Hacker News: tehmaco

New comment by tehmaco in "Police told to avoid looking at recent iPhones to avoid lockouts"

tehmaco — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 10:48:10 +0000

You can also tap the power button five times in a row, which brings up the emergency screen (Power Off, Medical ID, SOS call), but also disables face recognition until a pin unlock has happened.

New comment by tehmaco in "Firefox 59 to strip path information from referrer values for 3rd parties"

tehmaco — Fri, 02 Feb 2018 11:17:14 +0000

If you're not aware of it, you might want to look into Qubes[0], it's an OS that uses virtualisation tech to compartmentalise applications from each other (and the host OS). So you can use your browser of choice for all uses, just in different VMs configured to retain/discard data as you want.

[0] https://www.qubes-os.org/

New comment by tehmaco in "Australian uses snack bags as Faraday cage to block tracking by employer"

tehmaco — Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:20:19 +0000

It's in the scene in the hotel lift - Hackman gets Smith to remove various things, and stuffs the trackers in a foil crisp (aka chip) packet, and the techs lose tracking on them.

New comment by tehmaco in "Radiohead album hides an app that only runs on an '80s computer"

tehmaco — Fri, 14 Jul 2017 14:56:17 +0000

There's a short film on YouTube that explores that idea:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vt4Dfa4fOEY

It's a very strange experience hearing it!

New comment by tehmaco in "Should I buy ECC memory? (2015)"

tehmaco — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 10:15:04 +0000

Cosmic rays causing the errors has got me thinking about if the error rates vary with the time.

Do you get more/less errors when it's day time (due to the Sun)? Does the season affect it (axial tilt means you're more/less "in view" of the galactic core)?

New comment by tehmaco in "Best Linux Distros for Gaming in 2017"

tehmaco — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 09:28:06 +0000

I've been using Steam on Linux Mint for a few years, and generally everything Just Works(tm).

New comment by tehmaco in "Tesla aims to start pilot production of Model 3 cars on February 20"

tehmaco — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 11:41:54 +0000

It looks like there'll be further models after the Three:

"I'm super excited about being able to produce a car that most people can afford," Musk said. "And there will be future cars that are even more affordable down the road."

"With something like the Model 3, it's designed such that roughly half the people can afford the car," he continued. "With fourth generation and smaller cars and what not, we'll ultimately be in the position where almost everyone will be able to afford the car."

From here: http://www.computerworld.com/article/3062365/car-tech/elon-m...

New comment by tehmaco in "How can I protect myself from government snoopers?"

tehmaco — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 14:26:54 +0000

It would probably come under the "Equipment Interference" section, which legalises hacking of devices.

New comment by tehmaco in "Everyone who can now see your entire internet history, including the taxman"

tehmaco — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:20:13 +0000

I've got a couple of cheap VPS's with OpenVPN installed and the bandwidth/latency is best described as "intermittent", as there'll be a lost of hosts sharing it on the low end ones.

NordVPN is one I keep seeing talked about, so I'll be looking into them this weekend :)

New comment by tehmaco in "Repeal the New Surveillance Laws (Investigatory Powers Act)"

tehmaco — Fri, 25 Nov 2016 12:14:24 +0000

Much as I'd like to think that signing this would make a difference, it won't :(

Theresa May has been pushing for this legislation (or variants thereof) for years now. The existing powers which this bill replaces expire at the end of the year, and so the line "We cannot allow {terrorists|child pornographers|money launderers} a safe space to hide online" will be trotted out, and anyone arguing against it will be labelled soft on terror, and unpatriotic...

New comment by tehmaco in "Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law"

tehmaco — Thu, 24 Nov 2016 09:35:05 +0000

That'd work fine for HTTP(S) data, I suspect the data capture would have to be done at the IP level by default, with per-protocol filters on top to capture additional data. Which is going to add complexity to the data capture equipment, plus an ongoing maintenance cost to keep on top of new/updated protocols.

I can't see the current government accepting the possibility that the Internet Bad Guys(tm) could just use a different protocol and avoid all logging.

New comment by tehmaco in "Tech firms seek to frustrate internet history log law"

tehmaco — Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:38:41 +0000

There doesn't seem to be a technical definition of an 'Internet Connection Record', but from the factsheet[1], they:

"are records of the internet services that have been accessed by a device. They would include, for example, a record of the fact that a smartphone had accessed a particular social media website at a particular time."

and:

"ICRs do not provide a full internet browsing history. The ICRs do not reveal every web page that a person visited or any action carried out on that web page."

How this will work in practice is anyones guess at the moment - every time I think of something short of logging every packet header sent/received in the UK (which leads to a staggering amount of data needing to be logged), I think of things that would slip though (and therefore wouldn't fulfil the first statement)...

[1] https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachm...

New comment by tehmaco in "An Update to Our Supercharging Program"

tehmaco — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 16:15:30 +0000

If they're charging more than cost for the electricity, they can just re-invest the extra money, and it ceases to be profit.

AtomBombing: Brand New Code Injection for Windows

tehmaco — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:29:45 +0000

Article URL: https://breakingmalware.com/injection-techniques/atombombing-brand-new-code-injection-for-windows/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12858446

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by tehmaco in "All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware"

tehmaco — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 12:10:24 +0000

There's a third type as well - 'Shadow Mode' where the software is running constantly but the driver is in full control.

So if there's an accident, Tesla can check to see if the autopilot would/could have avoided it. If they can turn round to lawmakers and say that "X% of accidents could be avoided if hands-off autopilot was legal" it should help speed up the regulatory side of things.

New comment by tehmaco in "Say Cheese: a snapshot of the massive DDoS attacks coming from IoT cameras"

tehmaco — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 14:33:06 +0000

Proof of ability to potential customer? Checking that their command and control software works?

I doubt you'd notice a difference on the device unless you were doing something network/CPU intensive on it, even then, it'd just seem slow.

New comment by tehmaco in "Suspicious court cases, missing defendants, aim to get webpages taken down"

tehmaco — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 08:43:59 +0000

Source?

New comment by tehmaco in "150,000 IoT Devices Behind the 1Tbps DDoS Attack on OVH"

tehmaco — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 14:26:12 +0000

The gateway is needed to route outside of the local subnet, so if the bulb is 192.168.1.17, it can talk to anything in 192.168.1.0/24 (presuming a standard home user setup), but anything else would get 'no route to host' errors on initial connection attempts.

You'd need to configure the DHCP to hand out these kinds of leases by MAC address though, as I can't see vendors agreeing on a way to easily restrict the devices net access! :-/

New comment by tehmaco in "150,000 IoT Devices Behind the 1Tbps DDoS Attack on OVH"

tehmaco — Wed, 28 Sep 2016 13:42:40 +0000

My first thought would be to set the default gateway to 127.0.0.1. It should mean that they can't route packets to anything outside their LAN?

New comment by tehmaco in "What HP Must Do to Make Amends for Its Self-Destructing Printers"

tehmaco — Tue, 27 Sep 2016 13:55:13 +0000

They'll still need to spend resources (and so will earn reduced profit) updating processes/code/etc to comply with the regs, plus ongoing costs to ensure compliance.