Hacker News: rasz_pl

New comment by rasz_pl in "Wikileaks Vault 7 Release: Dark Matter"

rasz_pl — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:35:43 +0000

Suddenly grinding microcontrollers off of Guardians macbook is not that silly anymore

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/jan/31/footage-rele...

New comment by rasz_pl in "What the death of the CRT display technology means for classic arcade machines"

rasz_pl — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 01:08:07 +0000

Obviously not, there is no memory inside the glass, and bandwidth is limited. LCD screens still scan in.

The difference is LCD keeps picture until told otherwise, whole picture is emitting light. CRT has limited phosphor persistence, there is only one point/pixel being lit at any given time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHgmCxGEzY

New comment by rasz_pl in "Nintendo Switch Teardown"

rasz_pl — Sat, 04 Mar 2017 15:43:04 +0000

but its the second kind, Zelda drops to 20fps in empty static scenes.

New comment by rasz_pl in "CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages"

rasz_pl — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:10:50 +0000

$3 is a great price for a stuffed animal, not to mention IoT BT/Wifi platform.

New comment by rasz_pl in "CloudPets teddy bears leaked and ransomed, exposing kids' voice messages"

rasz_pl — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:08:53 +0000

This was common in all Eastern Bloc countries. In Poland under Russian occupation UB/SB https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Służba_Bezpieczeństwa "secret police responsible for internal and external intelligence and counterintelligence to fight underground movements and the influence of the Catholic Church" would send its agents to schools to befriend children and try to get them to rat on the parents.

New comment by rasz_pl in "BlueCoat and other proxies hang up during TLS 1.3"

rasz_pl — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:48:28 +0000

You mean giving control back to the users of your software? Google doesnt play like that. Motership knows best!

You cant even freeze chrome extensions.

New comment by rasz_pl in "Strategic Consequences of Chinese Racism: Strategic Asymmetry for the USA (2013) [pdf]"

rasz_pl — Tue, 28 Feb 2017 11:36:16 +0000

You were admired the same way people admire iphones or European supercars. Great to have a token white guy for random photo op, but dont count on getting real job or any kind of power/control (like being able to create a company etc.)

New comment by rasz_pl in "My 2015 MacBook Pro Retina Exploded"

rasz_pl — Mon, 27 Feb 2017 18:16:18 +0000

what air ducts? this is a mac we are talking about, not a thinkpad. There are thin inadequate slits in the case, they are the reason any cpu load results in 80'C, and every discrete GPU mac dies to be eventually grudgingly covered by some small time window "we care enough to not get sued" recall program.

New comment by rasz_pl in "GPU-Oriented PCIe Expansion Cluster"

rasz_pl — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 14:03:53 +0000

This might be useful for password cracking on GPUs. I imagine there is negligent traffic on the bus in this scenario.

New comment by rasz_pl in "AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling"

rasz_pl — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 12:14:32 +0000

Those prices match Intel promotions and bonus gifts Intel ordinarily offers to big distributors for pushing hi-end product (CPU and Chipsets). There is nothing suggesting Microcenter is running a loss on this, they might have a very thin margin, or even sell at 0 and only count Intel gifts as a potential profits (Intel will give distributors gifts like "free" SSDs for selling X number of expensive parts). Its all in the spirit of tactics that were killing AMD in ~2002 and lead to Intels monopoly trial, just made a little more subtle this time.

New comment by rasz_pl in "AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling"

rasz_pl — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 12:09:18 +0000

Quicksync is a marketing bullet point. Nobody sane uses this crap because quality is abysmal. Its bad for streamers (they usually run second PC just for stream compression), and bad for archiving video(quality again).

New comment by rasz_pl in "AMD’s $499 Ryzen 7 1800X Beats $1700 i7 6950X with 1-Click OC on Air Cooling"

rasz_pl — Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:59:35 +0000

and current gen console ports forced to work smoothly on multiple anemic 1.6GHz cores

New comment by rasz_pl in "When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart"

rasz_pl — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:59:20 +0000

So you work from home and your 12yr old discovers loaded revolver in night closet and shoots few friends, so now the Police come and arrest you. Now what?

New comment by rasz_pl in "When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart"

rasz_pl — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:56:54 +0000

Water utility company is a epitome of dumb pipes, but they will cut off bad supply instead of pumping poison while cutting out customers.

New comment by rasz_pl in "When “Dumb Pipes” Get Too Smart"

rasz_pl — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:55:06 +0000

He described system that would work the other way around, null-route the ATTACKERS, not the victim.

New comment by rasz_pl in "Cloudflare data still in Bing caches"

rasz_pl — Sat, 25 Feb 2017 08:49:19 +0000

Its NOT free, you are paying with your customers/visitors privacy.

New comment by rasz_pl in "Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets"

rasz_pl — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:11:23 +0000

Recruiter A to recruiter B: Well, I hoped this one would be sharp enough, guess we need to search harder for people that wont be careless with our company sensitive stuff laying around simply because someone told them to leave laptop behind and take a walk ...

New comment by rasz_pl in "Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets"

rasz_pl — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 09:07:18 +0000

I can install hardware backdoor in a macbook in under 3 minutes (with prep obviously).

Even you could do it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGPGOoJn54E hint: there are internal USB buses in the macbook, you can hijack one for something like rubberducky +management circuity to trigger only when laptop is powered on for a longer period of time but not touched (no imu/keyboard/touch events/dimmed screen).

New comment by rasz_pl in "Alphabet's Waymo Alleges Uber Stole Self-Driving Secrets"

rasz_pl — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 08:55:16 +0000

You cant restore SSDs. I would assume Googlers are rolling SATA SSDs, if not M.2 PCIE ones.

What Google could be doing is remote logging on the laptops - logs uploaded to ze cloud every time you connect to the mothership. Plugging in USB drive leaves trace with USB ID, volume information etc. Windows also logs this and more http://www.forensicswiki.org/wiki/USB_History_Viewing

Protip: to exfiltrate data with minimal trace your best bet is taking out the drive and reading it in another computer (using write blocker for best effect), this can still be traced if someone is logging SMART written/read data (I am, but Im paranoid), not all HDD/SSD vendors provide this info. Second best is booting from USB drive so the original OS never sees the plug/unplug event in the first place, I have no idea about current state of UEFI/AMT logging going on tho.

Disclaimer: I used to do forensics.

New comment by rasz_pl in "Cloudflare Reverse Proxies Are Dumping Uninitialized Memory"

rasz_pl — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 07:10:29 +0000

Good at lying for sure https://twitter.com/taviso/status/834918182640996353