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emXdemon Notepad++: Help us to take down the parasite website

Cloudflare typically doesn't do anything unless you get lawyers involved in my experience.

emXdemon United States vs. Dread Pirate Roberts (Silk Road) FBI Report (2013) [pdf]

https://antilop.cc/sr/

my favorite

emXdemon U.S. Escalates Online Attacks on Russia’s Power Grid

You remember VPNFilter? I'd certainly consider that and other disinformation campaigns acts of war.

emXdemon Intel to Discontinue Itanium 9700 ‘Kittson’ Processor, the Last of the Itaniums

And EFI is a good thing, especially considering the monster dumpster fire that is UEFI?

emXdemon Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]

Someone you know may be without your knowing and you can be snapped up in the "drag net"...

emXdemon Rules of Spycraft (2009) [pdf]

Tradecraft hasn't changed much. It has been fairly well tested. Operational security and information security have not changed much... They have become more difficult with cell-phones and small internet connected devices.

I think another big difference and a subject that probably would be included in a redo is understanding how all of the modern data generating systems can reveal covert activity through the analysis of metadata and how to "hide in the noise" of this.

The geospatial correlation of burner phone to actual identity if one does not practice good sanitation as far as locational security when accessing wireless networks as an example.

emXdemon Librem 5 dev kits are shipping

Good luck buying one. Took me 2 months to cancel my order, at least another month to receive my refund.

emXdemon Librem 5 dev kits are shipping

This was my exact experience with their laptops. All of them.

Great that there is a company that wants to do this. Not great that they have 0 transparency around refunds and supplychain.

emXdemon Librem 5 dev kits are shipping

Have you tried to order a laptop? I did... After 2 months of waiting I cancelled my order and it took another month to get refunded.

emXdemon Progress update from the Librem 5 hardware department

Last time I tried to order a purism... I waited for 4 months and then took about a few weeks and multiple payments for a refund. Have they worked out their supply chain issues yet?

emXdemon Coinbase: The Heart of the Bitcoin Frenzy

I like to think of bitcoin as the censorship resistant settlement layer on which payment networks/systems can and are being built (like lightning network, which just passed all tests). There are some pretty sweet video demos of lightning network/payment channels in action.

Don't forget that it's now possible to broadcast bitcoin transactions via satellite - without internet...

emXdemon PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem

I like Stolon: https://github.com/sorintlab/stolon

emXdemon PostgreSQL HA cluster failure: a post-mortem

Stolon with etcd or consul is a far superior solution for HA postgres.

emXdemon The Librem 5 Development Roadmap and Progress

I hope they succeed too. I tried to buy a laptop from them and it was a terrible experience from order to refund (and months waiting). Despite that I'm still rooting for them.

emXdemon Why People with Brain Implants Are Afraid to Go Through Automatic Doors

What about faraday cages?

emXdemon Show HN: Industrial I/O solutions for developers, AI and robots

What diffirentiates your product from the thousands of other similar products? Is it the ruggedness? The temperature range the hardware can operate in? Is it all open source code?

The IoT board/industrial computer market is pretty saturated. I work in this space, solving some problems professionally. It was tempting to turn our hardware/software stack into a product in addition to the actual problem we were solving, but after doing some market research, it was clear that without significant differentiation from products already on the market we would be Yet Another IoT Industrial Grade Controller.

Especially with AWS GreenGrass/IoT and similar efforts from Microsoft, Intel, Samsung, Dell and many others. There are already a ton of IoT/Industrial PCs on the market.

There is also Phoenix Contact, AdvancedTec, Siemens, ABB, Moxa, MPL...

emXdemon Obama at SXSW: ‘Absolutist view’ on digital privacy cannot prevail

That's not true. Being able to programatically verify (via public private key) makes things like ssl/key authorities possible. That's a multi-billion dollar industry.

emXdemon Ask HN: What are the best developer conferences in 2016?

uberconf was pretty sweet in 2015