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This question might be useful to Joe User, but definitely (IMHO) isn't SE professional quality. Trying to decide if it balances out to a null vote, or if the latter bit is strong enough to earn my down-vote. (Even though it did get an answer out of me.)
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Q: What's the point of rejecting a cookie?

warl0ckWhen you access a website, lynx provide the option to reject a cookie, what's the point of doing so? All I thought about is that if you don't accept a cookie, you cookie won't be stolen during a XSS attack, is that everything?

 
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07:23
good now, everyone
@AviD your mom
Cmon, people WAKE UP! Quadriginoctuple Frappuccino for everyone!
I feel a little buzzed just from watching that.
 
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09:17
@LucasKauffman Congrats
 
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10:30
@AviD heh - mentions my (ex) senior partner, and his boss :-)
@AviD that is wrong! Just wrong! 48 shots????? Jeeez
@RoryAlsop I think the two bananas is whats wrong.
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@AviD hahahahahahaha
that holds true in so many aspects of life
hehe, wasnt being philosophical or sexual, I just dont like so much banana.
Starring phrase so others can read it out of context and think "WAT??!!"
@Ninefingers always a good idea :)
@Iszi calls it a DAFUQ
10:36
@AviD I think the star feature might have been intended so we can highlight quality insights from our fellow room members. Not sure it worked out quite as they planned...
@Ninefingers I think it fulfils that purpose perfectly :-)
@Ninefingers actually I think it gives an insight into the fellow room members...
pnp
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10:54
Some help needed here--->> Using aMule P2P client with Kad/eDonkey. My Kad 'User ID' is hashed and stored in a .dat file in my system. The ReadMe files tell me that Kad uses some crypto hash to hash the 128 bit 'User ID'. How to find it using the hashed value that i have? And of course, how to know which hashing technique is used ?? Doing a google for the hash value gave nothing :(
@pnp the whole point of a hash is that you shouldn't be able to reverse it to get the original back
hashes are designed to be one way only
you can hash the ID you think it is, and compare that hash to the one you have. If they match then they are the same (excluding collisions)
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@RoryAlsop Yes i know that :) But MD5, SHA1 etc. hash values and their reverses are easily available over the net right?? My question was more in that direction- first finding out which hash function was used, and then doing a look-up for the reverse being available... Can i know which hash function was used by looking at the hash value?
@pnp I remember Backtrack has a tool for identifying hashes. You might wanna look into that.
pnp
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11:10
@TerryChia Thanks, will see.
morning all (afternoon/evening @TerryChia )
today I'm mostly giving thanks for PuTTY :)
port forwarding is very useful sometimes.
check out this question:
http://security.stackexchange.com/q/20119/485
@AviD What did I do?
@LucasKauffman you're part of EY
@RoryAlsop I must admit I read that article and was faintly nauseous at the use of "thought leadership" (I'm not a fan of that phrase)
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11:29
@RoryAlsop hmm..thanks. But i happen to see very wierd values here: �]ohM��7Rm��v&�)^^
And by the way @TerryChia, I tried the Backtrack tool- it couldn't figure out this strange value :)
Probably not a standard hash then.
@RoryMcCune I know what they mean by it, but I agree it isn't my favourite phrase
@RoryMcCune Thought leaders are needed to tell people like me what to do, because I know nothing.
@Ninefingers hahahahaha
But if you know that you know nothing then you know something
@RoryAlsop thank you for your thought leadership, Mr Alsop. I shall now subscribe to your linkedin posts so that I may learn more.
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The only thing I can think of when I hear thought leadership is Bill Bailey's BBC news sketch. "We are the only ones. Listen to us. Not the others." or whatever it is he's screaming at that point.
11:48
@Ninefingers it strikes me as the kind of phrase that Charlie Brooker is likely to make a short film about...
@RoryAlsop Oh yes.
@Ninefingers exactly. I hate that too @RoryMcCune.
it's the exact type of corporate speak that drives me away...
it's actually quite a logical phrase, though. It is based on the assumption that only a small percentage of your workers have thought capabilities, the others have to have someone else do the thinking for them.
While abhorent to me, this state of affairs actually is quite typical at large corporates.
@AviD You'd think corporate types would realize when talking to engineers that it is our job to rationalize the seemingly inexplicable and find a logical explanation for it therefore when you come up with something that is basically waffle, our brains process this and flag up all kinds of "no, not right" warning messages.
Smaller companies can't bother wasting resources on incompetents.
@Ninefingers But that would be irrational, based on previous experience.
They have emipricial data that {subset of engineers that work at those large corporates} complain a lot about it, but eventually do just accept the corporatespeak.
Interestingly, those that protest vehemently enough, eventually self-select out of that subset, removing themselves from the equation, and the corporate-types awareness.
The result is a self-causing prophecy - those that put up with it, are ignored precisely because they put up with it; those that do not, are irrelevant and not considered at all.
@AviD not that you've thought about this at all :op
and not to say I'd disagree with you
12:03
This is solved for the long term; in the short term, there are always those from the 2nd group who do not yet realize it, and mistakenly believe they can affect a change. Long term these eventually either give up, or give in.
@RoryMcCune heh. my hermitedness is based on philosophical thought process.
@RoryMcCune heh, yeah. Will give it another read, in your honour....
I just like it as a model of splitting down people in corporate, it's surprising how well it fits and you can put most people into one of the three camps..
