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  1. Re:It has been and always will be used by CRIMINAL on Child Abuse Imagery Found Within Bitcoin's Blockchain (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, you could terminate your regular expressions.

  2. Re:No words. on Systemd Named 'Lamest Vendor' At Pwnie Security Awards (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 2

    You completely misunderstand what "be liberal in what you accept" means.

    It doesn't mean to take any input and cherrypick single bits that you understand and ignore the rest. You rather try to parse inputs liberally, while making sure it's unambiguous in its meaning. For example, when parsing a config file, there could be more whitespace than necessary. As long as you find valid keywords in that extra whitespace, you're good to parse it liberally. When writing a config file, however, you're supposed to trim all that whitespace to a uniform scheme.

    You would also be free to ignore invalid keywords to support forward compatibility.

    What you shouldn't do and what being liberal doesn't mean is saying "this input would be correct to me if I threw away these letters in the keyword". That's just retarded.

  3. Re:Half and half. on Dropbox Kills Public Folders, Users Rebel (ndtv.com) · · Score: 1

    What they should and should not do can be easily found out by looking at your contract. And that's the end of the story. If you want free market, act like a responsible market participant.

  4. Re:Default gateway. Tested and works to this modem on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Then it's not just a modem. Do you have a separate router or just your "modem"?

    If you have a router, then you're doing an unnecessary double-router setup. If you don't, then the whole point is moot. A modem is transparent to layer 3 and provides a common layer 2 among different layer 1s.

    The (separate) router on the LAN side of the modem needs to be aware of the 192.168.100/24 on its WAN side or else it won't know how to reach it on layer 3, regardless of every traffic passing thourgh the modem on layer 2.

  5. Re:Default gateway. Tested and works to this modem on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    No, the default gateway is your ISP. Otherwise, your modem would be a router.

  6. Re:Secret haxxor exploit link HERE: on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If you use 10/8 internally, then your router will either forward packets for 192.168.100.1 to your ISP or drop them entirely. What makes you think just putting a device with 192.168.100.1 on the WAN side of your router makes it reachable if your router doesn't know anything about 192.168.100/24 on that interface?

    Seriously, get a clue about networking and routing.

  7. Re:No, it will on Over 135 Million Routers Vulnerable To Denial-of-service Flaw (zdnet.com) · · Score: 1

    If the modem is using an RFC1918 address and is sitting on the WAN side of the router and the router is blocking RFC1918 on its WAN interface, what do you think will happen?

    Maybe you should think more or stop posting about topics you don't understand.

  8. Re:Let's Encrypt is only for encryption on Malvertising Campaign Used a Free Certificate From Let's Encrypt (csoonline.com) · · Score: 1

    FUD.

    Free certs technically are exactly the same as every other cert. What you probably mean is to choose a higher validation than DV. That's the only reason you should pay someone money. But that has nothing to do with which devices accept your cert. That is a matter of server config and how you configure your TLS algorithms.

  9. Re:flawed "research" on Green Light Or No, Nest Cam Never Stops Watching (securityledger.com) · · Score: 1

    The point is, when that thing is still running, what prevents the Internet service you're using from switchting it into recording state remotely? Just because it doesn't transmit data "right now", doesn't mean it can't be made to, remotely.

    However, that's exactly the reason why I wouldn't use anything "cloud" in the first place. Give me a cam that can upload to my server. I don't care if it's really off or not, if I can firewall it to only talk to my services.

    As such, this "problem" is only a problem because it highlights the bad decision someone made in the first place, namely using "cloud-based" bullshit.

  10. No on Law Professor: Tech Companies Are Our Best Hope At Resisting Surveillance · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Cryptographers are our best hope.

    What is this headline supposed to suggest? Trust cloud providers? LOL.

  11. Re:Wait a moment... on Ask Slashdot: How To "Prove" a Work Is Public Domain? · · Score: 1

    It is worth exactly what he can make from it.

    Which is apparently nothing. Thanks for clarifying.

