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anthonypants posted:making the first word in a recursive acronym the acronym seems like both cheating and a misunderstanding of what recursive means r stands for recursive acronym
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anthonypants posted:making the first word in a recursive acronym the acronym seems like both cheating and a misunderstanding of what recursive means do /you/ know what recursive means? because the first word being the acronym makes it just as recursive as the last word.
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Jul 13, 2017 21:02
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you can call a recursion anywhere inside of a recursive function and it will still be recursive 
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Jul 13, 2017 21:08
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if i said i wrote a 500-line recursive algorithm and the first line called itself it would be pretty stupid
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Jul 13, 2017 21:12
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ok true
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Jul 13, 2017 21:13
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Several weeks ago I got a letter from my housing company, informing me that they had made a new website (subdomain of their main site) with a secure environment where their customers, (tenants), could login to view their personal information and update it online. The letter assured me that the website was double checked by some security company and deemed safe. However, when I went to sign up, at some point I ended up on their main public-facing website, where they had plopped a copy of the login (username/pass) form on the homepage. Which was http. There was an https version but it was configured wrong, with the security cert only being valid for the other subdomain. So I immediately sent them an e-mail telling them why putting a password form on a http page is a horrible idea, and giving them some pointers on how to quickly fix/remove it. To my surprise, the next day they called me to thoroughly thank me for pointing out the problem. They were already working on a fix and thought it would be ready by the end of the day. They also asked me if I wished to get an update on how they were doing a week later. Well, when I checked the site that evening, they already got everything in order. And, once again to my surprise, today I received a letter from them with another thank you, and a 25 eur gift card attached. Reading this thread, I was under the impression that most companies are dicks when you point out security problems to them. Apparently there are companies that are Good.
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Jul 13, 2017 21:14
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Carbon dioxide posted:Several weeks ago I got a letter from my housing company, informing me that they had made a new website (subdomain of their main site) with a secure environment where their customers, (tenants), could login to view their personal information and update it online. The letter assured me that the website was double checked by some security company and deemed safe. hosed up if true just kidding, it's good to see something go right.
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Jul 13, 2017 21:19
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mrmcd posted:AFAIK he eventually was convinced the project would never work and everyone would rather argue about GNU license purity while the Linux kernel ate the world I mean...
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Jul 14, 2017 01:30
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camoseven posted:The National Cryptologic Museum on the NSA campus is free and open to the public and has an Enigma machine that they encourage you to play with. I went a few months ago and it was pretty cool. I also bought some NSA branded socks for some reason. seconded this place owns HOWEVER DO NOT ACCIDENTALLY TAKE THE NSA EMPLOYEES ONLY ENTRANCE WHEN TRYING TO GET THERE EVEN THOUGH ROADS ARE CONFUSING. IT IS NOT A GOOD TIME but the exhibits are really neat and it even has a reading library of a bunch of old & cool books on related subjects
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Jul 14, 2017 01:32
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E4C85D38 posted:seconded this place owns you're busted, dude
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Jul 14, 2017 02:08
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Midjack posted:you're busted, dude I'm sure it's real annoying to have to deal with tourists looking for the museum blocking the entry gate constantly
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Jul 14, 2017 02:11
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ultramiraculous posted:I'm sure it's real annoying to have to deal with tourists looking for the museum blocking the entry gate constantly if it's anything like other government places i've been they just direct the person to the side and threaten them there during rush hours. off peak yeah, they'll surround the car right there at the gate.
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Jul 14, 2017 03:15
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Midjack posted:if it's anything like other government places i've been they just direct the person to the side and threaten them there during rush hours. off peak yeah, they'll surround the car right there at the gate. protip: you can get through cape canaveral's gate if you go during morning rush hour and hold up something rectangular that kinda sorta looks like a badge at the guard who's just trying to get all the workers through for their morning shifts
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Jul 14, 2017 03:33
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ratbert90 posted:He will probably become a serial murderer. Excuse me, I believe you mean GNU serial murderer Carbon dioxide posted:25 eur gift card attached. I'm guessing you have functional privacy laws and they would have lost a lot more than 25EUR if someone found out.
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Jul 14, 2017 03:35
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Volmarias posted:Any person that would actually plug this in is the kind of person who would call it a "web key" It emulates a keyboard to pop your browser and enter a url. So it isn't a flash drive or whatever. http://cardserv.com.au/web-key/
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Jul 14, 2017 03:41
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yoloer420 posted:It emulates a keyboard to pop your browser and enter a url. So it isn't a flash drive or whatever. this is the same concept as a usb rubber ducky. its almost worse than a flash drive
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Jul 14, 2017 04:04
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The web key is only “readable” and therefore there is no risk of virus transmission.
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Jul 14, 2017 04:05
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ate all the Oreos posted:protip: you can get through cape canaveral's gate if you go during morning rush hour and hold up something rectangular that kinda sorta looks like a badge at the guard who's just trying to get all the workers through for their morning shifts pro-er tip: this definitely will not work at ft meade
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Jul 14, 2017 04:05
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my bitter bi rival posted:The web key is only “readable” and therefore there is no risk of virus transmission. hi im youre bank. pls to inserting this card in your PC computer. dont worry its read only
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Jul 14, 2017 04:11
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the first usb flash drive i ever bought was 8 mb and was marketed as a "memory key"
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Jul 14, 2017 04:48
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E4C85D38 posted:seconded this place owns On friday afternoon, when the NSA employees are bored, they just jam the GPS signal on campus until some tourists end up at the wrong entrance, so the guards can have some fun harassing them.
