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I agree with the distinction you make between targeted and non-targeted. But I think being able to easily accomplish targeted attacks on SSL/TLS is a cause for concern -- and indee…

The traffic between the attacker and the private network would have been properly encrypted. Assuming they chose a sensible cipher suite, where is the "crypto flaw"? Maybe the prob…

"... breaks the trust model of SSL/TLS," Certainly some of the encryption one can get via SSL/TLS is worth something. (But then one could use that encryption outside of TLS, too.) …

Does RT still use mrsync? Great program.

Boots from SD card. Uses U-Boot for bootloader. Hardware support in two BSD projects as well as Linux. Godspeed.

That's why I'd prefer a search engine that was not using AWS, or Yahoo. Too many needless dependencies. Out of curiousity I'm starting a counter today. Will post something when thi…

Why do they say "duckduckgo-owned"? It appears they are using AWS. Who really owns the server? echo 50.18.192.251 duckduckgo.com >> /etc/hosts Avoids needless DNS lookups; saves DN…

So it's not possible to log on without enabling Javascript? I guess that's one way to coerce the user into enabling Javascript, at least temporarily.

"We started out collecting this information by accident, as part of our project to automate everything, but soon realized that it had economic value." Is he saying the end results …

Stallman's writing is reminiscent of The Jargon File or FOLDOC. There are many "silly" terms like the ones you mention in those collections. (More on textfiles.com.) Stallman was a…

"...I'm not sure if you are trying to imply that Stallman brought us the Internet..." No. The opposite. I'm trying to draw attention to the fact that besides free open source softw…

I'll bet Zuckerberg and countless Facebook employees have used software written by Stallman. At the risk of being wrong, I'd even go so far as to say they need this software. But d…

OP: "... cemented them as assholes in my mind." That's "name-calling". But I understand the need to detach the silly hyperbolic responses my comment triggered. I was not expecting …

"... linux laptops were being reformatted to run windows." Microsoft/Windows is a cancer. Ballmer once said Linux was a cancer. He later retracted, after it was well-known Microsof…

In the late 1990's when they started, around the same time as Metafilter, maybe Google was honestly trying to rank websites based on href's, as some perceived indicator of website …

Well said. As a result of advances in technology, news, scholarly research, books, music, film, etc. can all be created and distributed by _anyone_, because it can be done at lower…

The way they word these releases certainly makes it sound like they have users' best interests in mind. But honestly, as you have highlighted, these announcements should be insulti…

Page looks great in my text-only browser (no ad-blocker needed). Thank you AdTech Operator, even if it was not intentional.

Do you think there could be any bias when the newspapers, or for-profit search engine projects, who rely on selling advertising "space" as their "business", report on the practice …

"This is cool." Not just cool, but useful. "UEFI" should have been a Forth-like REPL like Sun, FreeBSD, OLPC, etc. The output of rappel reminds me of an "assembly level debugger" I…