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[stormcrow]

Welcome to Security Research in 2020. You can endlessly debate the ethics of hyping research findings, but that ship has sailed. No one is going to...

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Microsoft absolutely does care about 3rd party driver breakage. It reflects poorly on them as a company even if it's not their fault. The problem isn't...

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TrueBSD was hampered by FreeBSD's lack of timely support for reasonably up-to-date desktop or laptop hardware. Its server support was always pretty much...

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At this point it seems like the only actual mitigation for those with severe paranoia (like hardware holding classified data), is to move to an architecture...

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Not just Li-ion facts of life. Most batteries don't last more than 2-3 years, even long life automotive lead-acid batteries guaranteed for 5 years often...

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I just got a new AMD Ryzen system myself. After some experience with trying to get 18.04 working on recent (contemporary with 18.04 generation) Intel...

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I have 2 systems with working 3.5" floppy drives along with 3 working spares. There's another 5 1/4" drive in storage, 'just in case'. I did...

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I can remember researchers pointing out problems with Intel SMP and encryption using timing attacks going back to at least the early 2000s. It's not...

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Number one problem and critical blocker for me, flatpak doesn't, and currently can't support, web browser 2FA for USB devices like Yubikeys and other...

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Just one more tool to theoretically easily roll back in the event of unforeseen problems with updated packages. There's always a non-zero chance some...

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Theoretically it's designed with the unique issues of a NAND flash based storage device in mind, data integrity, endurance, administrative layout, hardware...

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The "Unix philosophy" hasn't even been followed in Unix for a very long time. Software advances towards complexity. Multi uses for tools is...