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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
lol anime freak got mad about a picture

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Broken Machine posted:

also isn't WhatsApp actually end-to-end, and well designed, just not yet on Android for technical reasons relating to the platform?

no its that it will never support the end-to-end on the old symbian and blackberry etc phones because they're literally junk phones

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

spankmeister posted:

wow if this is true then wow


wow

lots of tv companies have been caught out with passwords on display in their offices on live tv.

usually it's for entirely internal facing systems though.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

uncurable mlady posted:

why would you ever assume that any sort of messaging using a cell phone is "secure" for a very very strident definition of the word

numbers station method over gsm

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

From CSI: Cyber S1E5 “Crowd Sourced”. Supposedly, this is the source code of a web site that interfaces with a bomb– and more specifically, a “dead man’s switch” that immediately detonates the bomb if any of the code is modified.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Cocoa Crispies posted:

k12 schools in the US have IT as incompetent as their administrations are fascist

at my high school it was a bunch of future goons and yosposters that did all the work

and then the actual employee got arrested for handcuffing a student to a pillar in his house and shooting a gun or something when he thought that student stole a computer

when i was in high school the district it department used deepfreeze on all the computers in the district so students couldn't mess them up, cuz they'd reset to the original image at reboot

except they just created the deepfreeze images based on how each computer already was, which meant like a third of them had malware and adware baked into the image (comet cursor, bonzi buddy, that thing that made random words int ext into ad links). this didn't get fixed until they upgraded the computers to xp.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

pseudorandom name posted:

given that Firefox operates on a fixed six week update cycle, version numbers are fairly useless.

month and year as the version would make more sense

no that's dumb.

it's dumb when ubuntu does it and its dumb here too.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Subjunctive posted:

how is that better than not having the registration in there, in terms of theft? I thought the point was that they wouldn't have the registration to produce if they got pulled over.

what does them having the registration help them with in the first place?

they show a registration that has nothing to do with their id if they even have theirs on them, it's not like the cop is just gonna be ok with that.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Subjunctive posted:

I don't know, I'm trying to figure out why the police recommended not keeping registration in the car.

police are stupid.

what you should not do is keep the title in the car

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

DNova posted:

huh? you don't have to own a car to drive it legally

but if you don't have any relation to who owns it legally and you get pulled over by the cops for whatever it is you were doing, it draws extra attention that you mighta stolen it.

Snapchat A Titty posted:

lol is possession of title equal to ownership

no, it's that if you keep it in the car you stand a good chance of accidentally spilling poo poo into whether it is or where it's stored having stuff leak onto it and if you ruin the title document it's a pain in the rear end to replace.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

pseudorandom name posted:

position of title is one forged signature away from transferal of ownership

depends on the jurisdiction

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

DNova posted:

do you think the cop is gonna be like ok show me on facebook that you're friends with the owner of this car

cop doesn't give a gently caress about that piece if you're getting pulled over for some minor reason and you happen to be driving your "friend's" car.

"weird how this registration matches the guy who reported a car missing but doesn't match the guy driving. well i'm sure it's legit"

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
i expect that if a cop pulls over any sort of minority with a non matching registration the cop uses it as an excuse to keep them pulled over way long, because they're racist af

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Subjunctive posted:

it is super handy when, f.e., carrying a kid

there's this thing, it's called "having a keyfob remote"

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Subjunctive posted:

maybe you've had different experiences carrying kids, but IME getting something out of your pocket isn't always a simple thing. have techniques that have worked for you that you want to share?

hold keyring before picking up childe, alternately arrange your fob in your pocket like bloody says

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
security fuckup: the massachusetts dmv or whatever's custom license plate page:

http://www.massrmv.com/vanityplaterequirements.aspx

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Luigi Thirty posted:

the head goonfleet counterintelligence guy gets banned regularly for being an incredibly creepy gently caress who internet detectives people like the :nsa: and posts on gf.com about his hanzo steel

shouldn't that be nogf.com

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
what's the best way to sign old java applets you coded like 16 years ago

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

OSI bean dip posted:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20121222/APN/312229943/0


this is the guy who wants to speed up your internet and make your bits encrypted

lol bullet proof windows for classrooms would be wayyyy less safe

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

spankmeister posted:

Yet they are exactly the kind of people who still need protection from old viruses.

yeah

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
in firefox this government site refuses to load with a "An error occurred during a connection to eservices.blacksburg.gov. Cannot communicate securely with peer: no common encryption algorithm(s). (Error code: ssl_error_no_cypher_overlap) "
https://eservices.blacksburg.gov/Click2GovCX/index.html

anyone who know how to discover available cipher suites know why it works in ie and chrome still?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
i just want to be able to gently caress around with some old applets on my own laptop and maybe another. how do i do the selfsigning thing for it.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
post the kickstarter that ended at negative 5 dollars

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
its not he probably believes it, i've met him and he's into it for sure

