Hacker News: stedaniels

New comment by stedaniels in "Show HN: Vet – A tool for safely running remote shell scripts"

stedaniels — Sun, 29 Jun 2025 07:15:59 +0000

It is very trivial to serve different code to someone inspecting the code than when they pipe it to bash. In the very rare case someone inspected it they’d likely do so in a way that was vulnerable to this.

New comment by stedaniels in "Dance mat-style game helps stop older people falling"

stedaniels — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 08:51:29 +0000

https://github.com/EngineersNeedArt/UHF

New comment by stedaniels in "UK 2022 rail station flow images"

stedaniels — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 19:47:20 +0000

It wasn't when I tried it earlier.

New comment by stedaniels in "The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency"

stedaniels — Sun, 20 Aug 2023 06:40:03 +0000

This is very cool, and I _really_ want to love the ReMarkable 2, but it's stance on being an insecure device [0] makes this difficult.

[0] https://support.remarkable.com/s/article/Does-reMarkable-off...

New comment by stedaniels in "GitHub staff are required to use Teams by Sep 1, 2023"

stedaniels — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 20:11:56 +0000

What platform are you on? Doesn’t CTRL+SHIFT+V work for you?

New comment by stedaniels in "Activision’s faulty anti-cheat software"

stedaniels — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 07:17:35 +0000

Anecdotally, having worked on identity management systems, and merged a number of them, this hasn’t ever seemed like an edge case for me. It’s pretty high up on the list. I’d imagine the folks they’ve got working on these systems are paid an order of magnitude more than myself.

New comment by stedaniels in "UK government ban for Chinese Hikvision CCTV cameras"

stedaniels — Fri, 25 Nov 2022 11:55:00 +0000

I have no comment on the security of Hikvision devices.

However, a lot of cameras these days come with a good sized amount of processing power onboard. This can be used for object detection amongst other things. Even without network access the devices could communicate and act on the command of others in many ways. A couple of ideas. You could communicate with the IR LEDs. You could blank the video feed if a certain QR code or flashing light pattern is detected. I'm sure there are more, but you get the idea.

New comment by stedaniels in "Black MIDI"

stedaniels — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:13:35 +0000

You've misinterpreted the comment, this is exactly what they mean. The recent band, has made the term ungoogleable.

New comment by stedaniels in "Show HN: RemoteFriendly – A remote job board inspired by HN"

stedaniels — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 08:50:58 +0000

A link to the "Remote working" policy document publicly hosted on their main domain would be a solid choice, with key points summarised in the job posting.

New comment by stedaniels in "Despite crypto layoffs, Kraken continues to hire"

stedaniels — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 18:30:09 +0000

That's a pretty narrow view of society. Many people work with people they don't want to, don't like, hate, despise even.

New comment by stedaniels in "List of Tech company layoffs in Europe"

stedaniels — Thu, 26 May 2022 09:31:10 +0000

Supermarket deliveries are popular, but are third party delivery services for groceries? I don't have any stats, but anecdotally I'd say not.

New comment by stedaniels in "Ask HN: Do you manage your family's digital safety?"

stedaniels — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 18:10:31 +0000

Note however this is only partially true for single user devices, where lack of admin rights does prevent some attacker persistence, and is not at all true for multi user devices e.g. the shared family PC.

New comment by stedaniels in "Scientist busts myths about how humans burn calories"

stedaniels — Fri, 18 Feb 2022 11:24:09 +0000

You are arguing a different point. They argued that doing exercise burns more calories than sitting idle.

@1_player said: > Your body burns incredibly more energy just "being there" than you burn moving about.

New comment by stedaniels in "ImageGlass added malware with this commit"

stedaniels — Sat, 22 Jan 2022 16:53:20 +0000

They also _coincidentally_ implemented a feature that autoran ImageGlass as a background service a day before the malware was slipped in.

New comment by stedaniels in "To secure the supply chain, you must properly fund it"

stedaniels — Sat, 11 Dec 2021 14:39:31 +0000

Coordinating with CSIRTS and the big security vendors, think WAFs, XDRs, etc., would allow the impact of a disclosure to be heavily mitigated.

New comment by stedaniels in "Show HN: P2P remote desktop – an alternative to TeamViewer / AnyDesk"

stedaniels — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:45:37 +0000

Just to add to the anecdotes.. I regularly run RDP over VPNs and web gateways all over WiFi and only occasionally feel a little bit of lag, otherwise it's so fast I forget it's not my local device. I largely use CLI's, IDE's, Office, web browsing, and often tell myself off for watching YouTube videos over the RDP connection instead of locally.

New comment by stedaniels in "Show HN: Document and automate your operations playbooks and business processes"

stedaniels — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 19:37:55 +0000

Looks very smooth. Pricing seems amazing for bootstrapping. Time to read the docs and sign up.

New comment by stedaniels in "'The way my boss monitored me at home was creepy'"

stedaniels — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 20:41:23 +0000

“We didn't mind," says Chris, "but I found loads of screens switched on one day when I came in to the office, and everybody's desktops were there, on display.”

The security implications for this are very bad. I can’t imagine approving this.

New comment by stedaniels in "6th Generation Stealth Fighter: Joint Effort by UK, Japan, Italy and Sweden?"

stedaniels — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 08:48:50 +0000

That isn't "just how the world works", that's how a subset of people in the world behave.

New comment by stedaniels in "The Magic Behind the Scenes of Docker Desktop"

stedaniels — Sun, 12 Sep 2021 08:45:56 +0000

It would be handy if the _magic_ would stop it pegging the allocated WSL2 cores to 100% and leaving my laptop fan screaming.