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syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Apple Confirms $1M Reward for Anyone Who Can Hack an iPhone

Given the "kernel" requirement coupled with the design of these devices in general, any real non-interactive RCE will be claimed to not be "in the kernel"... it was a Qualcomm or ARM binary blob not the kernel!, It was the Baseband firmware not the kernel! It was libXYZ not the kernel! etc.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Why is modern web development so complicated?

Why don't you drive an 18 wheeler to work every day? They are used by millions of professional people every day who's job it is to drive! Why would you be different from all those people that you think you need to use a little car instead?

The answer is obvious in both cases; You don't need it and it would be wasteful. If I don't have a huge database with constant read/write calls, If I don't have to try to manage multiple end users submitting content, if I don't need super async real-time snappy UIs to compete with the latest android app fad or session tracking of tens of thousands of users, why would I need laravel?

If nobody rolled their own specifically for what they needed, we would still be writing ASM/APL/Raw hex.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: 8chan goes dark after hardware provider discontinues service

The vested interest media and political parties have in making it seem like there is an insatiable thirst for white supremacy in America.

It's on average not any worse than it ever was, but showing us how bad its always been right now serves a useful political goal in division and diversion.

Its not a conspiracy, just stupidity and greed. Outrage generates views and votes, no cartel required.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: The Lost Art of Lacing Cable (2018)

Installation in buildings. Try pulling a bundle of CAT6 cables from a comms closet with huge plastic blocks from zipties jutting out every other foot through 10-50 feet of drywall and/or drop ceiling. Loom doesn't even warrant a sarcastic comment in that context. The biggest advantage is of course the string takes the brunt of the stretch stress.

I'm not gonna go lace up a DC but it's still useful enough that every hardware store around carries rolls of twine right next to the cable spools and zip ties.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Capital One’s breach was inevitable, because we did nothing after Equifax

Lots! Tons and Tons and Tons! S3 is super secure and CAN NOT be hacked when properly configured and used according to our standard!

You got hacked? You must have configured it wrong because we already told you it was unhackable; Good luck proving it was our fault not yours.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: The Elite Club That Rules the Diamond World Is Starting to Crack

If there is a gold cartel to enforce it, yes.

For a humorous example see the origin of "processed cheese".

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws

“The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.”

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: The Golden Girls Would Violate Zoning Laws

So just like real US elections. What's that got to do with it?

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Decades-Old Computer Science Conjecture Solved in Two Pages

Nah. Computing sensitivity has always been easy enough, flip bits and watch output. This is about how to do it in a generalized way that fits in with related work in the field.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Mozilla debuts implementation of WebThings Gateway open-source router firmware

Absolutely nothing, It's worse with fewer features. Mozilla itself says as much. This is for playing around with stuff, not general usage.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: The Tech Industry Is Building a Vast Digital Underclass

To your entire argument I say GOOD. Can't make profitable bluebarries? Tough shit. Free market right?

Work conditions become crap? GOOD. Can't run a business without slaves in shanties tough shit. Free market right?

Product quality goes to shit because you can't afford decent employees in reasonable working conditions? GOOD. The free market in action!

Are you afraid of a free market?

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Attorney General William P. Barr Delivers Address Conference on Cyber Security

Warrant proof communication is absolutely in the best interests of the citizens for exactly the same reason it's not in the best interest of the ruling government.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: What If Consciousness Comes First?

We will be able to explain and understand consciousness in objective terms 1 second after the first person achieves flight by pulling themselves into the air with the bucket they are standing in. About 5 seconds after a computer can run a 100% simulation of itself running a 100% simulation of itself. A whole minute after someone writes a program that can tell if/when any other programs will stop running.

As a question that's dogged us for thousands of years, maybe its time to accept its just a shitty question.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Visual Information Theory (2015)

Any interesting work coming out of "Olah Team"? I tried googling but found nothing specific just Distill articles and your twitter feed...

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Don’t Put Your Work Email on Your Personal Phone

Depends on the MDM and phone really but, No. Triangulating a cellphone on the network via cell towers is a tried and true feature of wireless infrastructure. Even your phones GPS capabilities are most likely "A-GPS" meaning Cellular Assisted; It'll use cell location data when GPS satilites are slow/unavailable.

GPS toggle isn't doing much of anything besides application permissions enforcement.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Unikernels: The Next Stage of Linux's Dominance [pdf]

"Unikernel" is a overly generic term. Technically the Linux kernel is already a "Unikernel". It's just most of the time its discussed as a negative not a positive and the term used is "monolith".

The project you want is "Yocoto", a complete toolchain to build customized embedded OS images.

https://www.yoctoproject.org/

You would have to build your own analyzer. Grepping the dependencies from the makefile/build data or just parsing the output of dpkg and translating that into yocto build specs is not unreasonable.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Amateur radio digital communications 44.0.0.0/8 partial sell-off

https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-tege/rp1995-48.pdf

I'll bet you it still just vanishes...

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: Cities Want 'Digital Twins' to Manage Traffic

Do you worry about some random asshole kid hurling a re-bar in to rush hour traffic? REing automotive tech, setting up transmitters, and spoofing traffic data to throw a virtual re-bar in to rush hour traffic could become a pandemic unless we figure out a way to fight such attacks.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: QuickBooks Cloud Hosting Firm iNSYNQ Hit in Ransomware Attack

Unless you have persistent mount to network FSs like NFS or SMB how do you think the ransomware would spread? You sure don't need network mounts for backups.

Cronjob to an (S)FTP server and an upload script trigger to chown/chmod all incoming files making the whole thing WORM (Write Once Read Many).

Once its submitted the same user account can't alter it. Even if the malware is clever and scans for .netrc and .id_rsa and manages to create its own connection to the backup server it doesn't have access to anything anyway.

syn0byte | 6 years ago | on: MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

"So do we make our flagship product useless for the entire country or not?" - The real question