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rthille··on Google Home (in)Security
OpenWRT's DNS server (dnsmasq) has DNS rebinding attack mitigations you can turn on. I'm not sure if they're on by default or not...
rthille··on AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
U2F is supposed to be immune to MITM because of the information sent in the protocol, protected by the encryption. I'm not familiar enough with it to know if it's really immune or not.
rthille··on AWS now supports U2F/Yubikeys
It's not the manufacturer that AWS wants to read, it wants the attestation certificate, and Yubico's are signed with their Root CA, so it's not something you can emulate. https://developers.yubico.com/U2F/Attestation_and_Metadata/ I tried setting up my AWS account with a Tomu setup with U2F firmware and AWS rejected it.
rthille··on Introducing the Librem Key
I'm surprised there's no button. No way for the user to show intent (for whatever action: signing, decryption, etc).
rthille··on If you’re unsure whether to quit your job or break up, you probably should
Pretty sure I should do both.
rthille··on Why You Should Build a Hackintosh
I'm typing this on my dasKeyboard plugged into my (well, work's) MBP. Sadly bought just a couple of months before the 6-core i9's became available.
rthille··on Fukushima’s nuclear signature found in California wine
Yeah, a similar observation is that there are more atoms in a glass of water than glasses of water in all the oceans. So, dumping a glass of (somehow trackable) water into the ocean would eventually cause every glass of water to contain atoms from that glass. See also: http://samkean.com/books/caesars-last-breath/
rthille··on Why not program right?
If I had to develop software like that, I'd quit and dig ditches for a living.
rthille··on Amazon EKS – Now Generally Available
You underestimate our engineers :-)
rthille··on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
yeah, I'd guess `cat *.log | sort`
rthille··on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
https://hamy.io/post/0005/remote-unlocking-of-luks-encrypted...
rthille··on I usually run 'w' first when troubleshooting unknown machines
I never worry about being hit buy a bus, I assume it'll be quick :-)
rthille··on Guide to Using YubiKey as a SmartCard for GPG and SSH
I don't understand the start-off of "not really". Is that in reference to the first sentence or the 2nd? I think the "1Password-autofill" protects you against phishing because if you go to a legit site, the domain will match and 1Password will autofill. If you go to a phishing site that just looks right (Unicode domain, whatever), but doesn't match exactly then the auto-fill won't happen and you'll be tipped off.
rthille··on Moving efficiently in the CLI
This would be a reason why: https://danluu.com/images/term-latency/idle-terminal-latency...
rthille··on Monitoring Home Power Consumption for less than $25
Sense looks really attractive to me, except the part where they get all the data. If they had a self hosted solution that I could run on a Raspberry Pi or even a “real”computer to do the data collection and processing, I’d be in.
rthille··on When should behaviour outside a community have consequences inside it?
But what if my teenage shenanigans were really really good? Can I keep the top spot for eternity then?
rthille··on Hearing on Cybersecurity of Voting Machines: Testimony of Prof. Matt Blaze [pdf]
It's not insane if you look at the motivations behind who was pushing them.
rthille··on The Best Monitor for Programming: A Cheap 40" 4K TV
This is why curved computer monitors make sense, and curved TVs don't (multiple viewers in most?/many cases).
rthille··on A CEO's Guide to Emacs (2015)
Before OS-X would let you do that, I took my PowerBook's keyboard out, cut the trace and redrew the traces to connect the CapsLock key to the Control traces. :-)

Now it's done by simply going to System-Preferences=>Keyboard=>Modifier Keys

rthille··on “We have obtained fully functional JTAG for Intel CSME via USB DCI”
It's never been secret. It's been advertised by Intel as a feature so enterprises can control the computers they own.
rthille··on Human Beings Almost Vanished from Earth in 70,000 B.C
My ex-wife was getting her Geology BA when we got a new dog. We thought “Toba” would be a great name. It wasn’t, she tried and tried to live up to her namesake.
rthille··on Screen sharing in Slack, made interactive via Screenhero acquisition (YC W13)
"smooth as a Quantum stabilized atom mirror" just doesn't have the same ring to it...
rthille··on Honolulu fines pedestrians for viewing phone while crossing street
Within the first few hours I was in Honolulu for the first time I went to cross a street with the "walk" signal and had a driver blow through the red, probably 5 seconds or more after I'd gotten the "walk" signal. I wouldn't walk around Honolulu staring at my phone if you paid me.
rthille··on Infineon RSA Key Generation Issue
Because he wipes (writes to) the read-only USB stick? (The one that's had the firmware replaced with BadUSB, and which he then sticks in some other piece of hardware where it takes control of the machine and uploads his private key?
rthille··on FaceID Security [pdf]
FR = Farseical Reality :-)
rthille··on Ask HN: What Podcasts are you listening right now and why?
The Political Gabfest - Slate The Ezra Klein Show - Vox The Weeds - Vox Waking Up - Sam Harris
rthille··on Study: Tesla battery production releases as much CO2 as 8 yrs of driving on gas
What are the CO2 emissions of the mining, refining, and delivery of 8 years worth of gas?
rthille··on Is the keyboard faster than the mouse?
Not if you browse within emacs :-)
rthille··on Ask HN: Alternatives to Yubikey?
I'd love to be able to select the background color of entries and edit the text at the top of the entry, rather than just the bottom.
rthille··on NSQ – A realtime distributed messaging platform designed to operate at scale
I think it's less about throughput and more about durability guarantees. Kafka producers can specify the number of 'acks' (brokers which have written the message to disk) when they produce a message and the request will only return successfully if that can be done.
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