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Comment Re:Not so fast (Score 1) 69

One thing I'd like to ask (and I think this comes from my bad understanding of crypto in general):

Obfuscating the code is fine but at some point I would assume it'll need to be de-obfuscated/crypted to cleartext/IL/ASM or similar to be run. Surely then exploits in the hardware or a badly-configured environment would lead to this being true? Meaning this is rendered to the same level of pretty much everything else?

Comment I want it to be true, but I give two years, tops. (Score 3, Interesting) 69

previous attempts at iO were built on untested and ultimately shaky foundations.
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"Barring a really surprising development, these assumptions will stand," Ishai said.

Honestly, it sounds like this is quite some arrogance. I mean, they've taken a fundamentally different approach to this and it's impressive in itself. But the industry is littered with stuff like this. I give it two years, maximum. I mean, shit it's 2020 - the poster child for Really Surprising Developments.

Comment Re:Percentages alone are meanigless (Score 1) 126

At my local, they have one sub-section of refridgerator devoted to this stuff:
Typical Tesco Fridge

This section is a part of an aisle with maybe 10-15 sections on each side, 2-3 aisles for refridgerated meat. As someone else pointed out, it's not usually busy and the last to be emptied when there's a rush.

What's not mentioned is the cost of this stuff. Compared to meat, it often seems expensive and given the lack of f**ks the British public give when various celebrities and others try and push them to "high-welfare" chicken and other more expensive but "better" meats I don't think this will get much traction unless they look at the pricing. Checking pricing (Cheap Plant Burger) , (Cheap Beef Burger) shows that there's a £1/Kg difference in favour of the meat. They'll need to clear this hurdle before it's even considered by the volume market. At the moment it's firmly in the "finest" category.

Submission + - FCC Proposal to Limit Access to 5725-5850 MHz Band

thittesd0375 writes: New rules adopted by the FCC will greatly limit the amount of bandwidth available in the unlicensed U-NII band used to deliver internet to rural areas. The filters required to comply with the new rules would shrink the available frequencies from 125MHz to only 45MHz. Petitions to reconsider this ruling can be submitted here and previous petitions can be found here.

Submission + - 3D Printed PiGRRL - Raspberry Pi Gameboy

coop0030 writes: Celebrate the 20th anniversary of the classic gaming device, Game Boy, by building your own with 3d printing and DIY electronics. This project uses a Raspberry Pi and TFT touch screen to make an epic DIY Game Girl. The 3d printed enclosure houses all of the components and can be printed in your favorite color. It's controlled with SNES gaming controller components, reusing the printed circuit board, buttons and elastomers. The 3D files can be found on Thingiverse, and a video of the finished product is provided as well.

Comment Re:Not any time soon (Score 1) 305

The Internet rarely sees radical, clean change and IPv4 is going to limp on for a long, long time.

This. Oh for some mod points, I'd have sent one this way. FWIW, I think we'll see concerted efforts to reclaim unused addresses or blocks. It'll take some serious hurt to governmental and corporate wallets before any meaningful change happens.

Submission + - ask slashdot: tight firewall for brand-new linux user 2

An anonymous reader writes: Hi all,

I am a new Linux user. I'm on 2nd day now. Currently I am trying out Ubuntu, but that could change.

I am looking for a USER FRIENDLY firewall that I can setup that lets me do these things:
(requirement1) set up a default deny rule
(requirement2) carve out exceptions for these programs: browser, email client, chat client, yum and/or apt.
(requirement3) carve out exceptions to the exceptions in requirement2. i.e. I want to be able to then block off IPs and IP ranges known to be used by malware, marketers, etc., and all protocols which aren't needed for requirement2.
(requirement4) it needs to have good enough documentation that a beginner like me can figure it out

Previously, I had done all of the above in AVG firewall on windows, and it was very easy to do...

So far I have tried these things:
(try1) IPTABLES — it looked really easy to screw it up and then not notice that its screwed up and/or not be able to fix it even if I did notice, so I tried other things at that point...
(try2) searched the internet and found various free firewalls such as Firestarter, GUFW, etc., which I weren't able to make meet my requirements.

Can someone either point me to a firewall that meets my needs or else give me some hints on how to make firestarter or GUFW do what I need?

Thank You

Submission + - Five Year Old uncovers XBOX ONE log in flaw. (bbc.co.uk)

Smiffa2001 writes: The BBC are reporting that five-year-old Kristoffer Von Hassel from San Diego has uncovered a (frankly embarrassing) security flaw within the XBOX ONE log in screen. Apparently by entering an incorrect password in the first prompt and then filling the second field with spaces, a user can log in without knowing a password to an account.

Young Kristoffer's Dad has submitted the flaw to Microsoft — who have patched the flaw — and have generously provided four free games, $50, a year-long subscription to Xbox Live and an entry on their list of Security Researcher Acknowledgements.

Comment Re:Press release in english (Score 1) 347

As opposed to without copyright law where the works would be destroyed in exactly the same way, except this time conditional on them existing in the first place?

Really now... And I suppose the following:

The Mona Lisa The Statue of David Plumbing The Steam Engine ...are all figments of everyone's imagination.

Vast portions of our art and history had NO Patent or Copyright "protection" to speak of and yet they were done. Your premise is, sadly, an old saw- and very, very much wrong.

Unfortunately most folks nowadays are so shit-scared of someone bigger and more powerful coming along and "stealing" their idea, leaving them (the inventor) in ruins, it might be their only perceived way of protecting themselves and their invention.

Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 221

I think that if the user can't figure out how to use ctrl+alt+del, it's not a problem with the software.
Why not? If you couldn't work out how to start your car, would it be your fault? It seems to be what you're implying...
There's too much reliance on the "User is always wrong" approach in producing software and interfaces for it and that if they have a problem, they should just "deal with it". Consumer devices that take this approach just generally fail to catch on. If something says "Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to begin", they _might_ get pressed together or they might be pressed sequentially. Stuff like this gets missed out time and time again.

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