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Jul 14, 2017 06:35
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Carbon dioxide posted:On friday afternoon, when the NSA employees are bored, they just jam the GPS signal on campus until some tourists end up at the wrong entrance, so the guards can have some fun harassing them. hey, story for the yokels back home and a morale boost for the boys in blue! no harm, no foul.
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Jul 14, 2017 06:53
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is it the nsa or some other three-letter agency whose procedure for escorted guests involved some sort of an alert to your presence? i know my mom has mentioned having to be followed around with a flashing light or something so the spooks would know to shut up when she left the conference room to pee.
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Jul 14, 2017 07:01
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ultramiraculous posted:is it the nsa or some other three-letter agency whose procedure for escorted guests involved some sort of an alert to your presence? i know my mom has mentioned having to be followed around with a flashing light or something so the spooks would know to shut up when she left the conference room to pee. ~OPSec~
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Jul 14, 2017 07:06
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I think it'd be safer and maximum opsec for all concerned if we put all the 5 eyes spooks in a single gigantic airtight off-the-grid facility 5 miles underground and permanently sealed up the entraces and exits.
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Jul 14, 2017 07:22
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what makes you think they haven't 
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Jul 14, 2017 07:24
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That would raise some questions as to who or what is currently occupying all the infrastructure above ground while masquerading as government spies.
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Jul 14, 2017 08:13
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something about america's contingency of government plan entails the shadow back up government always being stored underground since the cold war and only a few of the above ground normie government bureaucrats are given special let me into the bunker clearance cards that they're never supposed to talk about because most of their coworkers arent cool enough to save in the event of the apocalypse
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Jul 14, 2017 09:14
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Computer Serf posted:something about america's contingency of government plan entails the shadow back up government always being stored underground since the cold war and only a few of the above ground normie government bureaucrats are given special let me into the bunker clearance cards that they're never supposed to talk about because most of their coworkers arent cool enough to save in the event of the apocalypse you can tell the "cool" government bureaucrats because they get actual smart cards instead of the ones with the printed on icc
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Jul 14, 2017 09:42
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ate all the Oreos posted:protip: you can get through cape canaveral's gate if you go during morning rush hour and hold up something rectangular that kinda sorta looks like a badge at the guard who's just trying to get all the workers through for their morning shifts how illegal would this be?
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Jul 14, 2017 10:11
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Maximum Leader posted:how illegal would this be? i imagine you'd be doing pretty well if you merely find yourself in a situation where that becomes a question
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Jul 14, 2017 10:18
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ultramiraculous posted:is it the nsa or some other three-letter agency whose procedure for escorted guests involved some sort of an alert to your presence? i know my mom has mentioned having to be followed around with a flashing light or something so the spooks would know to shut up when she left the conference room to pee. I'm pretty sure that's procedure at lots of sites, someone warning about uncleared personnel so people have a chance to clean their desks and lock their screens.
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Jul 14, 2017 11:14
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ultramiraculous posted:is it the nsa or some other three-letter agency whose procedure for escorted guests involved some sort of an alert to your presence? i know my mom has mentioned having to be followed around with a flashing light or something so the spooks would know to shut up when she left the conference room to pee. some areas at british mic companies are like that - you get followed around by someone literally holding a stick with "UNCLEARED" written on it
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Jul 14, 2017 12:31
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my bitter bi rival posted:The web key is only “readable” and therefore there is no risk of virus transmission. the USB firmware doesn't handle DFU_DNLOAD? where did you read that?
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Jul 14, 2017 12:46
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Cybernetic Vermin posted:i imagine you'd be doing pretty well if you merely find yourself in a situation where that becomes a question eh, if you're just caught on the surface streets you'd probably get a stern yelling at by base police but not actually arrested unless they catch you trying to get into some of the buildings. all the actual sensitive stuff is behind its own secondary security systems and the REALLY sensitive stuff (like where they do the checkout of satellites, where they keep all the explody things, etc) is behind much stronger protection. once on bring your kid to work day my dad took me to the (outer fence of the) building where they got the upper bits of the Delta II ready to go and since it had both explody things and the possibility of spy satellites it had this very fancy multi-layer perimeter fence that i made the mistake of leaning on and within 20 seconds a grumpy guard came out and was like "hey kid don't touch the fence it makes my alarms beep real loud"
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Jul 14, 2017 13:11
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Cocoa Crispies posted:I'm pretty sure that's procedure at lots of sites, someone warning about uncleared personnel so people have a chance to clean their desks and lock their screens. This is ideally what should happen, but at my old job the same people over and over again just brought visitors in unannounced, leading to a scramble to hide paperwork and an office full of engineers sat in front of locked workstations, glaring at the tour leader. The best tour was when someone who really should have known better opened the door to the "ITAR stuff inside, no uncleared people, seriously" room (which was a glass-walled meeting room with paper taped over the windows).
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Jul 14, 2017 13:18
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jammyozzy posted:(which was a glass-walled meeting room with paper taped over the windows).
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Jul 14, 2017 13:23
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Subjunctive posted:the USB firmware doesn't handle DFU_DNLOAD? where did you read that? 1st list last item in the original link
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Jul 14, 2017 13:59
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my bitter bi rival posted:1st list last item in the original link ah, quite
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gonna get a batch of those going that takes people to lastmeasure
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