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brandontreb
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Comment #32558393
Oh man, I wish I had enough karma to downvote this comment! (I’m in NM ;))
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Comment #24985732
Ahh, this is a great tip. I’ll have to double check now. Thanks.
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Comment #24984079
It's crazy that companies are still using SMS for 2FA. TOTP solves this problem is a much more elegant way and is immune to such attacks.
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Comment #24165173
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Comment #24103871
I'm assuming you are talking about ARGOS tags (more sophisticated tag that actually transmits GPS (last comment was talking about pet tags (which are RFID)), but it's FAR from micr…
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Comment #24102634
That's a 'dumb` RFID chip. I don't think folks are too concerned with offline chips that require close proximity scanning (for power). RFID also doesn't 'track' dogs. They contain …
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Comment #24102387
I can't understand the 'microchip in vaccines' issue. You mean to tell me that my iPhone can't last a full day on a battery charge, however we have microscopic tech capable of trac…
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Comment #18280094
That title font is hard to read.
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Comment #18089823
And he didn’t even provide an affiliate link! I’m impressed.
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Comment #16653222
We have a mix of employees / contractors but usually hover around 9-10. As far as asking questions, it’s about the long game. I aim to build relationships with people and establish…
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Comment #16652142
"I don't have a ton of networking skills" Work on this. I have built my consultancy over the past 6 years and it started with me doing freelance and now we do over $1m/year in reve…
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Comment #16540673
So, code updates from the server doesn't matter as we can hook all of the audio recording APIs at a system level. Their _only_ defense IMHO is to NOT do it on Jailbroken devices. Y…
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Comment #16540476
Interesting. So you are suggesting they may have already considered this and may have some defensive programming around it?
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Comment #16540447
See my response to the other comment about them using private APIS. Basically, we would have to try and guess which APIs they were accessing under the hood. But you are right, this…
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Comment #16540404
It is, however when building a mobile substrate tweak, you have visibility / access to the headers of every single system class. One could theoretically hook into any number of aud…
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Comment #16540090
I did quite a bit of Jailbreak/tweak dev in the past, and I was curious if you could just hook into AVAudioRecorder and show an alert any time it was invoked. So, I did this sort o…
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Comment #11013337
This must be a common joke amongst programmers. We often joke that we should all become potato farmers. Being outside, watching things grow, working with something physical. I tota…
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Comment #7180935
I have that exact same regret.
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Comment #7180524
Make sure to subscribe, that post will be in my upcoming series :)