Collaborate Disseminate
Does wrapping an SSH tunnel with a secondary SSL/TLS layer actually improve the security of the connection?
If not, does doing this make the connection less secure?
Why/ Why not?
Continue reading Does using an SSH tunnel over TLS improve security? [duplicate]
A massive Antarctic glacier, dubbed the “Doomsday Glacier,” is melting at an accelerating rate and could be approaching irreversible collapse, international researchers are reporting. The Thwaites Glacier, holding enough ice to raise global sea levels … Continue reading Antarctic ‘Doomsday Glacier’ Melting Faster, Scientists Warn
Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has …read more Continue reading Get Your Lisp On With The Dune Shell
A national “butterfly emergency” has been declared by Butterfly Conservation after the lowest Big Butterfly Count since records began. From a report: An average of just seven butterflies per 15-minute count were recorded by participants in this summer’… Continue reading ‘Butterfly Emergency’ Declared as UK Summer Count Hits Record Low
I’m looking for a vulnerability scanner (SAST, SCA, or other) that flags in-code CDN scripts where the script is referencing a vulnerable package (ex. jQuery 1.9 is susceptible to XSS). Typically, SCA scans find vulnerable 3rd party packag… Continue reading Vulnerability scanner for CDN scripts [closed]
As anyone who’s looked at the sky just before dawn or right after dusk can confirm, for the last seventy years or so there have been all kinds of artificial …read more Continue reading Amateur Astronomer Images Spy Satellite
Sandvine, the makers of surveillance-ware that allowed authoritarian countries to censor the internet and spy on their citizens, announced that it is leaving dozens of “non-democratic” countries as part of a major overhaul of the company. From a report… Continue reading Internet Surveillance Firm Sandvine Says It’s Leaving 56 ‘Non-Democratic’ Countries
Context: I received an email claiming an order has been shipped for a service that I am subscribed to but did not believe was due for renewal. I panicked and clicked to preview the attached invoice pdf (I previewed it using GMail’s viewer,… Continue reading Do I need to worry about infection from a .PDF from an untrusted sender previewed within GMail?
Context: I received an email claiming an order has been shipped for a service that I am subscribed to but did not believe was due for renewal. I panicked and clicked to preview the attached invoice pdf (I previewed it using GMail’s viewer,… Continue reading Do I need to worry about infection from a .PDF from an untrusted sender previewed within GMail?
The creator of an open source project that scraped the internet to determine the ever-changing popularity of different words in human language usage says that they are sunsetting the project because generative AI spam has poisoned the internet to a lev… Continue reading Project Analyzing Human Language Usage Shuts Down Because ‘Generative AI Has Polluted the Data’