Comment This can be disabled (Score 1) 421

by bitwise counselor on Friday June 10, 2016 @11:45PM (#52293429) Attached to: Visual Studio 2015 C++ Compiler Secretly Inserts Telemetry Code Into Binaries

This nuisance can be disabled by linking "notelemetry.obj" though this shouldn't be necessary but just Microsoft things.

Comment Re:Reboot? (Score 1) 109

by bitwise counselor on Friday May 13, 2016 @02:07AM (#52102883) Attached to: Dangerous 7-Zip Vulnerabilities Flow To Top Security, Software Tools

7-zip is integrated into the windows shell.

Comment Windows Brought Ubuntu To Windows (Score 1) 154

by bitwise counselor on Monday May 02, 2016 @02:56PM (#52029827) Attached to: Ubuntu Quietly Raises Install Image Size to 2GB

Windows brought Ubuntu to Windows so Ubuntu was just following suit.

Comment How the bug was introduced (Score 2) 45

by bitwise counselor on Thursday July 09, 2015 @01:05PM (#50076487) Attached to: OpenSSL Patches Critical Certificate Forgery Bug

This bug was introduced recently in https://github.com/openssl/ope... to add support for "In certain situations the server provided certificate chain may no longer be valid" This bug doesn't affect libressl, boringssl, or vigortls.

Comment Re:Well... (Score 3, Informative) 86

by bitwise counselor on Thursday June 25, 2015 @10:39AM (#49985289) Attached to: ICANN Seeks Comment On Limiting Anonymized Domain Registration

Showing advertisements is classified as running a commercial business. I don't think I would want my personal details divulged just for showing advertisements to cover hosting costs.

Comment Re:StartSSL ? (Score 5, Informative) 97

by bitwise counselor on Wednesday June 17, 2015 @04:26PM (#49932041) Attached to: "Let's Encrypt" Project To Issue First Free Digital Certificates Next Month

StartSSL has already been doing this. I believe Let's Encrypt real goal is to make the deployment and unkeep easier?

StartSSL offers free certificates for non-commercial use only, and they charge more than a certificate from another CA to revoke your certificate ($24.90 ATM).

Comment Another "claim" (Score 1) 130

by bitwise counselor on Thursday April 23, 2015 @07:44PM (#49541741) Attached to: Researcher Discloses Methods For Bypassing All OS X Security Protections

Here's another article about one of his claims posted here http://apple.slashdot.org/stor...

Submission + - GCC 5.1 Released (gnu.org)

Submitted by kthreadd on Wednesday April 22, 2015 @02:18PM

kthreadd writes: Version 5.1 of GCC, the primary free software compiler for GNU and other operating systems, has been released. Version 5 includes many changes from the 4.x series. Starting with this release the default compiler mode for C is gnu11 instead of the older gnu89. New features include new compiler warnings, support for Cilk Plus. There is a new attribute no_reorder which prevents reordering of selected symbols against other such symbols or inline assembler, enabling link-time optimization of the Linux kernel without having to use -fno-toplevel-reorder. Two new preprocessor directives have also been added, __has_include and __has_include_next, to test the availability of headers. Also, there's a new C++ ABI due to changes to libstdc++. The old ABI is however still supported and can be enabled using a macro. Other changes include full support for C++14. Also the Fortran frontend has received some improvements and users will now be able to have colorized diagnostics, and the Go frontend has been updated to the Go 1.4.2 release.