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Plenty more bans are being made. To be fair, the topic itself states: Breaking NDA, asking about warez, hackintosh, unsupported VMs or proprietary information = kickban. Obviously this is proprietary information, so it doesn't belong in ##apple.


To be fair, that was only added 15 minutes after the events in the pastebin. I was there for it.


The previous post with this topic is still ranking higher than yours. Please "skim" HN before posting ;).


He treaded on thin water and he fell in. He should have asked for explicit permission to start pentesting instead of putting his academic career in a volatile state.


However, if the article framed things correctly, the college's response is overkill.

I would have given him a second warning.


In some WWII submarines, the sleeping room lined with bunks for the bulk of the staff, the lighting is red. Why? Because you can sleep in it easily -- it's always just red in that room because there are some day and night shifts even on a sub.


The story that I heard (from my army dad) about red lights for night work was that red lights cause less night blindness than white lights.

Wikipedia corroborates this story, but indicates that a Navy study (from the 1980's) didn't find strong support for the practice.


Neat! You should keep track of your man page reading and share your experience! I'm anticipating your homepage growing into a wonderful electronic flower of information.


Hah! 'electronic flower of information'. Awesome.

p.s. I'm from Winnipeg, the city Winnie the Pooh is named after.


O_o didn't this make news a long time ago?



Adding to your point that this is old news: https://citp.princeton.edu/research/memory/ [LEST WE REMEMBER: COLD BOOT ATTACKS ON ENCRYPTION KEYS]. I think this was on HN awhile ago...

The real news is the commercial tool that implements the memory dumping and key extraction.


Shucks! It won't let me type '=' in Opera! :(


I'm not having this problem in Opera... I'm running version 12.11


Yup, Opera 12.11 on Debian Testing x86_64.

  _ and - result in -
  = and + result in +
This is so odd...


Oh, I'm on Windows... maybe a platform depended bug?


I'd suspect it could be. It wouldn't be a first for Opera.


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