12:32
Have you guys seen this yet? Pretty interesting stuff. intelreport.mandiant.com/Mandiant_APT1_Report.pdf
It even has snark!
> A secret, resourced organization full of mainland Chinese speakers with direct access to Shanghai-based telecommunications infrastructure is engaged in a multi-year, enterprise scale computer espionage campaign right outside of Unit 61398’s gates, performing tasks similar to Unit 61398’s known mission.
12:42
@TerryChia no, but I caught the secreactions.
12:59
slow net today, arp-spoof and wireshark yields an active 'TeamViewer' session on a windows 7 machine...hmm
@lynks You just got pwnzed.
its not my machine :P and i don't have the guys number...
its spewing UDP and TLS traffic though... :(
Gentlemen.
@ScottPack where?
@ScottPack Scott.
13:01
@lynks How much forensics do you intend to perform on the system in question?
@ScottPack I will make precisely one telephone call.
How close is the system to you?
@ScottPack about 4 ft, or 2 network hops.
There's a relatively large black cable somewhere near the back. Locate it, then dislodge from one end or the other.
Containment, bitches. Go get some.
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That should take care of any illicit network traffic for a time.
@ScottPack I would. Our office has a 'bring your own' policy, and this guy runs a business from that machine (we share an office with lots of people), I don't know whether he actually uses teamviewer for real. Also, I'm on a fully updated debian so I'm nice and snug. Unfortunately the CEO is on win7, on the same network segment...
13:05
> fully updated debian
> nice and snug
:)
yea ... I wouldn't trust that thing.
Well if we have a rampant case of windows botnet, i feel quite safe by just being on linux.
So the guy runs his own business from the compruter that he uses as his primary business workstation for another company?
@ScottPack no he just shares our office, he doesn't work for the same company as i do.
13:07
I suggest you take measures to contain it -- or at least throttle it's output.
so that the rest of the network can continue to operate normally.
@lynks but is on same network subnet???
Right.
@RoryAlsop correct, welcome to my nightmare.
You need to contact your IT and/or security office to take care of a clear and present danger to corporate resources.
basically our office LAN is out of scope as far as I'm concerned
13:08
@lynks lucky no-one in the company has anything of value on their computers though, right?
Unless you're an officially designated incident handler you need to pass this up for someone else to decide how to proceed.
@ScottPack we're a small team, I'm the officially designated everything
Port isolation! I've thought for a while now that on client VLANs a v. good idea would be to stop all client-to-client traffic
We have outside agencies doing business on our network. I will, and have, shut them down hard if they exhibit compromised behavior.
would cut down on a lot of potential trouble from infected systems attacking other clients...
13:10
@lynks Excellent! I recommend you enact your incident handling procedures and start containing that badness.
containment/defenestration procedures.
I'll try to contact the guy, if he has never heard of TeamViewer, I will be disconnecting the machine and prodding the CEO until he reformats his own machine.
@lynks just do it, and then make the call.
every single IT asset your company has on that LAN is currently at risk.
and any other company that it has
Yeah, pull the network cable if you'd rather. That's a lot easier for him to recover from.
if they get compromised and find that you would rather spend time chatting then dealing with the issue, it'll be your balls in the vice.
(or other sensitive anatomy, if you don't happen to have balls)
13:12
@Tinned_Tuna I will, but as i said. our company lan is out of scope :P I just treat it like a public network. all our assets are serverside, only my machine has access.
heh ok fine, network cable coming out.
wow that dropped off the net usage.
I would also recommend immediately calling the fellow and then reporting up your chain to an appropriate supervisor. Particularly for a small team where this doesn't happen often, it's been my experience that they like to know these things sooner rather than later.
basically, you've identified a risk, temporarily contained it
now tell people you've dealt with it and ask for their input
@Tinned_Tuna I bet a large amount of money the response is going to be; "oh ok, well I'll have a look when I'm next in" and from the ceo "you should be writing code not unplugging network cables"
Also, keep written, detailed notes of your findings, actions and the reasoning at this point
I haven't read this yet, but I've worked with the advisor. I would be willing to accept his brand on it.
13:16
@lynks That sounds like a terrible place to work in.
@TerryChia it is rather, which is part of the reason i have 2 job applications in progress.
@TerryChia Some time over beers I should tell you about this one place I worked in.
oops, I'm late for a seminar I might be giving
see y'all
@lynks you should get something easily with all your Rails experience ;op
@TerryChia essentially, I'm the only person that is remotely technical, and I'm juniorish. Which means people generally don't listen to me. Nobody here has ever had to deal with an incident, the PCs are filled with rubbish that I have no control over or knowledge of. I just try to make sure everything important lives on the server, and that the server stays safe.
13:25
ever have one of those days when you just don't feel like being creative, or doing any work at all? Just feel like playing games all day...
@AviD About twice a week.
@AviD Sounds like somebody's got a case of the weekdays.
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@ScottPack hehe
@TerryChia PHP would do that to you...
But, honestly no. I combat that feeling by being competent in my job and enjoying success.
@AviD Eh, I'm working with C# now. It's mostly stupid requirements that are pissing me off right now.
13:28
@ScottPack heh, well yeah, usually thats the case. Dont know whats up today.
@AviD That's usually a sign you just need a day off.
In other news, maybe you can help me @AviD. What the hell is a "sad tomato"?
eh, dont really feel that way.
@ScottPack sad tomato? no clue. anything like an angry grape?
