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maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
seriously how does a magnet lose its magnetness

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maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

curufinor posted:

ferromagnetization is a phase, like solid or liquid phases in water
actually physicists study ideal magnetization when they want to study phase transitions w/o actually studying real stuff (spin glasses, ising model, etc)

the metal goes away from the phase to the other phase
heat helps the process along

so maybe being inside a 98.6° human is bad for the magnets? 🤔

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

ate all the Oreos posted:

so is "break room market" some kind of fancy dressed up investor storytime version of "vending machine"

picture the Togo meals from Suckerberg's cafeteria but you have to pay for them

it's basically the wall of refrigerated sandwiches from 7/11

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

goddamnedtwisto posted:

By the sound of it the chip is just one of the RFID ones you put in your pet. Iirc the newer ones are clone proof, more or less, so there's no real security problem here, just every other loving thing with the idea is terrible.

does getting an infection from a piece of metal rubbing around count?

if a tiny hair in my taint can cause so many problems I can't see why metal couldn't also

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
people often use pet names as passwords, which is bad due to low entropy

the obvious solution is to name your pet a long string consisting of uppercase letters, lowercase letters, numbers, and symbols

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

duTrieux. posted:

they aren't confusing explosives with books so much as it is that a solid block of tree-meat is kind of hard to scan through

apparently they show up as the same density as some types of explosives

so they pull you aside, go in your bag, see it's a book

this slows down the security line a solid 30s. multiply that my hundreds of nerds, and it can really back things up

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

rjmccall posted:

they're saying you can't check them, not that you can't carry them on

what, that's stupid. it's got to be better to search down in the bowels of the airport than to hold up the security line.

worst case, a plane can fly w/o cargo but if a person is held up welp

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Subjunctive posted:

and it doesn't really inconvenience anyone other than the TSA, so where's the fun in that

speaking of inconveniencing the tsa, i always opt out of the pornoscanners

they always get this deer in the headlights look like "oh god is he going to whip out his camera phone and yelling about being detained"

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:

huh. that's weird, you'd think they'd have a hard time not smiling while they warm up the taser

i have yet to be tazed bro

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

mrmcd posted:

Get Global Entry. It comes with PreCheck which means you get to skip the pornoscanner, and go through the super fast line where you keep shoes on and don't unpack all your electronic poo poo. Also super fast through passport and customs coming back on international trips.

I mean sure it's hosed that the government is basically asking for a bribe to treat you with basic human dignity.. but like $20/yr to sail through... Cheap bribe.

yeah, i'm not going to both give up a bunch of my personal info + sit down with some govt lackey to probe my private life AND pay for the "privilege"

[mcnulty intensifies]

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Lain Iwakura posted:

i have nexus which is global entry for us canadians

i prefer it over having to deal with bullshit questions

last time i went to ottawa the guy was literally like "how long" and i was like "3 nights" and he's like "work" and i was like "yup" and he handed me back my passport. this is a big step up from pre-9/11, when the americans used to get annoyed at the lines coming back from niagara falls so the us border dudes would just start waving anyone with us plates through

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
i look forward to a future where we are sedated, stripped naked, and stacked like cordwood when flying

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Bhodi posted:

the entirety of DC and outer suburbs is under a permanent circular 40 mile diameter no fly zone "Special Security Reasons Area A, FRZ C", if you're a drone fan and want to play around near this city you get to hack some firmware

the best is it technically applies indoors. gala someone i know was organizing wanted to fly a drone around one of the larger hotels taking pics and one of the staff attorneys was like yeahhh thats... not allowed

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
so I'm at Defcon.

got decent 4g coverage for first time this weekend so doing a little shitposting

AMA about using my phone at def con

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

duz posted:

how did they manage to find projectors that only work with windows?

casinos love windows, especially xp, especially in kiosks lmao

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Jabor posted:

actual 4g coverage, or is someone there running a stingray?

my vpn tunnels all data including 4g so suck it FBI

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
https://twitter.com/ur_ninja/status/891833262502420480

ok NOW don't bring your phone to Defcon

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

FCKGW posted:

dudes on the strip hand out cards for hookers or strip shows or whatever. they smack the cards together to snap them while in their hands, making a clicking sound to get your attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjIQmQ0k534

I've always wondered if they get paid by the hour or by how many cards they hand out, kinda like how farm workers get paid by the harvest.

couldn't they just throw out the cards?

also, bingo:

https://twitter.com/shanerice/status/892042404907425794

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

ymgve posted:

isnt the scam that if you are dumb enough to call one of those numbers, you will get a visit from a girl, but she won't do anything sexual, just hang around

one could even say she simply escorts you

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

CommunistPancake posted:

i too read catcher in the rye

leaving las vegas is basically catcher 2.0

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

Both seem like fun, viable possibilities in this situation regardless of them being the ones who installed the tap in my house. Is this something I can run through the FCC?

