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This could be handy for joining a fledgling peer-to-peer network, where there are connected peers forming a network, but for one reason or another new nodes cannot find them - just…

Does this mean that a huge transaction for the right amount will hit the perfect low note, and cause everyone within earshot of listentobitcoin.com to simultaneously crap themselve…

I don't understand why it's necessary for the server to be open, and have recursion enabled. I run a couple of authoritative name servers and have seen them used for amplification …

That's ~600GB compressed - over 9TB when decompressed...... extremely slowly by ZPAQ. Seriously, at current rates the entire data set would take over 100 days to decompress on my c…

This is a way cool idea. Probably not the best thing to happen to the internet on a daily basis, but an amazing project nevertheless. Just waiting for someone to start mining bitco…

Land? A single spoofed TCP SYN packet with identical src/dst addresses was enough to crash or at least impact many OSs. http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/physnet/security/vulnerabi…

From a site owner's perspective: if you have a LOT of data then scraping can be very disruptive. I've had someone scraping my site for literally months, using hundreds of different…

I checked my logs and there are several fetches from 72.94.249.37 and 72.94.249.38, over a number of domains that I host. None are particularly popular as far as the greater intern…

Another hole that has been exploited in the past (speaking generally here, not about this specific startup) is a password reset function that confirms the email address it is sendi…

You could also argue that designing for the average phone may be holding others back. My Nokia N900 has a screen 800px wide, supports CSS, can display inline images, execute flash,…

Last time I looked into javascript based mining perhaps a year ago, the effective earnings for a site with a few thousand uniques per day was only a few cents. Considering that a C…

Speaking of slowdowns - until recently, a gmail login quietly set cookies by redirecting through multiple subdomains during the "Loading" prompt. Most notable was that it passed th…

Agreed. More likely a catastrophic and significant loss for a small number of customers rather than a fraction of a percentage of loss for a large number. Similar deal for hard dri…

I've seen forum participants give matter-of-fact, state-the-obvious replies which I'm pretty sure must have come from simple.wiki. I don't think it's a bot, just someone copying an…

It really is a disgusting hack, and specific to FreeBSD. It does need to be a bit more sophisticated than "block an IP if it floods me" because as it is now someone can simply spoo…

I've been seeing a lot of reflector attacks in the past couple of weeks, where the attacker sends a relatively small query for a valid domain that will return a large reply. The tr…