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likeabatterycar

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    Comment #43052914

    Listening to the audio, this wasn't some surreptitious hot mic recording, he was addressing employees about his frustrations at personally observing them fucking off in meetings an…

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    Comment #43046006

    It's not. This is almost certainly Windows performing certificate validation. The "evidence" was just copy pasted from VirusTotal. In fact he forgot to copy from below the cut, whi…

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    Comment #43045782

    > It is absolutely not that. To suggest this, considering the evidence posted, goes beyond idiocy into potential maliciousness The scary IPs are part of DigiCert's CDN for OCSP res…

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    Comment #43045720

    Probably Windows checking certificate revocation on a signed binary (or linked library).

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    Comment #43040103

    Hit pieces are red meat to this place. They all high five each other, then quietly get into their Teslas for the drive home when no one is looking.

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    Comment #43040009

    HN has been under a major astroturfing campaign lately IMO. The question is who is doing it.

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    Comment #43039448

    Fortune 500s pay Palo Alto millions a year for their product and it's written in... PHP?

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    Comment #43030641

    Yubikey is an event based token. You tap it with explicit intent. If you aren't expecting to tap it, then the fail safe is you don't. It works that way by design. You can't use a s…

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    Comment #43004834

    > is the windows platform hostile to those sort of tools No need for hyperbolics, just say you don't know. The built in Windows Firewall does this. No need to pay for a 3rd party m…

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    Comment #42996170

    Consider adding a mandatory keyword search when submitting a link - like every human-averse helpdesk. Maybe if submitters see something was already submitted 800 times, they'll get…

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    Comment #42993218

    [deleted] Hard to hold a discussion when everyone is arguing in bad faith.

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    Comment #42993158

    > guy in his 50s being forced to beg for his job in a 15 minute teleconference to an arrogant zoomer So, like every private sector job nowadays? Everyone is acting like this is the…

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    Comment #42992889

    How will these people mentally cope with the coming realities of having to trade their $300k comp (some of which didn't require a lot of work during their tenure) for making $80k w…

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    Comment #42992798

    No one in history has ever looked at a piece of machinery and thought, "You know what would make this better? Castration by EU government regulations." Meanwhile the EU bathes in t…

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    Comment #42977771

    Signtool interfaces with any kind of certificate including on smartcard. https://www.mgtek.com/smartcard For automating pin entry

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    Comment #42977702

    What is wrong with Microsoft's free signtool.exe?

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    Comment #42967840

    Or based out of Arizona, home of Tombstone and the OK Corral.

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    Comment #42959625

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