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seanieb

1,522karma·339submissions·July 15, 2010
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Working on computer security & encryption stuff. https://conic.al
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This is mind blowing. A supply chain attack that pivots to another supply chain attack. Crazy.
5y ago·view thread
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I’d recommend that people avoid PGP and use modern cryptography. Eg. AGE, It uses far less and simpler code, so it can be audited. PGP is a complicated old mess. https://age-encryption.org&…
5y ago·view thread
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Great to see the worsening COVID crisis getting the attention it deserves...
5y ago·view thread
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So many people commenting without reading the article. They’re not banning the bread, it just does qualify for a lower tax rate.
5y ago·view thread
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Thats the point. PGP isn’t a good standard.
6y ago·view thread
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Why? PGP needs to be deprecated in favor of things like AGE and Magic Wormhole. https://github.com/FiloSottile/age …
6y ago·view thread
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Signal is encrypted at rest. It uses a special encrypted version of Sqlite. https://www.zetetic.net/sqlcipher/ …
6y ago·view thread
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I would love to hear where you got the idea: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/from-our-experts/early-herd-immu... …
6y ago·view thread
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Find me a technical saas product of tyat scale that doesn’t have support forums that are on fire? Checkout gdrive or iclouds.
6y ago·view thread
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Anyone who doesn’t think this has the potential to be a big deal and worth worrying about doesn’t understand numbers. Couching this in some facts about the seasonal flu is all you need to reveal th…
6y ago·view thread
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Still works with other CDN's. No point in putting those companies on the spotlight.
6y ago·view thread
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Does anyone know why it was removed? It was removed from Youtube too.
6y ago·view thread
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There are services to frawl for you from miltipke ips and user agents, just for situations like this.
6y ago·view thread
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Was it Segment that CircleCI was referring to? https://support.circleci.com/hc/en-us/articles/360034852194-... I hope not, since there's a 5 day gap between Circl…
7y ago·view thread
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Also the argument that Cloudflare is just a network provider is bunk. It works on people who think server less computing doesn't use servers. CF uses servers that store files, for minutes hours, …
7y ago·view thread
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They’re building a new tool to complement they base offering. Nothing has changed about that or the way you can use it. You can close this new app and forget it exists. You want rsync and they’re bui…
7y ago·view thread
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You really should opt in to try the new client. I have. It’s identical to before unless you want to use the new file browser for search or something else it can remain closed.
7y ago·view thread
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Lots of “why don’t you just use rsync” type answers .
7y ago·view thread
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No one comment about the actual substance of the change or why they don’t like it. Just lots of emotions ! And the author seems to have left out the most critical thing about this update, the main int…
7y ago·view thread
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Complaining that their service is terrible while also complaining that they are trying to generate more money to further invest in that service....riiiighhht!
7y ago·view thread
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This comment is classic internet drama.. Is it too much to ask for that people back up their statements with facts? - "They are already a monopoly" False. Youtube is pretty big. And there ar…
7y ago·view thread
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A very well known CA company uses these details as a method of verification for EV certs.
7y ago·view thread
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Not if you consider speed and CPU consumption.
8y ago·view thread
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This sounds fine to me. Ya'll are making sound like they're refuseing to sync because the FS is encryped. The file systems mentioned are really old. You can use newer FS's that are encr…
8y ago·view thread
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Are data-only SIM's trackable in the same way as normal SIM's?
8y ago·view thread
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Stated with such confidence... Clearly you've never dug into the internals of OpenVPN.
8y ago·view thread
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Every single venture backed company in SV since 2000 was built with ad money.
8y ago·view thread
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FTFU - Valut service .... You need more than one server, it'll need to have 100% uptime too, backed up and available in multiple regions. No security team want to own this infrastructure.
8y ago·view thread