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  1. extracting keys from RAM on ElcomSoft Tool Cracks BitLocker, PGP, TrueCrypt In Real-Time · · Score: 4, Informative
    This tool extracts the keys from RAM dumps. There are free tools that do this too, of course.

    But isn't it difficult to get a RAM dump, you say? Not really:

    • Hibernating a computer writes this data to disk. Starting in Windows 8, "shutdown" actually writes some hibernate data by default.
    • VMs also have their own suspend functionality that does a RAM dump, as well as non-SAN VM migration.
    • Firewire ports actually allow devices to scan RAM of the machine they're connected to.
    • Obviously, if you have access to a live machine, you can get the keys directly from RAM.
  2. Dangerous on 100km/h Sailboat Sets Speed Record · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Interesting fact — There's an 85% fatality rate for the speed record for any boat. This sport is extremely dangerous.

    The sailing speed record is 80% slower than the overall boat record, so the sailing record is a little safer. Nonetheless, one of the SailRocket crashes led to the pilot having a broken helmet.

  3. Re:Netflix already works on Linux on Running Netflix On Linux · · Score: 4, Informative

    Netflix runs fine on ChromeOS on x86, which is Linux-based too.

  4. Re:not just autorun! on Yet Another "People Plug In Strange USB Sticks" Story · · Score: 1
    The Teensy is a little too wide, and has the wrong USB connector, to fit in a flash-drive shell. Here is a list of others that DO fit within a flash-drive shell. Ones that definitely fit include:

    AVR-Stick, by Reusch Elektronik
    Maximus AVRUSB
    VGCRepairs PIC18F4550
    OpenKubus

  5. Re:This may be a stupid question... on US Warns of Problems In Chinese SCADA Software · · Score: 2

    "DCS is commonly used to handle operations on a single locale, while SCADA is preferred for applications that are spread over a wide geographic location."

    The term "SCADA" is specifically used for industrial processes that have to be connected by long-distance networking.

  6. PDF mirror on Upscaling Retro 8-Bit Pixel Art To Vector Graphics · · Score: 1
  7. Re:This is very bad design on VMware Causes Second Outage While Recovering From First · · Score: 1

    If I saw a Madagascar button in a datacenter with a sign on it that said "DO NOT PRESS THIS! It will SHUT DOWN EVERYTHING!", I would probably remove that key from the keyboard.

  8. Not open source on Predator Outdoes Kinect At Object Recognition · · Score: 1
  9. Re:Location is the least of your problems on Using XSS & Google To Find Physical Location · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong, wrong. A default password means you ARE vulnerable. It's such a problem that ISPs are willing to do questionable things to fix it.

    (it's a slight variant of your #2, though "compromising" in this case doesn't mean a full compromise, it means mildly abusing the DNS spec to work around XSS restrictions)

  10. Re:Humans & Mammals on Chernobyl Area Survey Finds Lasting Problems For Wildlife · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This isn't a chicken-and-egg problem. Scavengers existed before humans evolved.

  11. Re:My take on A New Take On the Fermi Paradox · · Score: 1

    If you're at all intellectually honest, you'll have to admit that there's a rather substantial difference between HIV/AIDS and religion.

    Only a matter of degree. Compare it to the common cold instead. For most people, it drains their energy that could be used elsewhere, but they otherwise live fine. In its most virulent form, it does kill a few people (inter-religious violence, anti-medicine beliefs, etc).

  12. Re:Sounds familiar. on Mom Arrested After Son Makes Dry Ice "Bombs" · · Score: 5, Informative

    And if the cops ask you to delete photos, play along, because recovering the deleted photographs is trivial compared to what can happen when arguing with a cop.

    After the cop leaves, swap out the memory card for another. Make sure you set the card aside and don't take any more pictures on it, because taking new pictures could potentially overwrite some of the deleted data. When you get home, download and run PhotoRec (it's GPL/open source, available on multiple platforms, and runs almost without regard to what the underlying filesystem is).

  13. Re:why? on Tattoos For the Math and Science Geek? · · Score: 1

    Tattoos are (nearly) eternal, so you you want to choose a tattoo that will keep its meaning and significance for a long time. Physics equations are ideal because, not only are they unlikely to change, but they've been in effect long before they were discovered by humans. They're older than diamonds -- something else that people like to adorn themselves with because they're important and "timeless".

  14. Re:They're doing it wrong on Schools, Filtering Companies Blocking Google SSL · · Score: 1

    It's not necessarily the wrong way to do it. If you work at a military/defense company, where they have separate classified and unclassified networks, this is the solution they use.

    But you're right, it does have notable downsides -- mainly, that when employees log into banking/finance sites, there's one box on your network that sees ALL of their passwords. If that one box were ever to be compromised, you have serious issues on your hands.

