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oss-security gets relatively little use? You must know another oss-security. The one I'm subscribed to is very much alive and an important source of information for me.

There are reasons browsers do things the way they do. Experience and user studies have shown that users have a hard time decoding what error messages mean. "This certificate is exp…

My best guess would be some kind of netapp product, as we saw some self-signed certs on hosts that identified as netapp. But netapp didn't answer, and we got either no or no useful…

My prediction would be that it won't become mainstream. Even if it will be practically possible to build quantum computers for average users (given they currently rely on complex p…

I would take this with a very huge grain of salt. The only source seems to be a fringe right-wing news webpage (Apollo News) citing from an internal paper (which, it sounds to me, …

Historic bit: in the late 90s/early 2000s there was a bit of a trend - and quite some tension - of demoscene parties getting taken over by LAN parties. I believe the Gathering used…

As far as cloud service servers are concerned, I don't think ARM CPUs have any meaningful marketshare, right? You could start running things on ARM, but, almost certainly, that com…

I think this one is among the most significant findings: https://factorable.net/ I also believe there were some android ASLR issues based on the same weakness (i.e., low early boot…

Making hydrogen from seawater is not an actual problem that needs solving. The problem with hydrogen electrolysis is its energy requirements to split water. The energy requirements…

I know quite a bit about PKI and X.509, and I can tell you that much: the overlap with how DNSSEC works is limited.

Buy a pack of 20x500mg (just checked, common size in Germany), take 2-3 every half hour for a while. Sure, that's extreme. But if you're unaware of the risks, you feel sick, and yo…

> You're supposed to concatenate all the input numbers, to create a message that has hundreds or thousands of digits; then RSA-encrypt that number. That's not how it works... In mo…

You're training users to click away error messages.

> Has everyone lost their minds? Clearly yes. (Ok, not everyone, but large parts of the IT and software development community.)

Well... There's a long history of people trying to build software that detects bad software. It's known as Antivirus software. It doesn't work very well, because you're up against …

Your understanding is entirely wrong. Most hydrogen fueling stations receive it from the next steam reformer, which will make it from fossil gas.

If the rest of the world wants to still have an industry once we finally decide to seriously use green technology, they should quickly catch up to China - if that's still possible.…

That can't be true, right? I mean, Google broke Adblockers in Chrome to prevent this very issue. And it had absolutely nothing to do with Google's Ad business. So it's completely i…

So their leatherboard of good examples lists nsa.gov with 100 points. Is this a parody?

I used to create a number of simple web pages in XHTML back in the days when we believed XHTML was the future. Recently, while going through and restructuring some of my old "onlin…

Okay, story time: back in 2018, the German government's foreign ministry was hacked. At the time, a colleague of mine (we were both working for the German IT news magazine Golem) f…

I'm certainly a lay person here, so take this with a grain of salt. But my understanding is that this is part of the problem, or more the issue that people criticize. I think it's …

You need an extra tool to download your own photos? That's... not a basic feature? I'm always surprised what kind of antifeatures people in Apple land are willing to accept and sti…

True, but the same is true for therapy. Finding a good therapist isn't easy, and having depression certainly doesn't make it easier.

Where would that come from? It's not that we have some large untapped Oxygen or Nitrogen source laying around that is not part of the atmosphere.