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    IP Systems Ltd AS62741 Acquires A Lot Of IPs...

    Without reason? Maybe not. But their 'reasons' certainly aren't always valid reasons for rejecting e-mail (or other services) from an IP. Spamhaus doesn't exactly have a clean history either - quite a few documented instances of them blacklisting IPs because they didn't like the response from...
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    [Python] Any interest in group learning?

    That problem was definitively solved a while ago - you need to use promises :) EDIT: And ES6 promises (with es6-promise as a shim) for client-side promises.
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    [Python] Any interest in group learning?

    It depends, I think. The issues with the documentation aside, Python is still fundamentally a classical language. If you want to work with other classical languages (eg. Java, C++, etc) then it might be useful to start out with Python. Though if you're going for a prototypical language (like...
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    Privacy as performativity

    I'd like to see more datacenters including warrant canaries. For them to really work, they need to run up to the top of the chain.
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    Finnish teenager "Ryan" got 2 year suspended sentence for hacking

    For those wondering; this is the guy also known as 'zeekill'. It has now also been reported on in English: http://uk.businessinsider.com/finnish-court-convicts-lizard-squad-hacker-julius-kivimaki-2015-7?r=US http://www.dailydot.com/crime/lizard-squad-indicted-julius-kivimaki/
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    Hacking Team got... well... hacked.

    There's a few of them. The only other one that's still alive seems to be http://ht.swr.sx/, though. The TransparencyToolkit one got hit with a good bit of DDoS. It's behind DDoS mitigation now, though. There's also still this GitHub mirror: https://github.com/informationextraction
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    Hacking Team got... well... hacked.

    Source: http://www.csoonline.com/article/2943968/data-breach/hacking-team-hacked-attackers-claim-400gb-in-dumped-data.html Apparently their security wasn't very good, so 400GB of their data was leaked: And then a senior engineer of Hacking Team started yelling on Twitter: Which is probably...
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    SSH Protection

    "Wasting resources" to a fairly trivial level has nothing to do with "security". If you disable password authentication, there are no authentication attempts, and the connection is immediately aborted during the handshake as soon as the client announces it cannot authenticate by key. It thus...
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    SSH Protection

    As long as people keep making this misleading (and potentially dangerous) suggestion, I'm going to keep correcting it.
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    SSH Protection

    Far more important: Use SSH keys: `ssh-keygen -t rsa` on your workstation, add the resulting `~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub` on your workstation to `~/.ssh/authorized_keys` on the server. Test whether you can log in with your SSH key now. Disable password authentication: set `PasswordAuthentication` to...
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    Hostress, LLC has acquired GreenValueHost v2 Clients and domain.

    So, about that RFO...  Weasel wording... sounds like they're trying to hide the reason. What was the "way" in question? "Open exploits"? Incredibly vague term, doesn't really describe what's going on. "Without the logs"? Why weren't there any logs? Okay, fair. And what 'exploits' would those...
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    Amazon Releases New Open Source Implementation of TLS Protocol

    While true, less code often translates into less bugs, and OpenSSL is already known for its... dubious code quality anyway. It's certainly worth a shot, especially given the audits it has had. The kind of bugs that are missed in an audit, are usually the more subtle bugs introduced by overly...
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    Amazon Releases New Open Source Implementation of TLS Protocol

    More: http://www.securityweek.com/amazon-releases-new-open-source-implementation-tls-protocol Just a server implementation, as far as I can tell, not a client implementation. Still, good news.
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    Best place to find coders?

    I only do open-source development work, but that usually comes from IRC in one way or another. Bit unusual, but hey :) My experiences with freelancing sites have been... 'mixed', to say it charitably.
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    Portal Do Host Selects Limestone Networks as its Dedicated Hosting Provider

    Blatant advertising, not news. This is of the "sponsored story" caliber - dress it up as if it were groundbreaking news that concerns everybody, when really nobody needs to know it. Let's keep this kind of crap on WHT, not VPSBoard. This is primarily a community, not a marketplace. There...
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    BlueVM sold / change of ownership? (UPDATE 5/14: Now owned by ChicagoVPS)

    Sigh. Are you being for real? First of all, you are the one here who has a history of lies, not me. Second,  A response to tickets is not a 'disclosure', and didn't even state ChicagoVPS, just 'new management'. I've provided proof for my claim that you're lying. Where's yours? As evidenced by...
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    A Small Orange(VPS Review)

    Should note that I'm very much not a fan of Site5, after their security fuckup. The click-to-view-image-at-full-size doesn't seem to have survived my migration to Jekyll, so here is the full copy of that thread. They don't seem to have any clue what they're doing regarding security.
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    The Confederate battle flag.

    I find it very disturbing that "flag removal" is being applied to historically accurate materials, in particular. Whether they be games on the App Store, or educational textbooks.
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    BlueVM sold / change of ownership? (UPDATE 5/14: Now owned by ChicagoVPS)

    Do I need to remind you that customers discovered the sale through a change of BitPay billing details? Don't try to spin this into yet another bullshit "we've always been transparent" story. I'm sure, the same excuses as always. Everybody else who isn't ColoCrossing seems to have no issues...
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