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jake223

Re:OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation on Saturday August 15, 2015 @11:07PM (#10067816)
This does not happen for me.

  bash-3.2$ ./tpwn
  leaked kaslr slide, @ 0x000000000f800000
  sh-3.2# exit
  bash-3.2$ id -u
  501
Re:John Nash's letters to the NSA (1955) [pdf] on Sunday May 24, 2015 @03:52PM (#9597330)
The line before this says "don't use courtesy titles" (e.g. Mr.)
Re:Safari is sending every search query to Apple on Sunday October 19, 2014 @08:32PM (#8480168)
A few years ago there was a minor scandal about microsoft's Bing "stealing" google results through the internet explorer search box. It seems strange that apple would have that kind of motivations, given that they don't have a search engine of their own... Here's the accusatory blog post google made: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/microsofts-bing-uses-...
Re:Apple Accidentally reveals iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @01:39PM (#8460208)
The first screenshot "accidentally" shows the specs of their new devices.
Re:ITerm2 2.0 on Tuesday July 15, 2014 @01:22PM (#8037727)
I'm getting a 404 when I try to download this. Anyone have the same problem?