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Comment Re:my bank (Score 1) 271

My bank have a pin code token with challenge/response authentication. Also used to sign receiving account numbers and the sum of the transaction.

There are probably "holes" in that solution as well, but it's at least standing up against brute force attacks against the banks.

Submission + - Facebook will soon be able to ID you in any photo (sciencemag.org)

sciencehabit writes: Appear in a photo taken at a protest march, a gay bar, or an abortion clinic, and your friends might recognize you. But a machine probably won't—at least for now. Unless a computer has been tasked to look for you, has trained on dozens of photos of your face, and has high-quality images to examine, your anonymity is safe. Nor is it yet possible for a computer to scour the Internet and find you in random, uncaptioned photos. But within the walled garden of Facebook, which contains by far the largest collection of personal photographs in the world, the technology for doing all that is beginning to blossom.

Submission + - What tools to cleanup a large C/C++ project?

An anonymous reader writes: I find myself in the uncomfortable position of having to 'cleanup' a relatively large C/C++ project. We are talking ~200 files, 11MB of source code, 220K lines of code...

A superficial glance shows that they are a lot of functions that seems to be doing the same things, a lot of 'unused' stuff and a lot of inconsistency between what is declared in .h files and what is implemented in the corresponding .cpp files.

Is there any tools that will help me catalog this mess and make it easier for me to locate/erase unused things, cleanup .h files, find functions with similar names?

Submission + - The Pirate Bay Is an FBI Honeypot: a Disconcertingly Plausible Conspiracy Theory

Jason Koebler writes: After months of false starts and constant hype about its prospective return, The Pirate Bay finally came back this weekend. But the response hasn't been purely excitement from would-be pirates. Instead, it's been suspicion: Is the FBI running The Pirate Bay as a means to crack down on piracy?
"There is a natural paranoia that kicks in on such matters, simply based on the logic of a single site lasting this long without being truly shut down," Brian Martin, CEO of Attrition, one of the world’s most famous and longest-lasting hacker and security information websites, told me. "If done correctly, there is little to nothing that would give them away. I have talked to FBI agents hypothesizing about carrying out such replacements on sites."

Submission + - Systemd looking to assimilate Gummiboot UEFI Boot Manager (phoronix.com)

stoborrobots writes: Phoronix notes that "systemd developers are looking at integrating Gummiboot" .

Gummiboot is a bootloader manager — it loads and executes either EFI images or EFI-aware linux kernels.

Gummiboot is infrequently updated, but Kay Sievers recently added some new functionality.

Mattias Geniar also has some other notes from Lennart Poettering's recent FOSDEM talk about the state of systemd.

Submission + - Science's Biggest Fail - Everything About Diet and Fitness

HughPickens.com writes: Scott Adams of Dilbert fame writes on his blog that science's biggest fail of all time is 'everything about diet and fitness':

I used to think fatty food made you fat. Now it seems the opposite is true. Eating lots of peanuts, avocados, and cheese, for example, probably decreases your appetite and keeps you thin. I used to think vitamins had been thoroughly studied for their health trade-offs. They haven’t. The reason you take one multivitamin pill a day is marketing, not science. I used to think the U.S. food pyramid was good science. In the past it was not, and I assume it is not now. I used to think drinking one glass of alcohol a day is good for health, but now I think that idea is probably just a correlation found in studies.

According to Adams, the direct problem of science is that it has been collectively steering an entire generation toward obesity, diabetes, and coronary problems. But the indirect problem might be worse: It is hard to trust science because it has a credibility issue that it earned. "I think science has earned its lack of credibility with the public. If you kick me in the balls for 20-years, how do you expect me to close my eyes and trust you?"

Submission + - OpenSSH will feature key discovery and rotation for easier switching to Ed25519

ConstantineM writes: OpenSSH developer Damien Miller wrote tomorrow from Down Under about a new feature he implemented and committed for the next upcoming 6.8 release of OpenSSH — hostkeys@openssh.com — an OpenSSH extension to the SSH protocol for sshd to automatically send all of its public keys to the client, and for the client to automatically replace all keys of such server within ~/.ssh/known_hosts with the fresh copies as supplied (provided the server is trusted in the first place, of course). The protocol extension is simple enough, and is aimed to make it easier to switch over from DSA to the OpenSSL-free Ed25519 public keys. It is also designed in such a way as to support the concept of spare host keys being stored offline, which could then seamlessly replace main active keys should they ever become compromised.

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