As we have all heard, there were several related hardware vulnerabilities affecting almost all computers/phones/processors sold since 1995. Those vulnerabilities make your CPU leak secret information to programs which should not have access to those secrets.
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German lawyers are now required to install a crypto backdoor
German lawyers are now required to install a crypto backdoor
Starting on 1.1.2018 all german lawyers are required to use the special electronic lawyer mailbox (beA) for communication with authorities and courts, which requires a system wide installation of a ROOT-CA(with a publicly known private-key).
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Exim/GnuTLS disable SSLv3 and TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA ;-)
How to get rid of the weak cipher (TLS_RSA_WITH_RC4_128_SHA) and SSLv3 in Exim4 with GnuTLS (which is the default on Ubuntu 14.04) using the tls_require_ciphers instruction in the exim config.
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Advanced Netflix unblocking setup with OpenWrt/OpenVPN and uflix (DISCONTINUED)
******UPDATE: Uflix discontinued Netflix support****
**As of this week uflix announced (in this Statement) they would discontinue their Netflix unblocking service. Other services like AmazonPrime etc. are not affected.
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Performance Issues? Blame yourself first, blame the language later
A friend approached me while we were at a bar for a birthday. He told me about his project where he had coded the same mathematical algorithm in Python AND C. He told me he was having performance issues with the python code being 200 times slower than the same algorithm as...
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