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There should be recalls from more manufacturers. Someone I know purchased a surveillance camera with a major brand name (Samsung) from Costco [0] just a few weeks ago that gave me …

> probably the more likely scenario is that some insider leak some of the distributors private keys which would allow certain releases to be cracked - but would likely also trigger…

I think that's because OCI currently only has a specification for the runtime, not the distributable image. But it seems like as of a few weeks ago, work is underway to standardize…

Yep, I agree and that's where I install stuff on everything other than OS X. One distinction though, I think, is that most of the stuff I install on OS X I don't want to be availab…

Mostly because of my (perhaps irrational) OCD in not wanting to touch global system paths or files, even though under FHS /usr/local is where you're supposed to install manually-ma…

I'm curious to know if there's a reason everyone installs Homebrew in /usr/local (other than it being the default installation path). I've always chosen to install it in ~/.homebre…

Why did Stellar decide on using Facebook accounts to enforce the one account per person rule, instead of something better like mobile numbers? There are more people with cell phone…

Sure, they wouldn't be able to proxy all HTTP requests through their own servers like they're doing now, but they'd still be able to do MITM attacks at the IP level. They're alread…

You're right. Maybe if they turned on and required SSL for everyone visiting www.youtube.com and added www.youtube.com to Chrome's preloaded HSTS list and somehow got everyone to u…

Yeah, looks like they're mucking with the routes for Google Public DNS anycast IPs. EDIT: More evidence that this is what's happening (they're doing to same to OpenDNS's anycast ad…

Can you do a traceroute to 8.8.4.4? If it's actually reaching Google's network, then yeah, they're doing deep packet inspection on DNS traffic. If not, they're probably just routin…

Good point. I just checked that file ever since it was open-sourced in 10.8 and it stays exactly the same throughout all of 10.8.x (10.8 - 10.8.5) and only changes in 10.9. (You ca…

Here's a diff of that file from OS X 10.8.5 (Security-55179.13) to 10.9 (Security-55471): https://gist.github.com/alexyakoubian/9151610/revisions Check line 631. Appears seemingly …