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that's the point at which you say (reasonably accurately) that the 364 byte thing is written in machine code. it is small enough to manually translate between the binary and asm

* Unauthenticated RCE vs all GNU/Linux systems (plus others) disclosed 3 weeks ago. * Full disclosure happening in less than 2 weeks (as agreed with devs). * Still no working fix.

require sufficient info to identify the validation method to be included in an extension in the precert?

It means no extra cost relative to the same car without an AM radio, I think.

In the 2010-2013 era, i did most of my computing over X over ssh on a fast LAN. At the time, YouTube and other video stuff worked fine, and my environment felt as responsive as loc…

This might be less of an option then you'd think. Android software is often compiled assuming the CPU has comparatively recent instruction set extensions. Older devices, especially…

Different applications can have very different requirements. I've worked on systems which would kill for 5% latency and on systems that would gladly pay 5% for better memory usage.…

In the normal course of events, no. If a CA demonstrates itself to be particularly untrustworthy, the actions most root programs might take (adding restrictions, or removing it fro…

From TFA: > This government surveillance has had a measurable chilling effect on Wikipedia users, with research documenting a drop in traffic to Wikipedia articles on sensitive top…

I think their statement is accurate. If they've been accepted into root programs (and it sounds like they have), then the GoDaddy cross-sign is only relevant for older browsers, an…

Very few people actually manage root programs: Mozilla, Apple, Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and maybe one or two others in smaller niches. Everybody else either uses the platform's s…

> Formats like this sort of reenforce Steve Albini's claim that he only records to tape because he's more certain people will be able to play it back hundreds of years from now Thi…

There's at least one example on this thread so far of an actual web dev hitting this on a not-small website causing bugs for an actual user. With a 30px record size, it's only ~600…

> This is dishonest competition (all other major companies do the same but not as blunt: Facebook, Google, Amazon for example). Twitter could be an exception. But it won't. During …

I disagree. Two main points of the article are "nothing is inherently slow about doing stuff in userland (as shown by the fact that we made a fast implementation)" and "kennel inte…

The privately run industry is maybe a tiny bit better, but that's not the point. The point is that the only way browsers have to influence a CA or the industry is the threat to eve…

Google, Mozilla, Apple, and Microsoft all have presence in the EU, and the EU can exert jurisdiction over them. That gives control over the root stores for Chrome, Firefox, Safari,…

> You're saying a State Government can request Google installs a 3rd party app on 1 million phones? If that's true then I'm genuinely astonished. And more so that it wasn't headlin…

1. Some background process, probably part of Google Play services, installed the app. Users were not notified that the app was installed. Eventually the app, once already installed…

>> If you really think about it, the only real difference between main memory blocking and disk blocking is the amount of time they may block. > > This is a somewhat confusing anal…

> An Apple Watch with Crash Detection can only notify authorities if you have your iPhone with you, or if it’s connected to a mobile network or Wi-Fi. from TFA

Keep in mind you should have some some backup way to access your account in case the mac dies. Dunno if Apple IDs support recovery codes or something similar or if you'd actually n…

Most likely, they don't keep any backups with user data longer than a short threshold, e.g 60 days. This is pretty common practice.

Facebook's "phabricator" is very different from OSS, to the extent that at this point probably most of what's left is terminology and architectural boundaries. The diff (PR) UI was…