Hacker News: auslander

New comment by auslander in "Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation"

auslander — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:48:24 +0000

In 2013, Sweden tried to drop Assange extradition but the English Crown Prosecution Service dissuaded them from doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assange_v_Swedish_Prosecution_...

New comment by auslander in "Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation"

auslander — Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:35:10 +0000

So sick seeing how UK judges listen to US.

New comment by auslander in "Interpol plans to condemn encryption spread, citing predators"

auslander — Mon, 18 Nov 2019 13:28:25 +0000

I will continue using strong crypto for all my data even if it will be illegal. Cyberpunks not dead.

New comment by auslander in "Firefox’s Fight for the Future of the Web"

auslander — Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:56:30 +0000

> Macs remain a fairly open system, although the increasing focus on the Mac app store, which Firefox isn’t on, bodes ill for the browser’s future.

Why not put FF in App Store? I'd even pay for clean, no "integrations", version.

New comment by auslander in "In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A"

auslander — Thu, 14 Nov 2019 21:43:50 +0000

Security slip-ups in 1Password and other

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/02/28/flaws_in_password_m...

New comment by auslander in "Thousands of Facebook internal documents and emails published online"

auslander — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 02:15:50 +0000

Someone from Google, please do the same.

New comment by auslander in "DNS Wars"

auslander — Mon, 04 Nov 2019 21:29:25 +0000

Is DoH capable of storing and serving cookies? I always wondered.

New comment by auslander in "Ubiquiti adds phone-home to the access point firmware"

auslander — Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:13:37 +0000

> Damn, I like their gear; who's the next best?

Linux / OpenBSD with open source wifi drivers, if that is even a thing. Snatch some Atheros or Realtek chips before they disappear.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_wire...

New comment by auslander in "Linus Torvalds: Git proved I could be more than a one-hit wonder"

auslander — Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:56:20 +0000

> Serious question, what innovations in Linux would FreeBSD even want? I honestly can't think of any.

systemd

New comment by auslander in "Rethinking Encryption"

auslander — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 11:09:35 +0000

> The problem is that there is no law that clearly empowers governmental actors to obtain court orders to compel third parties (such as equipment manufacturers and service providers) to configure their systems to allow the government to obtain the plain text

That kinda sums the article, but US Gov always finds ways to compel anyone to anything. Raw power. Takeaway is to be your own equipment manufacturer and service provider, as in cheap mini x86 boxes running open source daemons, over proxychains and VPNs. Rotate equipment, hacked wifi APs and identities monthly, use Signal on iOS and hide in the crowd, because if you're on the watch list, game is over. Cyberpunk at its best.

New comment by auslander in "Mac OS Catalina: more trouble than it’s worth"

auslander — Tue, 22 Oct 2019 07:41:09 +0000

> I have too many 32bit games that will never be updated to 64bit. For the first time in 18 years, I am not going to upgrade to the latest mac os

Same here. Counter Strike Source. Shame, Valve!

New comment by auslander in "Firefox Privacy How-To Guide"

auslander — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 01:42:06 +0000

Only 2 months ago. Why it took so long?

New comment by auslander in "Apple's list of 235 apps that are incompatible with macOS Catalina"

auslander — Sun, 13 Oct 2019 07:19:41 +0000

Counter Strike Source looks like will not be updated by Valve. I play it every other day. Is there a petition I can sign?

New comment by auslander in "OpenBSD Crossed 400k Commits"

auslander — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 09:57:47 +0000

> .. because yes the code quality is mostly very high

because he is, actually, smart? I'm in totally different field, devops, don't laugh :), but I religiously follow their approaches to security and design in general.

New comment by auslander in "macOS 10.15 Vista"

auslander — Wed, 09 Oct 2019 02:58:04 +0000

Alfred 3 app is busted.

New comment by auslander in "CloudFlare is ruining the internet for me (2016)"

auslander — Sun, 06 Oct 2019 09:01:28 +0000

> .. to generate 'anonymous' tokens

Yeah, right. I think double quotes is more appropriate here.

New comment by auslander in "Attorney General will ask Zuckerberg to halt plans for end-to-end encryption"

auslander — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 22:08:03 +0000

No Libra? Eat this! I removed Moxie's E2E encryption from WhatsApp for you, I can put it back, you know.

New comment by auslander in "Dropbox CTO Resigns"

auslander — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 04:16:11 +0000

discovering how Dropbox hacks your mac

https://applehelpwriter.com/2016/08/29/discovering-how-dropb...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12463338

New comment by auslander in "Big ISPs aren’t happy about Google’s plans for encrypted DNS"

auslander — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 03:45:22 +0000

> Perhaps because downloading Tor (or even searching for it / visiting its website) demonstrates an active interest in thwarting surveillance.

Not if you access tor over VPN. VPN hides all traffic from ISP and Gov. Obviously, make sure your browser does not use Google or Cloudflare DNS.

New comment by auslander in "Watch Steve Jobs Assure 1981 America That Computers Aren't a Privacy Nightmare"

auslander — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 08:24:02 +0000

David Burnham [0] is 1981's Edward Snowden (born 1983). Skip to 11:00 of the video.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Burnham