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I dare say that it’s annoying you as a result of cognitive dissonance about your employer paying six figures to migrate to it.

If you’re being paid well, obviously you’ll be annoyed by concepts contrary to your work.

e: edits are hated, but the downvotes prove out: Kubernetes is simply OpenStack for hipsters.

Re:Third-Party Audit of Rustls on Sunday June 14, 2020 @06:29PM (#23521924)
The finding in TLS-01-003 is surprising to me, mostly because it presupposes a lack of sophistication among users of this library who are also using X.509 NameConstraints. From RFC5280:

  For example, a name constraint for "class C" subnet 192.0.2.0 is represented as the octets C0 00 02 00 FF FF FF 00, representing the CIDR notation 192.0.2.0/24 (mask 255.255.255.0).
As they mention in the findings:

  Typically, subnet masks should be contiguous and the presence of a non-contiguous mask might indicate a typo (such as 225.255.255.0 vs. 255.255.255.0), or potentially an attempt to bypass an access control scheme. Therefore, it is recommended to treat certificates containing non-contiguous subnet masks in their name constraints as invalid.
This seems to run counter to the intent in the RFC. By allowing for a four-octet subnet mask, instead of simply an int to represent the a contiguous CIDR mask, the RFC authors may have intended that more complex IP-based NameConstraints could be constructed. This certainly would make a huge difference for something like an intermediate (CA:TRUE), where it becomes much more economical to specify a sparse mask for a highly templated network. Think certs for network equipment or VoIP phones with regular, repeatable IP addressing across many locations/networks. E.g., a VoIP provisioning system that has an intermediate issuing CA with the following NameConstraints: IP:172.16.0.0/255.255.1.239.

If any change comes from this specific finding, I would hope that it's simply a flag to allow or disallow the use of discontiguous masks. I do understand that this is specific to WebPKI; having said that, if a client is implemented using rustls (with these recommendations enabled) and it happens across a perfectly valid certificate issued by an intermediate with a discontiguous mask in the NameConstraints, presumably it would fail or otherwise break. And yes, I have previously configured precisely this in an intermediate CA.

Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal on Sunday February 16, 2020 @11:56PM (#22345697)
This is absolutely a false dichotomy. A home-cooked meal is not one conventionally thought of as being from items hyperlocally sourced. At least, not in the last 70-100 years. We’ve had Sears Roebuck and the like for quite some time.
Re:Stripe's 210 Day Hold Practices on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:19AM (#21870270)
The fact that the OP had to resort to unofficial channels to get satisfaction is the problem, full stop.
Re:Stripe's 210 Day Hold Practices on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:18AM (#21870263)
I would say that is much more damning of their state of customer interest.
Re:Stripe's 210 Day Hold Practices on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:06AM (#21870214)
That you would have to communicate this to a customer via HN is pretty damning.
Re:Vault 1.3 on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:00AM (#21542605)
Vault is a phenomenal tool, full stop.
Agreed, I just found the juxtaposition of the two confusing at first.
On mobile, this site has a “toggle high contrast” widget on the left side that seems to directly contravene the points made in the article.
This position seems at odds with a recently opened WHATWG issue.

https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/4986

The first two nota benes explicitly describe this document being outdated and not what most people expect when it comes to “memory controller”. I am not certain that citing this is a great example.
Re:Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography on Sunday February 03, 2019 @07:09PM (#19073036)
Arguably, private keys should not ever leave the device on which they were generated.
Re:Two-factor auth with public-key cryptography on Sunday February 03, 2019 @06:13PM (#19072841)
I’m curious to know what benefits accrue from sending the user’s private key over the wire (even encrypted). It seems a strange concept, at odds with ephemeral key usage.
Re:Biography of Terry Davis' Life (Author of TempleOS) on Friday January 25, 2019 @01:19AM (#18995960)
This whole post smacks of a half-hearted attempt to memorialize Terry, while slyly smearing him.

n.b. I am not defending Terry’s outlook nor besmirching his efforts, simply calling out this post as a not great eulogy.

Your cellphone camera lens likely doesn’t have the requisite light-gathering capacity to burn out the CMOS image sensor in your phone. CCDs (commonly used in DSLR/M43 cameras) are far more sensitive, as I understand it.
Re:I need to copy 2000+ DVDs in 3 days. What are my options? on Tuesday December 18, 2018 @12:15AM (#18704684)
Factual information isn’t always useful in another context.
This is an exceptionally self-serving take on the matter at hand. So much so that it’s frankly breathtaking that it’s been upvoted to #1.

Dear Israel del Rio,

As a Mariott and SPG member since history, kindly focus on not disclaiming responsibility in a public forum, since you almost assuredly aren’t as innocent as you claim.

This is a profoundly unhelpful comment.
Re:iPhones are hard to use on Tuesday October 23, 2018 @02:00AM (#18281039)
The term “Windows autism” is pretty repugnant.
Re:Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company on Saturday September 29, 2018 @08:00PM (#18103734)
if you work for someone, do you owe them anything? beyond a customary standard of duty and notice of departure from employment?
Re:Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges on Saturday September 29, 2018 @06:01PM (#18103141)
no, Kylie’s Snapchat tweets were almost certainly more expensive (for $SNAP)
Re:Instagram’s Co-Founders Said to Step Down from Company on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @12:03AM (#18063496)
why on earth would they owe anything to the company?
Re:John Dvorak: “Yesterday I was fired from PC Magazine” on Saturday September 22, 2018 @12:20AM (#18044432)
Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequence.
Re:GlobalEntry.gov has invalid SSL certificate on Sunday August 26, 2018 @08:54PM (#17848774)
Title says `GlobalEntry.gov`, link points to `www.globalentry.gov`. And yes, presumably it's misconfigured.
Re:GlobalEntry.gov has invalid SSL certificate on Sunday August 26, 2018 @08:51PM (#17848767)
`thisisunsafe` in Chrome.
Re:GlobalEntry.gov has invalid SSL certificate on Sunday August 26, 2018 @08:51PM (#17848764)
globalentry.gov has a valid certificate. The link you shared is for www.globalentry.gov. Presumably, the admins there shouldn't simply be pointing www.globalentry.gov at the same IP as globalentry.gov.
Re:A dull, resilient stream processor in Go on Thursday August 16, 2018 @02:26AM (#17772385)
This seems quite a bit like Heka. Very excited.
Looks nifty, but I'd ask: why use this over Trufflehog?

https://github.com/dxa4481/truffleHog

Re:Reddit Security Incident on Wednesday August 01, 2018 @12:57PM (#17664363)
Interesting that the data accessed was very specifically only limited to:

* A complete copy of an old database backup containing very early Reddit user data -- from the site’s launch in 2005 through May 2007

* Logs containing the email digests we sent between June 3 and June 17, 2018

Also of note:

"Already having our primary access points for code and infrastructure behind strong authentication requiring two factor authentication (2FA), we learned that SMS-based authentication is not nearly as secure as we would hope, and the main attack was via SMS intercept."

If this doesn't put the nail in the coffin of SMS-based 2FA, I'm not sure what will.

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