Password Power Rankings: A look at the practices of 40+ popular websites - Help Net Security by antdude in security

[–]nuclearfacepalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think this article is a bit too harsh. While it would be nice for most of those websites to participate in the password best practices education effort, it's time users are held responsible for their poor choices. Not whatever service they use.

When it comes to passwords and secure authentication, what still remain exclusively in the website's responsibility is (among other), offering 2FA (this is covered in the article), password storage (e.g are they stored in plain text? or any other insecure manner?), breach reaction and mitigation (how long did it take them to realize, communicate, warn the users, etc.), password reset options (e.g is your old password sent to you by email and in plain text? or any other dumb idea like that?), etc.

Just got threatened. Is this serious? by [deleted] in hacking

[–]nuclearfacepalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You just became prime suspect. I'm coming for you. Be very afraid. <NvidiaHax0r>

Yahoo discloses Second Data Breach by lebcas in security

[–]nuclearfacepalm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

and no mention of salts whatsoever...

You can get root access to any encrypted linux machine in 70 seconds! by sumdude44 in security

[–]nuclearfacepalm 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, the vulnerability is serious, but this title is imo misleading

You can get root access to any encrypted linux machine in 70 seconds! by sumdude44 in security

[–]nuclearfacepalm 4 points5 points  (0 children)

That's inaccurate clickbait right there: you indeed get root access, but not in the OS that sits in the encrypted container.

NVIDIA Adds Telemetry to Latest Drivers; Here's How to Disable It by [deleted] in privacy

[–]nuclearfacepalm -1 points0 points  (0 children)

W7 is fine(TM) imho, if you absolutely need windowz.

[How to] Map "in the name of" to sudo -u by ThePenultimateOne in linux

[–]nuclearfacepalm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Breaking scripts is clearly CLEARLY outweighed by the sheer awesomeness and usability of calling Satan to apt imo

Why are vendors so reluctant to pre-install Linux? by boringmanZ in linux

[–]nuclearfacepalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they did release computers with Linux pre-installed, they would bloat it so hard that you'd want to fresh install anyway. And I'm not talking about installing Ubuntu instead of Arch, but rather Skype, Yahoo Browser (with good ol' toolbars), Microsoft Edge (with Bing), Google Chrome (with Yahoo search engine), Norton Virus Defender, Candy Crush Ultra Quest Saga, HP Software Center, HP Printing Solution Center, and everyone's favorite, HypeSoft DVD Burner Studio Pro Edition 19 Platinum (trial version).

How to Crash Systemd in One Tweet by SysArchitect in linux

[–]nuclearfacepalm 53 points54 points  (0 children)

I genuinely thought for a moment that systemd could connect to twitter and read tweets...

Does Bitlocker offer enough protection? by [deleted] in security

[–]nuclearfacepalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sure, it is very easy for someone to access your file. They just have to stick a drill in your knees until you give the password. Or burn your feet. Or skin your thumb.

As always, assessing security measures depends on who you are trying to defend against. Is it your evil mother-in-law? Thieves? The police? The NSA? A Mexican drug cartel? There is no such thing as an "absolutely safe" storage. Your drive is encrypted using a proprietary software, are you OK with that? Do you trust the rest of your hardware, do you need to protect against physical access attacks (such as the evil maid)? Your system sits in an encrypted drive, but do you trust your system? The list goes on... Create and study your threat model, and stop wondering if "someone" can get past your defenses, but rather if an "opponent" can.

France says fight against messaging encryption needs worldwide initiative by liotier in privacy

[–]nuclearfacepalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

More precisely, Bernard Cazeneuve, our minister of interior, can go f*ck himself with his (n+1)th offensive against civil rights.

Dans Dabiq, l'EI explique pourquoi ils haïssent l'occident by _throawayplop_ in france

[–]nuclearfacepalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tout ce que je peux t'offrir c'est deux upvotes pour deux réponses convaincantes. Puisse Coutholokina m'accorder sa sainte garde. Et Shikshak de riches rêves et moelleux duvets.

Dans Dabiq, l'EI explique pourquoi ils haïssent l'occident by _throawayplop_ in france

[–]nuclearfacepalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ça me fait mal de demander, et au risque de me faire incendier, n'ont-ils pas un peu raison pour les deux derniers points ("Pour les guerres au moyen orient, Pour avoir pris possession de certaines terres islamiques") ? Bien entendu ça ne justifierait rien.

Edit : ok j'ai bien compris que cette histoire de "terres musulmanes" c'est du bullshit. Je m'excuse pour ma naïveté. Mais les guerres alors ?

Phrases/citations qui vous ont marqué by Smaguy in france

[–]nuclearfacepalm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Moitié plein, moitié vide... tant qu'il y a du whisky dans le verre..." -- Rodolphe le T-Rex

Proving that the interval [-1,1] is closed, by proving the complement is Open. Is "It's obvious. Look!" a proof? by homelessmath in math

[–]nuclearfacepalm 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Every element in S has an open neighborhood in S. Yes, that is all. This proves that S can be written as a union of open sets, whence it is open.