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If I recall correctly, most of Lemos hacks consisted of bypassing weakly secured web proxies to access internal Intranets. If I also recall correctly, he had been working for the F…

“was to retaliate for Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election” I suspect the entire rationale for these type of stories is to get the ‘Russia hacked the US election’ mem…

After moving from our own on premises hardware to the Cloud, to the hybrid Cloud, to the hybrid Cloud on the Edge, we now have to move to the Fog. Is there no end to this innovatio…

@skrebbel: “Stop pushing the blame upstairs. If you knowingly build software that hurts people, you share the blame. The job market for programmers has never been better. "My boss …

Is HackerNews now given to shadow banning, pathetic showflake fucks.

Judging people from a different culture and age by the contemporary mores. Does one need to know what Simenon got up to in the bedroom department in order to appricate a detective …

https://arp242.net/stackoverflow.html ‘What prompted this post was a basic but valid question getting downvoted to -4:’ “Is there a way to list all standard Go packages? I have a l…

How did this malware compromise the iPhone in the first place. Did Apple insert a backdoor for the spooks that was discovered by a third party. It wouldn't be the first time as Goo…

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2019/08/apple-offers-customer... “There is no cost to join Apple’s independent repair program. To qualify for the new program, businesses need to hav…

@docker_up: "Shareholders definitely have a great chance to sue Musk" Your concern for the shareholders is duely noted :]

The full title is ‘“HE’S FULL OF SHIT”: HOW ELON MUSK FOOLED INVESTORS, BILKED TAXPAYERS, AND GAMBLED TESLA TO SAVE SOLARCITY’. Makes me wonder are we in the middle of yet another …

Stranger then Fiction, you couldn't make it up, no one would believe it: “This tendency towards pseudoreligiosity surfaces most clearly in Campbell’s relation with that mountebank …

@481092: “Those strawberries were your aunt before she was born.” But they never read me stories and fed me chicken soup when I was ill-in-bed aged ten! “shared memories are immate…

@NeedMoreTea: “What if your friend sees no value in their body after they're done with it” .. Yea, why not just dip the corpse in silicone epoxy, mount it on a plinth and put it on…

@spinach: “I don't think it's particularly disrespectful, isn't all that's needed a change of perspective? What makes it disrespectful, precisely?” Your processor's all fucked up, …

> Needs some '2FA', like actually putting the key in the ignition. :) Or a tiny motion sensor in the key, if it's still then don't authenticate. Or use infrared to unlock the car, …

Would being continously shorted by Wall Street have anything to do with this? For example, take yet another short position in Tesla and then trash it in the financial press, like t…

“The U.S. military has conducted a flight test of a type of missile banned for more than 30 years by a treaty that both the United States and Russia abandoned this month, the Penta…

2002 is calling and wants it's shatter attack back. “Shatter Attacks - How to break Windows.” https://web.archive.org/web/20060904080018/http://security.t...

> there will be always more to find in a complex legacy protocol like this .. Wouldn't it be simpler to drop in a CTF replacement unless the ability to read/write to any window, fr…

‘Well this article doesn't seem very good. Not least because the author seems perfectly willing to not actually explain the detail, and then jump to conclusions .. some customers b…

“Kepler’s forgotten ideas about symmetry help explain spiral galaxies without the need for dark matter – new research” https://theconversation.com/keplers-forgotten-ideas-about-sy.…

allana, your comment has been voted into invisibility :]

Doesn't Microsoft already own Android, sorry that should be Microsoft Android, that's how zdnet refers to it. Seriously though, what a way of doing “business”. Extract revenue out …