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Is there a reason "fork over" and "shell out" can both (roughly) mean "fork and exec a shell" or the seemingly unrelated phrase "pay?"

Stumbled across and started reading A. E. van Vogt's "The World of Null-A" last night. Super trippy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_World_of_Null-A http://www.amazon.com/World-N…

Here's a pretty comprehensive guide: https://help.riseup.net/en/gpg-best-practices

I just posted this Linux Journal article from 20 years ago, "Linux in Antarctica." We've come a long way. [0]: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/2843 [1]: https://news.ycombinato…

Yes, that's my understanding as well; my other comment was sloppy. I'm unsure what was meant by "hook," though. Is that something you set up with the target process running under a…

See links for a bit of reading about how hard it is to break DRM on Spotify or Netflix. They're doing a lot more than Snapchat. The difference between "you just need to reverse eng…

There are trusted software client things (Spotify, Netflix, etc.) that seem to work well enough. Snapchat should be able to do better.

I wonder how they "confirm[ed] out of email that the keys we exchanged were not intercepted and replaced by your surveillants." Key exchange is the hardest part.

I think the weak link in the chain is only after decryption, but before uncompression (for lossy formats, so books excluded). See, for example, [1] and [2], where the authors look …

Steven Levy's _Crypto_ (referenced in the article) is quite good (as is everything he writes).

Check out the stuff made by Alphasmart. A larger display would be nice for editing.

I'm going to get downvoted for being a grammar nazi, but this disingenuous "spokesperson" should know the difference between "insure" and "ensure."

Regarding machines and discoverability: I think an interesting comparison to flesh out would be computers vs. cars. Compare how tinkerers in each came to be (opening up their paren…

I haven't read this book yet, so I don't know about "triggered" vs. "enabled," but it seems relevant (came up in a talk about American companies providing deep packet inspection / …

web of trust

There is an awkward period (after clicking past the warning and before verifying the signed SSL certificate fingerprint) which is no more or less safe than HTTP, but which is more …

The site's audience is going to be technical. She explains how to check the SSL certificate fingerprint here: https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/isis.txt Once you've whitelisted he…

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If you like this, you'll also like Peter Stuge's 30c3 talk: Hardening hardware and choosing a #goodBIOS "A commodity laptop is analyzed to identify exposed attack surfaces and is t…

I just submitted a blogpost from the Tor Project (Mission Impossible: Hardening Android for Security and Privacy) which covers everything between removing the microphone (from a Ne…