HNHacker News
TopNewBestAskShowJobs

aj3

731 karma · joined June 6, 2020

submissionscomments
aj3··on New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
Sporadic CJD is diagnosis of exclusion. That it happens spontaneously is a hypothesis, there might be root cause(s) that we simply don't know yet.
aj3··on New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
Having more options to share medical records would be helpful as well (with patients consent obviously). Legacy attitude stating that all medical information should be kept super private is irrational and to me looks like a cargo cult.
aj3··on New Brunswick’s Mystery Disease
No, association with CJD is simply due to it being the most mysterious neurodegenerative disease and the last one to be tested (also pryons are hard to detect without knowing which protein exactly to examine).
aj3··on An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
Pardon my French, but you're either a coward or bootlicker. There won't be any criminal prosecution for raising legitimate issues internally & putting those in writing, no matter what company lawyers tell you.

And if the most privileged and job-secure people on the planet can't take the risk of undermining their FAANG overlords for the sake of humanity, who will?

aj3··on An enormous thread on alleged Google Facebook collusion
I'm not the company I work for. If they're doing unethical stuff, fuck them.

Never understood, why others are so keen to protect employer given company will throw under the bus any of us in a blink of an eye.

aj3··on Ads are now able to bypass Google Play to install apps WITHOUT user consent
Reddit comment explains that the software that handles app sideloading gets preinstalled by carriers: https://www.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/q4nltn/comment/...
aj3··on Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video]
I guess they want to prevent someone from intercepting and tampering with a phone while it's being shipped to the customer, you know the supply chain attacks NSA (https://www.theverge.com/2013/12/29/5253226/nsa-cia-fbi-lapt...) and CIA (https://phys.org/news/2017-03-wikileaks-cia-hacks-apple-mac....) perfected.
aj3··on Apple Disables FaceID if you change the screen yourself [video]
Just to make it clear that this isn't a purely theoretical concern, it's how Windows Hello got bypassed this summer: https://www.wired.com/story/windows-hello-facial-recognition...
aj3··on Google keeps records of everything you buy, even if you delete the email receipt
Well duh. They have to comply with anti-money laundering regulation.
aj3··on Mēris botnet, climbing to the record
Generally you don't. Just be prepared to scale resources and handle everyone.
aj3··on Mēris botnet, climbing to the record
Thankfully these attackers haven't heard about Layer 7 attacks yet.
aj3··on Mēris botnet, climbing to the record
This attack was 20m requests per second, not 100k.
aj3··on Disinformation-for-hire in Kenya
Education is societal problem and can be solved by technological means. Developing free, lightweight and portable browser is one of the solutions necessary to make knowledge more available, therefore this tech addresses social problem.
aj3··on Monkeys' cosy alliance with wolves looks like domestication (2015)
Isn't that just symbiotic relationship though? Article does not explain what monkeys get from this relationship with wolves and whether any species is changing another's behavior.
aj3··on Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card
And of course client side certificates. It's a pity they are rarely available as an option on public websites.
aj3··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
PH was blocked by payment processors (Visa and Mastercard): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/dec/10/pornhub-mast...

Parent is making distinction between credit cards and banks.

aj3··on Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
Honestly, I’m starting to think that this is deliberate attack by opponents of e2ee that want to prevent iCloud going dark (right now Apple holds the keys just like every other cloud storage provider but after implementing these CSAM features they could transition to true e2ee).
aj3··on Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
There are two different CSAM related features. One scans photos before they get uploaded to iCloud, other looks for indications of nudity and only works on minors' phones if their parents enabled this detection.
aj3··on Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse
It’s not forwarded to Apple/FBI though, under any circumstances.
aj3··on Swiping left on magnetic stripes
It's a security risk even if you don't use it. Someone just seeing your card briefly could copy it as the stripe has the same info that's printed on it.

Incidentally, this discussion is filled with people who have no idea how payments are authorized.

aj3··on Swiping left on magnetic stripes
No wonder people hate it then.
aj3··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
That’s not what I meant. SPF checks Envelope Sender domain which does not have to be the same as the address seen in From header.

Your configuration is trivially spoofable by setting Envelope Sender to something attacker controls (and thus it will pass SPF), while still placing your domain in the From header.

aj3··on A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
Wow, that’s wonderful!
aj3··on A Programmer’s Introduction to Mathematics
Any recommendations for similar physics textbooks?
aj3··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
Corporate politics and death by committee. These standards were created by many parties with conflicting interests. My understanding is that they couldn't agree on an exact way From header should be checked and thus deferred all policy aspects to further standard.

If you read DKIM RFC it actually only specifies how to sign and verify the email signature, but does not mandate exact checks recipient should do to figure out authenticity. E.g. technically Microsoft could send mail from @gmail.com address and use "d=outlook.com" in the signature - the signature would be valid, but obviously it wouldn't make it authentic (meaning such mail wouldn't be authorized by Google). Although common sense dictates that there should be some sort of connection between domain seen in From header and the one that's DKIM-signing the mail (and most real-world implementations will do some kind of checks), RFC deliberately does not standardize these steps.

The intended standard that should have clarified these issues was ADSP, but it wasn't well received and now we have DMARC which handles both SPF and DKIM together (this is better for deliverability as mails that fail one of these checks might still pass another).

aj3··on Email Authenticity 101: DKIM, Dmarc, and SPF
Yeah, I didn't want to get stuck in details, but I'm setting up a couple of new mailservers (freshly registered domains, self-hosted VPS at cheap cloud providers (DO, Hetzner, OVH, AWS). And they do get delivered directly into Outlook, Google, Protonmail and other major providers after two days tops (some still employ greylisting for fresh IPs/domains).

There's no secret sauce but there is a myriad of ways to shoot yourself in the foot when setting up a mail server from scratch. E.g. many standard setups may try delivering email over IPv6 if available which currently is a terrible idea but might be completely opaque to the user. Obviously, the results will also depend on what is it that you're sending as everyone uses point-based (or even ML) systems nowadays and headers + contents can earn you either negative or positive points.

aj3··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
Sure. Parsing DMARC requires understanding DKIM as well, so what you’re asking is a non issue.

That said DKIM is not enough because that standard does not have a way to signal recipient that your domain has DKIM set up in the first place (and you promise that all your mails should always be signed).

It’s kind of funny but essentially hacker does not need to spoof DKIM because they can just omit it and recipient won’t be able to know that it should have been present in the first place. Btw, there was proposal to add a feature that could be used for this signaling but it didn’t get adopted, so DMARC is the only practical solution right now.

aj3··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
Eh, DMARC is meant to solve different problem. E.g. when your accountant receives spoofed mail with a fake invoice supposedly coming from a legit supply chain provider. They might be trained to check domain that was used to send email but without DMARC non-techies won’t be able to notice well made spoofed email.
aj3··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
Your configuration provides no protection from email spoofing though.
aj3··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
SPF (alone) is useless because it actually does not check the sender's domain in the From header (as one might naively think). Instead it only verifies Envelop Sender which can differ (intentionally) from the mail seen in From header.
← PreviousPage 2 of 9Next →