Slashdot Mirror


User: bytesex

bytesex's activity in the archive.

Stories
0
Comments
1,672
First seen
Last seen
Profile
(view on slashdot.org)

Comments · 1,672

  1. Moral of the story... on Second Root Cert-Private Key Pair Found On Dell Computer (threatpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Asymmetric crypto always looks like the cat's meow at first, and then over time you find out that it sucks hairy donkey balls.

  2. Re:The attack that _would_ go away on The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Plus, PHP was modelled after perl. The way one writes php to generate web pages is typically the way you do it just as well in perl (with the added bonus of clear separation of front- and backend code in perl).

  3. Re:The attack that _would_ go away on The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I don't.

  4. The attack that _would_ go away on The History of SQL Injection, the Hack That Will Never Go Away (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    If people used perl and DBI with properly prepared statements, instead of [censored] php.

  5. Re:With all respect to Fraunhofer on TrueCrypt Safer Than Previously Thought (ec-spride.de) · · Score: 1

    It was done by Fraunhofer. Unlike the German government (which, admittedly, they are close to), they have a reputation they care about.

  6. So long as you don't electrify the damn things, there shouldn't be a problem.

  7. So.. for a non-physicist on Quantum Entanglement Survives, Even Across an Event Horizon · · Score: 1, Interesting

    - For everything above quantum, the maximum speed is the speed of light.
    - This dictates cause and effect, and therefore time.
    - If we send out a steady stream of entangled particles, and sometimes change and sometimes don't (at the one end), and measure at the other (this is how I imagine how a bitstream would work using quantum entanglement, correct me if I'm wrong), we can send information quicker than the speed of light.
    - Therefore the information goes back in time.

    Or something?

  8. For economists and planners, the world of tomorrow is always the world of today, plus a little bit of what's already going on today. Forecasts of doom because of the 'machines take over' have been around since a long, long time.

  9. It was based on srand(time(0)) ?

  10. The same Tim Cook who says that you don't need to buy a PC anymore?

  11. Re:Bad practice. on Unhashable: Why Fingerprints Are Weaker Security Than Passwords (hackaday.com) · · Score: 2

    Are any such devices protected against cloning?

  12. rsync? on Ask Slashdot: Open Source Back-Up Tool For Business? · · Score: 1

    rsync and a few scripts. Perl scripts.

  13. Re:Like the old viruses on Badly-Coded Ransomware Locks User Files and Throws Away Encryption Key (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    No, he's poisoning the well for them. Now people will think: my data is lost and cannot be recovered, even if I pay. I think this developer is going to get a few very unpleasant house calls - these people don't do regular law enforcement.

  14. It can work on Corporations and OSS Do Not Mix (coglib.com) · · Score: 1

    My company completely overhauled openvpn, and gave the results back to the community. Granted, this was under a government contract, but still.

  15. I know it fits perfectly inside the wet dream of what Americans think the US is all about, but I'm not sure that allowing the flying of drones without some regulation is a good idea.

  16. Is it April Fool's already? on Botnet Takes Over Twitch Install and Partially Installs Gentoo · · Score: 1

    'The war of the Linux installers'?

  17. Tried it. Sod it. on GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released · · Score: 2

    Won't boot in my Virtualbox VM, not as an image, or the installer. Not on IDE, or SATA (got a hint in one of the newsgroups). Never got past the bootloader.

  18. Re:Year of the Hurd Desktop? on GNU Hurd 0.7 and GNU Mach 1.6 Released · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and Linux runs only on 60% of its replacement!

  19. Re:So who wants to... on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 1

    Wait. Busybox is that thing whereby you take 700 executables and all compile them into one big one, and then have the real main() functions switch argv[0], right? How is that UNIX philosophy? I think both busybox and systemd err against UNIX in that they are big, unmodular, sit too close to the system, and one bug affects a lot of security at the same time.

  20. Re:The Commit Message on Busybox Deletes Systemd Support · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Your answer is problematic in the same way that the behaviour of the systemd people is problematic: you're essentially saying to the GP: you shouldn't have that problem. I get that a lot in newsgroups: I have a certain problem, I ask a newsgroup, and one of the first responses one gets is: 'you shouldn't want to do that.' No, *I* decide to do that!

    Irritating doesn't even begin to describe it. So, the guy wants to reboot often. Maybe he has a very valid use case that you haven't thought of. You can't imagine every possible conceivable use case. But anyway, this is technology - we can make it work - with or without systemd.

  21. Re:Young Talent - Lack of experience on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    Agile is fine. What is irritating is youngsters pretending that it has no flaws (oh and when you really have to stand up during the 'standups', you are just showing off).

  22. I know terms are prone to inflation on CIOs Say New Talent and Old Tech Don't Mix · · Score: 1

    When you say:

    "new IT talent doesn't want to work on the old stuff, and the old talent doesn't understand the new stuff."

    Then your 'talent' isn't truly 'talented'.

  23. Re:I'm curious on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 1

    Oh never mind. What a little Googling can do: infra-red and microwave spectrography.

  24. I'm curious on Comet Lovejoy Giving Away Alcohol (eurekalert.org) · · Score: 2

    These measurements are made using a spectrograph, right? Then what is the difference between the comet spitting out carbon, hydrogen and oxygen in more-or-less the same relative quantities as found in alcohol, and pure, molecular alcohol? I mean, have they verified that it is alcohol and not acetone? How does one verify the (complex) molecular composition of something when you can only see its light?

  25. Attribution matters on Cyberattacks: Do Motives and Attribution Matter? · · Score: 2

    When you have the capability to drop bombs.