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Comment #39898912
The knockee PoC should also be straightforward, can use socat + udp-listen + fork with a script that checks that input matches `sha1sum(secret||num)||num` and `num>previously_seen_…
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Comment #39898717
Don't have to do anything too complicated. Here's the knocker code in a short Bash script, produced by GPT4: ~ % gpt4 'write a very short bash script that takes the number stored i…
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Comment #39898534
> At the point an attacker has remote code execution The attacker doesn't have remote code execution in the xz case unless they can speak to your port 22. Port knocking prevents th…
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Comment #28785812
You're right, I guess it depends on what you choose A and B to be. For: A = OP supports Mozilla making money from address bar ads B = Mozilla is honest about making money from addr…
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Comment #28785537
Except it's not used correctly here. "A iff B" means "A implies B and B implies A". "I'd be willing to entertain, or even support, this way of them making money iff they spelled ou…
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Comment #24817431
> I don't even know how people can say this stuff with a straight face. It's not too difficult to do so, when there are examples of courts banning satirical poems of a foreign lead…
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Comment #23569400
I thought I did? The condescending attitude is unnecessary. Happy to clarify my point if my initial comment was confusing: Websites such as http://panopticlick.eff.org/ showcase ho…
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Comment #23567304
Could you point what you believe to be the issues in the thread?
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Comment #23566954
If nothing else, it significantly reduces the entropy of your IP when websites are fingerprinting you, especially if your ISP assigns you a static IP. Even if you don't have a stat…
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Comment #22642077
There are plenty of homeless people in London.
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Comment #21969500
Honestly, your comments are pretty much an r/wowthanksimcured meme.
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Comment #21664742
> (Hint: go ahead and start interviewing and have semi-serious job leads before this talk) I think this bit of advice is at odds with OP's statement: "I don’t think I’d come across…
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Comment #20681375
Makes me think of the gradual increase of identity politics in mainstream media, politics and liberal circles, to the point it's driving me insane. Most people around me seem undis…
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Comment #20679546
Not thinkpad x1 carbon
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Comment #20621598
I committed the grave mistake of purchasing a laptop with only 8GB ram and I constantly run out of memory as a result. When it happens, I just repeatedly mash alt+sysrq+f until it …
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Comment #20612659
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/07/german-comedian-...
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Comment #16991557
The server would not be able to verify a changing hash without knowing the password
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Comment #16991550
It's unclear to me how your random salt would work. From my understanding, you're suggesting smth like: register: send (username, user_salt, HMAC(user_salt, pwd)) login: send (user…
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Comment #16991494
But the password is only known to the client?
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Comment #16991437
> meaning old hashes wouldn't be accepted and reducing hash "replay" possibilities How would the server even verify the hash, then?
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Comment #16991368
I think one of the things I'd really miss is Google Maps. The directions are really good, and the web app is unusably slow
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Comment #16944885
The last two employees would eat eachother's lunch. The issue is that the last employee has to have the moral integrity to fire himself.
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Comment #16911304
So then all he needed to do is write his name in addition to his IP address in the comment?
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Comment #16899373
It's happened before, with Microsoft, too. They've transitioned from an OS where you pay with cash (win7), to a spyware OS where you pay with cash and your data (win10).