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> "After this story published, Apple told [Kim Zetter] they just posted the instruction about the DIT to their web site yesterday [MAR 21], timed to the public release of the resea…

Kim Zetter has a great post walking through some details and commentary across a few sources, related to the vulnerability - https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/apple-chips/ > The crypt…

I distinctly remember IV being big in the patent troll space, but I haven't seen anything recently. It looks like in the past ~8 years they have moved on or stopped for some reason…

I really don't understand how they can make this statement: > The report states that when the car started, security video shows the owner in the driver's seat, contradicting report…

I believe the difference here is the temperature. If you look at KSTAR's operating tests you can see that they have run for 72 seconds in the past, so they must be implying 20 seco…

This is where I diverge from Jimmy, as he is misinterpreting what the commenter is saying. The commenter is talking about _audit logs_ of changes to Wikipedia being kept in WORM co…

Here is a good example of an attack against a system secured by SMS based 2FA: https://medium.com/@CodyBrown/how-to-lose-8k-worth-of-bitcoi...

Exactly. The case is not alleging that Walmart is engaging in a broad conspiracy, despite what the title of the article seems to suggest. It is simply saying that the plantif was t…

Correct. There were several goals with the launch. The primary was successful payload insertion, the secondary goals were the successful return of the outer two boosters to land, a…

On a related note here is a proposal for a recent update to the animal emoji set. It's interesting to see the factors they consider when choosing whether or not to integrate a new …

For not impressed I use one of these four: - https://emojipedia.org/neutral-face/ - https://emojipedia.org/expressionless-face/ - https://emojipedia.org/unamused-face/ - https://em…

This was a very helpful explanation, thank you! Does using hexagons represent the start of a paradigm shift for mapping applications or is it something that has been used for a whi…

Vitamin D is fat soluble and isn't cleared by the body as quickly as other vitamins such as B. Therefore it can be taken in higher doses, but less frequently. This is often done fo…

Here is some more context - http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/169166980422/the-myst... The connection between the linked article in this comment and the linked page for this p…

Take a few minutes to read the blog posts by the creator. Writing aside the general process and motivation around creating a custom hashing algorithm is very strange - "Curl-P was …

IOTA's relationship with top-tier companies was more than nebulous it was intentionally deceptive. They stated they had a partnership with Microsoft's Azure, when in fact they were…

You could just take a different route

Those aren't equivalent comparisons. The issues with Ethereum have all been with regards to implementations of applications on top of the ETH layer - parity bug and DAO hack being …

Yup, that's why Dash coin has partnered with KuvaCash to help fight inflation and provide easier access to funds in Zimbabwe - https://www.dash.org/2017/11/23/KuvaCash.html It'll b…

Absolutely. The 24hr trading volume on gdax.com (connected to Coinbase) is 15,524 BTC (~$93,144,000) and that's just the BTC/USD market on a single exchange.

That may be the case with their free accounts or money earning YouTube accounts, but that is not the case for subscription based GSuite business accounts. The GSuite accounts are s…

That's a great idea! Does anyone know if this technique works with iOS 10? The linked blogpost is for iOS 7 and 8

Bingo. While there are issues with the developers and their decision making process the real issue is with the large mining conglomerates that control huge portions of the network.…

I totally agree that most web pentesters don't generally need to know how buffer overflow and binary exploitation techniques work but I think an understanding of how low level syst…

Unfortunately I can't get into too much detail because I had to sign an NDA (to prevent cheating). But the process was similar to when I have found them in the wild: identify the a…