Iarwain Ben-adar - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Happy Virgin Mobile Customer (Score 1) 21

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Tuesday January 07, 2020 @06:10PM (#59597122) Attached to: Sprint Pulls the Plug on Virgin Mobile

You obviously never had to call them to solve a problem. A few months back, both my spouse and I were subject to sim-swapping attack, and it took hours of arguing on the phone to get service restored. I was without service for a week. As soon as I got my service restored, I switched carriers. Good riddance, I say.

Comment Re:Sonic.net in Northern California (Score 1) 91

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @03:50PM (#54471911) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: ISPs That Respect Your Online Privacy?

Agreed. I can get 5x or better speed on Comcast, but I'm sticking with Sonic for this reason.

Comment OpenShot (Score 2) 103

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Thursday September 10, 2015 @07:12PM (#50499515) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Synchronizing Sound With Video, Using Open Source?

I've done this with OpenShot. It's fairly easy and intuitive to use. Save often -- it crashed frequently for me, but when it worked, it worked well.

Comment Re:Trusted certificate owners (Score 1) 45

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:08PM (#50076507) Attached to: OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug

Reference please!

Comment Greaseonkey and NoBennett script (Score 1) 353

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @04:10PM (#49081859) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Most Useful Browser Extensions?

Maybe someone already posted this, but I can't see it! https://gist.github.com/Mini-G...

Comment Re:Seriously? (Score 5, Informative) 43

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Wednesday June 11, 2014 @12:12PM (#47213103) Attached to: Project Un1c0rn Wants To Be the Google For Lazy Security Flaws

Try putting quotes around your IP address. You'll get better results.

Comment Re:How are people affected in their day to day liv (Score 1) 217

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Thursday June 05, 2014 @12:36PM (#47172695) Attached to: New OpenSSL Man-in-the-Middle Flaw Affects All Clients

WRONG. If the server is vulnerable, your session can be hijacked. http://ccsinjection.lepidum.co...

Submission + - OpenBSD Team Cleaning Up OpenSSL

Submitted by Iarwain Ben-adar on Tuesday April 15, 2014 @11:51AM

Iarwain Ben-adar writes: The OpenBSD has started a cleanup of their in-tree OpenSSL library. Improvements include removing "exploit mitigation countermeasures", fixing bugs, removal of questionable entropy additions, and many more. If you support the effort of these guys who are responsible for the venerable OpenSSH library, consider a donation to the OpenBSD Foundation. Maybe someday we'll see a "portable" version of this new OpenSSL fork. Or not.

Comment Re:OSX not affected? (Score 2) 239

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Wednesday April 09, 2014 @09:59PM (#46710421) Attached to: Heartbleed OpenSSL Vulnerability: A Technical Remediation

Phew. At least 2 websites are safe!

Artificial Blood Made In Romania 232

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 31, 2013 @12:44PM from the high-demand-in-local-market dept.

First time accepted submitter calinduca writes "Artificial blood that could one day be used in humans without side effects has been created by scientists in Romania. The blood contains water and salts along with a protein known as hemerythrin which is extracted from sea worms. Researchers from Babe-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, hope it could help end blood supply shortages and prevent infections through donations." Wikipedia's entry on hemerythrin explains its unusual oxygen binding mechanism.

Comment Gmail uses RC4 (Score 1) 90

by Iarwain Ben-adar on Thursday March 14, 2013 @02:53PM (#43174615) Attached to: Cryptographers Break Commonly Used RC4 Cipher

Last time I checked, Gmail was negotiating RC4. For scale reasons?

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