derpherpsson

Have you heard of yggdrasil then? It sounds like it would be a better match for your use candidate

yggdrasil is a "greynet". End-to-end encrypted, self-organizing via DHT, but no onion/garlic routing. Has interop capabilities with both Tor and I2P though, and some yggdrasil nodes are I2P- or Tor-only. A world-tree with roots (tunnels) going in all the spheres of existence (nets)

Hands out IPv6 addresses to its users. These addresses are generated automatically from the signature of your public key, so essentially impossible to spoof, and automatic authentication, plus end-to-end encryption. As if IPsec was pervasive and completely transparent

I2P has a community of people that actually use the darktubes, as opposed to Tor. 99% of Tor users use Tor to browse the vanilla internets just. There is no real 'Tor community'

Yeah. It's fortunate that we are not psychopaths hellbent on causing mayhem.

A far more effective way to sabotage the infrastructure would be to plant a bomb there, in the hole. It does not even have to be a functional bomb. It's enough to just make the repair technicians fear for their lives. It will take a lot of time for them to call a bomb disposal unit, and so on.

And then you repeat that a couple of times at random places. If you don't want to kill people, the first bombs should be duds, but occasionally some of the later bombs should be real, so they don't let down the guard, but learn to fear the repair jobs.

Then after that, EVERY SINGLE repair job, even when you didn't actually sabotage it yourself, would become super-expensive and take lots-and-lots of time.

After you trained them, you can lower the number of sabotages with mostly duds, and the occasional real bomb, to just once every couple of months. They still need to handle every single repair job as if you had been there. Minimal cost for you, maximized cost for them.

There. I optimized it for you.

If you are able of imagining the future, and capable of logical coherent thoughts, the statement "the need for quantum computers remains small" is just... damn narrow-minded and perhaps just plain stupid.

If you can shave off a factor n in O(n^3) then O-B-V-I-O-U-S-L-Y it will change the world. If you don't see the obviousness in this, then why are you working with computers?

Before you hate on me, did you even google "quantum computer"? Did you read the introduction section of the Wikipedia article?

Maybe the blockchain is meant for "offline" transactions, when neither part is in contact with the Main Server.

Disclaimer: I dont know

The reason for this is, among other things, systems programmers wrote the UIs in 1983. Today random twenty-years-old web-muppets write the UIs.

The system programmers of 1983 were used to low-level programming, and most of them had probably written code in assembler. Web programmers seldom have that deep understanding of the computer.

At least, this is true from my own personal experience.

Correct me if I am wrong, but...

If I just make sure that incomming packets that are destined for the VPN LAN are dropped, this attack does not work?

Of course there are such rules in our firewalls??

Is everyone walking around without any firewall filtering nowadays? How is this a bug? Maybe I am just stupid. Did I miss something?

The article essentially reads as "we payed lots of monies for a mediocre scanner, and then we discovered that the FOSS nmap did everything we needed. So we took nmap and added a little bit of extra, a web interface, and gave it the name Flan Scanner."

. . .

The corporate world is so facepalm sometimes

WHY

Proxychains and especially socat är really handy tools for borrowing through filtering firewalls.

Socat is somewhat difficult to use though. But IMHO the best one.

Power hierarchies are part of human nature. We always create them, the super-nodes.

This is not limited to computer networks. We do it with relationships as well, how many does not know of Madonna and Justin Bieber, compared to random Joe? Our very ideas and thoughts are subject to it as well.

There already exist meshing technology that counter our human nature and does not produce power hierarchies. Decentralized hashtables for example.

Maybe if we hand over the control to the machines, we could solve this problem. Pretty much noone wants that though... It's limited to some fringes of our society. The darknets (i2p more than Tor) it, and BitTorrent swarms. It works here, because the programmers never gave the users a choice.

The experience of ego-softening, or even complete ego-death, is something that some psychedelics bring to their users. LSD, mushrooms and especially DMT does this.

Many normal humans will not know that this experience is even possible, or might dismiss it straight off as humbo jumbo. (Many drug users that did the drugs just for fun will get this as a sort of surprise gift. Sometimes they dismiss it despite having experienced it, sadly.)

