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justhere4beer

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    Loved reading his columns back in print magazine days. Found him again changing Leo Laporte's phones language to something other than English. Loved that. Found No Agenda from ther…

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    Comment #35058354

    Alternate title, "Mutually Assisted Suicide." Google drastically underestimates the harm this will cause and grossly overestimates the state of automation.

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    Comment #34468025

    F-16's make sense, they are combat effective. Patriot missiles make less sense. They are crap. The only redeeming value to provide Patriots is to deplete inventory.

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    Comment #34053817

    I remember first watching back when he was on cable via hacked DirecTV cards. Fascinating back in the day. When it went to the podcast/vid, I started losing interest when it became…

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    Comment #33811391

    I spent 15 years helping to build something great, only to be subjected to abusive gaslighting the last 3-5 years. When I quit, I was called irrational and emotional. Same year, 15…

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    Comment #31022433

    I wish this statement to be true "... scams still being a thing over mostly unencrypted traffic any day." Sadly this falls in a similar category of domain validation. I guess, take…

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    Comment #31022311

    I applaud the Let's Encrypt founders, past and current team for solving the automation problem that's plagued the SSL/TLS industry. The yang to that ying is a lack trust. I have ze…

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    Comment #10481368

    A little education goes a long way: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/

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    Comment #10481364

    FIPS isn't trivial. There is a lot of shit crypto on the market, establishing FIPS is not banal. Regardless of FIPS, if not utilized properly, it protects nothing. If utilized corr…

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    Comment #10479174

    Hard to take your article seriously with statements such as "...Levels 1 and 2 of the FIPS140-2 certification are just a marketing gimmick". Even harder to believe Jakob took the t…

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    Comment #9365577

    The moment they mention left/right brain, lost credibility. How long does this myth have to be debunked before it catches up with the mainstream?