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Stierlitz

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About Stierlitz

I mod down every post I don't agree with because I am too intellectually challenged to forward an opposing argument. I only ever come here to have my own prejudices confirmed.

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    Comment #25850805

    "When the telex was sent, once the connection was made, the paper tape was played back to the receiving telex. In this way the message would not be hindered by slow typing with mis…

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    Comment #25849332

    > Why outsource your auth system? To make it easy for the spooks to backdoor your clients systems?

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    Comment #25848945

    > .. jwz dislikes Hacker News .. Why, what's the back story?

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    Comment #25801993

    "One of the concerns .. was the lack of insight into malicious digital (state sponsored) activity towards vital infrastructure." Have these people ever given consideration to not c…

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    Comment #25797459

    @kevin_thibedeau: "She signed a document agreeing to keep secrets. That only requires modest reading skills." Perhaps, the leak and the subsequent outing was part of a deep-state p…

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    Comment #25797401

    > .. as I recall, she shared documents from her workplace that either had printer steganography ID codes embedded into them .. None of which Winner was aware of the existence at th…

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    Comment #25797375

    I highly suspect that whole story, 'Reality Winner' was outed by some yellow dots in the printout.

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    Comment #25755904

    "Things were this way because of Richard Stallman – but I view his influence on these things as negative rather than positive. He was a cause that forced these outcomes, rather tha…

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    Comment #25755675

    "So how do we guard against this type of attack?" Don't allow access to your 'secret' source code from the open Internet.

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    Comment #25753314

    How to remember a password. Use the first and last letter of each word from a quotation, discarding two letter and single letter words. aeshs fdsae meado rlele rdwhsp

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    Comment #25689200

    "On Monday, workers announced the establishment of the Alphabet Workers Union" .. So now, as well as your manager telling you what to do, you'll have your Union Organizer telling y…

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    Comment #25688642

    > .. The WhatsApp server has no access to the client’s private keys .. обманывать

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    Comment #25688255

    > .. the UK High Court has ruled that the security and intelligence services can no longer rely on ‘general warrants’ .. обманывать ;]

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    Comment #25623276

    What would Ray Bradbury think of the 1966 movie version of "Fahrenheit 451"? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060390/

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    Comment #25603111

    What's the logic of using the same remote monitoring software on "computers" used by the intelligence community.

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    Comment #25578699

    > Why the F does a text processor needs to execute anything at first place when reading a document? this is madness. If you're stuck on Windows, make normal.dotm readonly. > And ye…

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    Comment #25543433

    Any particular reason why these two posts were rendered dead? ------- H_Pylori 1 hour ago [dead] [–] Back in the day, Dev-C++ was the ideal IDE for the C/C++ beginner. Simple, easy…

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    Comment #25541333

    @saagarjha > How would this work, and how would it help? Well if the OS is rendered read-only at the hardware level then malware can't take up residence.

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    Comment #25541318

    Or just install MX Linux .. https://mxlinux.org/

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    Comment #25493658

    "The phones were compromised using an exploit chain that we call KISMET, which appears to involve an invisible zero-click exploit in iMessage" Why aren't there a hardware switch on…