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Endpoint Detection and Response. Basically a new term for antivirus/antimalware but that reports back to defenders and helps them respond to malicious software that may be on the d…

There's one on there that's $28.58 - $8,000.00 per hour that's especially hilarious. Assuming 40 hours a week for 52 weeks that's roughly $60k - $16.6 million for a salary range. O…

That you can make money through arbitrage is not the definition of a security. See my link above.

See the Howey Test: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/h/howey-test.asp Airline Miles don't grant you access to a portion of the profits from the airline. They aren't an investment…

Your example is George Floyd. * He was accused of passing a counterfeit $20 bill, we still don't know if Floyd created the bill or even knew it was counterfeit. For all we know he …

For what it's worth the phone portion is a voice call where you have to enter a number with touchtone.

You do not have to even talk to AWS to remove the MFA from the root account. You simply need access to the phone number on the account (though there are ways around the phone numbe…

How excellent the ASN.1 tooling is depends on which subset of ASN.1 you're using. Some of the tooling supports one iteration of ASN.1 or the other. To the degree that the IETF had …

I know of at least one problem with ASN.1. The string encodings other than UTF-8 are terrible. Most of the string encodings are very limited and weird subsets of ASCII that nobody …

There is an option in the settings to make it not actually call unless you press a further UI button on the iPhone. In Settings go to Emergency SOS. Uncheck Auto Call

I think you need to turn on the power button clicking 5 times feature by turning on the "Call with Side Button" option in Settings under Emergency SOS. I'd also suggest turning off…

At least on iPhones though they have a way to activate a mode that prevents the use of TouchID and FaceID. If I press the power button on my phone 5 times in a row that turns that …

Could be. I don't believe the old fobs were bluetooth. For what it's worth I also didn't mention that at least the old fobs also had an RFID in them that if the battery was dead yo…

No the car does not require a remote connection to work. See my detailed explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29283262

There are 4 ways to unlock a Tesla. * Via Bluetooth from your phone. Model 3 and Y used this as the primary way of unlocking. This does not require a Tesla server. It's just local …

By the economic catastrophe causing us to elect a president who dismantled a group that worked to monitor and respond to global health issues to prevent them from becoming a pandem…

Yubikey 4 and newer supports 4096 bit keys with PGP: https://www.yubico.com/products/compare-yubikey-4-neo/ https://www.yubico.com/products/compare-yubikey-5-series/

My signature ended up changing over time and I had to update my signature with the county elections office in Washington to stop my ballots from being rejected. So really not sure …

There's quite a few MIG-17 with FAA registrations. https://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry/AcftRef_Results.asp... The original article says it's the last airworthy MIG-17PF, while…

I find it strange that the article says that Java uses /dev/urandom by default. When I've been having to configure Java to use /dev/./urandom for years to deal with the fact that i…

There are collision attacks against SHA-1. But the currently known collision attacks aren't a big problem for git for a variety of reasons. Git uses hashes that include more data t…

So if it were me trying to bypass this system rather than trying to make increasingly complex and expensive projectiles to try and defeat the system I'd just make increasingly chea…

All this is doing is allowing the server (or client since the protocol allows client certificates to do the same thing) to use a different key pair with a shorter validity period t…

You do realize that all vehicles have risks of fire or explosion. In order to make a vehicle with sufficient energy density to be usable for transportation you have to take those r…