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  1. Re:The OpenSSL Disasters were a result of attitude on Russia Wants To Replace US Computer Chips With Local Processors · · Score: 1

    If the CA is doing it right, they only had to reissue the signed certificates of endusers, but they might have had to replace intermediate certificates.

  2. Re:That's literally the worst idea I ever heard on Transforming the Web Into a Transparent 'HTTPA' Database · · Score: 1

    I have nothing to hide, but nobody needs to know that.

  3. Re:That's nothing. on LinkedIn Spam Lawsuit Can Continue · · Score: 1

    Mailing lists are a source in my bad experience. I also hated the people in which names these messages arrived (before blacklisting linkedin).

  4. Re:they become aggresive... on LinkedIn Spam Lawsuit Can Continue · · Score: 2

    And this is why I reject any email linked to linkedin. It surely felt more then 3 times semi random people (with who I might have corresponded on some mailinglists) try to invite you.

  5. Re:Run your own resolver on OpenDNS Phases Out Redirection To Guide · · Score: 1

    You patched your telnet to connect to port 80 by default? Our is the telnet command an alias?

  6. Re:Basic security measures? on Australian iPhone and iPad Users Waylaid By Ransomware · · Score: 1

    Then I have good news for you: not all 2 factor auths need phonenumbers. Don't know what Apple uses/requires though.

  7. Re:Help! Help! on Did the Ignition Key Just Die? · · Score: 2

    Is there a setting in the bios to change this 4s to power off to immediatly?

  8. Re:Not only Linux on Speedy Attack Targets Web Servers With Outdated Linux Kernels · · Score: 1

    I found a compromised website on my companies shared hosting platform (which runs a 2.6 kernel (Debian/oldstable)). But the files where "infected" by a ftp account via proftpd on a machine running a 3.2 kernel (Debian/stable), the login was right on the first try. My guess is malware on the site owners machines stealing ftp logins (which is old news).

  9. Re:Really, Slashdot? on Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    And that technique is called: SNI
    And even though the servers supported it for a "long" time, some clients didn't, most notably the mobile browsers.

  10. Re:Massively overblown issue? on Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    OSX appears to have something called a keychain, store the password to crypt there and keep the store encrypted.

  11. Re:Really, Slashdot? on Safari Stores Previous Browsing Session Data Unencrypted · · Score: 1

    "Thanks, I didn't know that."

    You didn't know that because it is not true. SSL encrypts everything before anything is send. That is why (before SNI) it is impossible to have multiple certificates for multiple virtualhosts on 1 ip adress: the host that is being queried and has to match a certificate CN isn't known at the time of the SSL handshake.

  12. Re:Why do transit smartcards need to be hard? on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 1

    "But this is a bus. There is an active connection to the central office."

    Until the perp. is using a gsm jammer (or you get into an area without coverage). The bus terminal will store the transaction for later validation, but since the perp is using an anonymous or cloned card he has gotten an untracable free ride.

  13. Re:Why do transit smartcards need to be hard? on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 1

    "The reality is that 99.9% of people are honest and will pay what they should regardless of whether the cards are insecure and could be 'hacked'."

    People are less honest then you think, most will do stuff they know they shouldn't if they think they will not get caught, even when there is no financial need.

    This chipcards and the required tollgates were introduced with a promise to stop fare dodgers. Recent news of the dutch system appears to have the effect of going from 11% to 2%. http://www.ad.nl/ad/nl/1012/Nederland/article/detail/2943764/2011/10/03/Aantal-zwartrijders-RET-daalt-spectaculair-door-ov-chippoortjes.dhtml
    The same might have been achived cheaper with more actual people in the public transport actually checking tickets..

  14. Re:Why is everyone reinventing the wheel? on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 1

    Bluetooth? They just shouldn't have picked a known bad contactless smartcard. NFC is perfectly suitable for this (and can be tied to "modern" phones)

  15. Re:Why do transit smartcards need to be hard? on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 1

    You need to take into consideration that there is no active connection to the central office, terminals and cards have to be able to work standalone if you want to stop abuse of anonymous cards and gsm jammers (in busses).

  16. Why is everyone reinventing the wheel? on New Zealand's Hackable Transport Card Grants Free Bus Rides · · Score: 2

    There have been already a couple of mifrate classic public transport implementations where they discovered the card was abusable! eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OV-chipkaart#Technology
    This was known in 2007.

  17. Re:Disaster waiting to happen on Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar · · Score: 1

    In NL the utilities aren't buying the excess power up until to 5MWh, it just gets deducted from your usage: http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salderen

    If you are a nett producer (which is not possible for most homes due to a lack of viable sun facing surface area), you get might get less (eg Nuon pays you about 0.07 EUR/kWh http://www.nuon.nl/energie-besparen/zonnepanelen/terugleveren/ ).

    But if (and only when) these rules change, storing might be usefull. But I doubt storing electric power is very useful. I'm partial to storing heat instead ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geothermal_heat_pump )

  18. Re:Disaster waiting to happen on Germany Finances Major Push Into Home Battery Storage For Solar · · Score: 2

    "What I'm waiting for is swapping the prices of day and night electricity prices. In the summer "peak" demand has shifted to night time by now."

    Until this happens, storing solar generated energy is just dumb. At the moment my panels help me in 2 ways:
    -it lowers my electricity demand for a year by about 50%.
    -it saves about 10% on the price per kWh since I send energy to the grid at peak rates (0.22 EUR/kWh) and almost exclusively use offpeak (0.20 EUR/kWh)

    I have absolutely nothing to gain by storing electricity right now.

  19. Re:Fuck you, site. on Taking Google's QUIC For a Test Drive · · Score: 1

    "I guess browsers need "pay attention to refresh" to become an opt-in option."

    If you have noscript installed it is optional, can't remember if I disabled the noscript html element or that is the default

  20. Re:Open Standards on Nest Protect: Trojan Horse For 'The Internet of Things'? · · Score: 2

    I'm looking for an intelligent thermostat that speaks an open protocol: Opentherm ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenTherm / http://www.opentherm.eu/ ). Nest is not an option. Back to the DIY projects....

  21. Re:Messy on Engineers Design Tornado Proof Home · · Score: 1

    Because a tomato flood IS messy: http://www.latomatinatours.com/
    Those plastic sheets don't effectively protect your home.

  22. Re:New Plan on After Lavabit Shut-Down, Dotcom's Mega Promises Secure Mail · · Score: 1

    How does searching work for this kind of tranport/storage?

  23. Re: Easy on Ask Slashdot: Best Way To Store Data In Hard Copy? · · Score: 1

    If you really have important data on it (import enough to keep the drive), you should have saved the interface card from the dump, also you should have kept a machine that could take the interface card.

    My guess is I still have such hardware, if you make it worth my while I can retrieve the data for you.

  24. Re:Surpassing Vista on Windows 8 Passes Vista, Hits 5.1% Market Share · · Score: 1

    "Unlike today's version madness, Windows 2000 came in only one edition: Professional
    It was never intended to be marketed for home use. That was XP's job."

    There were more version:
    -professional
    -server
    -advanced server
    maybe more. It had something to do with memory and cpu/sockets. But there was only one non server version.

  25. Re:Misses the point on Android Fragmentation Isn't Hurting Its Adoption · · Score: 1

    The day you have a phone that runs the latest version.