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Trellmoron Is Firefox lying to users about viruses in downloads?

Like Chrome?

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/wj7x9w/google-chr...

Trellmoron The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

dns-admin@ is probably from the whois record of the domain you checked. The predefined list is only the last 4 addresses that are shown: security@, hostmaster@, postmaster@ and webmaster@.

Trellmoron What Happened to TCP Flags URGENT, MSG_OOB, and SIGURG? (2007)

RFC 6093 [1] provides a bit more insight into this and other behavior.

[1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6093

Trellmoron StartSSL domain validation vulnerability

Maybe. StartSSL used to allow using E-Mail addresses from WHOIS records for domain validation and it's possible that this code was still in place on the backend.

Trellmoron Glibc getaddrinfo stack-based buffer overflow

Debian has published security announcements for glibc [1] and eglibc [2]. Updates should be available from http://security.debian.org/ (and I was able to install them).

Also, keep this in mind:

>While it is only necessary to ensure that all processes are not using the old glibc/eglibc anymore, it is recommended to reboot the machines after applying the security upgrade.

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00...

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2016/msg00...

Trellmoron Bad USB-C cable destroys laptop

From one of his comments

>I ordered one more of each of Surjtech's products before they pulled their listing today, so yes.

Trellmoron Hola VPN Already Exploited by “Bad Guys”, Security Firm Says

There is also an option to route all traffic through the OpenVPN server, and the OpenVPN HOWTO has an entry for it: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howt...

Instead of using the push setting in the server config you can also set redirect-gateway in the client config.

Trellmoron Swift Resistance Explored

He always runs 30 iterations (Search for "NUMBER_OF_ITERATIONS = 30"), so for example ObjC -O0 takes 0.099769s to render 30 frames, or about 0,0033256s per single frame.

Trellmoron John Carmack's adolescent years (2003)

There is also a book [1] about Blizzard that I really enjoyed.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00G8UL474

Trellmoron Adblock Plus is probably the reason Firefox and Chrome are such memory hogs

Or use Adblock Edge https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/ which is a Adblock Plus fork minus the "acceptable ads" feature.

Trellmoron Nexus 9

The Nexus 6 has 32 and 64GB options. I'm a bit disappointed that they don't match this with the Nexus 9.

Trellmoron Important Notice to Our Users

Probably not the signing keys, otherwise they could have uploaded a malicious app with the original package name.