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The perfect example for how bloated, inefficient, and wasteful the bureaucracies of higher education can become. How did $40m of fraudulent spending go unchecked for literally year…

This could have been an immensely powerful covert communications channel for field operators of military and intelligence services

Well, at companies that actually care about 100% rollout of "corporate, invasive crapware" on computers that _they own_ and that are used to process _company data_ and access _comp…

End of an era... Are there any viable alternatives to Kubernetes and Nomad?

I wonder where this leaves the AWS-sponsored Open Distro for Elasticsearch? ( https://opendistro.github.io/for-elasticsearch/ ) Seems to me that they have no choice but to hard for…

Copyright law is the basis for the legal enforcement of software licenses. License violations usually get pursued under copyright law

There are state laws that require financial institutions to do this actually. Their hands are tied here. It's called "escheatment". https://www.sec.gov/fast-answers/answersescheath…

> does not directly answer to any legislative, judicial, or executive authority. This is patently false. The Securities and Exchange Commission accredits and oversees all national …

Should be corrected to "Vendor-Locks", as well.

Does this defend against any additional attack surface that wasn't already defended by the UEFI Secure Boot standard?

Your comment is technically correct, but misleading. In fact California specifically does not tax ex-residents for income arising from the disposition of stock acquired with ISOs, …

Bad, in my view. (Although I am not a lawyer, and would definitely appreciate input from one here!) Hardware offload of a network protocol is an extremely generic concept and this …

And emerging QUIC acceleration technology is likely to be stifled by intellectual property laws. Intel has already filed (in 2019) for a European patent that seems to claim invento…

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

I noticed that throughout this thread you have been making this assertion. Could you share any data or citations to support this? Would you feel any differently about the value of …

Wow, an ATO exploit that only received a $6,500 bounty? This signals to grey-/black-hat researchers that their research efforts or Slack bug disclosures are best directed elsewhere…

The FOSS community would be a lot safer if Oracle didn't exist.

Are there any decent alternatives to Unifi APs or home switches and routers? Willing to pay a modest premium, even.

There's a subtle difference between AGPL and the Commons Clause licenses. AGPL requires network-accessible code to be disclosed & licensed under an AGPL-compatible license. The Com…

The third demo screenshot [1], which contains a toy implementation of AES in CBC mode, is a great example of why cryptography is hard to get right. Implementation is best left to c…

Why did they publish his SF-86? This seems like a very irresponsible invasion of Brennan's personal privacy; nothing in there could possibly be of legitimate public interest.

Describing a contract as "bulletproof" and drafted by "top attorneys" is likely considered puffery [1] under the law, and should be fine in my opinion. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org…