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This recent one in regards to an AVG Chrome extension is slightly "less-worse" than this TrendMicro issue: https://code.google.com/p/google-security-research/issues/de...

Careful about installing Influxdb and Telegraf on the same system via RPM (maybe DEB too), they both share common paths and filenames, and cause one (or the other) not to start. ht…

Have you used cyanite in any meaningful way? The original author's (pyr) repo has been pretty dead. This person has been doing a lot of good work: https://github.com/mwmanley/cyani…

Would it be possible to use this method against something like a Java app loaded in tomcat where as to test for bugs within a certain library? Say, for instance that I wanted to se…

Curious how/if Redhat would deal with date-based versioning. 2.6.32 was originally released ~6 years ago and for-better-for-worse their frequent security patching would make the or…

I think the more interesting part is the comments that crept out of the wood work days after the article was posted to HN. hautit 5 days ago (1 comment - account created 324 days a…

Re #1: Correct. Re #2: Unless you are a contractor. I was shocked to learn how much the about-to-retire ~20-30 year guys were making compared to my mid/senior level long-term contr…

I am not sure about medium-risk public trust positions, but for high-risk public trust positions (think access to PII, social security # type stuff) they require an in depth person…

Indeed. You can do this using the BMW manufacturer software (which is comically not hard to find), at least for the E9* series of BMW's. Not sure about the newer F3* series, but I …

There was also this one[1] from a couple of years ago (that you may be referring to?) where with a inexpensive kit, a thief could intercept the drivers key fob transmissions to ope…

My car's USB port can barely charge my Samsung Galaxy 5.... I can't imagine how long it would take via radio wave.

"Has everybody in IETF forgotten CNN's exponential traffic graph from 14 years ago?" Any ideas?

As someone who is in the process of cutting the cord (just ordered some gear, very excited!), I am hoping that the KODI(XBMC)/MythTV/etc community will work on something that integ…

Yea, you're right; I thought that some context might be needed after I posted. They aren't related whatsoever, however the thought process of being put into the same position as th…

I'll add my two cents a non-Brit: I have never heard of the ICO until this thread. Someone please correct me, but the closest thing we have in the states may be contacting the Atto…

They have 3 other brands: http://photobox.co.uk http://uk.paper-shaker.com https://sticky9.com Only the later seems to enforce SSL. I registered a dummy account on photobox, userna…

The author may have, mistakenly, attributed a quote as fact from one of the interviewees. Interestingly enough, from the same link, Dupont appears to have invented/optimized a mois…

I've taken a personal record number of UberX rides, 3, in the last week. I prefer not taking them if I can help it, but safety trumps politics sometimes. Regardless, each driver I …