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00:19
That thing was a piece of shit. Also weighed a metric asstonne.
00:58
are we talking about @Simon's mom?
Not specifically, but apparently so.
01:42
@AviD pls
@DavidFreitag lifehacker.com/…
02:09
@Simon yeah I have a few like that. I use altoids tins though
@TildalWave What? How is Python hipster? Hipster would be something like clojure!
Or Go.
02:28
@TildalWave For the record, this is what my office life is like too. =D
 
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04:19
Is anyone aware of a source for IETF RFCs in PDF format?
Oooh, nvm. It's right there.
05:13
@Xander Someone needs to get that published in hakin9.
 
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06:48
@TerryChia You want a plain text document in PDF format? Uh... why?
@tylerl Kindle.
Technically It's in the 1970's equivalent of PDF -- text is laid out and formatted using special encoding understood by the printers of the day (i.e. ASCII)
 
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08:14
@ScottPack Go is not hipster at all. Hipster is when the the language uses names from at least 90% of the animal kingdom to name elements in its semantic tree.
awriight, time to carpe the mothereffin' diem.
Seize the fish.
 
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09:52
@AviD got the perfect song for that:
oh of course
its already been in my head
but thanks!
also just made the perfect coffee for it.
remember the episode of Archer where he meets kenny loggins?
Am I the only one annoyed by Google's habit of putting different language libraries in the same repository? Uggggh.
@AviD yea, so epic xD
@TerryChia - yes, maybe :-)
@AviD definitely seize the fish!
@LucasKauffman oh this one is good too:
Hmm. Never realized this, but Archer was right. Kenny Loggins should be revered.
10:02
ooooooooooow
I didnt know that was by kenny loggins
I think there was just something about the 80's.
music was all cheesy for sure, but still so carpediemable.
Hmmmm - at least by the late eighties some of the glam metal bands got good.
yeah. though some of those were good even before that
Not sure if Kenny Loggins counts as anything but easily digestible pop though
:-)
10:11
eg AC/DC
@RoryAlsop DANGER ZONE
Oh, yeah - they did a couple of glam inspired videos but luckily reverted to their standard fare
@RoryAlsop tis the carpe diem theme song
Lol. It just reminds me of Tom Cruise though
And terrible flying
ha! that part is true
I think more of the real star of that movie
Iceman
aka Batman
I did persuade my dad (ex Navy fighter pilot) to watch it with me at the cinema. He does think Top Gun was a farce
Iceman was cool
10:13
@RoryAlsop It's beyond annoying that to get at the Python library I have to checkout the Go, Java and C++ versions as well.
@RoryAlsop the dialogue barely even makes sense
well, except for the bird part
But is easily memorable - so as a drinking film it works fine
nice
defnitely the better version
10:26
Hahaha - not seen that
Was I being a bit harsh here:
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Q: Is it possible to model the hosts in an enterprise?

berkayMy goal emerges modelling hosts in an enterprise, so what I mean by modelling ? I want to come up with some features and create my scripts to observe user behaviors, as an example I can say that in one minute time interval the number of outgoing connections from my hosts is X (max or maybe mean...

