klapinat0r

What is e98e?

I think he meant to use exclusivity as a straw man to show that "IP is not food", instead of the more often misused: "not paying is not equal to stealing".

Both are obviously false, but I think that was the intend (argument by confusion?).

Your reasons may be plentiful, but if it's because you prefer the protocol, without the obstruction of handshake, I'd recommend using openssl s_client.

Obvious disclaimer: openssl binary may or may not be part of your system (although the same can be said about netcat and telnet)

Is it down?

  $ ssh [email protected]
  ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

Possibly, but you'd still have to (try to) "render" it in your browser by opening the mail.

On a similar note, your web mail could fetch images in emails ahead of time, but that would still be out of your browser's context

> if somebody sent you an email with that code (even if you never open the email)

What is he trying to say here? How on earth would it be possible to execute the url in the context of your zecco cookies unless it's openend in a (browser) in which you've logged into zecco?

How so? The benefits are worth it, and I doubt any CEO will be argue against having fault tolerant code :)

You catch bugs, and no one says you can't run Chaos Monkey in staging or a similar environment if it really is a tough sell.

I'm confused. It seems you have more information than the blog post and attached documents entail.

Do you know both how long the investigation would be under for? Do you know the timing?

Stating there's no good reason is not true - it's quite possible that a gag order is issued to protect the investigation, including identification of suspects, the number of suspects (at least two in this case), change of behavior (e.g. switch from Signal to smoke signals, fax, or just lay low for a while), etc.

What happens when two days after a terrorist attack, OWS publishes a subpoena for the first time? I for one welcome that they go through the official channels to get the redacted version approved. Let's not botch investigations for the sake of pitchforking the "everything should be public" slogans.

That's a fair point, but it sounds like we're moving into a debate on OSes switching to systemd by default.

If we're comparing running a binary on startup vs. setting it up as a service in systemd, I wholeheartedly agree that you should always use the right tool for the job. So let's discuss the software, not the politics :)

If we're talking about the original story (crontab) people should compare it to systemd timers if they're looking for alternatives - which I still prefer.

I have no stake in OSes choice of default installed packages (be it init, openrc, or systemd), and agree with your parent comment that OSes shouldn't break (dropping crontab as an installed base package) without consideration.

I haven't come across one of these OSes where it wasn't possible to install crontab from their default package managers, and in their main repositories, though.

Care to give an example? What I'd call "dead simple init.d custom services" I find very easy to do in systemd, so I wonder if our definition is the same.

Here's what I'd call a simple init.d-like example. non-needed things (if you think it's too complex) include: wait for fs mount and network, custom reload command, "don't log stdout"

  [Unit]
  After=network.target
  AssertPathIsMountPoint=/mnt/service-data-if-needed

  [Service]
  ExecStart=/some/binary
  Environment=CONF=/etc/i/guess.conf USER=nonrootmaybe
  ExecReload=/bin/pkill binary
  KillMode=process
  Restart=always
  StandardOutput=null

  [Install]
  WantedBy=multi-user.target

EDIT: man 5 systemd.unit

Would love to hear how the IC-connected network was setup.

> disconnect the cable from the IC and plug my earlier cable in to it. This allowed me to make a special REST call to the CID

So the cable from the side panel connects to the above network via VPN? Interesting approach :)