Everything posted by grawk
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Tom's Hardware: "Anything Above $2 Buys More Features, Not More Quality"
Lots of people in team source dead fucking last
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Which Cooking Are You?
- Happy Birthday Naaman!
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Anyone catching new series Breaking Bad?
the show had garnered pretty universal acclaim starting back with season 2, everything that showed up at the end was in the show from the beginning...I'm pretty sure the writers knew where they were going from the start.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
how is that mehliana, Al? I'm listening to De La Soul
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Ye Macce Threade
hint: any developer can do malicious things via updates. Don't install stupid shit.
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What are you listening to Part the Third
I"m listening to this one now
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What are you listening to Part the Third
The Sweep - Starlight City Moans (feedbands 7) digital download
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Ye Macce Threade
also doesn't help that I'm reading a paranoid techno thriller and have insomnia
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Ye Macce Threade
I'd say don't freak out. at this point it'll blow over and just be a headache for the people it impacts. it's more people on my side of the computer that will have the real issues to deal with. and the insurance companies, maybe. it's kinda like the target thing.
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Ye Macce Threade
the insidious thing about the openssl problem is that the man in the middle attack could be coming from ANYWHERE in the middle. The more I think about it the more I want to go back to face to face banking. The scope of this could end up being bigger than the backdoor that was in the openssl libraries for over 10 years.
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Ye Macce Threade
This is a privacy/security problem (that may be more widespread than is currently being reported). There is a separate ball of wax that is the windows malware situation.
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Ye Macce Threade
it isn't. That's what I'm recommending. Don't use your computer on any public network.
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Ye Macce Threade
this exploit puts "the adversary" in the middle of your encrypted connections (and anyone else's) if they've taken control of the network. Network sniffing is a different problem. Both are solved with a mifi.
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Ye Macce Threade
if the students are on the network you use, I'd to the opposite, and VPN home
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Ye Macce Threade
It's probably never a bad idea to change important passwords, and enable 2 factor authentication whenever you can. Do it from home or work tho... Also, 15 character passwords, mixed for anything that matters. There are lookup tables for almost anything less than that readily available in the black hat world.
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Ye Macce Threade
cool My job has me so paranoid about network activity in general...
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Ye Macce Threade
Does UC have separate real and student networks? Because I know at the university of alaska, the student network was a cesspit.
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Ye Macce Threade
it's the "afaik" that's important. You don't know. You have no way of knowing. I personally won't use a mac except on my home network at this point. Tho in all likelihood, the damage has been done, if it's going to be. That said, I'm not particularly worried about personal consequences so much as potential work consequences. I stopped using my work computer on non-work/home/mifi networks 2 years ago tho, and all traffic is vpn on it.
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Ye Macce Threade
I think it's fair to say everyone's being targeted if you get on a network that's been hacked. As to what you have to lose, well, it depends on what you use your computer for. This one isn't minor.
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Ye Macce Threade
unless sprint's network's been exploited you should be fine
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Ye Macce Threade
maybe?
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Ye Macce Threade
it's only bad if you use your mac for work, financial transactions, shopping, or email. Oh, or calendaring.
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Ye Macce Threade
yes more specifically: immediately upgrade your iphone, and stop using safari on your mac.
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Happy birthday, Dan the man!
Thanks Matt, you too!