not at all. I was considering hammering as unclear, anyway.
10:38
@LucasKauffman yaknow what else is great for carpeing?
@RoryAlsop how come Capaldi doesnt have a theme song yet?
Is it because he's Scottish?
And noone wants to hear bagpipes, I guess...
10:50
@AviD Don't forget the ridiculous hair and obsession with dancing. I blame footloose
I'll be honest though which do you prefer: 1) the 80s, where everyone sang in power ballad form, or 2) the 90s, which largely consisted of boybands.
The seventies....
@RoryAlsop Brutally harsh! You didn't even start with an apology!! Next time, at least include an IANAC (I am not a Canadian) disclosure, you brute! :D
:-)
@AviD - do the others have a theme song?
@AviD nice
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ Not Grease?
11:01
@TildalWave Maybe that as well
that's why I exclusively listened to punk in the 80's and onwards, that scene ignored all of that campness of the 80's - 90's pop scene or at least (relatively successfully) ridiculed it
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ the 90s consisted mainly of boybands??
the 90s were the peak of grunge. Which is still one of the superior forms of musical artistry.
@AviD and girl groups
@RoryAlsop yes, they all do.
well, not song per se, but tune.
@AviD New Kids On The Block, Salt-N-Pepa,...
11:07
so just "theme" I guess.
@AviD Oh I know, but I'm thinking every day radio play. The 90s also had Metallica and Nirvana
Is today old people day in The DMZ?
@TildalWave that was in the 70s
and Rage against the Machine
18 mins ago, by Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ
@AviD Don't forget the ridiculous hair and obsession with dancing. I blame footloose
in reply to that
and yes Grease was a lot earlier movie
11:09
@TerryChia ohhh I remember when Old People Day was done right. Not like today. Todays kids just have no respect for their elders.
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@TildalWave yeah, and anyway they were mocking the '50's. So not sure how direct that applies to the 80's.
@AviD your mom mocks the 50's
@TildalWave well, she was in her teens in the 50's (and 60's) so that's kind of her scene.
then again, same could be said for me and the 80's, and I freely mock those.
Anyone ever catch That '80's Show?
only lasted a season or two.
a few eps
nowhere near as funny as That 70's Show. But great mockery of '80s was had.
I'm not really entitled to mock the 80s as I hadn't really mastered things like walking when they ended
11:17
interestingly, we had the '80's through most of the '90's.
back then it was like a 3rd world country, it took everything a long time to show up.
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ huh. Interesting Unicodes you have there :-)
@RoryAlsop check this for example:
easy to compare there.
also, all the main characters have their own theme, too - companions, River, etc.
actually very well done, artistically - the music sets the stage and the mood. Once you notice it, it is very noticable - and then you realize it was working even before you noticed it.
11:45
I need to listen at some point then - I hadn't noticed
Not able to listen here - am at yet another swimming competition.
@RoryAlsop I take it yer lads not competing today though?
how is he?
12:12
@AviD I stole the idea from @RоryMcCune
It's the new leet way to be a haxor
12:27
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ I thought all you had to do was throw some javascript on your webserver.
shouldn't you rewrite your keyboard to substitute each character with extended unicode one?
I mean to be really leet
@TildalWave Probably. But I actually couldn't find extended unicode chars for all the letters
there's sites for that
true
there's sites for everything
s/sites/apps/
seriously you guys
12:30
obviously I wasn't thinking of appless sites :P
@AviD Sorry. All this 90s talk I was looking for a site on geocities
heh
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ <marquee>
@TerryChia thass all you got??
Look like its gonna be a week to remember, with heavy snowfall for most of UK Wednesday night! :D #uksnow #snowday http://t.co/9PhdP7zFLW
12:37
<blink><marquee> FTW
what do they mean with "heavy snow" in the context of UK?
@AviD <blink>@Simon</blink>
this answers it ... apparently, heavy snow means "up to 2 centimeters"
@TildalWave anything falling from the sky that is white, no matter how long it persists when it hits the ground
the appearance of "heavy snow" in the UK implies that:
1) All trains will be late or cancelled
2) All schools will shut
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ so by "heavy" they mean ... "heavy enough to fall down"?
12:41
@TildalWave Yes
@TildalWave funny, thats what @Simon means most of the time too.
3) People will panic buy
so business as usual
@AviD That's a little generous don't you think?
12:41
well, I'd put it like this
If you, a budding terrorist, want to inspire fear in the hearts of the UK and bring the country to a standstill, you don't need a 0-day impacting critical national infrastructure or bio warfare things or whatever the threat-du-jour is. Oh no. What you need is a giant snow machine somewhere off the west coast, aimed squarely at the midlands.
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ "What you need is a giant snow machine somewhere off the west coast, aimed squarely at the midlands." That actually sounds kinda James Bond villainish.
Nothing and I mean nothing, not even KASLR-bypassing exploits with SHA256 collisions able to persist in Macbook firmware and control scada interfaces, is more effective than snow.
@TerryChia It's exactly this scenario for which we invented MI6.
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yeah. I always say that the massive traffic jams here every day, and especially after a bit of rain, MUST be the work of some nefarious villian.
it costs the country WAY too much money to not be a conspiracy.
@AviD Indeed. The only possible action we can take is to ban snow.
the truth is actually so much scarier: no one is actually responsible.
12:49
And all sub-zero forms of water, just in case. Terrorists will have nothing to freeze. We'll shine a heat wave into the cold places where terrorists hide.
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ out last lot of snow just smegged off today although there's still quite a bit about on the hills
@AviD Outrageous. I'm afraid American fridge manufacturers and snow machine makers really need to help the security services find and capture terrorists using their machines.
@RоryMcCune yaknow... now that you explained the precise meaning of that - it sounds a whole lot less appropriate here.