@ScottPack A tomato that isn't happy. Duh.
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@AviD I have no idea. Every time I hear 'Crush With Eyeliner' it bothers me.
@RoryMcCune hadn't seen that before. Excellent
The number of the bear??
for it is an ursine number
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13:48
@RoryAlsop heh nice
Bear #2 is really climbing the rep charts as well.
Does there not exist, at any given time, at most 2 ursine primes?
@ScottPack hahahaha
Poly seems pretty inactive lately, I would have expected him to beat you in rep this month eh @RoryAlsop?
The problem with ursine primes is that they are rather difficult to calculate in advance. Nobody has yet discovered their pattern.
@ScottPack well, I'm pretty sure it depends on migratory patterns skewed by global warming (at least when calculating them using polar coordinates)
13:59
Quite.
14:17
@AviD Wow. And I thought I was nuts for having occasionally ordered a venti six-shot drink.
the APT1 report is seriously cool.
@Iszi sad tomato, in person!
I wonder what kind of accident that was. Probably motorcycle.
@Iszi I see a sickle. It's red too. This tomato is a communist.
14:27
@lynks unhappy communist tomato is unhappy
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@AviD Some days I wish "my give-a-shit is broken" was a valid reason to call in.
@Iszi It isn't?.. Damn.
@RoryAlsop It's probably thinking back to its youth when they lived a life of happy privilege. Before the dark times. Before the Lada.
This quote seems Bear-appropriate.
> Canada's special operations unit is like a bear alright -- a stealthy grizzly bear that has mastered modern weapons and can silently kill you in the night (so we guess it's more like a group of highly trained humans, which it is, so just ignore the whole bear thing).
@Iszi well, as I am my own boss, I can say that my boss would probably spank me if I tried that.
besides, this time it wasnt so much about that. I think it was the other way - I wanted to run around doing managerial crap, instead of focusing on productive drawing.
14:43
@AviD Woah now. I don't really want to hear about what you do when left alone in the house all day with no desire to work.
@TerryChia Damn you. Damn you to hell.
@ScottPack hmm. in retrospect it probably would have been safer to say "slap" instead of "spank".
@AviD Slightly.
@AviD Barely
But mostly because that word can also be used to indicate masturbation. Frankly, in the US, almost any word can be used to describe masturbation. It mostly depends on the hearing party and the inflection used.
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@ScottPack hmm... punish? Dammit.
Fire? Dammit.
14:49
@ScottPack Masturbation, or some other sexual acts. For example, your surname could have interesting implications in certain contexts.
Thought-leaderize? Double dammit.
This is an interesting turn in the conversation..
@Iszi Oh man, don't I know it. What's worse? I went to college at at a place called Morehead.
@TerryChia Nah, it's fairly average for this room - you've been around here long enough to know better, too.
14:52
@Iszi Hey, it's still interesting.
@ScottPack I think I have one better. I kid you not, one guy I knew of had the surname Dickshit.
@Iszi That's....terrible.
@Iszi He wouldnt be able to work at Microsoft.
When I was there, I had to deal with the results of a source-code-scanning tool they would use, before releasing a product. The purpose of the tool was to find any offensive or non-PC text anywhere, that could eventually cause embarrasement.
Imagine if his mom was French and he hyphenated. He could be Jean-Luc Pornin-Dickshit.
amongst other things, it scanned the actual code, flagging any words it found to be crude.
14:55
@AviD Interesting choice of QA resource allocation.
We were quite amused at how sick the individual who made the list must have been.
@AviD Are individuals' surnames routinely included in source code from big corps like that? I'm not a programmer, so I wouldn't know.
@Iszi yes, in comments.
there was a Van Dyke that was flagged.
@Iszi yeah all our sources have an @author tag that is parsed into docs.
@AviD I remember that the first place I had a job in IT security used to have a similar thing for e-mails. Any which got a number of "points" from a list got blocked. I ended up having to write a regex to work out why it flagged things like "Don't be to hard on yourself" in e-mails...
14:57
also certain functions that handle linked list structures.
There's gobs of swearing in the linux kernel source code.
like the function that returns the first item in the list....
->GetHead()
@RoryMcCune hehe, exactly.
@ScottPack because its not corporate.
@ScottPack yeah I've come across swearing in man pages from time to time.
@AviD Your attitude is corporate.
@ScottPack Your mom is corporate.
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@Iszi Yea, we have @author, @date and a couple of others automatically put in all of our source code.
@RoryAlsop I've been watching too much Numberphile. I was actually compelled to do a Google/Wiki search so I could find out if "ursine number" was a real thing. It appears not. We should find an interesting numerical property of 666 or 66,600 (or both) and define it.
@ScottPack It's amusing how, in the eyes of Americans, all French people are called Jean-something.
@ThomasPornin I dunno. Jean-Thomas Pornin just doesn't have the same ring.
@ThomasPornin In my defense last like my 4 year old admitted to having a crush in Captain Picard.
So I rather had him on my mind.
Where I come from it is expected that one has a middle name of Lee, or has a hyphenated first name. Usually containing a Lee or Ann.
@ThomasPornin Kind of like Irish names are meant to be O'something and the scots are all McSomething (the scots one is kind of true, is funny when conferences try to put all the M's together and there's a lot of scots...)
15:05
Rory McRoryson?
@RoryMcCune It's really funny that it's so prominent some places have "Mc" sorted separately from the rest of the "M"s in their records.
@Iszi yeah things like this gro-scotland.gov.uk/statistics/theme/vital-events/births/… split out M, Mc and Mac as separate for surnames... apparently Mc is the most common "letter" to start a surname with...
Really liking Linode's customer service. They respond to tickets within minutes.
15:47
anyone like this question?
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Q: SSL connection SSLPeerUnverifiedException

