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andreaso

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    Comment #14562098

    That sshd only supports the chacha20-poly1305 cipher. Perfectly fine with that, since I'm the only one logging into that server.

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    Comment #14559173

    It appear to have problems with newer chiphers. sshd[28670]: fatal: Unable to negotiate with 40.112.150.31 port 47286: no matching cipher found. Their offer: aes256-ctr,aes192-ctr,…

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    Comment #11272124

    Does it really matter that much what distro it ships with? As long as the laptop ships with any distro preinstalled that hardware tend to be properly supported by the Linux kernel,…

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    Comment #11240732

    I'd imagine there are people who consider the article relevant based on its author. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Leventhal_%28programmer%2...

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    Comment #9783408

    To be fair, at least the Tor Project itself makes a rather serious effort to be upfront with its own limitations, etc. For example, when you use the (recommended) Tor Browser Bundl…

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    Comment #8330653

    Well, if you want you can always manually download and verify the the packages. 1) Find list of applicable binary packages, for example by taking a look at https://packages.debian.…

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    Comment #7898878

    Yepp, and there is already an existing tool, which currently supports GitHub as well as Launchpad. http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/en/man1/ssh-impor... https://launchpad…

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    Comment #7686175

    Well, despite its imperfections, how does DNSSEC worsen security compared to regular DNS? Besides, it's not like the use of DNSSEC prevent you from continuing to also rely on addit…

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    Comment #7667356

    Yeah, I'm getting that same premium experience. Appear to also hit Google Apps as well as any AppeEngine hosted site.

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    Comment #7157719

    Well, FreeBSD 9.0 merged those patches into its OpenSSH. Perhaps that was what was floating in the back of your mind?

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    Comment #6712876

    A bit unhappy about Indiegogo, insisting on "Shipping Address Line Two can't be blank"; when my regular postal address really is fully covered by Name, Country, Address Line 1, Cit…

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    Comment #6700865

    You know, IPv6... I'm getting a false "Your email has been received and it doesn't leak your IP", due to the fact that the web site is only available using IPv4 while I'm connectin…

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    Comment #6329370

    I have a clavid.com openid delegated using my own domain...

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    Comment #5892422

    While I mostly agree I also think that having some legal/jurisdictional protection is a good thing. If nothing else for the case where there turn out to be an exploitable weakness …

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    Comment #5791750

    You appear to threat trust as something binary; either you trust a host or not? In my world trust (as well as security in general) is always a spectrum, or something more multidime…

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    Comment #5491331

    Someone is gracious enough to release their code base, and choose to make a snide remark about their choice of hosting?

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    Comment #4906381

    Building a kernel of your own is fairly trivial. The potentially less trivial part is keeping it up-to-date with security fixes, etc. Not impossible by any means, but it does requi…

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    Comment #4847629

    Regarding FastMail and the US. * FastMail have their servers in New York City (as well as on Iceland). * Opera Software do have an office in the US. I have no idea to what extent t…

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    Comment #3114740

    ...or that they simply considers github to have a more robust server infrastructure?

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    Comment #3051662

    Fairly certain that there aren't any publicized spec for OBML (aka Opera Binary Markup Language, aka the Opera Mini markup language). http://dev.opera.com/articles/view/opera-mini-…

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    Comment #3050034

    No, Opera Mini and Opera Turbo works a bit differently. While Turbo provides compression the actual rendering is always done locally. With Mini on the other hand the rendering is d…