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Well, that makes up for an interesting ransomware - you have 48h to pay up 4 btc or your shiny new mbp hardware will get borked.

Same here. Working / easy screen sharing is what I need. And would be happy to switch from Webex / GTM / others to here if that were to work. Nice job otherwise!

Out of curiosity, why is this called Blacknurse? I couldn't make a connection from ICMP Destination Unreachable / port unreachable packet to the BlackNurse? (not that it matters, I…

If JSON is comparable to minefield, then I guess XML and ASN.1 are nothing short of nuclear Armageddon in complexity and ones ability to shoot themselves into the leg ;-)

#FirstJobsMatter! Based on my subjective, statistically unsound observations, when it comes to bad, obnoxious, and intimidating work place behavior there are people who cannot be h…

Although it does mention some risks of using 3rd party code/components in passing under 'Understanding and Controlling Dependencies' (835-), I would have expected them to make a st…

There are similar (research) projects going on in Europe as well. One in Finland is also drilling to get about 4 miles deep[1]. I believe some recent news (that I couldn't find) ha…

Oldie but goodie - Robert Heinleins 'Moon is a harsh mistress' gives anyone interested a nice introduction into coups, cells and other things conspiracy.

DayDream BBS used to have a copy protection mechanism where when it detected being a pirated copy, it silently enabled 'shell' command for all the BBS users. I imagine that gave a …

AFL for Windows: https://github.com/ivanfratric/winafl

>> DB is completely freeware it will stay freeware forever. Thank You! :) And special Kudos for a nice and clean API and not going with [ horrors such as ] SCAP[1]. Will most certa…

This looks really nice service! Couple of questions that I couldn't find answer from the website: 1) who is behind this(e.g. will it be around in few years if I implement some of t…

Any discussion about Green Cards or permanent US residency should always mention eventual exit tax[1]: "...to deter tax avoidance by abandonment of citizenship, the United States i…

Ditto. If only we could next rationalize and overhaul our property tax system / prop-13[1] of 1978. Then we might have a fighting chance of [ more ] affordable housing. Maybe inste…

7-zips track record of lack of vulnerabilities [1] would imply something entirely different to me. Only 2 CVEs ( and now this ) in a heck of a long time. 7z being used in quite a v…

URL: https://ahmia.fi/ There are search engine(s) specialized for TOR. As per Wikipedia[1]: 'Ahmia is a clearnet search engine for Tor's hidden services'. It was part of Google sum…

Just a thoight, but in all likelihood it will be the exact opposite. With the eventual proliferation of functional VR tech that is available for everyone, we're likely to see every…

Here are some example cases that have ended up to courts of law [linksys][busybox][fortinet][vmware]. [linksys] http://tinyurl.com/l9zd7qo [busybox] http://arstechnica.com/informat…

This. But then again, when you join a VC funded start-up, end game should be pretty obvious.

+1. I am a willing test subject. where do I sign-up? That said - given the cost of living here in CA, I would assume that in the eventuality of becoming unemployed for an extended …

And what guarantees we have that when they ( or any number of other OSS vendors ) include OpenSSH into their product, it isn't some boopytrapped variant? Oh wait, it's open source,…