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PappaPatat

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    Comment #23393292

    Thank you so much for the possibility. I grew up with scanners and am truly reminiscing while listening on these intercepts. Here in Europe there is close to no police still using …

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    Comment #23375293

    TIL the expression "the Volkswagen strategy" and I love it. Thanks, I'll be using that.

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    Comment #23213033

    The Old Reader works like a champ. I went the same route as you did, and have the same attitude towards sites that do not provide a RSS feed: they drop of my radar.

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    Comment #23207954

    > Using Chrome Galvanizer, you can protect yourself from attacks like this by specifying specific sites that one or all of your extensions can no longer access. For the MEGA case, …

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    Comment #23177354

    > But they always seem to take a shortcut and put a modern engine/driveline in it. YMMV. For me that is not a shortcut (although it is a lot less valuable) but a prerequisite. I wi…

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    Comment #23123370

    What about: nothing, just accumulate more, stach it and one day a need or opportunity will arise. Might not be a popular opinion since we all are expected to optimize everything bu…

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    Comment #23058229

    I would like to say thank you to him, since it opened a huge budget and mandate for my security team at the time. No more draining discussion if AV needed to be installed on partic…

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    Comment #23016873

    I was born in one, lived long in a second and now am home in a third country. In all three languages I feel confident, can tell jokes, understand and have tested level C2 ( https:/…

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    Comment #22994124

    > A house around 30 years old is worthless Living in a city which city center was (re-) build between the 16th and 17th century, the 30 years till worthless puzzles me. Even the ho…

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    Comment #22956588

    THE thing I wished more developers knew about databases: they are badass when it comes to data manipulation. Stop sucking all data and manipulate it in your language of choice. Tel…

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    Comment #22934556

    I was under the impression you actually can via exactly one browser: Microsoft Edge.

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    Comment #22934495

    It is really interesting since this is one of these parameters one can check easily and cheap (OXI meters are around 100 euro). And they're still available ATM.

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    Comment #22906364

    Ah Adrian! Yes his SCION is quite impressive and has plenty of cool features, but if it will ever outgrow the “future internet” technology phase remains to be seen. I (other accoun…

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    Comment #22864774

    This submission is a better honeypot than the software link it points to. It has not been updated (latest blog entry 19/02/2018, latest code release Jul 30 2018). Honeypots are hig…

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    Comment #22864721

    I say (from experience) during hard times is the best time to start. You will not be lured into massive fixed costs and start with the absolute minimum and required, which you can …

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    Comment #22785206

    > I was sort of tempted to pursue this. For me the exact opposite. 15 years ago I removed any and all reverence to my history of COBOL because I was suddenly actively being contact…

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    Comment #22777801

    > Bug bounty programs are not supposed to replace you other security activities, but it's a way for you to have additional source of vulnerabilities. Exactly the way we position ou…

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    Comment #22719616

    This. There are many possible scenarios how to end the shutdown, not one is back to normal on Monday.

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    Comment #22702174

    Some dude ranting about "how the system works" where "you are all slaves" and "they get free money" does not help anyone but the youtuber who's collecting views.

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    Comment #22702135

    Never seen such crap on this site.

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    Comment #22661994

    > are you in Switzerland Yes. And as said: this is preparation. When the infection doubling rates do not go down (nicely displayed here: https://interaktiv.tagesanzeiger.ch/2020/co…

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    Comment #22656927

    Where factually correct, the numbers are... smallish: "Two hospitals in Basel and one in Jura, in northwestern Switzerland, said they would each take two French patients after the …

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    Comment #22628411

    > She said that "social distancing" is a medical technical term that doesn't translate super well to the public. Which is 100% the opposite of what I in my daily life observe: ever…

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    Comment #22615686

    cough legal reasons cough