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  1. Re:Breach on Ask Slashdot: Datacenter HDD Wipe Policy? · · Score: 1

    This technique works for data drives not boot drives: 100% full disk encryption. When you decommission the drive, decommission the encryption key. This technique also works with wear leveling SSD drives that might not always properly erase if you attempt to wipe the data.

  2. Re:Will it run on my WRT54G? on OpenWRT 14.07 RC1 Supports Native IPv6, Procd Init System · · Score: 1

    I'm running the same hardware. It's solid. Love it.

  3. Re:old news from decades ago on Overeager Compilers Can Open Security Holes In Your Code · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Right. The other part of the issue is why didn't anyone write a test to verify that the buffer overflow detection code actually detects when you overflow buffers?

  4. Re:Backup? on One Developer's Experience With Real Life Bitrot Under HFS+ · · Score: 1

    I'm a fan of computing par2 repair blocks at a 15%. Every so often run a par2verify.

  5. Re:most useful? on After a Long wait, GNU Screen Gets Refreshed · · Score: 1

    This is what I use.
    alias tm='tmux att || tmux'

  6. Re:IPX on TCP/IP Might Have Been Secure From the Start If Not For the NSA · · Score: 1

    That and if Novell had implemented a network ID registration entity. Many Novell installations used network ID 00:00:00:01 because that's what was in the manual. This made them unconnectable for all intents and purposes.

  7. Re:Kirov Reporting on Goodyear's New State-of-the-Art Airship Makes Its First Flight · · Score: 1

    Thanks for the Command and Conquer reference. It made my day.

  8. Re:Fourth Amendment on US Intelligence Officials To Monitor Federal Employees With Security Clearances · · Score: 3, Insightful

    One word: Contractors.

  9. Re:Is Snowden being tried? on Edward Snowden's Lawyer Claims Harassment From Heathrow Border Agent · · Score: 1

    Perhaps there are deals being worked out. These deals could be between Snowden and the US. Perhaps a deal with some other country. Perhaps a deal with a book publisher. Until a deal is reached, these deals should be private. Lastly, we should be very worried if no one is trying to make a deal because it signals that everyone has an entrenched and unyielding position.

  10. Re:As an ex-trucker let be first to say... on Why Robot Trucks Could Be Headed To Afghanistan (And Everywhere Else) · · Score: 1
    My wife is a UPS driver and for a long time I felt that trucking was one field that couldn't be off shored. Stuff has to keep moving.

    Then one day I started to think about Google Car and I realized that the "killer app" for Google Car isn't as a car, it's as a truck. I agree it won't happen overnight, but it will happen. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are almost 800,000 big rig truck drivers at $40,000/yr in the US. (2012 data) Another 40,000 drive delivery trucks. Politics are the only thing that will save it. It's too large a cohort of workers. I look at the the NAFTA provisions for Mexican drivers to operate in the US that haven't been implemented as evidence that Congress will discourage their adoption. Also, what congressman wants to be on record of approving "Big Scary Robot Trucks" that accidentally drove over the Smith Family minivan killing both parents and Baby Smith too.

    Stats: http://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag...

  11. Re:I grew up in Atlanta... on Atlanta Gambled With Winter Storm and Lost · · Score: 1

    That's been my observation too. Having spent winters as far south as Cincinnati and as far north as Ottawa, Canada I completely agree. When snow is cold and stays cold, it's very similar to sand. Plowing is unnecessary. Chemical de-icing (salt or other) actually makes it more hazardous. I also have to say that no one handles snow as well as Montréal. They have giant snow throwers attached to tractors and pump it into dump trucks and cart it off to snow disposal sites.

  12. Re:So what happens to the hydrogen? That's usable. on Revolutionary Scuba Mask Creates Breathable Oxygen Underwater On Its Own · · Score: 1

    You're thinking of fission. There is no evidence this device uses fission. They compare it to gills of a fish which extract oxygen and nitrogen from the dissolved gasses in the water.