@AviD explained what,snow? it's that white stuff that comes out of the sky in colder countries
@RоryMcCune now I'm thinking of a giant cat smegging all over that mountain.
12:54
@AviD oh smeg, well the actual definition is a lot worse than the colloquial usage :)
@RоryMcCune yes, that.
@AviD I always thought smeg was from red dwarf, any four letter swearword
most people in the UK who use the word have just watched red dwarf a lot
@RоryMcCune Yeah that
exactly
12:55
@AviD I mean they actually published DVDs of Red dwarf "smeg ups"
so it's not really a swear word at all
and there are legit companies by that name.
yeah
@RоryMcCune Where I am (an undisclosed location on the european continent) it has snowed twice this week and nobody seems to care much
stuff still happens
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yeah people out Argyll way seem to take it a bit easier as well oddly, although we got more of it than the central belt...
@RоryMcCune I always imagined Scotland was more ready for it, given if it's going to snow in the UK...
13:02
heh
Pretty interesting detail on Win 8.1: alex-ionescu.com/?p=246
@TerryChia one of the coolest bits in that scene is very meta - Tony keeps eating all those snacks, but that wasnt in the script. they keep trying to get rid of all the food, and IRL the director kept trying to get rid of all the foods - but RDJ kept hiding it all over the place, so eventually they just gave up and let him eat on film.
@AviD Heh. Link to that? That's a new bit of trivia for me.
oof cant believe youre making me go looking for that crap...
ah wait, I think its in here:
@AviD Awesome! :)
13:12
@TerryChia you're watching that whole series now, arent you ;-)
@AviD I will be. Dammit man!
hahaha
@RоryMcCune @Iszi we've found @TerryChia's weakness :-)
@AviD everyone has a weakness on youtube
@AviD Unlike you guys, I am young. I have time to burn.
Looks like it's just us hipsters here at the moment so we can safely discuss dockerfile configurations
13:14
ftr I think docker is awesome.
its hard enough to set up a linux system, so this makes it easier to set it up once and copy it to many machines.
@AviD I think containers are awesome. Docker not so much.
@AviD yeah I'm just looking at it a bit at the moment, could be v. handy for automatic pen test build creation
Good 1.0 effort though.
@RоryMcCune wouldnt you be better off just cloning a VHD directly?
I had to mess with it when I was setting up a Discourse instance.
@AviD well the problem with a cloned HDD is that it gets out of date
13:16
then when I set it up manually I saw how much time and effort it saves.
if you pull current version tools as part of the build
it avoids the problem of having to go back and update the "gold image" regularly
@RоryMcCune update and reclone
@RоryMcCune ah I see your point
so a scripted install can be handy. I'd done some stuff with sprinkle github.com/raesene/Laptop_Setup_Script/blob/master/… but thinking that combining that with docker could be cool
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wot? no nuclear winter for this guy?
13:43
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ Just place cloud ionization system along your west coast. None would fall on UK and even heavier snow in Germany. It's a win win scenario :)
Of course, if it doesn't work quite as expected, you're back to the complete fuckup of Project Cumulus in the 50's
Alternatively, ask US to tune that HAARP to play anything from the Joy Division's Closer album :)
14:25
@TildalWave UKIP approve of your policy, especially if it means more snow for Europe.
Can't believe we actually seriously experimented with weather control
sure, why not? In Red Alert that was the killer weapon.
@AviD if we go by that logic shouldn't we also have sonic dolphins?
14:40
oo yeah dolphins.
we should get on that.
Dear Scientists, It's 2014 and lightsabers still haven't been invented. Please get to work. Sincerely, Everybody
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ who said you don't still?
@TildalWave We've moved on. To mind control.
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ We scientists have invented lightsabers but their use wasn't yet approved for Star Wars fans. :P
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ ah so from we used to control weather to we now control how you feel about it instead?
probably much more effective too
14:59
> My wish is your command.
15:22
so here's an interesting (well for a certain definition of the word) question
.Govs certify softtware for use in gov office and depts
they also now certify cloud service
but how do you certify a cloud service, when it changes all the time
given that the certification process is a point in time view
(I know that wasn't actually interesting really)
@RоryMcCune the answer is... G-Cloud. gov.uk/how-to-use-cloudstore
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ that's exactly what I was thinking about. They certify cloud services but the service changes after the certification date... is it still certified?
or how much does it have to change before it stops being certified
@RоryMcCune Yep because the obligation to be part of G-cloud is to continuously update your documentation
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yah but the certification docs don't get updated v.often (for example one I just looked at was 2013)
@RоryMcCune I guess the questions are designed to ask the usual things you'd want to ask about any service like this: not just is it secure right now but do they have policies and procedures for keeping their infrastructure up to date
I'm guessing that's part of the documentation you submit
I mean it's only the same say as security clearance. That only says you were trustworthy when you got the clearance. You can become a security risk before your next review, or whatever.
By bounding it, you control how long a particular risk goes un-noticed
same I guess with infra
15:30
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yeah well for lower levels that prob. more of a problem than the upper ones as it's not that often it expires...
@RоryMcCune But the lower levels of information are also by definition much less risky
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ I was thinking more that the certification looks at service "a" and "b" that are part of the overall piece. then after cert. date the supplier adds "c" and "d" under the same umbrella
are "c" and "d" certified or not?
@RоryMcCune I guess not, although it depends on the scope of a,b,c,d
