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Don't know if I agree re RC4; BEAST is an issue with CBC, not AES. AES-GCM should be ok, if not superior to the ancient RC4.

The most important part of jb for me is the ability to run an host based firewall, and have per application rules. I use FirewallIP on iOS 5, I hope it works on iOS 6. I block hund…

I find the default iOS popup advertising an app the worst part, by large the app offers extra functionality over the web. the popup disrupts the experience and I also have the same…

One million trees just died. The problem with some of the earlier HP printers was that they would accept unsigned firmware updates, you could literally reflash the thing with an up…

If anyone is reading this, and they use facebook, get the hell off there. Delete your account today. They will always take take take. The most egregious of these kind of rights vio…

It's likely to be an application logic authorization bug; the application doesn't check the context to see if it should return that info. Being web it's something silly like the st…

Problem is he used an auditing/penetration testing tool POST disclosure, and did it without authorization. The availability of these tools puts weapon grade exploits in the hands o…

Except for the remake of total recall... That sucked!

Ugh mail chimp. Isn't it incorporated in Belize? Former home of John "badass mutherfucker" McAfee? Home of endemic corruption from highest levels of government? And we hand over ou…

Nice sentiment but I might be that 1% that pockets that $2k after 4 weeks of corporate brainwashing. Also this is a blog post from 2009 you should tag the article title (2009).

The need for a digital probate policy seems very important. He based this his from esr, and the link to esr is now broken. Is there a central clearinghouse for thes documents? A di…

How did you calculate that? Those units don't quite work out. It's a totally different architecture to your standard i7/radeon home mining rig.

Efficency is mostly about the cost of the hardware (purchase and running costs), power usage and performance. Purchase, running cost and power usage are not part of your efficiency…

Ok well blocks generate at an average of 1 / 15 minutes, so about 96 blocks a day. Each block generate 25 BTC reward. At ~14.00 USD/BTC on MtGox right now that about $34k. So the m…

Say this to the super computer administrators: "im doing pure compsci research; im attempting to find alternative implementations of one-way trapdoor functions to optimize proof of…

Bitcoin. Pay off your student loans one Merkle tree at a time.

Nokia pushed out an update that uses an http proxy for Phone to server TlS. The worst thing about this is that they have diluted their security model (tls in tls is resistant to si…

Nokia is not intercepting your https! They are doing nothing dodgy here. Everyone who says "https interception" is hard, you are right. Unless you can install arbitrary trusted roo…

http://gaurangkp.wordpress.com has this completely wrong. I wished he had published my comment on his blog (I was first post). Nokia is NOT intercepting https. The actual TLS sessi…

Powerful and Popular? Oh I see you mean China! Patents don't mean too much there...

Is bugmenot and retailmenot Australian? I can find references to an American company whaleshark. The rest I find of dubious value as I am not in their target market. I find the Aus…

Really interesting paper but the use of comic sans on the axes labels is a turn off. Why comic sans?? Why? It's a crime against fontology.

I noticed Microsoft was doing this too, publishing psd templates for its smart devices. Problem being that psd is horribly proprietary, all that matters is the geometry, right? Why…

Despite efforts of the EU and the ITU to put the Internet genie back in her bottle, she grows louder and prouder every day. She is still in her formative days, as the old world mon…

Absolutely fascinating. Very helpful advice that you wouldn't read in a mainstream travel guide. Unfortunately corruption is everywhere and knowing how to respond and knowing the l…