BobansI get this exception javax.net.ssl.SSLPeerUnverifiedException: No peer certificate when I try to connect to server using self signed certificate. public class MyHttpsClient extends DefaultHttpClient { final Context context; public MyHttpsClient(Context context) { this.context = context; } @Ov...

It might be good once edited a bit
ooh - found a dupe on SO
@RoryAlsop It really is an SO question, and a bad one at that.
@TerryChia closed, and pointed him at the SO dupe
I'm trying to be good and ask first before unilaterally closing...most of the time
I always feel a bit bad about it
There are a range of questions in the close queue with 2 votes that I don't want to look at yet. The binding close vote is annoying sometimes
@RoryAlsop Don't lie. You know you like the feeling you get when you use mod powers. ;)
@TerryChia occasionally, sure - especially with certain troublemakers, or folks who really don't take hints
@RoryAlsop Yeah. I wonder why they don't implement an option for non-binding close votes.
Is there a mSO question about it?
15:51
@TerryChia yeah, there have been a couple over the years
no plans to do anything about it apparently
as there are workarounds
like just waiting
or having a non-mod account that is used just for these sorts of things, following rules for sock-puppet behaviour
Ahhh. Maybe they don't consider it a priority since it affects a small number of users.
But it really doesn't seem like such a difficult feature to implement. (At least it seems so without knowing anything about SE's codebase.)
16:06
@RoryA aaaah didn't see the link
Yeeey we did well
@LucasKauffman Is impressive. I was annoyed that EY strategy moved infosec away from Scotland and into Europe, but I guess it has worked for you
@rorya well as long as they don't migrate it from Europe to India I'm happy :p
@LucasKauffman heh - well, India is steadily getting more expensive, so it is a less desirable offshoring centre than it was
A senior manager in India is still a lot cheaper than an assistant one in Europe :p
grr my sql-fu is failing me :(
16:13
@lynks I would love that to be a martial art...
@RoryAlsop Care to share which? I don't see any in my review queue.
@Iszi hmm - can't find any when I go in now. Maybe they got closed already :-)
oh no - here they are:
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Q: how is my router being modified to include WAN port-binding items for Teredo and Spotify

