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To describe "Predictable firmware randomness can expose wallet seeds and ephemeral private keys" as severity "high" and not "critical" is a severe understatement. If I machine mode…

One reason for waves is that end-users had the option to add additional entropy via dice rolls mixed in with the bad internals or an arbitrary BIP39 passphrase mixed in after the i…

From my perspective, the bug became shallow because the machine world extended the number of effective eyes. The aphorism applied, but just not fast enough as it took too long to g…

One comedy that did a good job of depicting programmers with no sense of hope circa 1999 was Office Space.

Interesting summary. The relationship with some Arab speaking states has had some recent relevance.

Consider this. There are circumstances in Venezuela that some would consider worthy of a civil war. This award winner has chosen peaceful resistance, acts that may have prevented w…

In my experience, the 10-15 year old salvaged computer that still works okay with GNU/Linux is increasingly a 64 bit machine. Case in point, I'm writing on a x86_64 laptop that was…

This is correct. But it can talk in their ear and be a good sycophant while they attend. For a Star Wars anology, remember that the most important thing that happened to Anikin at …

I'm curious if Wine and ReactOS can run this, sounds like a good stress test.

Skullspace is a hackerspace in Winnipeg, Canada. On Saturday April 1st we are having our hackerspace festival Hax ( https://hax.skullspace.ca ). As part of this, we are seeking one…

Not only does the government have the right to destroy it, but so does anyone else. There's no reasonable expectation of recovery when you launch a balloon calibrated to go globe-t…

Switching.

They have a good FAQ on this: https://support.starlabs.systems/kb/faqs/ami-aptio-v-vs-core... The AMI UEFI firmware behaves like most UEFI firmwares these days and locks out writes…

Tell me an appeals court was unimpressed, dawg.

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It makes sense that planted trees are not thriving in ecosystems where there wasn't already trees naturally. If the conditions were so good for tree growth, you would have a lot of…

The solution is to use an HSM such as the Nitrokey/Purism Librem Key (same thing) that has a LED that lights up if boot integrity is fine, including a TPM secret matching (maid can…

One nice thing about the work showcased here is that it bootstraps TCC on its journey to GCC. At some point we could see attempts to bootstrap tccboot as a kind of "escape pod" fro…

Nice work Fossy and co. I believe this is this is the dependency chain your live-bootstrap works through: https://github.com/oriansj/talk-notes/raw/master/live-bootst...

I'm a little miffed the section headings for chapter 2 on forks doesn't have king forks!

I consider "mainline" more clear, using it in a currently unreleased project.

EV was also my intro to hacking. I'm considering teaching a "intro to hacking -- by way of game mods" course at my hackerspace some day using Endless Sky or NAEV.

There's even a technical name for this kind of money, scrip.