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slipstream-on Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass

not the website owner but people involved in the PUP ecosystem.

i'm sure that if installcore supported linux, then the linux binaries would also be bundlers.

slipstream-on Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass

seems to be just another bundler from the same network (installcore), but packed with a different exe packer

slipstream-on Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass

pup bundlers also tend to be signed. just checking for a valid signature would not be enough

slipstream-on Non-official site with a tampered version of KeePass

one of those "make money online"/"internet marketing" type people just wanting to get the affiliate commissions from a pay-per-install network of the PUP bundler type.

slipstream-on Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected

I was assuming that a hypothetical increase in Tor use would also increase the number of onion services.

slipstream-on Latest Text of EU Copyright Directive Shows It's Even Worse Than Expected

I would hope that Tor usage in the EU goes up.

slipstream-on Ask HN: Recommend ways to bypass social media censorship in Uganda?

There's always Tor (doesn't Facebook in particular run an onion service?)

slipstream-on BBC releases its computer history archive

I downloaded all the floppy images from this archive, and found some interesting (from a historical perspective) documents on some of them.

Lists of computing equipment owned by the BBC in 1987, letters responding to what appears to be viewers who wrote in with questions, that sort of thing.

slipstream-on Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub

This can be done by, say, boosting the Plume/PeerTube content from Mastodon.

slipstream-on Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub

https://halcyon.toromino.de/

https://pinafore.social/

slipstream-on Plume – WIP Federated Blog Engine with ActivityPub

there are a few alternate web user interfaces that work with the Mastodon client API (which Pleroma also implements); halcyon and pinafore being two of them. To be more specific, Halcyon's UI is Twitter-clone.

slipstream-on How to become a successful artist on Mastodon

Doesn't look broken to me (Chrome 67)

slipstream-on Reverse engineering Animal Crossing's developer mode

I didn't even notice it was a derivation of the Konami code until you mentioned it.

slipstream-on Reverse engineering Animal Crossing's developer mode

Interestingly enough, this is the same key combo used to show information on a crash in several N64 games, including Doubutsu no Mori (the original N64 version of Animal Crossing).

slipstream-on I miss Windows Phone

MS's compiler is annoying, it'll only support anything more modern than ANSI C if you give your files a .cpp extension...

slipstream-on Ask HN: Who are your favourite people to follow on Mastodon?

here's some interesting people I follow:

@crowd42@infosec.exchange @tinker@infosec.exchange @xeb@mastodon.social @lain@pleroma.soykaf.com

I'm @slipstream@mastodon.social and @Rairii@cybre.space :)

slipstream-on Achtung: Decentralize, decentralize, decentralize

Unencrypted at rest.

slipstream-on Introduction to the Mumps Language (2017) [pdf]

This reminded me to check thedailywtf.

slipstream-on ‘Jackpotting’ Attacks Hit U.S. ATMs

...win2000 pre-release? or did you mean NT 4?

slipstream-on What Really Happened with Vista: An Insider's Retrospective

Relevant: https://longhorn.ms/ - a website containing research about pre-reset Longhorn.

slipstream-on Vintage 1980s DOS inspired Twitter Bootstrap theme

Previous discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983008

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959068

slipstream-on “Did you copy/paste the info? Facebook seems to read all pasteboard data”

then apply it to a router?

slipstream-on Disabling Intel ME on Boot Guard Computers

Huh. I assumed Boot Guard was a thing that happened in the IntelME bootrom.

I guess I'm too used to similar things in game consoles.

slipstream-on Disabling Intel ME on Boot Guard Computers

That bug described requires modifying the ME firmware image, which Boot Guard prevents...

slipstream-on The Internet I Knew (2014)

With regards to mastodon, there's at least one hosting service specifically for it already (https://masto.host), and people who don't know that much about the Linux command line/etc have set up their own instances using it.

slipstream-on Console Security – Nintendo Switch [video]

>update to 3.0.0 and stay there

fun fact: the mentioned kernel/trustzone bugs only exist in 1.0.0...

slipstream-on Historic NASA Project Files and Software Appear in Amiga 2500 EBay Listing

Sellers trying to cash in is the worst thing about software/data preservation.

slipstream-on Telerik gets Fiddler unlisted from Chocolatey

I was quoting from the pinned comment on the page, by the way.

And, that is indeed a particularly weird definition of "not public", but from my experience, par for the course when there's only a squeeze page in the way of a download.

slipstream-on Telerik gets Fiddler unlisted from Chocolatey

"Please keep comments respectful as they own the IP and do not have a public download url."

so, they want to waste their money sending spam to all the fake emails everyone enters in their website when they reinstall windows

i think they could have thought that through a little better

slipstream-on When did the golden age of The Simpsons end?

Same.