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Thank you for the insight. Best of luck to you and the future of the project!

Might be time to reconsider. Canon are (supposedly) not planning any further flagship DSLRs and I see little wrong with modifying your own property. Independent of that: how danger…

I doubt that will happen for a tool with an arbitrary usecase of assisting in research however some projects related to reverse-engineering have been censored under the DMCA takedo…

A reassuring outcome. However what are the realistic implications of this ruling for potential future cases? Similarly, How is challenging DMCA 1201 going?

> Companies squeezing every last penny out out their customers is no news. And Canon is no stranger. In relation to the rent-seeking behavior of Canon they allegedly nudged a certa…

Considering iOS devices are locked down to hell and back and achieving reboot persistence is extremely difficult, how hard is it to extract a sample of a malware payload in memory …

emulators for many nintendo consoles have been developed and released while the console was still sold and have been left alone as long as they had no direct links to piracy, recen…

It is removed now. Updated Date: 2024-06-02T11:17:09Z steamcommunity.com is also registered with Network Solutions. I wonder if that blew up in Valve's face.

Anyone aware if there is are any provisions under Finnish law for the detention of the defendant to be extended past half the sentence duration? For instance in a case of bad behav…

> The notorious Utopia boot disc got around the obfuscation problem with a pirated Katana SDK and used the same reset technique, letting pirated software load by simply booting Uto…

This is all very interesting. Makes one wonder about the reliability of contingency plans by WL in case of indefinite absence of Assange.

Howdy stranger! With the debatable demise of organic community platforms and the rise of curated social-media recommendation by algorithms it is always nice to facilitate interacti…

Think some of the negativity about Copilot may be the perception that if an individual or small startup attempted training an ML model from public source-code and commercialised a …

If you want a potential alternative to the security research device from Apple look into Corellium[1] - startup that emulates iOS on ARM64 server hardware, sued by Apple for copyri…

Not telling you what to do but offering an alternate viewpoint. If this was ten years ago myself might have agreed with others on the full-disclosure approach. However considering …

What is preventing Apple (could be considered the subtle target of the legislation) from weaseling out and attempting compliance by using adapters for USB-C?

Is Synapse not infamous for its memory consumption and losing sync with other homeserver(s)?

Certainly glad these vulnerabilities were disclosed and patched without exploitation by malicious entities. However. Does anyone else feel uneasy about Matrix end-to-end encryption…

I am not entirely pessimistic towards the landscape of device level exploits in particular when low-level hardware glitching attacks seem to be the next research frontier as reliab…

Not naming names but have seen people who have viewed source of proprietary UNIX from last century be superstitious about contributing to GPL UNIX projects like the Linux kernel.

Some people are of the view that as soon as we started allowing the government to prosecute people for writing code that can be used to potentially infringe others that the concept…

Modern-day MC is a bit out of my depth but are these bans enforced in a similar mechanism to online-mode checks? (which validates that the username attempting to connect to the ser…

Anyone else feel pessimistic about the future of internet communities given the decline of places like IRC and bulletin boards where one could make real social connections with spe…

Am I forgetting something or does merely changing the IMSI while doing nothing about IMEI just lead to a security theatre mentality when fake BTS can still track the device by the …