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"i'm seeing two (obvious) bigger picture trends here that this story reinforces. 1. Digital authentication for purchasing is moving towards non-transferable biometrics ( i cant div…

I've heard that people with hyperhydrosis have a lot of trouble with biometrics devices as well as smart phones. If your skin is too moist it just kinda gums up the works.

I think you're being a bit over-dramatic with the "wretched hive of scum and villany" stuff. The commonality of this sort of behavior varies from forum to forum, depending on the m…

What if you crafted a program that mimicked the functionality of an ntp server, and but it had a built in memory of what times have been given out to network clients? Couldn't you …

Finally! Seagate has been dropping the ball on drive stability for a long time now, and the failure rates on these 3TB disks is completely unacceptable. Additionally, seagate's own…

Shodan itself shows that all instances of this database are located in China, and there are 390 instances of it. Top organizations are: China Telecom Yunnan 83 China Telecom xinjia…

Yes. Both NTP and DNS operate over UDP. UDP is a connectionless protocol, which means no connection handshake needs to be made in order for a data to be delivered to a target IP ad…

find / -type f -iname 'ASTERISKsublimeASTERISK' | grep -i settings | grep -v backup

hostname -i on cb.vu says the IP address is 78.31.70.238, but if you ping a host from the interface, the pings originate from 178.33.34.4 (according to tcpdump).

Did you experience major depression prior to taking the drug, or have you talked to any major depressive people who also tried the drug? Have you experienced any negative side effe…

The CVS in my neighborhood sells 24oz cans of 8.1% ABV malt liquor for $1.36/can. Have to wonder how those sales fit into their mission to improve public health.

Maybe. The IP address that is referenced in the subpoena (12.218.239.38) is the IP address of cookcountyboardofreview.com. Maybe that box got hacked and it had access to some big c…

To play devil's advocate, maybe they were only going to adjust the routing behavior of a certain netblock? Still very out-of-bounds if you ask me.

Couldn't it also be argued that the GNU limits user freedom by requiring users never use non-free software?

How will anyone verify that the information being sold is valid?

Depends on the cost, and the hardware & software components that are used. I currently run debian jessie on both my desktop (home-build), and on my cheap hp laptop that I bought a …

Here in Chicago, there are many problems. The most frequent complaint is that drivers purposely break their credit card machines so that payment via card is not possible. The reaso…

To clarify Grecy's statement, netflix offers openconnect[1] for to ISPs as a caching mechanism, and the box contains about 108TB of disk capacity[2]. The boxes are sent to ISPs ins…

Try and query anything.no-ip.biz. At the moment, I'm getting regular timeouts on queries to both ns7.microsoftinternetsafety.net and ns8.microsoftinternetsafety.net. It shouldn't t…

In my opinion, the NTP reflection attacks are a result of a larger problem on the internet - large payloads being delivered without any sort of connection handshake. While it is ea…

I'm not a bios expert, and have a few questions: 1) Everyone keeps saying that a BIOS dump will show what's happening here. If the "BIOS Dump" function a feature of the bios/mother…

Something as simple as an exploit against a php script could lead to unprivileged code execution & something as minimal as memory exhaustion could kill off your sshd process. If th…

If you want to dig a little deeper into anarchism & like gelderloos' writing, he also wrote a popular book called "How nonviolence protects the state", which raises some points in …

Did the disks have SMART errors to begin with? They're a budget provider, you can't expect brand new hardware with every new installation. Though, I'd agree that if the drives had …