Month: May 2017
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Let them paste passwords
One of the things people often tweet to us @ncsc are examples of websites which prevent you pasting in a password. Why do websites do this? The debate has raged - with most commentators raging how annoying it is.
So why do organisations do this? Often no reason is given, but when one is, that reason … -
This guy in a hotel
AltA naked man gets locked out of his hotel room
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AMP: breaking news
Google has made much of their Accelerated Mobile Pages project as a solution to bloated websites and frustrated users. But could AMP actually be bad news for the web, bad news for news, and part of a trend of news distribution that is bad for society in general?
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Tory MP 'told schoolgirl to "f*** off back to Scotland" when she said she'd vote for independence' | The Independent
A Tory MP told a girl to "f*** off back to Scotland" when she said she'd vote for independence if a second referendum was triggered.
James Heappey's outburst came as he addressed sixth-formers at the £12,000-a-year Millfield School in Somerset...
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What an RAF pilot can teach us about being safe on the road
“Sorry mate, I didn’t see you”. Is a catchphrase used by drivers up and down the country. Is this a driver being careless and dangerous or did the driver genuinely not see you?
According to a report by John Sullivan of the RAF, the answer may have important repercussions for the way we train drivers and … -
A Story of Slavery in Modern America
The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and a half pounds. I put it in a canvas tote bag and packed it in my suitcase this past July for the transpacific flight to Manila. From there I would travel by car to a rural village. … -
history of the entire world, i guess
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A fellow @3RingsCIC volunteer echoed my feelings, recently. https://t.co/ZfDyIYoqqC
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Sex When You Have Children
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What Happens When You Mix Java with a 1960 IBM Mainframe
As an engineer for the U.S. Digital Service, Marianne Bellotti has encountered vintage mainframes that are still being used in production — sometimes even powering web apps. Last month she entertained a San Francisco audience with tales about some of them, in a talk called “7074 says Hello World,” at Joyent’s “Systems We Love” conference.
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Rails is f*cking boring! I love it.
Together with a friend I recently built Dropshare Cloud. We offer online storage for the file and screenshot sharing app Dropshare for macOS/iOS. After trying out Django for getting started (we both had some experience using Django) I decided to rewrite the codebase in Rails. My past experience developing in Rails made the process quick — and …
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A Russian Slot Machine Hack Is Costing Casinos Big Time
In early June 2014, accountants at the Lumiere Place Casino in St. Louis noticed that several of their slot machines had—just for a couple of days—gone haywire. The government-approved software that powers such machines gives the house a fixed mathematical edge, so that casinos can be certain of how much they’ll earn over the long … -
Defeating Quantum Algorithms with Hash Functions
In this post I’ll explain why quantum computers are useless to find hash function collisions, and how we can leverage this powerlessness to build post-quantum signature schemes. I’ll then describe a quantum computing model that you can try at home, and one where hash function collisions are easy to find...
JP Aumasson (Kudelsi Security) -
TLS 1.3 FTW
In common slang, FTW is an acronym "for the win" and while that's appropriate here, I think a better expansion is "for the world."
We're pleased to announce that we have sponsored the development of TLS 1.3 in OpenSSL. As it is one of the most widely-used TLS libraries, it is a good investment for the … -
10 Insane Trolley Problems
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