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  1. The presence of a DNSSEC signed DANE/TLSA record for the mail server indicates to other MTA's that the server only does STARTTLS - if STARTTLS is missing from the SMTP dialogue then the other MTA's will refuse to send. Support is available in postfix and exim etc...

  2. Re:The answer: XMPP on Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem? · · Score: 1

    Conversations is probably the best client (tho it's only on Android). Both ejabberd and prosody are good servers, prosody is slightly better. Here is a good ejabberd config file that supports all (most?) of what conversations needs: https://gitlab.com/hanno/ejabb... This talk from 33c3 is relevent to this thread: https://www.int21.de/slides/33...

  3. This web comic sums up it up nicely on Wired Looks Back At 'Mondo 2000' · · Score: 1

    and also is the origin story of hipsters: http://www.electricsheepcomix....

  4. Re:Why do thei retire the ISS? on Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station · · Score: 1

    The station is exposed to full daylight and darkness each 45 min orbit. Apparently the thermal cycling caused by each hot/cold change forms microscopic cracks in metals so they are worried about the structure losing strength over time.

  5. Re:If only they'd bring back tvtwm I'd be happy. on Enlightenment E19 Pre-Alpha Released · · Score: 1

    However, it also pops up a file manager which seems to involve re-setting the desktop background.

    If thats nautilus then if you run it before hand with 'nautilus --no-desktop . &' it will behave it's self.

  6. Re:Still extortion... on HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only · · Score: 2

    Quite easy, even eaiser these days - all modern dns severs do DNSSEC signing and key re generation for you. You still need to know what to put in the zone files (e.g. which records do what), the O'Reilly book is good, or you can pick it up from wikipedia / the bind admin guide / stack overflow etc..

  7. Re:Netscape tonight on Everything You Needed To Know About the Internet In May, 1994 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Quite the opposite. If modern sites had old weak cipher suites enabled then a mitm attack could force your browser to use them (a downgrade attack). Sites that have disabled the old cipher suites are doing the right thing and should be praised for being diligent.

  8. Re:Didn't Trillian do this? on The Balkanization of Chatting · · Score: 1

    You can use an xmpp client with facebook chat. You can also use an XMPP client with MSN messenger (if you implement microsoft's auth goop). unfortunatly neither facebook or microsoft have enabled federation with there xmpp servers so they are still walled gardens, just walled gardens you can bring your own client to.

    https://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
    http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/15/ichat.now.able.to.connect.to.all.im.networks/
    http://blog.process-one.net/details_on_msns_xmpp_server/

    XMPP is the way to go, run your own server with ejabberd, prosody or openfire.

  9. Re:How is it funded? on Post "Good Google," Who Will Defend the Open Web? · · Score: 1

    That means eschewing privacy-stripping "app stores" on locked down platforms for sideloaded FOSS.

    In that case, who will finance the production of video games as free software and free cultural works?

    We will, via Kickstarter and it's ilk...

  10. DNSSEC & TLSA on Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs · · Score: 1

    You can store certificate fingerprints in dns, and if the dns zone is signed with dnssec you can use it as a trust authority and avoid the whole root CA crazyness. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698 I suspect google dosn't support it tho :(

  11. Re:DNSSec on Google.com.pk and 284 Other .PK Domains Hacked · · Score: 1

    No it wouldn't of done - if you hack the registrar you can change the ds records as well as the ns records. dnssec makes no difference in this case. browser side certificate pinning and forcing sites to be https only would help - then the attackers wouldn't be able to set up fake sites. The real sites would still be broken tho!

  12. Re:Encoded string on WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Encoded string on WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney · · Score: 2

    I get:

    AOAKN HVPKD FNFJU YIDDC
    RQXSR DJHFP EOVFN MIAPX
    PABUZ WTYNP CMPNW HJR?H
    NLXKE M?M?K ONOIB A???Q
    UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZLH
    LKXEH REEHT JRZCQ FNKTQ
    KLDTS EQIRU AOAKN

    The F's are quite square, but the E's are rouned.

    note that it starts and ends with AOAKN to tell whoever is decoding it how to generate the key.

