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Comment #16887637
I am trying to understand your post. Is it cheaper per yard to hire a concrete truck than to mix concrete (with free aggregate/sand) yourself?
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Comment #16232474
There is the issue of the TLS connection of images fetched in the app (other things too?) being tied to a domain without a valid cert. In other words, you could MITM the TLS sessio…
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Comment #15865409
I agree that you need "both halves" in this scenario to sign the transaction. At some point during the spend from the wallet, the privkey that matches the wallet pubkey has to touc…
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Comment #15858780
The attacker only needs to have compromised the device which spends from the wallet file
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Comment #15799448
I don't think it's "stupid" to C2 via chat API. It would be "stupid" to have no fallback mechanisms
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Comment #15241817
plot twist: active breach investigation on going with all 3 majors
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Comment #15099209
TOR does not protect DNS queries out of the box. You must configure your PC to query through TOR or all of your DNS queries have the potential to leak to your ISP https://tor.stack…
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Comment #15090833
This seems like a really cool device. One that I would certainly purchase. What weird stretch goals they have. I wonder if these are jokes? "$8m = Signatures of entire team printed…
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Comment #15082180
This is one of the biggest points that I have seen taught in driver training courses and repeated throughout my life. Most of the events people refer to as car accidents are crashe…
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Comment #15081994
This is definitely a confusing sentence, especially for a non English speaker. You can reword the sentence and add something in front (e.g. "The researchers"). "The researchers are…
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Comment #15046529
Interesting... there doesn't appear to be any fire suppression systems pictured in the mining buildings
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Comment #15028531
Report it anonymously to your insurance provider (*not sure if this is possible and/or would actually do anything)
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Comment #15001456
The data URL scheme is abusable. Firefox and Chrome correctly redirect to localhost via javascript data:text/html,http://www.mostSecureInternetBankVictim.com/customerLogin.php%2Fre…
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Comment #15001316
I just tried this on Chrome 60.0.3112.90. Both Firefox and Safari throw phishing warnings with these URLs. http://news.ycombinator.com@1572395042 Chrome takes me to 93.184.216.34 n…
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Comment #14990776
In society we have an endless amount of social warnings, "Don't drink too much, you'll get ill. Don't do drugs, you'll become an addict. Don't drive without your seatbelt, you can …
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Comment #14981165
I have heard one of these in San Francisco, CA in the USA. The music had a really high pitched note behind it that sounded horrible.. like a cross between a mosquito and the buzzin…
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Comment #14959100
Forcefully taking private property from individuals to later sell to other private parties for private use sounds like the nightmare version of eminent domain.
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Comment #14958782
to add to your post, that affiliate link stays active on amazon accounts that clicked it for 24hours and pays out to the owner for every product purchased in that time frame
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Comment #14958706
Was waiting for this comment. I often ask myself, "Do I want any entity to have a copy of the exact dates and amounts of my entire daily consumer activity?". Whether anonymized or …