Posts by chrullrich

Death to one-time text codes: Passkeys are the new hotness in MFA

correct horse battery staple

By carefully avoiding even mentioning TOTP you can of course justify the conclusion that all one-time code based MFA is insecure and inconvenient. It does make your argument invalid, though.

Today's bonkers bug report: Microsoft Edge can't print numbers

Workaround

The reason behind the proposed workaround: http://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning

Perhaps two bugs make one right ... and two, three, four, etc.

Uber's self-driving cars can't handle bike lanes, forcing drivers to kill autonomous mode

Misread the headline ...

... who else first read "forcing drivers into autonomous kill mode"?

True believers mind-meld FreeBSD with Ubuntu to burn systemd

Why wouldn't they just not use systemd on Linux, rather than making the effort required to not use it on FreeBSD?

Telling your wife why you were fired is the only punishment

If you don't want to be traumatised by people's pictures ...

... don't look at them. There. That was easy.

Eighteen year old server trumped by functional 486 fleet!

"The server is an HP Netserver LX with dual 200MHz Pentium Pros, 128MB of RAM, runs Windows NT 4.1"

That last alone, of course, makes it unique, hence unsurpassable, in the world.

British banks consider emoji as password replacement

What a truly novel idea!

Ah. So the old ways of using a secret combination of several visually distinct symbols from a set of 10 for authentication are, well, old, and the bright new future is using a secret combination of several visually (not so) distinct symbols from a set of 44?

Whoever came up with that unique and creative idea is certainly a genius and deserves a large bonus.

Bogus gov online test tells people on dole they're just SO employable

What a farce.

This "test" is completely contained in one HTML page. All the questions, all the answers, even the "scoring" logic. It scored my eyes, all right.

It goes through the "answers" in pairs. For every pair, it adds the indexes of the selected "answers", counting the odd-numbered questions bottom-to-top and the even-numbered questions top-to-bottom, so as to slightly obfuscate the relation between "answer" index and result. The 24 predefined "strengths" are then ranked by these results, and the five highest-ranked ones are shown to the hapless victim.

Tory MP accidentally endorses... German pr0n site

At least the news feed works

Right now, Mr Smith's Hustings page still proudly shows the, er, doubtful link ... right next to the automatic newsfeed linking to this very article. Modern technology at work!

Oz firm seeks talented IT developer

In other news ...

... they are also offering the position of a job ad writer -- position available immediately, only available to persons without any sense of humour.

LHC back after temporary unexistence

Energy Release

It's obvious that the amount of energy required to propel an aircraft carrier to Geneva at ramming speed is too much for a measly 18 kV line. They must have gotten their figures wrong again.