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Comment Re:Why listen? (Score 4, Informative) 20

Their track record recently hasn't been good, but you can't say they haven't helped in the past.

Bruce Schneier observed that "It took the academic community two decades to figure out that the NSA 'tweaks' actually improved the security of DES

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Comment Re:Another desperate attempt to use BIZX SEO (Score 4, Informative) 108

Did you happen to check how long we have been studying mRNA vaccines when you up looked up polio???

The first report of the successful use of in vitro transcribed (IVT) mRNA in animals was published in 1990

The first demonstration that DCs electroporated with mRNA could elicit potent immune responses against tumour antigens was reported by Boczkowski and colleagues in 1996

Moderna Therapeutics, founded in 2010, has raised almost US$2 billion in capital with a plan to commercialize mRNA-based vaccines and therapies

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nature.com%2Farticle...

During the last two decades, there has been broad interest in RNA-based technologies for the development of prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. Preclinical and clinical trials have shown that mRNA vaccines provide a safe and long-lasting immune response in animal models and humans

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Math isn't my strongest subject, but 20 years is slightly longer than 5

Comment Re:Net parasites (Score 1) 12

They now offer DNS resolution, trying to enrich their user tracking by adding data about traffic to servers not "protected" by Cloudflare.

Recently Cloudflare released the results of an independent audit of the 1.1.1.1 DNS system. You want to know the biggest violation of their privacy policy?

Cloudflare said Public Resolver Logs are deleted from Cloudflare’s data warehouse within 24 hours. The audit found it was really 25 hours, the horror of an extra hour.

The major points the audit proved is they are not tracking you with their DNS

-Public Resolver data is anonymized via truncation of the source IP (truncation of the last octet for IPv4 and the last 80 bits for IPv6).
-Public Resolver data (including anonymized source IP’s) is deleted from the stream processing platform within 25 hours.

Anyways, here is the summary of the audit

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cloudflare.com%2Fres...

They also have a blog post where they talk about the results. One that stuck out

We want to be fully transparent that during the examination we uncovered that our routers randomly capture up to 0.05% of all requests that pass through them, including the querying IP address of resolver users. We do this separately from the 1.1.1.1 service for all traffic passing into our network and we retain such data for a limited period of time for use in connection with network troubleshooting and mitigating denial of service attacks.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fblog.cloudflare.com%2Fan...

Comment Re:Errors of "omission" (Score 1) 513

In the US (the biggest gun market) only the AR-15 LOWER is considered a gun, requires registration, and a serial number. (See link if you don't know what a lower is)

EVERYTHING else is considered an accessory and can be bought by anyone with money. No background checks, no waiting periods, nothing.

3D printed AR-15's are just the lower printed. Everything else is normal parts. Some printed lowers have fired 1,000+ rounds no issue.

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Comment Startcom was the Best until WoSign bought them (Score 4, Informative) 42

StartCom was the best option for multiple certificates. Their price model was vastly better and I wonder if they are having a hard time getting re-certified because the other CAs didn’t like their model.

You paid for validation not per cert.
Tier 1 was free and the certs were good for a year. Domain/Email control is all that was validated.
Tier 2 was your name, and it was $50 a year, but your certs were valid for 2 years. This allowed you to have your name in your email cert and basic checks were performed for domain certs. You were also allowed one Code Cert.
Tier 3 was more for Organizations or EV certs. Another $50 and the certs were good for 3 years. You could also have code cert with your organization name in it.

$100 every 3 years could get you UNLIMITED Domain, Email, and two Code certs. One in your name and one in your organization name. The best deal if you ask me. I had 5 email certs and 10 domain certs for $25/year as I only needed to verify once two years.

The problem started when they were bought by Wosign

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.wosign.com%2Fenglish...

Then the shady things that got them revoked started happening and now they are closing shop. My same needs will cost close to a thousand dollars a year.

Comment Re:Not the same as the rest of us .. (Score 1) 235

The Military uses the Golden Master Image for Windows. There are a few changes, most notably you activate with your CAC card. Not that many people know that and countless times I come across a computer that is complaining about being non-genuine. The Secret Computers are usually always like this. Put in your CAC card and click activate, and it is a genuine install.

If they heavily modified the activation code, you can bet they modified other parts. Just because it is approved does not mean it will be used. About 9 months ago we upgraded from Server 2003 to Server 2008R2. (Both Golden Master)

The upside is if you can get the install DVD, as long as you have a valid CAC card you have unlimited copies of windows.

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Comment Sounds like Internet 2? (Score 4, Informative) 50

Sounds a lot like Internet 2

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

In 2006, Internet2 announced a partnership with Level 3 Communications to launch a brand new nationwide network, boosting its capacity from 10 Gbit/s to 100 Gbit/s. In October, 2007, Internet2 officially retired Abilene and now refers to its new, higher capacity network as the Internet2 Network.

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