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    In newer versions, it's disabled by default and you have to do something like this to enable in ~/.ssh/config: Host * EnableEscapeCommandline yes

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    Comment #46254275

    See https://doctorow.medium.com/como-is-infosec-307f87004563 > This is the same failure mode of all security-through-obscurity. Secrecy means that bad guys are privy to defects in …

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    Comment #45358621

    I assume the scanner is a separate library/service that receives the contents and returns a boolean safe/malicious result, and the implementation using MD5 to avoid expensive re-sc…

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    Comment #45022956

    While the default is indeed to lock the entire database, it has been an option for 15 years to avoid this: https://www.sqlite.org/wal.html

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    Comment #33140469

    > After several lawsuits and years of backlash Paypal has stopped seizing people's money illegally. Flipper Zero project might disagree: https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/flipper_zero…

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    Comment #31557585

    I made my own CA for this because nothing else could provide transparency regarding certificate issuance (whether an attacker issued a "spare" backdoor certificate) - source code: …

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    Comment #31406621

    Why do you mention AVR? AVR-GCC has C++ support, that's what made the original Arduino (before they switched to ARM) approachable to beginners.

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    Comment #30396570

    > I'm not even sure it's working in the EU yet? It's called PSD2 and it applies EU-wide since September 2019. Banks have to make _some_ form of API available to third parties. Howe…

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    Comment #29629839

    Not sure about VLC, but ffmpeg has great support for Blackmagic, you just have to download the Blackmagic SDK, compile ffmpeg with Blackmagic support (and the SDK in path) and then…

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    Comment #28758023

    Erlang supports hot reloading by design with no limitations. There can even be some threads using the old and some using the new version simultaneously. It was designed for phone e…

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    Comment #27672284

    Not necessarily -- there can be a number of reasons one can access localhost over the loopback interface that does _not_ imply root access: SSRF, misconfigured tunnels, or just a p…

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    Comment #26062528

    Yet we've had people argue that they wouldn't give us the public part of their JWT RSA signing keypair, because "they wouldn't publish that anyway", hence this post.

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    Comment #25231022

    Tresorit comes from Hungary, they just made a business entity in Switzerland to look better from security/privacy perspective. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tresorit#History

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    Regular SSH won't work if your IP address changes since it uses TCP where sessions are tied to (IP address, port) tuples. However mosh uses UDP and its own session management schem…

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    That wouldn't work for HTTP(S) or anything else that works over TCP since the reply would go towards the fake source IP address, thus the attacker couldn't even get past the 3-way …

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    Comment #23817889

    But those wouldn't take most of the world's public git repos down all at once just because of a single issue. Single points of failure have a bad reputation for a reason.

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    Comment #21934435

    That's only relevant if you're using it to make signatures, thus you can make two inputs that hash to the same digest, and signing that digest creates a signature that's valid for …