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Why wasn't it smart (besides actually talking to the cop)? I was not guilty of anything but making a joke in bad taste (and maybe doing 59 in a 55). It was an inconvenience to be detained for an hour, but it wasn't a hot day, I didn't have any obligations...

simply admitting

no your best option is not to say a GD thing. story time: i was once pulled over on the eastern shore by a cop that was barely my age. i didn't say a word to him for the 10 minute stop. that really messed with his mental state and I could tell his internal hard drive was returning a seek error. at the end he stammered out "o-okay, w-well you slow down and haveaniceday" then he quick walked back to his car and turned down a side road.

NEVER TALK TO COPS.

https://serverfault.com/questions/574405/tcpdump-server-hell...

  > Forensics agent pulls and mounts hard drive
  > Agent sees /home/hiddenuser
  > Government seeks search warrant for content
  > DA demonstrates recent knowledge/use of /home/hiddenuser
  > Judge holds you in contempt until you provide encryption keys

Do not do this unless you have strict guidance from a lawyer immediately before this happens. One small mistake could open you up to criminal liability and a world of hurt. Better to just plan ahead, bring a burner phone and show the photos to the agent when asked.

IANAL but play one on tv

The simplest example is asking “Do you know why I pulled you over?”. Typically, people spontaneously confess to speeding, sometimes they break down and admit that someone is wrapped up in a rug in the trunk.

I was asked this once, after I read a hilarious reddit comment, and found myself in a similar situation. I looked at the cop and said "it's not because of the pot in my trunk is it?". "Step out and open your trunk, sir". He opened the trunk to find a crock pot I had just purchased. I could tell he was flipping through emotions from stifling laughter to being highly annoyed. They eventually let me go and told me to slow down with a half smirk.

I don't recommend doing this, and I have zero plans to ever do it again as it wasn't as simple as stepping out and showing my guilt/joke. I was detained, backup units showed up, even a K9. They didn't search the inside of my car, but they did inspect other items inside the trunk to make sure I wasn't pulling a fast one on them.

In the past I have taken on up to 2 contracts while working a full time gig. If you can pull it off, I say do it.

Anyone interested in joining a consulting team to do these projects with me?

I was watching HK Apple Daily since the Hong Kong protests and lately a few of their latest videos have been showing up in my feed. While I’ve stopped watching, the thumbnails look incendiary in nature so seeing this happen is not surprising considering the news security law

I’ve been involved in IT for over 25 years, I’ve seen a lot :)

Then the problem has zero to do with the type of testing, now does it :)

Pcap captures are not multithreaded so you are pinning to a single core.

This entire thread is interesting because it is highlighting a similar problem with my virtualized router. When I pinned the router vm to specific cpus the problem goes away. I switched to openstack which doesn’t give me the best control over cpu capabilities and the problem has manifested in a worse form.

My uninformed opinion is that there are underlying concurrency problems with multithreaded user land-kernel interaction and some nic drivers (consumer intel and Broadcom hardware)

But is the easiest metric to guage test quality. What I’m saying is this code is probably not well tested

Wow and wow. This post was half in jest but thanks for the update, I had zero idea and am a bit sad by my off color joke :/

They do, if you don’t have 100% code coverage then you get what you get

Where is ogg frog, buddy?

This has been the story repeated over the past 30 years

..Didn’t realize my startup search engine stuffed credentials :(

But hey if I pay Cloudflare enough, then I’ll get to blast your site and possibly stuff creds at the same time :/

This here is the problem. It’s a new time no one wants to be Rfc compliant, just go behind a service and problem is solved.

So no problem, time to move on web search is no longer exciting

(a) Who said I was blasting your site with requests? Cloudflare stops much more than just blasts

(b) But you’re a-ok with Google doing this. Gated communities aren’t really good for anybody but I see what you are saying.

Yeah I guess it _is_ illegal to tumble bitcoins now

At the time of college, for me, internet2 consisted of mostly all the accredited universities who could afford it and special companies providing limited services. The blended connection we received allowed for us to absorb the entire impact because some of the attack machines were from other university computers (which is what caused the uproar and got me a slap on the wrist.. the attack was detected upstream within about 5-7min, I was impressed)

So for my startup to crawl sites I must now adhere to Cloudflare’s Requirements of the Web(TM) or reach out to individual engineer, who may leave at any moment. Gotcha

(but Google is allowed because Google was first to market)

Wow I’m paying 500/year for $1M 20 year term. That’s where I estimated my numbers from.

From my perspective term makes more sense. I will have a net worth over $1m in 20 years and that’s more than enough for my family to survive on. The insurance is mainly for my family in case something happens to me in the near term.

A term policy is more, I’m not sure what the rates are for non-term but I wouldn’t buy a non term policy. That’s literally throwing away money, but I guess from a business perspective it’s just a cost so you may be “more” right :)

This will scale wonderfully!

Or just get a dedicated server or vps somewhere and run OpenVPN or wire guard. There is no shortage of cheap vps providers so you could create deploy scripts and rotate your vpn endpoint regularly

Disclaimer: I’ve been doing just that for 13 years now

After a disagreement on IRC led to a 400mbps DDoS attack on my university (we shrugged it off, yay internet2) I decided it was time to stop using IRC. This was 20 years ago. I think I continued from a third party shell for a year or two but eventually moved on to web forums. Before I completely left I started ghosting my dns to avoid attacks but that was more effort than it was worth

How does my startup crawl Cloudflare sites without paying a hefty fee to Cloudflare?

Was it a disinformation campaign from China funneled through Hong Kong or was it actually a breakout. We didnt know if the martial law was out of caution, China only reported 80k infections.

Lots of assumptions went wrong on this one

There was information that it was aerosolized from the early days (March)

We were lied to because america did not stockpile enough masks for first responders