Once one have experienced this a couple of times, it is possible to learn whereto steer the mind during normal meditation. It is possible, although it requires skill, to come there with normal sober meditation.

LOL.

I wrote about half of the wikipedia article that Google is using to explain how their quantum computer works (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_logic_gate)

Should probably had done that using a pseudonym, and not just anonymously using my IP address.

But at least the IP address I used for the last weekends work is my homes static IP, that almost never change.. But still. I need an account at wikipedia!

They make the most sense if you want lots and lots of simultaneous clients. Plus it gives you a little bit of safety if you write crappy code.

Typically not suited for embedded.

(Assuming you mean embedded as in severely limited in resouces, and not "modern embedded" where you have lots and lots of unused system resources. If you mean the latter then anything goes.)

Just keep bombing somewhat random people, year in and year out. Are we at the 2nd decade of this yet?

This way I promise no one will join the rebells. Why would anyone join the rebells just because their families are slaughtered? That's absurd.

(Irony.)

There comes a time when YOU would strap on a bomb belt. Just imagine that They killed half your family and then goes on telling you they will continue doing it...

My grandfather says crazy stuff like "oh, but we will be in the grave long before this turns into a problem" whenever topics like this emerge at the dinner table.

There is a little psychopath in each one of us.

You are the most free when you have nothing to lose. A failed suicide attempt can be thought of as that Every Single Moment from that point in life is a Bonus.

I know because I was there :) I should have died a few years ago, but didnt. Not giving a fsck and also being adventurous is a nice combo.

Getting a job at a huge megacorp has shown to be a failure for me.

Why?

At my previous job - a small firm - I spent 8 hours actually working, each day. At my new job I am doing bureaucracy all days long, and very little actual work. Sometimes I come home without actually having had any real work done for the entire day.

I flipped out after maybe 3-4 weeks, because Not Doing Actual Work turns out to be extremely stressful for me. I felt guilty for not achieving anything.

But no one cares. This is "normal" at my new job. I brought it up with my boss and told him how I felt. I also told him that, I can not stay at this job for too long, since it will in the long run be really bad for my career. If I don't write code, I will eventually become bad at it. Weirdly, he said that he understood and thought that more of my coworkers need to realize this, before it's too late for them.

So now I am planning my escape. I am a bit worried that only working for this company like 8-10 months will look bad at my CV... I have not decided how long I should stay.

It took a couple of paragraphs for me to realize what the article was about. I thought it was "Parasite CEO", that the boss is doing nothing while also stealing company resources.. arguably a somewhat common phenomena.

But it's about Parasitic Search Enginge Optimizations.

Answer: Its okay to store the encrypted passwords there. Since they are encrypted.

It made me stop and think about it for a while.

It feels like I learned on a deeper level than if s/he had just explained it.

. . .

But the takeaway here is, I think, not to make us better C programmers. I think the takeaway is that C sucks because it just smiles at esoteric bugs like this. We need to replace it, or forever suffer from crashes and RCEs, et.c.

Stuff breaks when it is hacked.

State actors are now targeting whole populations. It takes less and less time to enumerate the entire IPv4 address space. Knowledge about hacking is becoming more and more accessible to a larger group of people. This problem is not going away - it is growing larger for every year.

If you don't believe me: Just attach an object to the internet and watch the logs.

Nothing stops you from switching. Make an informed choice.

Yes.

Its not like that.

Intel took shortcuts to make their CPUs faster. At least some of the chip architects working on their implementation of hyperthreading should have understood that they sacrificed security for speed - without telling anyone.

Full end-to-end encryption, with occasional onion routing, is maybe the best path ahead.

The benefit is that it does not require any argumentation with other people, noone needs to be convinced or won over, and that it makes sense. It costs nearly nothing to deploy cryptographic solutions.

Pro tip: Read the leaks. They are actual documents, that can be read. Try it!

Pascal's wager suffer from the fact that it can be any of the myrriads of religions that are correct. The chance of picking the correct one is infinitely small (assuming there are aliens that also have religions). Only a subset of the religions have anything like hell/heaven, further diminishing the risk.

I know I should not post reaction-posts here. But this is Truly Horrifying in more than one way.

Did they not even investigate your claim? Or did they just settle with labeling you a crackpot conspiracy theorist?