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Re:From stolen laptop to inside the company network on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @07:37PM (#27991100)
This is bad advice. You should use a PIN on your TPM and not a password protecting the drive header.
Re:A shared file system for lambda functions on Tuesday June 16, 2020 @08:30PM (#23546189)
Sort of. The better analogy would be spinning up compute localized to the s3 object; which would be pretty interesting.

This feature they did release deserves little fanfare.

Re:Client IP address disclosure in smtp.gmail.com on Thursday April 02, 2020 @09:31PM (#22765605)
Yes.
Re:NitroPad: Secure Laptop with Tamper Detection on Wednesday January 08, 2020 @07:12AM (#21990665)
Is the dm-crypt decryption key stored on the NitroKey with a pin/passphrase to access the key to mount the decrypted the disk?
Re:Apple iCloud Experiencing Issues on Sunday July 14, 2019 @09:01AM (#20433139)
iOS Walkie Talkie has been down since Wednesday
Re:Choose Boring Technology on Tuesday July 02, 2019 @07:18AM (#20333954)
This is a fantastic piece! I’ve been advocating for “complexity points” for years now. MBSA (make boring sexy again!)
Re:AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring on Tuesday June 25, 2019 @12:28PM (#20275846)
Awesome feature that will likely unlock a bunch of services or service providers like Iceberg, Snort and Suricata to be able to capture and inspect traffic inside the cloud.
Re:Building CentOS 8 on Thursday May 09, 2019 @06:55PM (#19873279)
Thank you to the project maintainers; while RedHat does release the source code anyone who’s actually compiled from source knows that it’s never push-button easy
Volunteer Firefighter and SRE here.

ICS is crucial in any and all of our incidents and should be the model on how any disaster is handled

Thank you Caroll Spinney for helping teach generations how to be compassionate, patient and respectful of your neighbors. You brought to life custumes and characters that will forever define Americana
Re:Why you should not use Google Cloud on Saturday June 30, 2018 @05:56PM (#17432940)
This needs more upvotes
Re:Shouting in the Datacenter (2008) [video] on Sunday June 24, 2018 @05:43PM (#17388542)
Those were the days....
Re:Important Security Update (Netgear Arlo) on Saturday May 26, 2018 @01:08PM (#17163060)
I’m available for basic security consultancy.

- MFA for initial logins - captcha for repeated attempts - IP based heuristics to detect fraud

I feel like these places invest very little in securing their platform.

I have to hope that the URLs for the objects stored in the cloud (s3) are at least time-bound and signed.

Re:MacOS monitoring the open source way on Thursday April 26, 2018 @07:24PM (#16936925)
OpenBSM is awesome except you’re forced to invent your own way of log gathering - which becomes more painful when you’re mobile or offline and then you’ve got to keep state on what’s been transmitted to the mothership.

Would be nice for some insight into Dropbox’s solution here...

Wonder if services like Let’s Encrypt were affected. I imagine a scenario where a small hijack of DNS could allow for properly signed certificates for domains that are not owned. If I operated a CA service, I would carefully examine the requests received during this time frame. Maybe someone can audit the Transparency Logs during this period for anomalous activity.
Re:BGP leaks and cryptocurrencies on Tuesday April 24, 2018 @08:10PM (#16917771)
Wonder if services like Let’s Encrypt were affected. I imagine a scenario where a small hijack of DNS could allow for properly signed certificates for domains that are not owned. If I operated a CA service, I would carefully examine the requests received during this time frame. Maybe someone can audit the Transparency Logs during this period for anomalous activity.
Re:How did we end up with containers? on Thursday April 05, 2018 @01:56PM (#16767235)
I feel like containers (at-times) are the artifact organizational disfunction, the inability for teams to collaborate and a lack of engineering quality.

What’s sad is that I believe this to be true for the overhwelming majority.

Diaspora raised a slew of money back in 2010 but flopped.... it’s almost as though we knew this would happen....

https://techcrunch.com/2010/05/12/diaspora-open-facebook-pro...

Re:Anatomy of a Ceph meltdown on Friday February 09, 2018 @04:18PM (#16343900)
I didn’t read past the first paragraph before I formed the opinion that running all your VMs on a file system like this is a terrible idea.

If you can’t afford an enterprise SAN (I’m not even talking a NAS, I mean a real fiberchannel-based block-store) for your virtual environment (and I get it - many cannot) then just do yourself a favor and run on local disk.

The reduction in moving parts will dividends. I promise.

SuperNAP is in that area. Only one of the largest colo’s in the country....no big deal
Re:What Restaurants Know About You Before You Walk In on Sunday December 24, 2017 @10:20PM (#16002459)
Billboards track cars using the RF of the TPMS sensors on your cars and then make inference about who the driver statistically would be ....
Re:Nvidia’s New Policy Limits GeForce Data Center Usage on Sunday December 24, 2017 @09:03PM (#16002246)
What’s the tl/dr on this?
Because that’s exactly what I want to do - give my home encryption keys to amazon.
Re:SharknAT&To: Vulnerabilities in AT&T U-verse modems on Sunday September 03, 2017 @03:40PM (#15163404)
This is terrifying
Re:Apple Is Trying to Make iMessages More Private on Sunday June 11, 2017 @03:11PM (#14533268)
If you encrypt your iCloud backups isn't the whole concern moot anyway?

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