Timeline for engineer list by rozzin, page 106
rozzin
engineer
Thursday, 29-Nov-0001 19:00:00 EST
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@gomerx, the Internet brings the world *closer*. It doesn't decrease the number of people in it or lessen the diversity.
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@gomerx, I fear that world in which Unix `spread so far so quickly' was different—and smaller.
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That seems to be one of the reasons Unix spread so far so quickly. It is easy to understand and modify.
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#NSA reminds kids: "stop and think before sharing private information, especially on social networking sites" https://www.nsa.gov/kids/
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Just pushed up a big change to Active Port Forwarder: per-realm #x509 auth settings https://github.com/jslawinski/apf/commit/fe9bda8d2aad33e0f71d5699bcf90fb78b3fb5bb #APF
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"Mystery clung to each impending image as it took shape, the camera conjuring up pictures of what was right before one’s eyes, right before one’s eyes. The miracle of photography, which Polaroids instantly exposed, never lost its primitive magic. And what resulted, as so many sentimentalists today lament, was a memory coming into focus on a small rectangle of film." !polaroid #q http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6456
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The !Polaroid: Imperfect, Yet Magical http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6456
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My presentation notes on !Tor for the @GTALUG "Short talks on !Crypto" on Tuesday are now online: http://sobac.com/gtalug
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Thinking about buying the family #bowling #shoes for !Gravmass, this year....
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"No, #PostgreSQL is #not slower than #MySQL" http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6449 #benchmarking
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Blame CATS, indeed: http://status.hackerposse.com/url/6447
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Blame cats.
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Genkin, Shamir, & Tromer explain how to build a #sonic-screwdriver to open nearby #GnuPG keyrings: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ !security
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#Reading the Genkin/Shamir/Tromer paper on accoustic extraction of RSA keys from #GnuPG < 1.4.16: http://www.cs.tau.ac.il/~tromer/acoustic/ !security
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I'm a little conservative WRT major revs of !security software: trying to decide now, is it finally time to upgrade from #GnuPG 1.4 to 2.0?
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#GnuPG 2.1.0 feature-overview doc says, most parts of the system no longer know about secring storage at all: https://www.gnupg.org/faq/whats-new-in-2.1.html#nosecring
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#GnuPG 2.1.0 is out: secring.gpg is no longer used, but the announcement doesn't say how secret keys are now maintained. !security
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@mmn, the dinner I just finished would like to contribute this summary thought: http://status.hackerposse.com/attachment/6440
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In the news: apparently Amazon has interbred Jibo with an Ionic Breeze?
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Let's use Facebook as an example. People use it to publish public event info, discuss work related issues and "like" whatever campaign they're into right now. But they ALSO send private messages and share private pictures in photo albums. Even _if_ Facebook was a perfect, non-crackable safe - that _behavioural_ effect merges the cautioness of public posts with the more…