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Re:Stop Breaking TLS on Wednesday December 10, 2025 @04:26AM (#46215764)
You should make it about CT logs. I believe you need to compromise at least three of them.
Re:Google paid a $250K reward for a bug on Monday August 11, 2025 @03:40AM (#44861663)
This post is about a logic bug that could have happened in any language
Re:How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone on Tuesday January 14, 2025 @12:26PM (#42700516)
How iPhone notifications work. These are relied upon by humans and they started displaying incorrect facts for news apps
Re:How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone on Monday January 13, 2025 @08:47AM (#42683359)
I don't think anyone here advocates for "just ship it" when you're talking about breaking updates to a system used by a significant chunk of the world's population.
The routine is here https://youtu.be/jgcGEIfE9kE but I don't think that's the origin of the phrase and doesn't mention mailing candy ones to people
Re:T * sin (t)' โ‰ˆ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013) on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @04:47AM (#42507933)
Some was too excited about Santa to, you know, read the usernames of the submitter and commenter
Re:Query Apple's FindMy Network with Python on Sunday December 22, 2024 @06:02AM (#42485624)
I don't see how you would get the private key for the airtag off the iPhone without jailbreaking it. The readme of the project implies you can do this but the docs are completely lacking
Re:Htmhail on Saturday December 07, 2024 @06:50AM (#42349140)
The "model solution" isn't exactly great. "Just make sure to style the button so it's appearance changes when it has focus..." Ok? So show me how to do that!
Re:New Elliptic Curve Breaks 18-Year-Old Record on Thursday November 14, 2024 @02:04AM (#42133763)
Youd probably get the Abel prize (which has a significantly larger cash prize)
You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
Re:Cache Me Not, Cache Me, Cache Me Not on Tuesday September 24, 2024 @01:58AM (#41633489)
Re:Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40% on Friday September 20, 2024 @06:03PM (#41605907)
My computer isn't great, I'll admit, but I'm making a relative comparison. I visit many different websites on my low spec computer but discord is a noticeable outlier on how it affects the performance.
Re:Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40% on Friday September 20, 2024 @03:28PM (#41604878)
Anytime I have a discord tab open it noticeably grinds my computer to a halt
That's not what's happened here. His time in UK prison counts towards his US charges and is the reason he's not doing time in US prison. It's more like if "settling things country style" involved giving each other ducks, and after round one the farmer received a duck then said "forget it keep your duck".
Re:The Most Backdoor-Looking Bug I've Ever Seen on Friday May 10, 2024 @02:56AM (#40316099)
It's about being in the middle of the encrypted tunnel, not the network traffic. It's no more misleading than saying "man".
Re:Common Google XSS on Wednesday May 08, 2024 @02:32AM (#40294980)
Does this JavaScript run in the same origin as the Google domain? Surely this is just an open redirect rather than xss?
Re:Attackers Can Decloak Routing-Based VPNs on Monday May 06, 2024 @05:32PM (#40279748)
Is there a tl;dr so we don't have to wade through swathes of AI generated text explaining what a network is?
Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @12:28PM (#40054025)
Agreed; my problem was that the parent comment was imprecise, and hence confusing. "n bit random number vs. n bit modulus" implied n was the same in each case, whereas 521 is not the same as 512.
Re:PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @01:29AM (#40048650)
It's not the difference between an n-bit random number and an n-bit modulus. It's the difference between a 512-bit random number and a 521-bit random number. It's very simple, but wording it as number vs. modulus is needlessly confusing, just adding to the problem you are bemoaning.
Re:DES/3DES Algorithm Illustration on Saturday April 13, 2024 @06:30AM (#40022015)
Awesome! Only one tiny typo: It's "ECB" rather than "EBC" :)
Re:Elliptic Curve 'Murmurations' Found with AI Take Flight on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @03:54PM (#39609054)
The article is talking about deep learning winning, ie neural networks. Surely modelling of human biology is part of that?
Re:Getting SSH Port 22 on Monday February 12, 2024 @03:18AM (#39342686)
"The -p <port> option can be used to specify the port number to connect to when using the ssh command on Linux. The -P <port> (note: capital P) option can be used with SFTP and scp."

The most annoying thing about SSH/scp!

Re:The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence on Tuesday January 30, 2024 @01:35AM (#39187029)
But drawing a hierarchy in the shape of a pyramid is a perfectly natural thing to do and not, as you stated, misinterpreting his writings. You used this as a basis to discredit the article!
He never drew them in a pyramid but he absolutely described them hierarchically. A quote from his 1943 paper: "Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need"
Re:RSA is deceptively simple (and fun) on Friday January 19, 2024 @02:01AM (#39052420)
Nonce reuse covers a whole bunch of attacks in different algorithms. It's weird to compare that broad category against two specific examples of padding oracle attacks
The parent comment says this - anything _older_ than XR or XS is no longer supported
Re:Beeper Mini is now open-source on Saturday December 23, 2023 @03:23PM (#38747826)
It would have to be free, otherwise they become customers. The current option is to pay for an apple device.
Re:You don't need to work on hard problems on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:36AM (#38175670)
"easy, just time consuming" ... Also known as hard
Why would you use mathematics or computer science to ascertain whether someone has been corrupted by a government agency?
Re:Tic Tacs claim to be sugar free but are almost sugar on Friday August 11, 2023 @01:50PM (#37091613)
Why do they bother listing amounts, in grams, of the constituents of a 0.49g serving, and round any amount less than 0.5g down to 0? Nothing can be non zero in that case!

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