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acer4666··on Stop Breaking TLS
You should make it about CT logs. I believe you need to compromise at least three of them.
acer4666··on The Chrome VRP Panel has decided to award $250k for this report
This post is about a logic bug that could have happened in any language
acer4666··on How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone
How iPhone notifications work. These are relied upon by humans and they started displaying incorrect facts for news apps
acer4666··on How to turn off Apple Intelligence on your iPhone
I don't think anyone here advocates for "just ship it" when you're talking about breaking updates to a system used by a significant chunk of the world's population.
acer4666··on I made $100K from a dick joke
The routine is here https://youtu.be/jgcGEIfE9kE but I don't think that's the origin of the phrase and doesn't mention mailing candy ones to people
acer4666··on T * sin (t)' ≈ Ornamented Christmas Tree (2013)
Some was too excited about Santa to, you know, read the usernames of the submitter and commenter
acer4666··on Query Apple's FindMy network with Python
I don't see how you would get the private key for the airtag off the iPhone without jailbreaking it. The readme of the project implies you can do this but the docs are completely lacking
acer4666··on Htmhail
The "model solution" isn't exactly great. "Just make sure to style the button so it's appearance changes when it has focus..." Ok? So show me how to do that!
acer4666··on New elliptic curve breaks 18-year-old record
Youd probably get the Abel prize (which has a significantly larger cash prize)
acer4666··on Teri Garr, Star of 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' Dies at 79
You're not really admitting it by masking it in an obtuse acronym
acer4666··on Cache Me Not, Cache Me, Cache Me Not
https://hachyderm.io/@hazelweakly she/her pronouns
acer4666··on Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
My computer isn't great, I'll admit, but I'm making a relative comparison. I visit many different websites on my low spec computer but discord is a noticeable outlier on how it affects the performance.
acer4666··on Discord Reduced WebSocket Traffic by 40%
Anytime I have a discord tab open it noticeably grinds my computer to a halt
acer4666··on Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
That's not what's happened here. His time in UK prison counts towards his US charges and is the reason he's not doing time in US prison. It's more like if "settling things country style" involved giving each other ducks, and after round one the farmer received a duck then said "forget it keep your duck".
acer4666··on The most backdoor-looking bug I've ever seen (2021)
It's about being in the middle of the encrypted tunnel, not the network traffic. It's no more misleading than saying "man".
acer4666··on Common Google XSS
Does this JavaScript run in the same origin as the Google domain? Surely this is just an open redirect rather than xss?
acer4666··on Attackers can decloak routing-based VPNs
Is there a tl;dr so we don't have to wade through swathes of AI generated text explaining what a network is?
acer4666··on PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
Agreed; my problem was that the parent comment was imprecise, and hence confusing. "n bit random number vs. n bit modulus" implied n was the same in each case, whereas 521 is not the same as 512.
acer4666··on PuTTY vulnerability vuln-p521-bias
It's not the difference between an n-bit random number and an n-bit modulus. It's the difference between a 512-bit random number and a 521-bit random number. It's very simple, but wording it as number vs. modulus is needlessly confusing, just adding to the problem you are bemoaning.
acer4666··on DES/3DES Algorithm Illustration
Awesome! Only one tiny typo: It's "ECB" rather than "EBC" :)
acer4666··on Elliptic curve 'murmurations' found with AI
The article is talking about deep learning winning, ie neural networks. Surely modelling of human biology is part of that?
acer4666··on How SSH port became 22 (2017)
"The -p <port> option can be used to specify the port number to connect to when using the ssh command on Linux. The -P <port> (note: capital P) option can be used with SFTP and scp."

The most annoying thing about SSH/scp!

acer4666··on The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence
But drawing a hierarchy in the shape of a pyramid is a perfectly natural thing to do and not, as you stated, misinterpreting his writings. You used this as a basis to discredit the article!
acer4666··on The missing apex of Maslow's hierarchy: self-transcendence
He never drew them in a pyramid but he absolutely described them hierarchically. A quote from his 1943 paper: "Human needs arrange themselves in hierarchies of pre-potency. That is to say, the appearance of one need usually rests on the prior satisfaction of another, more pre-potent need"
acer4666··on RSA is deceptively simple and fun
Nonce reuse covers a whole bunch of attacks in different algorithms. It's weird to compare that broad category against two specific examples of padding oracle attacks
acer4666··on No new iPhone? No secure iOS: Looking at an unfixed iOS vulnerability
The parent comment says this - anything _older_ than XR or XS is no longer supported
acer4666··on Beeper Mini is now open-source
It would have to be free, otherwise they become customers. The current option is to pay for an apple device.
acer4666··on You don't need to work on hard problems (2020)
"easy, just time consuming" ... Also known as hard
acer4666··on Debunking NIST's calculation of the Kyber-512 security level
Why would you use mathematics or computer science to ascertain whether someone has been corrupted by a government agency?
acer4666··on Tic Tacs claim to have 0 sugar but are almost entirely sugar
Why do they bother listing amounts, in grams, of the constituents of a 0.49g serving, and round any amount less than 0.5g down to 0? Nothing can be non zero in that case!
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