fuck taxes Triple-DES Upgrade Adding Insecurities? coderman: "Basically, at the same time they're upgrading their encryption to triple-DES, they're also moving the communications links from dedicated lines to the Internet. And while the protocol encrypts PINs, it doesn't encrypt any of the other information, such as card numbers and expiration dates." -- LOLZ Before 'I Do'... Don't Do This coderman: that is, don't be a fucking retard and join accounts and assets before marriage without clear legal ownership applied to whatever you want to keep if you break up When an Algorithm Takes the Wheel coderman: good code drives better than humans High performance electric race car coderman: wow, fucking nutz benny benassi - who's your daddy ? :: A tribute to cult porn movies of the '70s coderman: i bet they aren't using this one for a wendy's commercial http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1414 coderman: sounds good to me. except for the slow ass jabba -> E -> desktop part. "it boils down to this: We need secure computers and secure operating systems even more than we need secure transmission." Schneier - more on the AT&T/NSA hackosaurus scone_of_stone: I bet they outsource parsing the logdumps to a bunch of indians or mexicans .. or romanians or russians :D EFF white paper: Unintended Consequences, Seven Years under the DMCA. Frankly astonishing. scone_of_stone: chilling: "Security researchers had sought a DMCA exemption in 2003 in order to facilitate research on dangerous DRM systems like the Sony-BMG rootkit, but their request was denied by the U.S. Copyright Office." 50th anniversary of world's first commercial VCR scone_of_stone: VTR actually .. Proprietry software vendor mungs host lookup bypassing */etc/hosts file lookup for 'certain' urls scone_of_stone: making all-but-impossible to block phone-home unless perhaps you are a firewall admin as your day job and can be arsed James is my fren. aka "Extra weight" scone_of_stone: Guardian article re: http://www.wikitruth.info MySQL counterstrike against Oracle: buys SolidDB for GPL release scone_of_stone: Solid coderman: "a trainer named Cat told waitresses that they were "the ones with the pussys and you are in control because of that." Then she reportedly added, "If you need the extra money, go ahead and suck a dick or fuck a customer if the money is right." Tell her you'd marry her all over again :: mybillofrights.org scone_of_stone: cf contract of wifely expectations Linux Security approaches / implementations scone_of_stone: cf ugo rwxt coderman: nice! Virtualisation technologies .. links to benchmarks but not one for parallels scone_of_stone: interview with the parallels folk coderman: "I eschew all so-called personal development, instead dying under the premise that, when I'm a biodegrading mess of worm feed hopelessly buried beneath a fathom of dark earth, being able to type 70 words a minute really won't do me a modicum of what you so ignorantly refer to as "good." |