  13. Re:I wish they'd do it here. on NYC's 250,000 Street Lights To Be Replaced With LEDs By 2017 · · Score: 1

    In 2005, the Commonwealth of Kentucky replaced all 77,000 traffic lights in the entire state with LEDs over the course of about a month. Citation

  14. Re:Uncontroversial? on What Are the Genuinely Useful Ideas In Programming? · · Score: 1

    The GUI is not useful. Well, okay, it has its moments. I've seen too many programmers go from mouse to keyboard so often and so frequently that they can skip the gym from the cardio workout it provides.

  15. Re:What's the difference? on OpenZFS Project Launches, Uniting ZFS Developers · · Score: 1

    The feature I'm waiting for is the v30 feature for filesystem encryption. Full disk encryption is the current fad, but selective encryption just seems cleaner. I see no point of encrypting operating system files only to unencrypt them every time you boot.

  16. Re:SSH? on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Although simple resources like SSL Labs has very easy guides.

  17. Re:SSH? on NSA Foils Much Internet Encryption · · Score: 4, Insightful

    My suspicion is that they can monitor the AES key negotiation during SSL handshake. I've heard enough experts say they still trust AES. But if you as a government agency can compel a company to disclose their private RSA/DSA key then snooping SSL is easy. SSL uses the RSA/DSA public to encrypt the session symmetric encryption key. If you know the RSA/DSA private key, then you can easily decrypt that session key and then snoop the communication.

  18. Re:Build a wall on The Legal Purgatory at the US Border: Detained, Searched, and Interrogated · · Score: 1

    If by DHS (which didn't exist then) you mean the State Department, ...

  19. Re:Free speech on Canadian Hotel Sues Guest For $95K Over Bad Review, Bed Bugs · · Score: 1

    Section 2 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms guarantees freedom of expression. What is not permissible is libel. If I went around saying I went to Joe's Restaurant and was a fly in my soup when there wasn't, the owners of Joe's Restaurant has every right to defend their character.

  20. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 1

    Once the computationally expensive public/private key exchange is done, the rest of the SSL session uses fast conventional encryption. Fast conventional encryption requires that both ends know the same secret conventional key. The real weakness in SSL / TLS is in RSA key exchange. The certificate public key is used to securely share the conventional key. Anyone with the private key can derive the conventional cipher key and decode the data either in real time or a stored wiretap years after it was collected. TLSv1.1 and TLSv1.2 support forms of key exchange than don't use the server private key and aren't vulnerable to this.

  21. Re:Self signed? on Anonymous Source Claims Feds Demand Private SSL Keys From Web Services · · Score: 1

    No. The weakness isn't the certificate. Certificate authorities never need the private keys of the certificates they generate. In an RSA based SSL handshake, the client creates a one-time random number to be used as the key in a conventional cipher used to protect the SSL session. The weakness is this, the client uses the public key of the certificate to encrypt the session key. The server private is then used to decrypt the session key. If someone is able to capture and store an SSL session, AND had the server private key, they could use the server private key to deduce the session encryption key and decode the session. SSL and TLS use better key exchange methods that depend on the server private key. The server private key is only used to validate the identity of the server. Diffie–Hellman key exchange doesn't use the server private key and therefore can't be used to deduce the session key. This is called Perfect forward secrecy. Use it.

  22. Re:Wow! on Got Malware? Get a Hammer! · · Score: 1
    Office Space ...

    PC Load Letter? What The F*** Is PC Load Letter?

  23. Re:Meta on MIT Project Reveals What PRISM Knows About You · · Score: 1

    Most modern mail server administrators don't install TLS certificates.

  24. Re:Conversion to foot on Mount Everest Gets 4G Connectivity · · Score: 1

    Is this why the Mars landing craft crashed?

  25. Re:Yawn, another fork on Oracle Quietly Switches BerkeleyDB To AGPL · · Score: 1
    Sometimes SQL is too much for simple problems. The soul of what BerkeleyDB is has always been about being world's most rock-solid embedded single-process key-value pair storage in the world. The besides being very high quality, the liberal license was the other key key factor to its wide adoption. Wikipedia has a partial list of applications that use it. Now that BerkeleyDB has a stricter license, it is un-embeddable for many current users.

    I'm really hoping for a fork.