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Tell me about it! We've got slightly under 10'000 distinct software assets we are trying to catalogue. There are now a handful of vendors claiming to be able to scan for crypto, bu…

I work as a security architect in a major European company. We're currently demanding a full cryptographic inventory of every new product purchased or service built in-house and wi…

The check for citizenship is not done at the polling place; it's done at the time of voter registration with plenty of accepted IDs.

ZFS on Linux works great, but with most distributions, it will compile the kernel module on device upon installation. Only Ubuntu distributes binaries. As a consequence, you don't …

There's bias and then there's ignoring all of your own laws when it's convenient.

There are very limited seats (a few teens of thousands). Free market logic dictates that the 100000 richest fans get the tickets. If you don't like it, you are not a true believer …

*in the US

It is absolutely bonkers to think about using UV to disinfect human skin, let alone the inside of the human body. Any UV radiation strong enough to destroy the cells of bacteria is…

Nope. You have to possess a valid ID or passport, but you are not required to carry it. Keeping it at home is perfectly fine. Carrying it is practical and most Germans do carry the…

We are as close as you can get, but we estimate that we're about 3.5% away from true optimum on the hardest problem we try to optimize.

Absolutely true in the real world; I was part of a real team that explored quantum optimization algorithms as part of a strategic initiative (my day job is algorithmic optimization…

Logistics would love to optimize the traveling salesman problem.

X$ for the ticket plus a convenience fee/service fee for standing in line.

What difficulties do you mean? We got Sepa instant transfers nowadays...

How is that a ban?

It's in all kinds of medicine. People take some pills and then add a cough syrup, not noticing that the syrup also contains it as an active ingredient.

Stealing is one possible problem (transactions out of country are really hard to claw back), but the major fear is probably stability. You won't like the consequences if a signific…

That are paid (if not avoided) at the location of the owner, not the location of the dc. Datacenters really aren't that good for the locals. Low property tax, just tens of jobs but…

Just be aware that DW is literally government propaganda. If you want news from a German perspective, it's great; however its purpose is explicitly to give the German governments P…

A steam sauna originating in Turkey, popular in many Arabic countries.

People with 2 minimum wage jobs have even less time.

That would be about 10-15 years after the moment it would have been wise to migrate to PQC. You won't have the time to migrate before breach when you start after ECC is broken.

They are selling access to GPU computation. Seeking their used GPUs would flood the market with cheap competitors using their old GPUs.

Most admins on Wikipedia are competent in areas outside of webdev and security.

Those usecases are at least 5 years if not 10 years out. They require software support which won't come until a significant part of the pc market has the necessary hardware for it.…