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Terry Chia

11:00

> My other cousin Coskun has many hacker friends in Iran, and they've assured him they wouldn't engage in their national sport of using foreign CAs to issue them Google certificates if I was accepted as a CA.

Scott Pack

@tylerl I would like to report that my sojourn to the land of comforters and pillows was a rousing success.

AviD

wouldnt the rousing part come only at the end, after the success was complete?

Scott Pack

Which unfortunately came much earlier than preferred.

AviD

@ScottPack TWSS.

Scott Pack

Indeed.

Terry Chia

11:22

@AviD This guy doesn't learn... security.stackexchange.com/questions/43876/gateway-security

Rory Alsop

11:34

mmm - wonder if he needs a little suspension timeout

Scott Pack

Terry? Probably.

Rory Alsop

hahaha

Scott Pack

This is an interesting read.

lifehacker.com/…

Terry Chia

@ScottPack Oh definitely. I could do with some productive time.

Scott Pack

Some of it should be a no-brainer, like the whole, "Eating fat doesn't make you fat. Eating too many calories makes you fat."

Rory Alsop

11:45

it is good to see scientists agreeing with me again @Scott :-)

Scott Pack

@RoryAlsop No doubt. I can't tell you how many times I've had that conversation with family.

Rory Alsop

iyup - this page is being bookmarked for sending to various family members:-)

Scott Pack

The calorie/fat burn rate was also interesting. The 2000-5000 actual range is pretty stinking broad.

Rory Alsop

to amuse me during conference calls, I have been deleting closed questions with a score of -5 or worse. Quite cathartic - especially when I gub the really bad ones

Scott Pack

I'll bet

Terry Chia

11:47

@RoryAlsop Make sure you don't delete anything I answered. :)

Scott Pack

I wonder why the Office update wants me to close Firefox

AviD

@RoryAlsop you should post a screenshot of them here, first. They are usually entertaining.

@TerryChia @RoryAlsop actually thats a good point - even a single good answer should save a bad question.

Rory Alsop

I have already had to skip over some good ones, yes

Scott Pack

@AviD Should be able to save. Sometimes even the best answer can't overcome that deficit.

Rory Alsop

and this one was amusing - well, the comments were:

-5

Q: White Hat Communities

I've been searching Google for a bit and I'm having difficulty finding credible White Hat forums. For example, when one wants to discuss bitcoin they go to bitcointalk, is there a white hat equivalent? Edit: My goal is to assemble an appendix of communities that an individual learning about c...

career

Scott Pack

11:49

Oh yeah, I remember that. Good times.

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop heh

Wait, @Simon has been with us since July? Damn time flies when you are busy making fun of him.

Rory Alsop

so, @Terry - the lowest scoring question has one answer...by you... The question has a score of -10. Your answer has a score of +5, but I'm not sure it is enough to save the question...

-10

Q: Can a cracked antivrus software do the job?

Some of my friends say that their cracked antivirus software updates regularly, and does the job as same as a legitimate software would do. Is this possible? How do they bypass the activation key checker, and do that?

authentication antivirus software cracking

AviD

@RoryAlsop @TerryChia Cracked has an anti-virus now...? I bet it's funny, at least.

Terry Chia

@RoryAlsop But but but... my 50 rep. :(

AviD

@TerryChia heh, @Adnan will be happy.

@TerryChia and, its 60.

oh! @TerryChia congrats on moving up a row!

@RoryAlsop actually I think his answer makes a hell of a point, and as crap as the question is, IMO the answer makes the question worth hanging around.

perhaps the question should be edited into something useful...?

@TerryChia There is one big glaring issue of wrongness in your answer.

Rory Alsop

11:57

It is a good answer...maybe you're right. @Terry - want to update the question to make your answer even more awesome

AviD

"Can a cracked antivirus perform it's job? Yes, most definitely." Seriously? I would phrase that first as "Can any UNcracked antivirus perform it's job?" with a resounding "NO, of course not".

Terry Chia

@AviD Heh. Well, wouldn't that depend on what you define as the job of an antivirus?

AviD

fair enough. But we can agree that it doesnt do what most people expect it to.

Terry Chia

@AviD @RoryAlsop With regards to editing it, I can't see how else the question can be edited besides removing the anti-virus part and just focusing on whether a cracked piece of software can do the job it's originally meant to.

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