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Is openSSH FIPS certified? [seems like an aweful lot of people, including me, trust it regardless]

There is also the banana pi: http://www.bananapi.org/

It is breath-taking how much Reddit has changed since 2006. That said, I thought the whole idea of Digg/Reddit/Hacker News is that the community moderates itself via voting. Mods s…

In other words...where is my Elysium exoskeleton? Lockheed is working on it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2W23ysgWKI

Why does a dog lick his balls?

Wow, this costs more than a Chromebook!

Xubuntu is the simpliest,light-weight choice that still has a lot of functionality available if you want to turn it on. I am grateful for this choice.

I know upgrades are supposed to work, but they almost never go 100% percent right. Use dpkg/synaptic to backup your installed packages and backup your /home...then commit to the ti…

The reason to secure your network is a good reason to secure your car. Your network and your car can/will be used by bad guys to do bad things. You should care.

Ciphers to avoid DSS, MD5/RC4, SHA-1. Ciphers to prefer ECDH+AESGCM:DH+AESGCM:ECDH+AES256:DH+AES256 A pretty good source/guide: https://hynek.me/articles/hardening-your-web-servers…

Another reminder to use strong, non-default credentials on something that is the edge of your network. I'm still amazed by how many people drive around leaving their cars unlocked.…

Yeah, but the American dreams is to have one good idea and milk it for the rest of your natural life, then pass on the rights to your offspring who can milk it...and so on. That wa…

We don't know how much oil exists,but we do know it is finite. The sun's energy will out last us all, millions of times over. Plants have it figured out. We should ask them. Plus w…

Vote with your bits[and dollars] if you disagree. Nerd rage alone is fruitless without tangible follow-thru.

Slashdot beta, a new redesign, is causing quite a stir these days amongst the vocal majority.

I had no idea about IIS using a different implementation. The More You Know...

If it was your sole purpose in life to bust dams, and then suddenly you were given a cache of unlimited dynamite...what would you do? To the point, when the nature of a thing is to…

He's running on a Windows box?[IIS]

/4chan mode off/

When companies stop focusing on innovation, they start focusing on the bottom line so anything without a easily visible revenue stream gets cut. aka short-sighted thinking is the f…

I know/have-worked-with too many MDs to believe that they are also hackers. I am contending that the hacker is the missing part here.

I use hacker here is a broader sense than someone who writes an app for $platform and names it $-er(terminated with r instead of er).

Just imagine if we had a few thousand hackers working on this stuff full-time, what could be accomplished. Here's hoping it happens.

Much easier to just manipulate the brain... It is how a large portion of this country works already.

On a linux box: [For each set of certs used for each of your public facing sites...] 1. Open a terminal[cd into] /etc/path_to_ssl_certs_folder[per site]. Ex. /etc/ssl/nginx 2. Rege…