Comment Re:This is weak. (Score 2) 58

by GreyFish on Monday June 25, 2018 @07:45PM (#56845270) Attached to: EFF Announces STARTTLS Everywhere To Help Make Email Delivery More Secure

The presence of a DNSSEC signed DANE/TLSA record for the mail server indicates to other MTA's that the server only does STARTTLS - if STARTTLS is missing from the SMTP dialogue then the other MTA's will refuse to send. Support is available in postfix and exim etc...

Submission + - SubGenius Cult Launches $25k Fundraiser to Build an Alien Beacon (gofundme.com) 4

Submitted by Ktaden Legume on Saturday October 07, 2017 @03:00PM

Ktaden Legume writes: Rev. Ivan Stang of the Church of the SubGenius today announced that the SubGenius Foundation's Forbidden Science Ministry is launching an initiative and fundraising campaign to construct a device called "The Beacon". This device, it is claimed by the developers, will "decloak the Xist escape saucer presently orbiting Earth and summon it to rescue those willing to make the pilgrimage to the deployment site".

This startling new development in the SubGenius doctrine comes on the heels of an announcement of the discovery of notebooks and blueprints allegedly belonging to church founder J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, describing several unfinished inventions, including the Beacon. The Beacon will be constructed by a team of 'Forbidden Scientists' led by former church CEO Dr. K'taden Legume.

Comment Re:The answer: XMPP (Score 1) 456

by GreyFish on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @12:10PM (#54037183) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: How Would You Solve the Instant Messaging Problem?

Conversations is probably the best client (tho it's only on Android). Both ejabberd and prosody are good servers, prosody is slightly better. Here is a good ejabberd config file that supports all (most?) of what conversations needs: https://gitlab.com/hanno/ejabb... This talk from 33c3 is relevent to this thread: https://www.int21.de/slides/33...

Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question 410

Posted by whipslash on Wednesday October 05, 2016 @11:10AM from the this-should-be-interesting dept.

Martin Shkreli has agreed to answer your questions. Shkreli is the co-founder of the hedge fund MSMB Capital Management, the co-founder and former chief executive officer (CEO) of the biotechnology firm Retrophin, and the founder and former CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals. Shkreli has been active on Twitter about a wide range of topics, including the 2016 presidential election. Most recently, he expressed interest in buying 4chan.

Ask him your questions here, and we'll post the full interview with Shkreli's answers in the near future.

Comment This web comic sums up it up nicely (Score 1) 44

by GreyFish on Sunday July 05, 2015 @06:34PM (#50049271) Attached to: Wired Looks Back At 'Mondo 2000'

and also is the origin story of hipsters: http://www.electricsheepcomix....

Comment Re:Why do thei retire the ISS? (Score 1) 152

by GreyFish on Sunday March 29, 2015 @10:00AM (#49364777) Attached to: Russia Wants To Work With NASA On a New Space Station

The station is exposed to full daylight and darkness each 45 min orbit. Apparently the thermal cycling caused by each hot/cold change forms microscopic cracks in metals so they are worried about the structure losing strength over time.

Comment Re:If only they'd bring back tvtwm I'd be happy. (Score 1) 89

by GreyFish on Thursday February 13, 2014 @09:54AM (#46237397) Attached to: Enlightenment E19 Pre-Alpha Released

However, it also pops up a file manager which seems to involve re-setting the desktop background.

If thats nautilus then if you run it before hand with 'nautilus --no-desktop . &' it will behave it's self.

Comment Re:Still extortion... (Score 2) 320

by GreyFish on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @09:15PM (#45419021) Attached to: HTTP 2.0 May Be SSL-Only

Quite easy, even eaiser these days - all modern dns severs do DNSSEC signing and key re generation for you. You still need to know what to put in the zone files (e.g. which records do what), the O'Reilly book is good, or you can pick it up from wikipedia / the bind admin guide / stack overflow etc..

Comment Re:Netscape tonight (Score 5, Insightful) 168

by GreyFish on Sunday September 29, 2013 @06:33PM (#44987885) Attached to: Everything You Needed To Know About the Internet In May, 1994

Quite the opposite. If modern sites had old weak cipher suites enabled then a mitm attack could force your browser to use them (a downgrade attack). Sites that have disabled the old cipher suites are doing the right thing and should be praised for being diligent.

Comment Re:Didn't Trillian do this? (Score 1) 242

by GreyFish on Wednesday May 01, 2013 @01:23PM (#43601937) Attached to: The Balkanization of Chatting

You can use an xmpp client with facebook chat. You can also use an XMPP client with MSN messenger (if you implement microsoft's auth goop). unfortunatly neither facebook or microsoft have enabled federation with there xmpp servers so they are still walled gardens, just walled gardens you can bring your own client to.

https://www.facebook.com/sitetour/chat.php
http://www.macnn.com/articles/11/12/15/ichat.now.able.to.connect.to.all.im.networks/
http://blog.process-one.net/details_on_msns_xmpp_server/

XMPP is the way to go, run your own server with ejabberd, prosody or openfire.

Comment Re:How is it funded? (Score 1) 133

by GreyFish on Thursday March 21, 2013 @11:36PM (#43243083) Attached to: Post "Good Google," Who Will Defend the Open Web?

That means eschewing privacy-stripping "app stores" on locked down platforms for sideloaded FOSS.

In that case, who will finance the production of video games as free software and free cultural works?

We will, via Kickstarter and it's ilk...

Comment DNSSEC & TLSA (Score 1) 299

by GreyFish on Monday December 17, 2012 @09:20PM (#42320733) Attached to: Gmail Drops Support for Connecting To Pop3 Servers With Self -Signed Certs

You can store certificate fingerprints in dns, and if the dns zone is signed with dnssec you can use it as a trust authority and avoid the whole root CA crazyness. See: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6698 I suspect google dosn't support it tho :(

Comment Re:DNSSec (Score 1) 35

by GreyFish on Saturday November 24, 2012 @01:03PM (#42082019) Attached to: Google.com.pk and 284 Other<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.PK Domains Hacked

No it wouldn't of done - if you hack the registrar you can change the ds records as well as the ns records. dnssec makes no difference in this case. browser side certificate pinning and forcing sites to be https only would help - then the attackers wouldn't be able to set up fake sites. The real sites would still be broken tho!

Comment Re:Encoded string (Score 1) 287

by GreyFish on Friday November 02, 2012 @03:51PM (#41857355) Attached to: WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney

much clearer picture here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2226203/Skeleton-hero-World-War-II-carrier-pigeon-chimney-secret-coded-message-attached-leg.html

Comment Re:Encoded string (Score 2) 287

by GreyFish on Friday November 02, 2012 @03:09PM (#41856609) Attached to: WW2 Carrier Pigeon and Undecoded Message Found In Chimney

I get:

AOAKN HVPKD FNFJU YIDDC
RQXSR DJHFP EOVFN MIAPX
PABUZ WTYNP CMPNW HJR?H
NLXKE M?M?K ONOIB A???Q
UAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZLH
LKXEH REEHT JRZCQ FNKTQ
KLDTS EQIRU AOAKN

The F's are quite square, but the E's are rouned.

note that it starts and ends with AOAKN to tell whoever is decoding it how to generate the key.

SOE used "Poem codes":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poem_code

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