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Spydar007

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Spydar007··on Remote code execution affecting most iOS/macOS apps
It's important to note that this bug has already been publicly patched in iOS 10.3 and macOS Sierra 10.12.4.
Spydar007··on Show HN: World class unlimited email hosting for all your domains from $4/month
Hm, I'm rather surprised by the fact they are hosting mail servers with OVH. Most OVH servers are on several blacklists and OVH do not tend to take very kindly to people using email through their servers.
Spydar007··on Show HN: masterkey – secure interactive password manager using Go and NACL
1Password allows for additional fields
Spydar007··on Shinatra – A simple bash web server
This reminds me a lot of Certbot's use of the Python SimpleHTTPServer:

  $(command -v python2 || command -v python2.7 || command -v python2.6) -c
  "import BaseHTTPServer, SimpleHTTPServer;
  s = BaseHTTPServer.HTTPServer(('', {port}), SimpleHTTPServer.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler);
  s.serve_forever()"
Spydar007··on TOX – A New Kind of Instant Messaging
ToxMe[1] seems to attempt to solve this issue by creating a public databases of emails and Tox IDs, though this defeats the object of the service being anonymous.

[1] https://toxme.io/

Spydar007··on Upgrade your SSH keys
> Passing arguments should only be for falling back on less secure options

This is the case with the secure-delete package for srm and sfill. Each argument changes the writes to make them less secure.

Spydar007··on An Important Message About Yahoo User Security
>Yahoo believes that information associated with at least 500 million user accounts was stolen

That tops the HIBP list for the most stolen.[1]

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites

Spydar007··on The “Cobra Effect” that is disabling paste on password fields
Windows doesn't let you paste when changing your password either. It's annoying.