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_salmon··on Check if your IP is exposing any ports. If you see 404 page, nothing is exposed
They're working on scanning IPv6 as well. They got in trouble a few years back after they were observed harvesting IPv6 addresses by running a public NTP server[1].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/02/using...

_salmon··on 25th Anniversary of the Theatrical Release of "Hackers"
So sort of like geohot
_salmon··on We hacked 28,000 unsecured printers to raise awareness of printer security issue
If you're interested in detecting these types of attacks, I wrote a printer honeypot during my Masters program.

https://github.com/sa7mon/miniprint

_salmon··on SS7 cellular network flaw being exploited to drain bank accounts
Should probably add a (2019) tag. This isn't exactly recent
_salmon··on Kali Linux 2020.3
It used to be that Kali would start a ton of services at boot and open those ports up to the LAN interface. Stuff like Postgresql that you probably don't want to expose any wider than localhost.

It also defaulted to running as a root user for everything, but they recently changed that.

_salmon··on Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack
There's nothing definitive that says they paid the ransom or obtained the decryption key from the attackers. Rumors on Twitter say that they're rebuilding services from backups and slowly getting things back online
_salmon··on Dating Apps Exposed 845 GB of Explicit Photos, Chats, and More
If you own buckets personally or at work and want to scan them from an outsider's perspective, you can use S3Scanner [1]. Disclosure: I wrote it and there's a major re-write coming soon(tm).

[1] https://github.com/sa7mon/S3Scanner

_salmon··on macOS in QEMU in Docker
MacStadium is very popular for this purpose.

https://www.macstadium.com/

_salmon··on IMAP Email Backup
I've used MailStore Home[1] for a few years and I really like it. It allows me to search across all of my mailboxes, even ones that have since been shutdown, for emails that I only remember a partial subject for.

[1]: https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/

_salmon··on Speed.cloudflare.com
Getting the same error with Firefox 75 on MacOS 10.14.5
_salmon··on ZFS versus RAID: Eight Ironwolf disks, two filesystems, one winner
Yes, FreeBSD will be switching to ZoL - https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2018-December...
_salmon··on Zoom fatigue is real
This article seems to address the problem of being a bad online meeting participant which I see as different than Zoom Fatigue.
_salmon··on GitHub was down
"I will not be harassed in my own private domicile"

-- Jesse Pinkman

_salmon··on The Ragtag Squad That Saved 38,000 Flash Games from Internet Oblivion
> Right now, the Flashpoint torrent is 241 gigabytes, downloadable to any Windows user for free

Or any other operating system...

_salmon··on Twitter tells Clearview AI to stop using site's photos
There, that should stop them.
_salmon··on Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained
Just to be clear, if you do local backups to iTunes, you can encrypt those backups with a key you control
_salmon··on NitroPad: Secure Laptop with Tamper Detection
> "The Intel Management Engine (ME) is some kind of separate computer within all modern Intel processors (CPU)."

Maybe this was a translation to English, but it makes it seem like they're not sure what the Intel ME is.

_salmon··on ACLU sues Homeland Security over 'stingray' cell phone surveillance
Watching signal strengths is all well and good, but you need historical data to compare to. This is a viable option for a few sites (maybe near where you live), but not an option when you're on the go.
_salmon··on 100k+ page views a month for $5 with a self-hosted static site
Yep, I'm using Hugo to generate a site hosted on S3/CloudFront. 8k hits this month and my bill so far is $0.04
_salmon··on We are making Sandboxie a free tool, with plans to transition it to open source
I miss ThinApp for making portable apps
_salmon··on Ubiquity hardware sends telemetry and it cannot be turned off
Any good open-source alternatives?
_salmon··on Google chief: I'd disclose smart speakers before guests enter my home
Yep, Home Assistant - https://www.home-assistant.io/
_salmon··on Linux 5.4 Features Are Huge: ExFAT, New GPUs, Enabling Lots of New Hardware
Finally exFAT will be supported out of the box!
_salmon··on An HTML attribute potentially worth $4.4M to Chipotle
I'm guessing they opted to use ui-mask instead of an HTML5 element so they could support older browsers?
_salmon··on LastPass bug leaks credentials from previous site
People are really complaining about this, but honestly the features I get from the product absolutely justify paying $2/month. I'd probably pay $3-4 before it wouldn't become worth it for me
_salmon··on Sunsetting Python 2
I ended up just aliasing "python" to Python3 and "python2" to Python2. Hasn't broken much yet in MacOS
_salmon··on Apple is locking iPhone battery replacement
No one tell Louis Rossman
_salmon··on Show HN: Commento: a fast, privacy-focused alternative to Disqus
Not sure if it was intentional, but unauthenticated users can see the email addresses of all non-anonymous commenters on a page. Specifically, a POST is made to "https://commento.io/api/comment/list"

Might want to hide those since this is supposed to be privacy-focused.

_salmon··on HN on second day from launch
user: oskkejdjdkjd created: 9 days ago
_salmon··on The Headlight of the Future Is a Laser
> It’s another reflection of how the increasingly...

I see what you did there.

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