has resources or is willing to share his knowledge of OS X System Daemons and Agents - spotting and unloading the unnecessary ones is the main aspect of my dotfiles[1], but resources are often elusive, outdated or plain inaccurate guesswork, the whole process usually takes a lot of reading binary metadata and sometimes plain trial & error (and consequent occassional frustration).

But then I managed to saved around 2 GB of Ram just by unloading Daemons.

If anyone is interested to chip in, thankful for any link or suggestion.

( Already posted this in the 'dotfiles is your backpack' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10001996 but thought it's worth another thread )

stulligon Dotfiles are your Digital Backpack

If anyone has resources or is willing to share his knowledge of OS X System Daemons and Agents - spotting and unloading the unnecessary ones is the main aspect of my dotfiles[1], but resources are often elusive, outdated or plain inaccurate guesswork, the whole process usually takes a lot of reading binary metadata and sometimes plain trial & error (and consequent occassional frustration).

But then I managed to saved around 2 GB of Ram just by unloading Daemons.

If anyone is interested to chip in, thankful for any link or suggestion:

[1] https://github.com/stullig/dotfiles

stulligon Your favourite Coding Music

Massive Attack, Brian Eno, Mitch Murder come to mind, otherwise this Tr(h)ip Hop Mix Tape did me quite well lately: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGNlTvIbjLo

Otherwise a nice Nicolas Jaar[1] set?

[1]https://soundcloud.com/nicolas-jaar

stulligon Not OK, Google

Yeah, don't use that, shady maintainer: http://www.insanitybit.com/2012/06/23/srware-iron-browser-a-...