If you think something is amiss, reporting to the FCC is a good call. It is my understanding that reprisal for reporting them to the FCC would be some sort of crime or tort. (Not a lawyer)

Generic expressions of "hey this company sucks" can probably be met with "ok lol bye", to put it all legalesey.

This copying?

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

BangersInMyKnickers posted:

Might as well keep the secret service busy with something besides our lovely president

they probably log the domain and point their meager resources at whatever is generating the most complaints so... mildly

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
https://twitter.com/motherboard/status/892822308762644485

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Powaqoatse posted:

username/post combo, ya weirdo

I'm not a furry I just really like Tor

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
in quebec, if you can see the abs it's haram

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

mrmcd posted:

I am going to Montreal for a conference on Saturday. How many giant blinged out crosses and stars should I wear to annoy as many French Canadians as possible?

an american passport and DL will be more than sufficient

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

The_Franz posted:

jfc what kind of hosed up canadian bullshit is this?

oh man saving this for the next time some poutine lover insults our great land

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

exploded mummy posted:

didn't the feds shut down alpha bay last month

then they shut down some other one that everyone moved over to

and then a bitcoin money laundering service

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
i use algo, works decent on ios/osx"macOS", i think it takes some more effort than openvpn in linux though

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

mrmcd posted:

It's pretty much impossible to get phishing responses to zero. Even for people who work in security, or send phishing attempts literally an hour after anti-phishing awareness training. Doing these kind of white hat phishing tests and then shaming the people who fail is pointless, aside from curiosity about your population's baseline response rate.

Second factor auth requirements and other multilayered protections are much more effective than shaming people.

shaming is bad, but if you use it as a teachable moment (hey this could have been malicious, here's some tips on how you can identify bogus emails in the future) it can be a Good Thing

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
"UK model kidnapped by Polish national who reportedly planned to auction woman on dark web"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/aug/05/uk-model-kidnapped-and-held-captive-in-italy-for-six-days

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
i think john mcafee is the real hacker

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
t-ho's breakfast sammies are pretty decent

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

I remember reading somewhere about an 0 day in Ethereal (or maybe shortly after name switch to wireshark) that allowed RCE if you sniffed a bad packet. Glad to see the concept has been expanded on!

(If anyone has a source on that I looked a little but can't find anything - IIRC it dropped shortly before Defcon and some people didn't patch and were owned for trying to sniff the network)

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Schadenboner posted:

Oh that. Were there lovely mal-ads on their white list or was it more of a philosophical thing?

i'm guessing both? also interested in this

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

JewKiller 3000 posted:

it has also given us the last 20 years of the web for free

you just didn't pay with cash

also we're on a pay forum, talking about how w/o ads we can't have nice things? lmao

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

ate all the Oreos posted:

is there any VPN provider that's not secretly horrible

like I don't mean "suggest me which vpn provider you like!!!" I mean are any of them capable of actually proving they're not horrible in some meaningful way

i rolled my own algo server and host it on digital ocean... i'm guessing that's reasonably private?

edit: or you can go full wikileaks and just do everything on tor

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Xenoveritas posted:

So it turns out that Firefox has decided that they want to do "staged rollouts" of their updates, slowly letting more and more people access them over several weeks.

Problem: this includes security updates.

Firefox won't let me install Firefox 55 despite the fact that it fixes 5 critical security flaws. You can't force the update. You can't just install the latest version since it's already installed and they use a "stub installer" that downloads the rest. Your only option is to uninstall the entire thing and install from scratch, just to get security updates.

:eyepop:

maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004
i have to restart firefox to update and i set it to clear cookies on restart so i don't want to... too many 2fs

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maskenfreiheit
Dec 30, 2004

Carbon dioxide posted:

I didn't spread it further because I am certain the yospos Actual Cecurity Experts (ACEs) will take care of it and march angrily to the twitters and grab some Mozilla devs by the neck until they fix it.

I'm guessing there's more than a few Mozillians in YOSPOS.

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