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  1. Nice Review on Book Review: Social Engineering: The Art of Human Hacking · · Score: 1

    Well I enjoyed it. Curious about the book now.

  2. Re:wow on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Before my time, but i can imagine why they are so pined over: Emotions and ideas attached to those games.

    Being the first of a kind, the possibilities those games presented were infinite, and captured imaginations.

    *That* is why those games are so revered.

  3. Re:Get off my lawn! on Futureproofing Artifacts: Spacewar! 1962 In HTML5 · · Score: 1

    Don't take for granted, the first graphical PC game :-)

    What do we even compare it with? It's a more prominent leap than CD was to DVD, SD to DDR, CRT to LCD, or even Windows to Linux (*ducks and covers*) he he

  4. Re:Dumbass on Man Pays $200,000 To Save Fake Online Girlfriend · · Score: 1

    Hey, some AC's get mod points, other people lose $200,000.

    The former is no more unbelievable than the latter :-)

  5. Re:I still don't get it... on Intel Completes McAfee Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Don't they all?

    Real world example: "McAfee is the world's second-largest security software company after Symantec." (TFA)

    Sure, you say, but #1's AV gave us a BSOD each time we opened a MS source control system. That was real nasty of them. Bullies!

  6. Re:hi on Intel Completes McAfee Acquisition · · Score: 1

    Damnit, AC, this is _not_ icanhascheezeburger. Act your URL.

  7. Re:Love the pictures in the Kiss Controller link. on New Video Game Controlled By Kissing · · Score: 1

    Not if someone adapts the controller to support fellatio. Endless entertainment. (indemnity: implies gender-neutrality!)

  8. Re:Completely useless on New Video Game Controlled By Kissing · · Score: 1

    My bad, I thought it targeted XBox only, confusion from a poster's penny-arcade link. Still relevant...

  9. Re:Completely useless on New Video Game Controlled By Kissing · · Score: 2

    In other news: "Explosive oral herpes outbreak rips XBox community apart. Shares drop."

  10. Blender Foundation: What can we do? Not much? on Trying To Lure Suckers, Company Resells Open Source Blender · · Score: 1

    But we can:

    Find reviews for this software, and comment about it. Link back to the Blender Foundation Post [http://www.blender.org/blenderorg/blender-foundation/press/re-branding-blender]

    Please refrain from using strong, cursing or bad language if you do. Don't be hostile. Respect FOSS.

    If IllusionMage provides something that users will pay for, then users will still buy it, but at least make them aware of this so they have the option.

    We can't tell users what they can or cannot buy, that is their choice.

  11. Re:Why are you all complaining? on Trying To Lure Suckers, Company Resells Open Source Blender · · Score: 1

    Naturally nobody wants to see other fine people getting ripped off, less so with disfigured work they put devotion into. It feels like a personal attack, no?

    Contributing to a OSS project, you still want to see any money go to the real project itself, to build better infrastructure: build servers, hosting - giving back to the project community.

    That's what it's about: giving back. Not just taking, taking, taking.

  12. Re:Version 1 on Windows Phone 7 Update Jams Some Phones · · Score: 1

    The update was designed only 'to improve the software update process itself,'

    You know you screwed up when your update's update breaks the entire device. LOL!

  13. Re:Champion on Microsoft and Nvidia Abandon PC Gaming Alliance · · Score: 1

    Wow lots of Steam fanboys here. I'm not.

    It really made it hard for me not having a fixed internet connection, for all those updates, and to decrypt game data.

    I payed you money, Steam, for a game I only played once. Thanks, but I'd rather buy DRM-free and non platform-locked Indie games now.

    My gift to you, Steam, is popularizing your competitors. :-)

  14. Re:Attack Summary on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    Ah point well made! I had this crazy idea that you could also use a collision value, instead of the real password, if they both compute to the same MD5. But the increase in chances of finding two matching 'passwords' aren't much greater than one.

  15. Re:How strong is the Firefox/Chrome master passwor on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    That would take _roughly_ 35 mins on an average workstation/multiple PC's working together. Include numerals and special characters to magnify the possible permutations, and you push it up to _about_ 2 years.

    Give or take depending on processing power, implementation, and such other many things you can imagine and Google.

    see here for interesting values, if that helps? http://www.lockdown.co.uk/?pg=combi

  16. Re:It's on GitHub? on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    No ... way ... *blinks* o.O

  17. Re:Privacy on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    As someone who suffers from depression, the best thing you can do, is make it known to other people. It helps build your mentality against it :-) I digress ...

    Your point is still well made uncledrax, I wouldn't want anybody to know that I'm really the Lizzard King!

    Using one's genome to impersonate: grow fake fingerprints/retinas to fluke biometric scanners, or plant fake DNA... now there's a danger! At least not in our lifetime!

  18. Re:That's silly on Man Open Sources His Genetic Data · · Score: 1

    Ha ha well said!

    I imagine this genome dump is also more of a "memory dump" of your DNA's in-memory values, of your current state. DNA can, and does, mutate, naturally or via external factors.

    From what I gather, all your cells share the same base DNA, as they are derived from the Zygote, when you were just a single cell. Over time, however, some cells mutate and differ.

    If you were to compile this code, miraculously, into living cells, you'd probably end up with a squishy mucus monster, as there are apparently major DNA differences between say blood and tissue cells, and probably mucus cells too.

  19. Re:Attack Summary on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    This is especially shocking, as MD5 has had known vulnerabilities since 1996!

    Any person worth their salt should know better! :-D

    Methinks the CMS designers should don their Drainpipe pants, Canvas Shoes and Rubber Bracelets, and catch the next plane to 10 years into the future.

  20. Re:I'll drop my webapp sec researcher hat... on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    No folly there.

    The first thing I did, after Google Chrome came out, was go through the source code to see how it encrypts saved passwords.

    Before using Firefox password saving feature, with a master password, I researched what techniques there are to brute force it open, and which password combinations are the most secure. I even bruted my own key file (with no important saved passwords btw) as a test.

    I then chose a password with a complexity to match my own educated guess.

    From my view, I'm pretty comfortable to let those two browsers save passwords, of course I have other security layers in place, too.

  21. Re:And What's next? on Anatomy of the HBGary Hack · · Score: 1

    A great meaning for a 'hack', one often undermentioned in the media, is to investigate, learn, and then use something in a way that it was not intended to be used. This does not even require exploiting the system or changing it in any way. Its the result of lateral thinking and curiosity.

    You may enjoy hacking Google searches, it gives great insight into how their search engine operates, and you end up using these techniques to pinpoint your searches amazingly well sometimes!

    Check it out: http://www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/

  22. Focus on the wrong platform on Proposed Standard Would Address Video Buffering · · Score: 1

    Mobiles? Why not address buffering issues on fixed lines?

    Oh wait, I forget the real world has great infrastructure, and not controlled by a telecoms monopoly. :'-(

  23. Re:#10 aka passing on the blame on Common Traits of the Veteran Unix Admin · · Score: 1

    How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it.
    -- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting

  24. Re:a fresh idea for once on Kyocera and Sprint Now Hyping a Dual-Screen Android Smartphone · · Score: 1

    I'd be weary for the same reason I avoid flip-phones: the connections between the flip tends to fail, time and again I've seen this. Not every time, but often enough to avoid them.

  25. Re:Who cares? on Confession: There's an iPhone App For That · · Score: 1

    Some more: http://www.evilbible.com/ :-)