    SOE used "Poem codes":

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

  14. Re:Keep nuclear tech out of the hands of the unsta on Trade Show Video Features Iranian Tech, Talk of Stuxnet Retaliation · · Score: 1

    I was at an event in London recently about Iranian Internet censorship run by small media: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-09/27/403-forbidden-iranian-internet http://smallmediafoundation.com/ They said that watching which Iranian blogs get censored was a good way of seeing how power struggles were playing out in the Iranian government, and that at the moment right-wing nationalist blogs that were pro-Ahmadinejad were being censored showing that he was increasingly out of favour with the clerics...

  15. Re:Babylon 5 on Aircraft Carriers In Space · · Score: 1

    Probably one of the Independence war (I-war) series games, which imho had the best plausible sci-fi space combat ever.

  16. If you liked that then you'll like this on Smooth, High Definition Video of Curiosity's Landing On Mars · · Score: 2
  17. EMFCamp on ToorCamp: Adventures In an American Hacker Camp · · Score: 1

    If you're in the UK and want to go to a hacker camp EMFCamp is weekend after next!

  18. Re:We should follow Dave Chapelle's lead on European Scientists Make a Case For a Return To the Moon · · Score: 1

    With a self replicating lunar factory of course:

    http://www.islandone.org/MMSG/aasm/

    With the advances in machine vision and CAD/CAM we have these days it would be fairly straight forward. We might have to ship up a fair amount of fluorine for the metallurgical stuff tho...

  19. Re:IPv4 forever? on Sales of Unused IPv4 Addresses Gaining Steam · · Score: 1

    Look at the dates on this page:

    http://www.makenaoceanfrontcottage.com/availability/12months.php?pid=1&year=19112

    May 19112? April 19112?

    That's a y2k bug, still going strong 12 years later...

    They are real, there are still a few out there, and a lot of effort went into finding and fixing the ones you *don't* see.

  20. Re:So on IEA Warns of Irreversible Climate Change In 5 Years · · Score: 1

    <quote><blockquote><div><p> <i>And that's exactly the problem.
    </i></p></div></blockquote><p> people will naturally and inexpensively adjust (move, change crops, rebuild waterfront installations) to whatever comes without really noticing why.</p></quote>

    <p>People will adjust, but claiming it will be 'inexpensive' is a little nuts.</p>

    <p>The infrastructure that supports our civilisation has been built over century's, having to rebuild it will not be cheap. Ask your self, are the new New Orleans flood defences 'inexpensive'? are the Mississippi flood control schemes sized to cope with future floods, or will they need to be expanded? and if so will that be 'inexpensive'? Will the irrigation systems used by farmers continue to supply water if there is a drought? If it dosn't will the higher food prices be 'inexpensive' to adjust to?</p>

  21. Re:Compromising the investigation on Anonymous To Release Sun, News of the World Emails · · Score: 1

    UK and US law treat this kind of thing differently, in the US exposing jurors to material relevent to the case isn't seen as a problem, where as in the UK it is.

  22. Re:where are all the other desktop systems?? on Linux Desktop Summit Program Announced · · Score: 1

    I'm using fvwm2 right now :)

  23. easily solvable by putting bounties on the junk on Ugly Truth of Space Junk · · Score: 1

    You'd need to weight the bounties by the risk the junk presents, it's orbit and velocity and mass.

  24. Re:Why are people using BT? on Leaked Docs Show UK ISP BT Plans Music Service · · Score: 1

    You can get a phone line that will do ADSL for any ADSL provider from the post office, It's just a resold BT line, but it's cheaper... http://www2.postoffice.co.uk/broadband-phone/home-phone-broadband/home-phone

  25. Re:bad analogy on First Superbugs, Now Superweeds · · Score: 1

    superbugs are also a problem for intensively farmed animals, and it's the use of excessive quantities of antibiotics in the farming industry thats one of the things thats producing superbugs...