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Are non-sequiturs always malicious? For example, suppose you have a news site, and it has a story about Ukraine, followed by a story about school shootings. Even if two links next …

Alex Oh worked for a law firm which represents Exxon. That law firm was accused of obstructing a deposition to avoid providing answers to the other side. [1] >ORDERS defense counse…

Stingrays are more useful as an investigative tool than an evidentiary tool. DNA is the other way around.

Believe it or not, I was already aware of all of those things, having followed a number of criminal defense blogs. If you read the article and appellate decision which is linked, i…

>taking the life of an innocent The prosecutor isn't unilaterally deciding whether the DNA evidence is valid. There will be a public hearing where both the prosecution and defense …

>My prediction: this firm will probably try to get removed from the case, rather than open source their shitty code. That isn't necessarily their choice. The prosecutors will make …

Why couldn't you attach to the screen, press Ctrl-C, then press up arrow to get the original command?

That's a thoughtful answer; thank you.

>First, the client makes an unauthenticated request to the server to retrieve the password salts associated with the username. If no user is found, an error is returned to the clie…

I was looking for a more technical response. e.g. How are new blocks created? Proof of work, predefined functionaries, something else? You say you have SPV proofs which allow a ful…

How does your service differ from NameCoin?

The article also suggests that COVID was maybe an inside job, and that it's unpatriotic to follow health restrictions. (Not in exactly those words, but it warns about "acquiescing"…

Apple says they're going to move to an HTTPS based system, so the relevant comparison is between HTTPS and DNS, not HTTP and DNS.

Then the question is, "how much do I trust my ISP/DNS provider?" Those DNS lookups tell your ISP 1) that you use a mac and 2) that you have an application from a specific developer…

So what happens if a removed function is called? Or can you guarantee that won't happen?

Note that minority shareholders have some rights, though this varies by state of incorporation: (PDF warning) https://www.ibanet.org/Document/Default.aspx?DocumentUid=F20...

It's 90 days, and they renew it when there are 30 days left.

This doesn't seem to work that well. If you type invalid syntax, like '.[' then the window suddenly resizes to accomodate the error message, but not all of the text boxes resize. j…

>It's therefore trivial to have both protocols coexist, even on the same UDP port, without any negotiation whatsoever. You simply need to discard packets that don't decrypt, which …

>In contrast, a hypothetical WireGuard protocol v2 can offer just two suites, the old one and the new one, with simple advice: use the new one if you can, and allow the old one for…

Under C11, the compiler is still allowed to assume termination of a loop if the controlling expression is non-constant and a few other conditions are met. https://stackoverflow.com…

That unprivileged user will not have the SSH host key, which will create a warning for any user who connects, just as though someone had conducted a man-in-the-middle attack. Of co…

Here's the vulnerability: var total = ""; for (var i = 0; i

That's a very good point, and thank you for correcting me.

Is it really possible to remove the side channels? Even if you formally prove that it does not access memory outside of authorized regions, that doesn't prevent it from speculative…