  12. Re:Windows 8 is suddenly looking good .. on Windows 10 Still Phones Home With Data In Spite of Privacy Settings · · Score: 1

    Fear not. Microsoft itself is giving you hashes for all their images:

    https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-...

    You can safely pirate and verify.

  13. Re:I love the attitude on The OpenSSH Bug That Wasn't · · Score: 1

    Simple, the username is to be considered public knowledge. It's visible when entering it everywhere, it may be in ~/.ssh/config, it's not a secret.

    Just assume the whole world knows it already. All strength must come from the password either way, so don't even start to treat the username as some sort of secret.

  14. Re:Put it in a VM, on a private LAN on Windows 10 Will Have Screen Recording Tool · · Score: 1

    "Oh, OP! Don't remove your CRL checks by means of a self-inflicted MitM attack because then you're not secure against real MitM attacks!"

    It's hilarious how you fail to see the connection.

  15. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    Are you referring to the zsh option which also wouldn't protect you from rm -fr /, funny man?

  16. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 1

    Not so fast, Sherlock.

    xargs doesn't handle shell functions, only external binaries.

  17. Re:Just run your own on Cisco To Acquire OpenDNS · · Score: 1

    Whether there's someone sitting on your line and grabbing your traffic or tampering with it is completely irrelevant because that problem exists in any case. By running your own resolver, you don't publish your queries directly to a third party on top of that and that's a good thing.

  18. That's what you get... on UK Researchers Find IPv6-Related Data Leaks In 11 of 14 VPN Providers · · Score: 1

    That's what you get when offering VPN access must include proper client configs because users are clueless and want to be "secure" by hitting a button.

    I guarantee you that I could take the credentials of each and every one of these VPN offers, put them into my router and tunnel all my clients properly(!) without any leaks.

    It's not the VPN that is flawed, it's the CLIENT SETUP. For people with a clue, that's a distinction.

  19. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 2

    If you alias rm to rm -i, what do you think rm -fr gets expanded to?

    Could it be rm -i -fr in which case the -f overrides the -i anyway? Oh great sysadmin, can you clarify?

  20. Re:What was the command? on How IKEA Patched Shellshock · · Score: 2

    You mean in an amateurish way that can overload shell buffers?

    Try

    while read i; do ...; done < ips.txt

    or

    xargs ... < ips.txt

  21. Re:The lameness of Dicedot on Scientists Overcome One of the Biggest Limits In Fiber Optic Networks · · Score: 1

    What are you even doing on the Internet without an ad blocker? Don't complain about things which are in your own responsibility, fool.

  22. Re:Is there a site maintaining a list of "bad" SSD on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 1

    This is about queued TRIM vs. just TRIM, not TRIM vs. no TRIM at all.

  23. Re:Is there a site maintaining a list of "bad" SSD on TRIM and Linux: Tread Cautiously, and Keep Backups Handy · · Score: 1

    When it comes to IT, I'll gladly let the hipsters deal with the pain and the data loss for a 0.5% speedup and use whatever they came up with - and is still relevant - after 10 years. Thank you very much.

  24. Re:OpenBSD on New OpenSSL Security Advisory Announced · · Score: 2

    From http://www.openbsd.org/errata5... (emphasis mine)

    009: SECURITY FIX: June 11, 2015 All architectures
    Fix several defects from OpenSSL:

            CVE-2015-1788 - Malformed ECParameters causes infinite loop
            CVE-2015-1789 - Exploitable out-of-bounds read in X509_cmp_time
            CVE-2015-1792 - CMS verify infinite loop with unknown hash function

    Note that CMS was already disabled in LibreSSL. Several other issues did not apply or were already fixed and one is under review.
    For more information, see the OpenSSL advisory.
    A source code patch exists which remedies this problem.

  25. Re:Absence?! on How Ready Is IPv6 To Succeed IPv4? · · Score: 1

    Though I'm really curious how "has security benefits" has nothing to do with security. That's a strange one.