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Macintosh System 7: You get in the car to drive to the shops and the car drives you to church.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

anthonypants posted:

you idiots are going to get the thread locked for a not-security fuckup

good

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Number19 posted:

everything expects poo poo to be in system32, regardless of if it's 32 or 64 bit (or even 16 bit on 32 bit windows for that matter)

windows on windows (wow) handles the os virtualization needed to redirect 32 bit calls to the wow64 path where all the 32 bit poo poo lives. this is why you can't use 16 bit poo poo on 64 bit windows: only one windows on windows layer can exist at once

this is because they had to put the 32 bit stuff in system32 because the 16 bit stuff was in system. they made system32 the default location for all system dlls and stuff. windows on windows redirected 16 bit calls from system32 to system

for 64 bit they did it the other way because reasons

i'm paraphrasing and probably have the exact technical details wrong but this is all compatibility layer garbage and is literally The Ghost of Windows Past

it's not impossible to do two of the layers at once from like a technology or programming perspective, Microsoft simply made the decision that they would stop supporting 16 bit flat out in all 64 bit versions of windows.

this was made easier by the fact that most businesses with obscure line of business 16 bit apps didn't even start considering a n upgrade past 32 bit windows xp until like 2010 at the earliest. and the ones that insist on it anyway are free to cripple themselves with 32 bit windows.

eventually in the distant future there will be no more 32 bit windows and some enterprising developer will implement NTVDM and 16 bit windows on windows on their own for 64 bit windows and make a cool few billions from super stubborn companies.

RZA Encryption posted:

ugh, why can't they make and support a "windows enterprise" for that weird poo poo and give consumers a "windows for modern humans"?

regular users are just as likely to expect some random program from 1999 to work because "it worked before". also itll break a lot of games people like if you did that.

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Number19 posted:

hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

i'm thinking like 2200

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

pseudorandom name posted:

it was made even easier by the fact the hardware literally does not support running 16-bit programs on 64-bit operating systems

wine runs 16 bit windows on 64 bit linux just fine

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

pseudorandom name posted:

It must be doing dosbox style software emulation.

wine is not emulation

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

OSI bean dip posted:

shouldn't matter. if you're executing a 16-bit binary when the cpu is running in long-mode (64-bit), you need to introduce emulation in order for anything to get executed

wine is not emulation

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

pseudorandom name posted:

ok, after reading architecture reference manuals and wine source code, I was wrong.

You straight up can't use VM86 mode from a Long Mode kernel, which makes 16-bit real mode DOS impossible on 64-bit Windows.

You also can't mix 64-bit and 32-bit code like you could with 32 and 16 (which made Windows 95 possible and also terrible).

On the other hand, you can still mix 32 and 16 code in the usual way (FAR CALL/JMP to a differently sized code segment), so Microsoft was in fact being lazy.



And, yes, the music player that came with Windows 8 tried to upsell you on the Zune Xbox Music service and played ads when you were listening to your own MP3 files.

the NTVDM used in 16 bit support on 32 bit nt kernel windows is already a virtual machine. it is possible to port it forward (and upgrade it from dos 5.0 comaptibility which its been stuck at since like 95 to 6.22), but microsoft simply refuses to, because they do want to kill that stuff off

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

hackbunny posted:


also dropping wow was the perfect opportunity to finally widen some GUI datatypes to 32 bits, because they didn't have to be shared with 16 bit applications anymore. and I bet they dropped a lot more legacy code. wow wasn't a DOS PC emulator, it wasn't a closed box, the 16 bit windows applications could interact with 32 bit windows applications and vice versa. they shared the same namespaces, the same resource pools, etc. (things like resource identifiers weren't virtualized because there used to be a lot of applications that mixed 16 and 32 bit executables and they expected to pass data between them, like it's really common to pass a window handle as a command line argument, for things like displaying a child process's GUI as a child window) so all shared components had to be accessible to 16 bit code


is this why 32 bit vista/7/8/10 all don't display 16 bit windows program icons in shortcuts but do in the titlebar when they're actually running?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Squinty Applebottom posted:

hasn't it been well established from all the snowden leaks that well implemented crypto is actually very secure and a pain for them so they resort to legal pressure on whoever owns the hardware/service?

even if the crypto's implemented poorly and weak as poo poo, it's always easier to get whoever has the keys to give em up yo

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Powercrazy posted:

Is this related to that safari text bug that was crashing the browser a few security threads ago?

yes

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
8chan is the gamergate and child porn chan knockoff right?

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

Cold on a Cob posted:

i would only upgrade if they absolutely promised i could downgrade again lol

well you can, it doesnt invalidate your 7 or 8 license

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe
whys it so hard for yall to have a facebook and just barely use it

Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

spankmeister posted:



Apple is finally getting that privacy can be a major USP over their competition (Google).

boy im sure glad the featureless rounded square is not linked to third parties

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Nintendo Kid
Aug 4, 2011

by Smythe

spankmeister posted:

It's like each US state having their own TLD.

this was originally planned, but it ended up getting replaced by the .us tld having provision that each state and constituent territory would have a second level designated (eg .ma.us)

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