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Tecuane

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About Tecuane

British-Australian senior information security consultant, specialising in red-team scenario development/execution and tailored access operations. Go programmer. Opinions are actually yours.

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    Comment #22516014

    Relevant article, for the curious: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/malcolm-turnbull-prime-mi...

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    Comment #22379129

    DO's branding and a lot of their offering is pretty good, but their locations for non-US customers are much worse than many of their competitors. For instance (and a particular poi…

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    Comment #22285721

    > Inside of the home directory a file ~/.identity contains the JSON formatted user record of the user. It follows the format defined in JSON User Records. Why couldn't this have go…

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    Comment #20682383

    Passwords for Blizzard accounts are also case-insensitive, as they are converted to upper case before hashing. Try it! I first found this while working on a WoW server emulator in …

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    Comment #19518002

    I feel like as a collective set of industries across development and security we have been telling people for years not to reinvent the wheel because it's easier to stand on the sh…

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    Comment #19473399

    This sort of thing could not appeal to me any more, honestly. I've been trying to work out the most cost-efficient way of doing exactly this. Of course, I am aware that _the_ most …

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    Comment #19470095

    I've played WoW for something like 11 years, from its peak in around 2008-2010 and through its slow decline since. Logging in now and having the reality that this game is actually …

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    Comment #19459899

    My understanding of the policy matches the parent comment from communications I've had. Is this a recent policy change?

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    Comment #19458840

    I believe that at one stage the Quad9 resolvers were owned by IBM. A brief look at the site indicates it was transferred to CleanerDNS, which is a 501(c)(3). Do you know how much i…

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    Comment #19252771

    This is a rather unique take on Go that I haven't seen before. A quick scan of your post history indicates you feel quite strongly (negatively) about Go. May I ask what inspired th…

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    Comment #18888017

    That would probably be ICANN[1], and most authoritative name servers follow the policies set out there as the guiding committee is part of ICANN[2]. There are alternative DNS roots…

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    Comment #18822873

    > I wish there were fully functional privacy focussed ROMs that was shipped by Android OEMs. I'm sure everyone on this discussion board knows why this will never be the case, unfor…

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    Comment #18271735

    > Gitlab supposedly is Google-backed, so I don't want to have my private code there. This strikes me as odd. May I ask why usage of GCP is a deal-breaker for you? While I can under…

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    Comment #18126873

    I admit I'm not an American citizen, and have never actually stepped foot on American soil, but I do see the "first amendment" and "free speech" arguments being trotted out for alm…

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    Comment #18036270

    Looks like I have to be "that one", this time: Given there's a custom Git library in use under the hood, I don't suppose there'll be Mercurial support in the future?

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    Comment #17913903

    I used Ulysses but I ended up moving to Bear[1]. It's still. a subscription fee, but much cheaper ($1.49/mo). It's lightweight and perfect for what I use it for - taking notes. If …

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    Comment #17729878

    I really like Wire, for a large number of reasons - privacy and user experience among them. I've talked about it in the past[1]. If you get the time, please give it a proper whirl.…

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    Comment #17549058

    >I do forget to remap the esc key each time I do this, or the name of the thingie that helps you do that I don't suppose it's Karabiner[1], is it? This is the one I'm most familiar…

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    Comment #16671776

    As far as I'm aware they consider it to be a feature, and I don't particularly disagree. The rationale is that if somehow someone else manages to add a device to your account (whic…

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    Comment #16656935

    In Matrix, E2EE isn't enabled by default[1], and the option to enable it is in fact marked with a warning that it comes with potentially unwanted side-effects. This isn't the same,…

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    Comment #16655743

    Wire[1], another E2EE chat application (using libsignal, just like WhatsApp and Signal itself), does not require this. It also has open-sourced its client and server applications[2…