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ you'd hope. having heard about what the higher levels involve, I don't think I could be bothered going through it. in Pentesting having that clearance generally involves lots of work in bunkers which I'm not a fan of :)
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yeah it's interesting tho' as cloud providers add new bits to services all the time, so that's what prompted my thinking about it. the cert. model was designed for a relatively static target (packaged software) and is now applied to a very dynamic target (cloud services)
@RоryMcCune Yep indeed. I guess the edges are a bit blurred, but I'd say if for example I know you build server images to a certain spec I might "clear" you to supply those with certain services, say http and sftp
but then you decide actually you want to run a sip server
15:34
@TerryChia pls
I might then ask okay well, we're going to need to look at that again
@AviD pls
@Simon pls
I guess it depends how much complexity gets added
pls
15:35
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ indeed in an ideal world you'd hope that people were taking a pragmatic view of it, I have a feeling though that people perhaps are trying not to think about it too hard (that said the uk gov digital mob are pretty up on their tech so perhaps they are)
@Simon so when was it you got into Oracle dev stuff?
@RоryMcCune depends which bit of the UK gov, whether it's the "digital" people from the cabinet office or elsewhere
They seem pretty good to me
I mean gov.uk is really good, for example
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yeah some of their stuff and talks I've heard from they are pretty cool
decent use of Agile and modern tech
@RоryMcCune wat
I wouldn't give the same recommendation to some other places I may or may not have experience of.
@RоryMcCune @Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ as I understand it, besides the policies and procedures - which play a huge part here - the big clouds have special "compliant" offerings. So I assume they are commited to not change it substantially without recertification.
15:38
@Simon PLS is an acronym commonly used in the Oracle world to denote PL/SQL . I was suggesting obliquely that your impreciation of "pls" actually referred to said sobriquet
but you can look at it more like the PA-DSS instead of PCI-DSS - the compliance part is on them, as long as you use their service as directed.
@RоryMcCune That would imply that I know something about development.
@AviD ... d'ya reckon? that would be .. interesting.. if that's the case
@Simon phhhhbt
@RоryMcCune apparently its also a proprietary monitor technology similar to IPS.
@RоryMcCune that was my understanding, when I looked at AWS and Azure's complianceability a while back.
@RоryMcCune I'd say it sounds pretty plausible, also. And of course, this is up to Official. So, basically, not much of interest.
15:39
didnt go in to deep detail, as it was suggested as a black box
within scope of "usage as directed"
I thought you liked to go deep.
you would hope, wouldnt you.
ew
@AviD All the interesting stuff gets handed to Cabinet Office ministers to leave on trains.
and of course connected to a global network of four other countries' intel agencies so one person can wget the whole lot.
but dont worry, one country has made it illegal. So you can be sure that the bad guys throughout the world would never do anything like that.
15:48
Wow, there are quite a few providers on the "digital marketplace"
I think @Avi might be right here, they're just providing the "compute", "store" type services. I guess it is exactly like the AWS gov compliant versions
16:02
> Formally accredited Public Cloud (formerly Impact Level 33x) or Private Cloud
services will be subject to a full HMG accreditation and will be hosted within the UK
I don't know what "full HMG accreditation" actually entails
but that's your answer for G-cloud
16:16
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ aha indeed from that "The results will reflect a service at a particular moment in time; as a service evolves, it will need to be regularly re-tested."
in relation to pen testing
the the key word is "regularly"
@RоryMcCune Sounds perfect for pen tester job security ;) :D
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ the whole compliance arena is. Look at PCI-DSS, mandates annual "pen testing"
@RоryMcCune In fairness, when one apt-get upgrade can alter your config and undo hardening, it's not entirely without merit
without really specifying to any depth what level the pentesting needs to be.
hence the popping market for running nessus.
@AviD and therein lies part of the problem.
16:19
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ that is a marketing excuse.
that could happen just as easily the day after pentesting. so quarterly pentesting would help not at all.
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ indeed though for me external pen testing which is inevitably not going to happen too frequently, should be adjunct to more frequent internal reviews...
if you really cared, thats where policies + access control + auditing comes in.
@RоryMcCune except the internal reviews are always longer and more expensive...
@AviD My point was more that, if you left the situation, it could easily degrade. By repeatedly verifying, in theory, you get an assurance that you don't have any issues.
@AviD well per day costs should obv. be less for internal review, so if they're overall more expensive, it would imply you're giving the internal people more days to achieve the goal....
In theory
@RоryMcCune Should... :)
16:21
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ yeah indeed
@RоryMcCune ohh you're talking about internal personnel? as opposed to outside consultants that come onsite to do an internal review.
@AviD yarr really co's should have internal testers who can be engaged more regularly and easily :)
well big co's anyway
yeah, that is something different than what I thought you meant.
although internal reviews by external people are also necessary...
though very often the testers purpose is solely compliance, in which case they need to be 3rd party anyway....
anyway, aside from the fact that testing does need to be done often, the issue of apt-get isnt really solvable by testing.
its monitoring, blocking access, clear enforcable policies, and of course, personnel you can actually trust.
Hopefully.
16:25
@AviD oh indeed compliance however would (you hope) come after the security so, the external people are just validating what the internal people already did :)
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A: Does PCI compliance really reduce risk and improve security?

