Why would one want this? Are there particular situation(s) that it's desirable to detect a TCP proxy? Does presence of a TCP proxy indicate some adverserial behaviour? E.g. surveillance, censorship, a particular attack?
Readit Newsmoreati commented on Show HN: Aroma: Every TCP Proxy Is Detectable with RTT Fingerprinting github.com/Sakura-sx/Arom... · Posted by u/Sakura-sx
Is it possible to implement something similar but with a protocol that supports compression?
Can we have a zip bomb but with a compressed http response that gets decompressed on the client? There are many protocols that support compression in some way.
There was https://idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-protection earlier this year. It sends highly compressed output of /dev/zero. No overlapping files or recursively compressed payloads.
moreati commented on The 3,000-year-old story hidden in the @ sign bbc.com/future/article/20... · Posted by u/andsoitis
Around 1999 I interned at Philips Semiconductor. I worked with one of the first or early engineers of Teletext (aka BBC Ceefax) - a system designed in the 1970s that encoded text pages within an analog TV signal.
The World Wide Web was just getting popular and he was happy to point out he managed to get @ into the limited character set (maybe called a codepage?) all the way back in the 1970s. However many (all?) international variants used different character sets that replaced @ and other uncommon characters with accented characters for their alphabets/languages.
As a result Teletext in the UK (using the english character set) could show email addresses, but not in most (all?) other countries.
moreati commented on The Cornervery: A 90-Degree Stapler core77.com/posts/138232/T... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
The core77 site basically shuts down my browser after the page starts loading (Firefox on android), has anyone experience similar?
I'm curious what's going on, I basically have to force quit the app for it to go back to normal.
It loads fine using chrome on android.
It crashed the browser tab for me - Firefox desktop on macOS.
moreati commented on Tinyio: A tiny (~200 line) event loop for Python github.com/patrick-kidger... · Posted by u/tehnub
In https://github.com/patrick-kidger/tinyio/blob/main/tinyio/__... there's
from ._core import (
Loop as Loop,
sleep as sleep,
...
)
moreati commented on 'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie
The UK government does not pay ransomware and advises private businesses not to also.
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/section/respond-recover/ml-ransomwar...
I wasn't trying to suggest they wil. I emphasised Gossi's If because I missed it on my first read. I didn't want others making the same mistake.
moreati commented on 'Significant amount' of private data stolen in UK Legal Aid hack bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c... · Posted by u/neversaydie
> The Legal Aid breach is, I’m told, a ransomware/extortion group (not mentioned in the notice). If it looks like the UK gov are going to pay, or pay via third party, this one will become a megathread. https://www.gov.uk/government/news/legal-aid-agency-data-bre... -- https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114533584686916433
Note Gossi's "If". There's no indication so far wrt possible payment.
moreati commented on In the 1980s we downloaded games from the radio newslttrs.com/yes-in-the-... · Posted by u/spzb
After a while, magazines like Commodore Run and Compute started including a short program that would checksum each line as you entered it, so you could check that against a checksum in the magazine. Of course, you had to get that program typed in correctly first before you could use it to enter others.
Semi related, I created linesum a few years back https://github.com/moreati/linesum to line by line sha256.
moreati commented on Show HN: Berlin Swapfest – Electronics flea market swapfest.berlin/... · Posted by u/mirshko
Related events in other cities? To start:
* US Boston / New England area -- MIT Swapfest, http://w1mx.mit.edu/flea-at-mit/
UK, near Luton, Dunstable Downs Radio Club car boot sale https://dunstabledownsradioclub.org/bootsale/
Interesting to see that cars in Denmark undergo their first inspection after 5 years, here in Romania new cars get their mandatory inspection after 3 years and then every 2 years. I wonder if these high failure rates will lead to policy change in Denmark.
We're not just talking about panel gaps anymore, problems with braking and steering are a huge risk for everyone on the road, not just the owners of these vehicles.
UK is first inspection (called an MOT) at 3 years, then every 1 year until the car is considered 'classic' - after 40 years with caveats