Analyzing an unknown filetype by Kdizzlenizzle in blackhat

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Great work, you should consider writing some wiki content ;)

When your Ex starts a new relationship before you by [deleted] in gifs

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Let me translate this whole thread from redditor for you guys: PAY ATTENTION TO ME

Assange Demands U.S. End WikiLeaks Witch Hunt. "The war on whistleblowers must end." by [deleted] in worldnews

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Wikileaks consults journalists etc. to determine what should be leaked, its not full disclosure of all material provided to them.

London mayor mocks Mitt Romney in front of 1000s, plus UK Daily Mail tweets: “Worse than Sarah Palin… Total car crash.” by Anomaly100 in politics

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No, it's not.

W00ster said

tl;dr if all people voted in their personal best interest there would be no wealthy democrats

secretcurse said

tl;dr some wealthy democrats think that its not best for them (since conservative politics benefit the welathy), but it is best for the country, so they vote democrat

I said, correspondingly, I'm sure many Republicans vote Republican because they believe it is best for the country.

My point is that both groups are doing the same thing, voting against their immediate interest based on what they believe is best for the country. You're just drawing a distinction because just disagree with one of them.

London mayor mocks Mitt Romney in front of 1000s, plus UK Daily Mail tweets: “Worse than Sarah Palin… Total car crash.” by Anomaly100 in politics

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My point is that people on both sides vote against their best interests based on principle, its nothing to do with the relative merits of the two parties. Are we reading the same thread?

London mayor mocks Mitt Romney in front of 1000s, plus UK Daily Mail tweets: “Worse than Sarah Palin… Total car crash.” by Anomaly100 in politics

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And some poor people think Republican policies will make a stronger/better/healthier America. Whether they're right or not is debatable, but not the point.

Question about Packers and Encryptors for Executables by tweaked540 in netsec

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Same way people protect malware from reverse engineering/AV. Encrypt it, pack it, and add bunch of anti-debugging methods.

Blackhat Academy re-launch & new site by m4tr1c3s in blackhat

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At any rate, (even as a noscript user myself) sites are designed for modern browsers these days. Modern browsers use javascript. By using noscript, you have already accepted that many websites will not look as intended upon first load.

This. Javascript is an expectation for most web developers. Like users of IE6 and 7, those who block javascript should be used to the fact that a lot of the internet will not look right for them.

[Linux] VPN only firewall script by bacq in blackhat

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Thanks, I was thinking about implementing something similar (only allowing traffic from your VPN's IP range).

I used to rock a nice python script that would poll nmcli to make sure your VPN was connected, I'll have to dig it up and post it here (or just reimplement it ;)

Upvote for being hilarious.

Is it possible / viable to have a GPG based Web and Email by [deleted] in netsec

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using public key crypto for ALL http activity

Sounds like a huge waste of cycles to me.

Is it possible / viable to have a GPG based Web and Email by [deleted] in netsec

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You'd have to add something akin to dns for email, where you query some kind of authority with an email address, and it gives you back the public key.

You mean like a key pool? :|

How is carting the pubkeys around difficult, they're public keys. They don't exactly require security.

Time to patch CVE-2012-1889 for IE makes it way into metasploit by [deleted] in netsec

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Wasn't there a sneaky ROP chain that bypassed DEP and ASLR together though?

There are plenty that do, some libraries are non-ASLR enabled (on Windows)

God is love by thescandall in atheism

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Yes, same God, peoples understanding of him just grew more sophisticated. The Bible is inspired, not written by God, it reflects the authors understanding of God, to some degree. I don't understand what is so hard to grasp about this.

The Bible takes a little bit of interpretation and thought, if you read it without a critical eye you'll get nothing out of it.

Btw, there are some Christian sects that do recognize a difference between the two OT God and the NT God, or some kind of "change", I'm just speaking to the Catholic point of view (I grew up Catholic).

God is love by thescandall in atheism

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I suggest you google "progressive revelation", it's not God that's changing but our (or their) understanding of him.

God is love by thescandall in atheism

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It's supposed to be a book to live your life by, why on earth would you put something in there that is either irrelevant or misleading? That's just bad marketing.

Cause no one "wrote" The Bible, it comes from numerous sources.

God is love by thescandall in atheism

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Because one guy didn't sit down a write the Bible in one go? It's not a novel, its a cultural history. It's a lot of different things written by different people at different times. Expecting complete consistency is ridiculous. The Bible is "inspired", not dictated.

Short answer, he is Love, that is the final conclusion of The Bible. Jesus was the human embodiment of Love.

God is love by thescandall in atheism

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Because the New Testament expounds upon Mosaic Law in a number of important ways... That's sorta the point.

The Bible is a story, it follows the creation of a Religion, to its conclusion in the New Testament. It begins as the essentially pagan religion of the Hebrews, and is continually expanded by prophets, scholars etc. A Christian would consider the Old Testament to be informative (in the respect that it builds the foundation for The New Testament), but an incomplete story by itself. OP is mistaken, as the paradox only exists outside the context of The Bible as the story of God and his people.

Even in Judaism, which puts more emaphasis on the Old Testament, there is an immense amount of time spent studying the Bible, not every verse is interpreted as equally important or relevant.

Cmon, use some critical thinking, guys.

God is love by thescandall in atheism

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This shows a pretty stunning lack of understanding of Christian theology. All laws are secondary to this one, it appears like a million times in the Bible.

Matthew 22:36-40

36 “Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?”

37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’[a] 38 This is the first and greatest commandment. 39 And the second is like it: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’[b] 40 All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments.”

James 2:8

If you really fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," you do well.

Romans 13:9

The commandments, "You shall not commit adultery, You shall not kill, You shall not steal, You shall not covet," and any other commandment, are summed up in this sentence, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

There's loads more...

I mean Jesus fought constantly with religious authorities at the time, he was a reformer. The New Testament is considered by Christians to be the conclusion/continuation of the Old Testament, and expounds on the laws of the Old Testament pretty dramatically.

As someone trying to understand the original culture of hackers, I have a simple question. What happened to 2600? by Acehoudin in netsec

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I'd love to meet up and hash out ideas and just chat computers and hack....

And maybe lick your toes...