user20874My router's configuration app (browser-interface) has a page for Virtual Server. It has entries I did not create, at least not intentionally using the interface, for Teredo, Skype, Spotify, uTorrent. I have two questions about this: 1) how did these entries get there in the first place? 2) I ...

Is it sad that I feel like most of my awareness of which Amendment in the Bill of Rights protects which right is coming from news coverage of people claiming the government is trying to violate those rights?
My close vote queueueueue is also empty, which says to me that @Iszi and I have already votd on all those.
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Q: Mobile Broadband, e-Fraud & Anonymity Against My Website

LexI was wanting to know if the blend in the title of this post provides e-criminals an open field to explore. What I mean is this: say a fraudster goes and buys a pay-as-go SIM card from a certain Mobile Broadband Network, and tops it up with $10; pays for it with cash - or even, pays someone to g...

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Q: Why is this SSL handshake failing with iPad?

eppesuigI do have a tomcat server that listen on an SSL socket with TLS protocol. When connecting with all desktop browser everything work right. When connecting with Safari on iPad, the SSL handshake fails. I sniffed what happens but I am unable to understand what is going on. This is the ssldump outpu...

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Q: Is there cryptographic material in a phone's SIM card that can be used with RSA encryption?

makerofthings7Given that a smart card stores a private key that can't be extracted, it appears that a SIM card is similar to a smart card in these respects. I need to store (or use an existing) private key on a phone and use that to decrypt data sent from a webservice. I also want the private key store to h...

16:23
@RoryAlsop That's already got my vote, and it's got the three that you usually look for before hammering the questionable ones.
@Iszi cool - will hammer. Think it was 2 when I last looked
@RoryAlsop Ditto on that one.
@RoryAlsop Four votes on that, for two different reasons - one of those is mine.
@RoryAlsop Wow. I have voted on all of them. And all do appear to have 3 or more now.
heh - all closed now
so the review queue is still mostly the usual suspects then...
actually, looking at the reviewers it seems there are a fair few involved in regular review. Excellent
Hey kiddos, do we want this or should I let the UNIX neckbeards get it?
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Q: setuid programs don't seem to run setuid in TinyCore Linux

janosI want to demonstrate the vulnerability of setuid programs using the TinyCore Linux live cd. That is, I craft a special program, with special permissions, so that it runs as the owner of the file instead of the executing user. These are my steps: Create a program (see below) with a security hol...

@Jefff - you interested in this:
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Motorcycles, Mopeds, and Scooters

Proposed Q&A site for those who operate motorcycles, scooters, mopeds, and similar vehicles, who are interested or knowledgeable in riding, riding safety, cornering, accident avoidance, and general maintenance.

Currently in definition.

