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cenhyperionon Set up an email server in two hours

And they probably have most of the mail anyways because odds are he's mostly communicating with people using google, yahoo, microsoft, etc.

cenhyperionon SSH Brute Force – The 10 Year Old Attack That Still Persists

>Using keys is ever-so-slightly less convenient at setup

And it's easier once it's setup. I don't have punch in a password any time I need to make a server change.

cenhyperionon Kremlin security agencies buying typewriters "to avoid leaks"

Watergate was done copying purely physical media.

cenhyperionon Kremlin turns back to typewriters to avoid security leaks

IIRC researches were able to remotely read a laptop display. However, it seems like it would be much easier to build a large faraday cage than it would be to switch to typewriters.

cenhyperionon Twitter hands over data to ID racist users

With unreasonable bails, and a "speedy trial" means within a year or so.

cenhyperionon Intel In Bed with NSA?

>anything other than utter paranoia.

I want hackers, cypherpunks, and cryptographers to be utterly paranoid.

cenhyperionon Show HN: NameMonk – fast domain search using web sockets and Bloom filters

How about some better registrars than GoDaddy as the default list? Hover.com, gandi.net are both much much much better registrars, have much better support, aren't scummy, etc.

cenhyperionon I understood gender discrimination once I added “Mr.” to my resume

and more casual sexism!

cenhyperionon Switching to DuckDuckGo and Firefox

I made the exact same two switches over the past week and agree with the author. Honestly it's been great. I'm also slowly migrating away from my gmail and to a hosted email on my domain.

cenhyperionon Keep a static "emergency mode" site on S3

That's completely false. Hosting a static website on S3 is very well documented.

cenhyperionon DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average)

I've moved to using it as my default search provider. I'm using it well over half the time and if the results aren't great I add !g to the end to get google's results.

cenhyperionon Storage for Photographers

Great post. I appreciate the focus on minimalism and hobbyist photographers. I think it'd be an interesting project to take on. The technical side doesn't sound too difficult, plug into Amazon, lightroom/aperture.

While the post mentions avoiding externals I think a handy feature would be to push to both an external drive, glacier, and then remove the RAWs locally. That way you have two copies, so the data is actually backed up. Trusting all of your photography to amazon not losing data doesn't sound ideal.

cenhyperionon Chrome 28 arrives with Blink, rich notifications for apps

> That's a cute argument, but Microsoft never held a gun to a developer's head and said "use this feature or else!" Neither will Google.

I'd rather not go back to websites that have to specifically say which browser you have to run them in on the homepage. The web needs to be based on standards, not proprietary code.

cenhyperionon Man charged in Durham hit-and-run that killed Seth Vidal

Please stop.

cenhyperionon HTTP 2.0

But I don't think we should be raising the barrier to entry and making it more difficult for a young hacker to get started. Like the above commenter I started hacking around with HTML and CSS when I was around 12 and it led me into linux/python/php/web frameworks.

There's something beautiful about being able to teach someone how to write a basic HTML document in 20 minutes. My mother can easily understand what HTML is doing, I doubt she'd understand a compiler.

cenhyperionon Stasi vs NSA: A comparison of data storage

And retina scans/facial recognition software

cenhyperionon Daft Punk Didn't "Get Lucky" When It Created This Summer's Biggest Hit

Daft Punk is one of the most popular dance/electronic duos of the last decade. The article makes it sound as though they're some unknown duo that came out of nowhere.

It was expected that Random Access Memories was going to be one of the bigest records released this year.

Is Business Week really that out of touch?

cenhyperionon Nginx just became the most used web server among the top 1000 websites

You shouldn't stop using your LAMP stack. The differences between how the two behave really only come into play when you're talking about thousands upon thousands of concurrent users.

cenhyperionon NSA-proof encryption exists. Why doesn’t anyone use it?

Exactly, does the NSA really need to know what the contents are of a message to a known political activist to know what you're discussing?

cenhyperionon NSA Chief describes what PRISM is

So, we're supposed to think this is okay because a secret court approves it? A court that doesn't deny requests, a court that was just proven to approve monitoring every phone call in the nation? We're supposed to believe that court is protecting our privacy.

I don't care if this was all legal. Everything the Soviet Union did was legal under their laws. I care that this was wrong.

cenhyperionon Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks

I've pretty much come to the conclusion that he does the direct opposite of whatever he promises. He promised to end all this when he was elected, yet expanded on what Bush had started.

cenhyperionon Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks

I'm just hoping that Greenwald doesn't "get in a car crash."

cenhyperionon What if I lost my laptop?

Daily backups, full disk encryption, and something like lastpass, onepassword, or keychain.

cenhyperionon Free Science Books

http://www.openculture.com/

Open Culture has many ebooks and online courses available for free.