Posts by Pascal

Re: Ponzi Scheme

Gee that's an easy one to solve, just need eternal economic growth. Also sprinkle a nice dose of inflation on top to devalue the debt. Voilà! Problem solved, debt gets paid off by pocket change. Can I be President now?

Re: Not Unique...

Building codes changed a bit over the year, magnetic lock doors here now can't work like that anymore.

You can get the usual ID mechanism (card reader or biometric or whatever on the side of the door) for normal access, but emergency access has to be the "normal door way" i.e. turn the handle / press the release bar in the middle of the door, except secure doors are allowed to have a timer of up to (15 seconds I think) with an audio warning before the emergency release happens / alarms are triggered.

Re: Sorry

The problem exists: "What can we use Blockchain for?"

Re: Still used?

If you're using a "recent" (as in, 2008+) AD and only allow Kerberos, according to an old Technet article the passwords are stored like this:

"AES256_CTS_HMAC_SHA1_96, AES128_CTS_HMAC_SHA1_96 - Used for Kerberos authentication since Windows Server 2008. Salted with user logon name and hashed 4096 times using HMAC-SHA1."

Re: reporting the account and the IP address to Twitter and the Met Police

Yeah for a while we played with honeypots against various scams like those "president of our company sends urgent email to accounting needing a bank transfer done" messages, collecting communication traces and ip addresses, and reported the first couple of those to the proper authorities. It quickly became clear that nobody gave a rat's ass about it when we were never asked any follow-up questions and any of our own follow-up questions never got any real replies.

Re: Huawei isn't any different than any other corporations.....

That phrasing is a hell of a culture clash tho.

It still comes down to firing people to increase profit, but there would be an interesting uproar if a westerner company called it "getting rid of mediocre people".