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justhere4beeron John C. Dvorak – heart attack – in hospital

Loved reading his columns back in print magazine days. Found him again changing Leo Laporte's phones language to something other than English. Loved that. Found No Agenda from there. Was quite surprised to hear this news last week. Hope he heals up quickly. I wouldn't be surprised if he back in front of the mic in 3-4 weeks.

justhere4beeron Chromium Root Store Update, Moving Forward, Together

Alternate title, "Mutually Assisted Suicide."

Google drastically underestimates the harm this will cause and grossly overestimates the state of automation.

justhere4beeron US Pilot Shot Down Four Soviet MiGs in 30 minutes – A secret for 50 years

F-16's make sense, they are combat effective.

Patriot missiles make less sense. They are crap. The only redeeming value to provide Patriots is to deplete inventory.

justhere4beeron A minor memorial for Leo Laporte’s terrestrial AM radio show

I remember first watching back when he was on cable via hacked DirecTV cards. Fascinating back in the day. When it went to the podcast/vid, I started losing interest when it became a smart phone centric, then came the two inadvertent D pics live on air. Never watched a segment since. Great run though, congrats.

justhere4beeron The last three years of my work will be permanently abandoned

I spent 15 years helping to build something great, only to be subjected to abusive gaslighting the last 3-5 years. When I quit, I was called irrational and emotional. Same year, 15 people followed my exodus.

I should have left years earlier, but money was good, and change was hard to think about. Fluffy handcuffs.

2 years later, Org still survives. Best guess is they are in rebuilding stage. No love lost.

Take your time to recharge the batteries.

justhere4beeron Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography

I wish this statement to be true "... scams still being a thing over mostly unencrypted traffic any day." Sadly this falls in a similar category of domain validation.

I guess, take comfort where you can?

justhere4beeron Let’s Encrypt Receives the Levchin Prize for Real-World Cryptography

I applaud the Let's Encrypt founders, past and current team for solving the automation problem that's plagued the SSL/TLS industry.

The yang to that ying is a lack trust. I have zero trust in a site owner using LE certs. Domain vetting only means control of the domain ... everything inside that beautifully encrypted traffic can be insightful, helpful or script kiddies scamming the vulnerable. If one finds the scam, LE shrugs, "not our problem bruh. We just issue certs to those who control the domain."

They single handedly reduced the price of entry for douchebag asshats ability to pretend someone they are not and harm a non-technical populace.

Two steps forward, one step backward.

justhere4beeron Inside Yubikey Neo

A little education goes a long way: http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cmvp/

justhere4beeron Inside Yubikey Neo

FIPS isn't trivial. There is a lot of shit crypto on the market, establishing FIPS is not banal. Regardless of FIPS, if not utilized properly, it protects nothing. If utilized correctly, it protects what it needs to. Discounting it show lack of understanding.

justhere4beeron Inside Yubikey Neo

Hard to take your article seriously with statements such as "...Levels 1 and 2 of the FIPS140-2 certification are just a marketing gimmick". Even harder to believe Jakob took the time to respond.

justhere4beeron My brain on electricity: A 130-day tDCS experiment

The moment they mention left/right brain, lost credibility. How long does this myth have to be debunked before it catches up with the mainstream?