  15. Re:No one is going to shoot anyone on Obama To Decide On New Weapons · · Score: 1

    Repeat after me: Mutual assured destruction. Japan didn't have the capability to respond, Russia does.

    Of course, now that means that most countries want "defensive nukes" of their own.

  16. Re:Let it go on Dwarf Planets Accumulate In Outer Solar System · · Score: 1

    What happens in Titan's neighborhood is determined mainly by the gravity of Saturn. Everything that happens now (its orbit, what impacts it) is dominated by Saturn's gravity, and everything about Titan's past (formation out of the dust disc that circled the early Saturn) was dominated by Saturn's gravity.

    It's not heliocentrism, it's a recognition that gravitational relationships are hierarchical. That's true from moons to plants to stars to galaxies to clusters.

    Going in the other direction, there's debate about whether rogue planets (planet-like bodies that orbit a galaxy but aren't attached to any star) can be properly called a "planet".

  17. Re:It's Just A Table on The $8,500 Gaming Table You Want · · Score: 2, Funny

    John 6:51-58 (KJV)

    51 "I am the reanimated bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will 'live' forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world." 52 The Jews therefore quarreled among themselves, saying, "How can this Man give us His flesh to eat?" 53 Then Jesus said to them, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the brain of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. 54 "Whoever eats My brain and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will reanimate him up at the last day. 55 "For My brain is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. 56 "He who eats My brain and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him. 57 "As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me. 58 "This is the bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers ate the manna, and are dead. He who eats this bread will be a zombie forever."

  18. Re:Gender expression? on Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression · · Score: 1

    Yup, from the way they phrased it, it almost sounds like you can't identify as cisgender, which is awfully odd.

    It just reinforces the fact that most companies have no idea what "gender identity" means, even when it's part of their equal opportunity employment statement. (hint: sex, gender, and orientation are completely different things)

  19. Re:Gender expression? on Xbox Live Now Allows Gender Expression · · Score: 1

    The story has two links. One doesn't mention gender, the other one does. Agreed, "gender expression" is totally off.

    Curiously, the TOS seems to be confused as well, since it says "You may use the following terms to express your relationship orientation in your profile or Gamertag" and "Other terms regarding relationship orientation are not allowed", which means this is only about orientation, not gender... but then it includes transgender as an orientation.

  20. Re:Serial Ports.. on Will the Serial Console Ever Die? · · Score: 3, Informative

    When it comes to managing important network switches, no, they aren't gone.

    When an important switch fails for some reason, how do you contact it to see if it's recoverable remotely? (i.e. when your network admin has to manage switches that are located at remote satellite offices)

    Out-of-band management addresses this limitation by employing a management channel that is physically isolated from the data channel.

  21. Re:Use the Coax as a wirepull for the cat5 on Suggestions For a Coax-To-Ethernet Solution? · · Score: 1

    Or keep the tool, use it with the skill you just gained, and you get cheap custom cables for the rest of your life.

  22. Re:the iso to usb tool only accepts win7 isos on The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals · · Score: 1

    I'm not sure. I guess I have been poking around in mostly older ISOs. There are various tools to see if an ISO is marked as no-emulation or floppy-emulation, if you have some Windows installer ISOs lying around (I don't have any with me at work right now, sorry... I might check when I get home). Bart's BBIE can also extract the floppy boot image if you want to look into a specific boot floppy. (and then WinImage can be used to look inside the files in the floppy .img)

  23. Re:the iso to usb tool only accepts win7 isos on The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals · · Score: 1

    That's incomplete emulation. By floppy emulation, I mean that when a CD starts booting, the BIOS makes something show up on the A: drive, and makes it look (to the software) very very close to what a real floppy would look like (ie. responds to BIOS calls (INT 13h) in the way that a floppy does).

    For starters, you can't make a disk partition look like an unpartitioned drive.

  24. Re:the iso to usb tool only accepts win7 isos on The Hidden Treasures of Sysinternals · · Score: 4, Interesting

    There are no silver-bullet solutions for booting ISOs via USB. A silver-bullet solution requires doing "floppy emulation", which is something that can't be easily done in a general-purpose way. For CD booting, each BIOS has this functionality implemented differently. For USB booting, the bootloader has to figure out how to do this. MEMDISK and GRUB4DOS are the only ones I know that do floppy emulation.

    But then you have to do CD drive emulation too.

    The way almost all ISO=>USB booters work is to pull the pieces apart and make them work without floppy+CD drive emulation. But this requires intimate knowledge of how that ISO normally boots, and thus it can't be a silver-bullet solution.

  25. Re:Not the bottleneck on Programming With Proportional Fonts? · · Score: 1

    You can easily modify one of the GPL fonts to use wider punctuation, and call it a programmer's font. The important thing that makes proportional fonts faster to read is that the letters are proportional-width, punctuation width doesn't necessarily have to stay small.