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wizardishungry

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    Comment #6497165

    Here's an openbsd VM with tor and a bunch of web browsers preinstalled. There's packet filter rules so even if the vagrant user gets owned, it cannot transmit traffic on the outboa…

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    Comment #4320613

    A little bit of googling makes it seem like auth tokens are not sent it plaintext over HTTPS but are authenticated using challenge response – http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id…

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    Comment #4320587

    Obviously that would work, but not if you're using Challenge-response authentication. In general, I don't think people bother with now that when using https.

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    Comment #4320554

    If the number of salts used in the system is equal to the number of users, this could be expensive.

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    Comment #2096918

    I believe that I used to change drive letters to get around this but it may have eventually remembered the last directory when you changed back.

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    Comment #2081386

    That seems like a perfectly good solution to me. Storing a hash of each signature is say 256 bytes and supposing an upper limit of 10,000 signatures, the database file is pretty sm…

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    Comment #2054200

    A free, integrated photo service would not appease a lot of people. Except for people who aren't web developers (aka Real Users®)

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    Comment #2039520

    Holy Libertarian hyperbole: He convinces the FCC to require right-wing channels to link to left-wing channels, Christian channels to link to Muslim channels, vegetarian channels to…

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    Comment #2038682

    ITP is a joke coming from a CS background. It's good for internet fameball self-promoter types and people from an design/art background.

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    Comment #2035688

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

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    Comment #2029979

    Chrome is a risk? I'd say Chrome is a hedge against risk - allowing Apple, MS, Mozilla, etc. to dictate the terms of browser innovation.

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    Comment #2011491

    Ruby invented strftime?

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    Comment #2009607

    Wouldn't installing some arbitrary CA's root certificate open me to someone attacking me with say… a Paypal cert signed by them?

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    Comment #2003216

    You wouldn't need 4096 if the choice of the salt was non-random; some versions of Unix used the first 2 characters of the username. What's the space requirement for a single rainbo…

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    Comment #2003026

    Does anyone have any more specific information on whether they just called crypt(key,salt) or actually used a larger salt with a call to encrypt()? The crypt() function only takes …

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    Comment #1999586

    The hash is md5 not sha

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    Comment #1998831

    Does anyone have any information on changing all their account passwords at once? I don't use the same password for any sites, but unimportant sites like blogs, etc. I use fairly s…

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    Comment #1993740

    Generally, you're only required to provide changes if you are distributing your modified program. This may have been partially addressed in GPLv3 in the form of an "application ser…