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validatorion Hacker News – The Good Parts

One thing I really miss in HN is having a tagging system to filter content better. Sometimes, the things I want to follow or ignore don't have any clear hints in their titles. Having tags would really help customize the content for each user.

validatorion Possible VPS vulnerability: photorec can recover other users' data

A vulnerability was observed on Incognet VPS (and potentially other providers such as kyun.host and buyvm), where photorec can recover files belonging to other customers. Thousands of unrelated images, databases, and executables were discovered. Incognet downplayed the issue. As a result, anyone could potentially extract other users’ sensitive data, indicating that VPS virtualization does not protect against this method of file recovery.

validatorion DivestOS Ends Development

DivestOS announces its final update. It and its apps (Hypatia, Carrion) will not receive any further updates. Non-mobile Divested projects (e.g., Brace, D-WRT, real-ucode, and DNS blocklists) will continue to be maintained. Forum threads will be closed, and the DivestOS XMPP chat rooms will also be turned off. Donations will no longer be accepted, and all recurring donations will be cancelled.

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validatorion Randomness and the Netscape Browser (1996)

Unfortunately for Netscape, U.S. regulations prohibit the export of products incorporating strong cryptography. In order to distribute an international version of its browser overseas, Netscape had to weaken the encryption scheme to use keys of just 40 bits, leaving only a million million possible key values.

In 2000, the Clinton administration relaxed cryptography export rules, allowing the export of strong encryption (e.g. 128-bit) without special licences to most countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...