Tuesday, May 07
Daily News Stuff 7 May 2024
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- Republicans are pulling out all the stops to reverse EV adoption. (The Verge)
By which The Verge means Republicans are objecting to laws and regulations designed to make internal combustion vehicles more expensive and less efficient.
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- After years of delays and $1 billion in cost overruns, the Boeing Starliner launch was scrubbed. (Tech Crunch)
They'll try again.
- Shell's flagship carbon capture project sold $200 million worth of emission credits backed by absolutely nothing. (Greenpeace)
Congratulations, Greenpeace. You've been working towards this miserable failure for a long time.
- A new attack renders largely useless VPNs even more useless than normal, if you are connected to a hostile network. (Ars Technica)
It subverts the VPN routing table to just run traffic directly over the network instead.
This applies to general anonymising VPNs that cover the entire internet. It doesn't affect corporate VPNs, and if you're running HTTPS or SSH over the VPN you're safe anyway.
Also, it doesn't work against Linux or Android devices, not because they are inherently more secure, but because they don't properly follow the network standard that is being abused by the attack.
- The Ryxen 7 5700X3D is pretty good. (Tom's Hardware)
It's not the fastest CPU in the world, but it runs well and won't burn a hole in your desk or your wallet.
- So... I need another Windows license.
One of the systems I just set up I already partly set up two years ago, but then I forgot the password I put on it.
I tried to reinstall Windows, but the regular installer couldn't find the SSD.
So I created a recovery disk off an identical machine and used that to install it, which went fine, except that this ended up with this machine stealing the license key of the other one.
Since I didn't sign in to my Microsoft account before this happened, I can't recover the key either.
I have three Windows 11 Pro OEM licenses, except that you don't get the key anymore so I have no way to use them.
Random Vtuber Music Video of the Day
Not Hololive today, but indie vtuber Midas, with Touch Tone Telephone.
Disclaimer: Cause I'm the right one, on my VOLTE telephone.
Disclaimer: Cause I'm the right one, on my VOLTE telephone.
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Email me. I have some unused licenses lying around; I get them cheap from the company store thanks to being a former employee.
-j
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, May 07 2024 08:48 PM (oJgNG)
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Malicious DHCP server setting itself as the gateway. So, use static addresses?
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, May 07 2024 10:16 PM (bg2DR)
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J - thanks for offering, I got it sorted out. I wish Microsoft would just give you the keys you paid for with OEM systems though, the way they used to.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 08 2024 11:10 AM (PiXy!)
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The trick overrides the routing that your VPN wants to use, so that wouldn't solve the problem. If your VPN uses specific routes (as a corporate VPN would do) rather than a single global route, you're safe though.
So a VPN could set up 256 Class A routes and be immune to this attack.
Malicious DHCP server setting itself as the gateway. So, use static addresses?
The trick overrides the routing that your VPN wants to use, so that wouldn't solve the problem. If your VPN uses specific routes (as a corporate VPN would do) rather than a single global route, you're safe though.
So a VPN could set up 256 Class A routes and be immune to this attack.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 08 2024 11:14 AM (PiXy!)
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Pixy, something like the magical jellybean keyfinder won't work? (Admittedly you'd have to, I guess, proactively retrieve the key in case of a drive failure, which probably nobody does...)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 08 2024 02:51 PM (BMUHC)
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Complex story. I could certainly have done it if I'd thought of it in advance, but that drive has been thoroughly erased at this point.
I could do that with the Beelink systems though and get the three Windows 11 Pro keys.
I could do that with the Beelink systems though and get the three Windows 11 Pro keys.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 08 2024 06:08 PM (PiXy!)
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