16:29
Anyhoo, here's what brought up the Bill of Rights: blogs.computerworld.com/privacy/21805/…
@ScottPack not sure - you could flag for us if you want, but it is probably a config/perms issue
Yeah, I know, I've been waffling quite a bit. I can't quite convince myself which is a better fit.
42 lines of sql, but it works! success of the day. (this was previously a dozen or so lines of java, and was super slow)
Oh, wow. If you ace the EFF Border Search Quiz they call you "L33t".
Cute. I didn't know about the unreasonable search bit. I thought that was dependent on the 100 mile FreeToSearch zone going through.
16:37
@Iszi I didn't know who would get to search you... 4 out of 5
@RoryAlsop Yeah, I actually had some pause on that one.
The CW article is a bit disturbing. I mean, sure it's meant to be - but it really is.
Especially since I'm among the 2/3.
@Iszi yeah - we think we have it bad in this country, with the RIP act which assumed guilty until proven innocent, but the US sounds ever more scary
just in terms of violating basic rights like free speech, unhindered travel, innocent until proven guilty, reasonable suspicion required before arrest/search etc
@Iszi Ah, ok, so that did actually happen. I thought it was desired but still pending.
It's really sad when common citizens need to consider whole-disk encryption for protection from their government perhaps even more than for protection from thieves.
Now here's the real question, has it been determined whether or not authorities can legally require you to give up your encryption keys/passphrases?
16:43
@ScottPack In these United States, I think the answer is still "no" - but only by default.
@Iszi That was my thought too.
I find it utterly ridiculous that government agencies can make such policies as these without having to pass them through the Supreme Court. (i.e.: We shouldn't have to wait for someone with the proper support and funding to bring a "test case" to SCOTUS, before our rights will be upheld.)
To be fair, the SCOTUS was never designed to judge constitutionality of laws to begin with. They were simply supposed to be the last arbiter in the appeals process.
@RoryAlsop That guy had already asked questions about the same problem on SO and SF before bringing it to Sec.SE. The SF one didn't involve any code and was barely coherent. I'm glad someone finally pointed him at something that looks useful.
I don't think the framers were able to imagine a world in which a law could be passed that would violate the constitution.
16:50
@ScottPack So, what you're saying is, "don't roll your own" should also apply to constitutions?
@ScottPack You never watched Schoolhouse Rocks, did you?
@Iszi Yes. I also some very good conversations about some of the inaccuracies from people with JDs.
That's about the only one that stuck with me, it was the most important one.
Marbury v. Madison, 5 US 137 (1803)
I've been looking at this question: security.stackexchange.com/questions/31178/…
and wondering, let's say that at some future point, HMAC-SHA-256 is broken
and there's a new MAC, couldn't the user simply strip the secure MAC, add the insecure one and modify the header byte value accordingly?
wouldn't such an adversary therefore be able to tamper with the ciphertext?
Or am I missing something blindingly obvious? I feel like I am
@RoryAlsop Following :)
Morning @JeffFerland
'morning
17:03
Heh. My Science Fiction and Fantasy DAFUQ for the day. Had to share:
in Mos Eisley, 2 mins ago, by Beofett
you don't even want to know what happened when I searched for "spock gif 'dat ass'"!
DAFAQ ("fuuuuuck"):
@JeffFerland OMG. How the hell do these morons get bred?
Does anyone know a good forensics community?
I'm like starved on where I can learn/practice malware reversing and network forensics....
(Sophos apparently has a really cool linux forensics challenge, but I can't FIND a vm of it anywhere)
I actually have seen VMs out there for that, but I can't, for the life of me, think of them off hand.
SANS has some forensics courses. They'll definitely be good but they'll also be SANS level expensive.
17:18
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19:38
@Tinned_Tuna If HMAC/SHA-256 is broken in the future, then it is kinda your fault for still accepting it to verify integrity of data blobs.
When you accept a set of several MAC algorithms for integrity, your security against alteration is the security of the weakest of all the algorithms you accept. But "weakest" does not mean "weak".
Take the limit: if you do not have a header, and implement only one algorithm, and that algorithm is broken, then you are equally doomed.
@Iszi You voted to close all three, but I answered all three.
20:30
@ThomasPornin Is that how you get monster crap-loads of rep? Post good answers to questions doomed for closure, before they're closed?
20:40
@Iszi I get lots of rep by posting good answers to lots of questions.
(which should be obvious)
It so happens that answers on closed questions can still accumulate upvotes.
The only change is that when the question is closed, there won't be extra competing answers. On the other hand, closed questions tend not to attract readers.
Is this CTF thing still ongoing ? This room is peculiarly quiet today.
21:01
Sorry mate. I've been attempting to do school work.
Nothing quite like running data sets that take an hour to process.
You are using the word "mate" repeatedly
Are you planning to migrate to Australia ?
I'm attempting to make our Imperial overlords more comfortable.
22:14
@scott I thought they were Scottish not Australian ...
Also next ctf on 1 march
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22:48
@LucasKauffman I've heard Brits say mate. Notice that I have avoided "gday"
23:42
@ScottPack we say it to make the Aussies feel more comfortable
OMG. Was Netflix always running on Silverlight?
@Iszi say it isn't true!
@RoryAlsop Could've sworn they used Flash. In any case, it looks like Silverlight now.
@Iszi Yeah, they've been using Silverlight for three or four years now.
@Iszi I remember it being a pretty big deal when they switched. I think it was around the same time NBC offered the NCAA Basketball tournament online via Silverlight, which was one of the biggest coming-out events for Silverlight video.

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