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tomwas54

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tomwas54··on New GitHub Issues Beta
It's announced here as also being in beta for public repos: https://github.blog/changelog/2021-06-23-issues-forms-beta-f...
tomwas54··on Dutch researcher accesses Trump's Twitter account using password “maga2020!”
It was indeed removed during the submit, corrected it now.
tomwas54··on Ask HN: Is Firebase Down?
For ~40 minutes, it was also impossible to SSH into any Compute Engine instance that uses OS Login for authentication, but it seems to have been resolved in the last few minutes.
tomwas54··on Mozilla Server Side TLS – Recommended Configurations
Ubuntu 18.04, the newest LTS, recently backported OpenSSL 1.1.1 to its stable package repository.

Because of this my personal webserver, running nginx on Ubuntu 18.04, started offering TLS 1.3 without any manual action on my part, because the server is configured to auto-apply updates from these repositories.

tomwas54··on Traceability on the Internet
Google Cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?source=hp&ei=A...
tomwas54··on Some clients use SRV lookups, a few (to their embarrassment) do not (2009)
Let's Encrypt seems to be working on validating from multiple vantage points, by doing or having done this in their staging environment: https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/validating-challenges-fr...
tomwas54··on Fox-IT hit by cyber attack
No, it doesn't. As mentioned in the article, the attacker successfully requested a TLS certificate for the hostname, which was possible because he could pass a CA's domain validation.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think HPKP could have prevented this for returning customers, because Fox-IT would have been able to pin the key of their own certificate. Then the new certificate used by the attacker would have been rejected by the customer's browser.

tomwas54··on Show HN: Dark Mode List – A List of Apps That Support Dark Mode
FastMail added a Dark Mode this week :)

(Settings → General & Preferences → Theme → Dark)

tomwas54··on Keybase
You should have one now.
tomwas54··on Keybase
Done!