AviDAnother good question, but perhaps you should phrase it "Does PCI harm security". To answer both questions, I would differentiate very roughly between two types of organizations (even though most fall in between these two extremes): Security-conscious organizations, that routinely perform b...

;-)
@AviD huh I missed that one when it went by, well stated I'll use that line in future :)
> ... So I hereby proclaim AviD's Law of Compliance: "PCI compliance reduces the risk of the penalties of non-compliance"
Wonderful :D
basically in many of these big orgs compliance is actually an excuse to NOT do proper security
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ thanka thanka
@AviD unfortunately true
16:31
but but but they're compliant!
To a security standard
so, => secure!
I actually know a consulting company named SoSecure
Look we have a bit of paper that says so
was sure it was a joke at first. It's not.
 
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18:34
@RоryMcCune That's brilliant
The Knights Tiplar. Love it
ha! fantastic.
nah, thats abuse
maybe after a couple of drinks
@AviD Not quite 2
Any more than not quite 2 and everything goes to hell
@Nוnɛfוngɛrϛ hehehe
a man with access to moderator powers should never get a bit fighty
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18:47
@AviD looks out across nuclear desolation
David Mitchell is very funny
@AviD You tit. We might as well get shitfaced now.
Is that from That Mitchell And Webb Look or some different series? I know they had a few of those together, but didn't watch all.
@TildalWave Yep
Got a feeling I saw it before actually a while ago.
19:04
hehehe didn't see this one before either :)
damnit where are all the moon landing naysayers when you need one?
 
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21:40
What is it with all the recommendation questions in the close queue? Many of these are perfectly fine.
This isn't SU, we don't ban anything that looks vaguely like it's asking to recommend a tool
No idea but this is now about the third day in a row that someone's flagging all of those as off topic. I agree, not all of them should be closed, tho I did add my vote to some for various reasons (mostly if they're too broad or just the whole thread stalled / out of date).
 
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23:08
@Gilles somebody did that on arqade too, I voted to close them all
23:28
You're a vote.
yes, I am a walking, talking vote
Does that mean that you can make a change?
23:50
I'm gonna make a change, for once in my life
gonna feel real good, gonna make a difference
Which is?

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