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  1. Re:What about the Man in the Middle on Firefox Moves Browsers Into Post-Password Future With WebAuthn Tech (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You've ignored that man-in-the-middle doesn't have to steal the origin server's private key - they just have to be able to sign a certificate with the same Subject or Subject Alternative Name using any CA Root or ICA in your trusted certificates store.

    Certificates are only as strong as the weakest CA which is why Apple, Google and Mozilla created a big song-and-dance act about StartSSL/Start.com allegedly (and never actually proven, mind you) being owned by China-based Qihoo 360 Group.

    One could argue that it's easier to game the Mozilla-promoted Let's Encrypt certificates.

  2. there are people who have the power to see information you believe to be private, and sometimes they may look at that data.

    For about as long as we've had email there have been t-shirts:

    I read your email.

    If it's on the internet someone else you don't want seeing it probably already has a copy of it.

  3. I prefer Firefox+NoScript+Privoxy myself.

  4. Re:AE is a great Airplay Device with optical out. on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    The unfortunate problem with AirPort Express is that they're only 802.11n. No bloody ac, ad or ax.

  5. Re:Apple's 'achievements' on Apple Discontinues Its AirPort Router Line (9to5mac.com) · · Score: 1

    Blame the Mac guys. They got sand in their jocks when the Apple IIgs came out and could do more for less.

  6. Re:LOL! on Hacking a Satellite is Surprisingly Easy (theoutline.com) · · Score: 2

    The only satellite I ever saw running Windows 95 was a Toshiba Satellite. I think TFA's author is confused.

  7. Great source article on 'Drupalgeddon2' Touches Off Arms Race To Mass-Exploit Powerful Web Servers (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 5, Informative

    Noice... TFA links back to the 2014 security advisory and completely misses a link to the current 2018 security advisory.

  8. Re:the right incentives on UK Teen Who Hacked CIA Director Sentenced To 2 Years In Prison (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    What exactly made you think this teen was a white hat? It's not like he contacted AOL support again to tell them how bad their phone support staff were and helped them fix their broken training processes.

  9. Re:External monitors too on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I'm on 10.13.4 and I've got two external portrait displays working just fine. Did you buy genuine Apple video adapters or those cheap shit USB adapters from DisplayLink?

  10. Re:Killed USB video on Users Complain About Installation Issues With macOS 10.13.4 (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    So glad I stuck with the Apple branded lightning video adapters instead of buying cheap USB video adapters.

  11. Yeah, Gnome desktop has never lost Wi-Fi or Bluetooth connectivity after and upgrade. Not once, not ever.

  12. I installed 10.13.3 on 9-Feb and 10.13.4 on 12-Apr. I haven't had any of these problems they speak of, nor have I heard anything from IT support vendors about it.

  13. Re:I know why they picked bright red on Microsoft Ports Edge Anti-Phishing Technology To Google Chrome (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 0

    Crazy Americans. Real tacos don't have lettuce.

  14. Re: I don't remember... on Facebook Admits To Tracking Users, Non-Users Off-Site (theguardian.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Facebook and friends are collecting far too much data on you, more than enough to impersonate your identity.

    Even if we assume that every single employee of Facebook, and all its data partners, are beyond reproach and would never stoop so low as to impersonate you to defraud government welfare, banks, or online shopping (given their CEO was alleged to have stolen Facebook in the first place, what do you think the chances of that are?)... eventually all that data is going to be involved in a breach and become available to all and sundry black hats.

  15. 2009 just called on Windows 10 Update Will Support More Password-Free Logins (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    They want their SmartCard Authentication technology back. FIDO itself has been around since 2013.

  16. Deleting Code on Linus Torvalds Says Linux Kernel v5.0 'Should Be Meaningless' (betanews.com) · · Score: 1

    Deleting code is my favourite software development activity, ever. Especially when all the tests are still green afterward.

  17. Always the way, isn't it? I just threw out a bunch of Quadra 400 & 800 trays a few weeks back.

  18. Re:Unsafe autopilot is what sells Teslas on NTSB Boots Tesla From Investigation Into Fatal Autopilot Crash (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Break assist

    I think you've nailed the very definition of the current generation of autopilot software. Now if only Tesla owners could figure it out.

  19. Until your boss asks you for a macOS or iOS version of the application that you maintain.

    It's an urban myth that you need a Mac desktop for macOS/iOS development. There are online services out there now that build for macOS and iOS - they even upload the resultant binaries to iTunes Connect. e.g.: Bitrise.io

  20. Re:Absolutely, but .... on Apple Starts Alerting Users That It Will End 32-Bit App Support On the Mac (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 1

    Maybe that has changed, but running commercial games that didn't use wine was a mess in the first wave of Linux games (bungie era), even quite new ones.

    A long time ago Wine changed their virtual memory manager subsystem to support ASLR which broke compatability with software and games that required fixed memory layouts - Bungie's original HALO, for example. If you wanted to play HALO you had to use an old Wine version that didn't even support gamepad controllers. AFAIK this never got fixed.

  21. Grab your existing 5 1/4" 360K or 1.2M floppy drive and plug it into one of these USB controllers: http://www.deviceside.com/fc50...

  22. Re:Seriously?!?!?!?!? on Japan Team Maps 'Semi-Infinite' Trove of Rare Earth Elements (japantimes.co.jp) · · Score: 1

    At least they're consistent dupes - BeauHD put them both in the hide-and-seek dept.

  23. I blame the guy that invented the plough 12,000 years ago.

  24. Re:Why FTP? Why not an HTTPS CMS site? on Firefox Follows Chrome and Blocks the Loading of Most FTP Resources (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    One could argue that the FTP protocol is actually more secure because it doesn't serve up Cookies for scumbag companies like Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft to track your traffic.

    If Mozilla and Google were serious about security they'd block Wordpress sites by default.

  25. HTTP/2 is not in wide use yet, but the browsers already refuse to accept HTTP/2 content if it's unencrypted.

    Source? The Kestrel web server used for ASP.NET Core uses HTTP/2 by default and I've never seen a browser refuse to load output from it.