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It is a security measure, as it involves authentication through the series of knocks. It's a weak security measure on its own, so you obviously wouldn't want to rely on port knocki…

Looks rather nice, reminiscent of drawing using Teletext (e.g. http://teletextart.co.uk/ , http://www.bbcbasic.co.uk/bbcwin/manual/bbcwinh.html ).

If the port knocking was obscuring an unauthenticated root shell then you would have a good point, but this is a defence in depth measure that adds to the security. It helps becaus…

Hopefully a lot better than the Linux kernel: http://www.cvedetails.com/product/47/Linux-Linux-Kernel.html...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction

You can uninstall it with an administrative Powershell using this command: Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.WindowsStore | Remove-AppxPackage Would this not continue to work?

> Unfortunately the QR code might be an improvement over Windows 8 and 8.1 if the QR code contains more detailed information. The QR code shown in the example screenshot is just a …

The USA has a lot of catching up to do with the rest of the world then. Six weeks paid leave is paltry compared to the vast majority of countries.

Most of the commentary here so far is really quite tangential to the actual research done. Everyone commenting on this article should make sure they've read the study first, with p…

It does appear to be some encoding issue relating to the Unicode "→" (U+2192). Encoded with UTF-8, this is represented by the three bytes 0xE2 0x86 0x92. In the TeX EC encoding, th…

After the initial period of adaptation, I found it actually increased productivity. Perhaps it was just preventing already-established bad habits that arise from having the interne…

On the topic of work environment: in one job I worked at, we had the Internet machines completely separated from the work machines. If you needed to check something you had to phys…

Unsurprising that they've ceased to accept Bitcoin. The only significant use cases thus far have been ransomware and buying recreational drugs. And early adopters cashing out of th…

Only in the amount of effort one is willing to expend in doing so, and learning any necessary skills. It's only a happy accident that so many (relatively inexpensive) routers are e…

If you're buying a device to replace the stock firmware with something customised to your liking, then you're already in the hacker mindset, so having to tinker that little bit har…

Is this really that much of a problem? Circumventing the block sounds like it could be a rather interesting technical challenge.

In what ways is the BSD networking stack superior?

There's no known API to read the UID out (there is one to use it, or the GID, or any other AES key: http://iphonedevwiki.net/index.php/IOCryptoAcceleratorFamily... ), no published …

You can't parallelise it like that, because the passcode check relies on an unreadable AES key (the UID) that is unique to that particular iPhone.

Interesting technique, but it doesn't remove the long interval between permitted passcode attempts - an equally important problem for brute-forcing. So the FBI would most likely st…