publicarray's comments

On: Why is my LG Washing Machine using 3.6GB of data/day?

[publicarray]

Maybe it’s part of a botnet?

[heresie-dabord → publicarray]

... It will be.

[weare138 → publicarray]

That was my first thought. Or maybe it's stuck in a loop downloading an update that's failing for some reason.

[LorenPechtel → weare138]

My first thought was something failing and repeating, but note the upload is far greater than the download.

[LorenPechtel → publicarray]

Given the ratio of upload to download I think you probably nailed it.

On: Ask HN: What tools/strategy do you use for backups?

[publicarray]

I’m trying out https://Kopia.io at the moment Finally something that is fully cross platform, easy to use and open source.

On: EasyList is in trouble and so are many ad blockers

[publicarray]

Maybe try the open source programs at Fastly.com or Bunny.net

https://www.fastly.com/open-source

https://bunny.net/contact/

On: Btop++ is a power resource monitor for Linux

[publicarray]

For me, it's been bottom https://github.com/ClementTsang/bottom and dua https://github.com/Byron/dua-cli for a while

I've found some other cool CLIs written with rust at https://github.com/TaKO8Ki/awesome-alternatives-in-rust

On: Show HN: Get lists of files in a directory that contains a large number of files

[publicarray]

Instead of "find -maxdepth 1" there is "fd -I -d 1" which in my experience is faster as it uses multiple threads https://crates.io/crates/fd-find

On: Ask HN: So what if my personal information gets stolen?

[publicarray]

Possible target for spear phishing (easier to social engineer when more information about a target is public).

Account take-over if the password was used elsewhere (credential stuffing).

Become a target for Extortion or Blackmail: https://www.troyhunt.com/the-opportunistic-and-empty-threat-...

Edit: Some companies still use birth dates, security questions or social security numbers for identification. If the information is public, any one can identify as that person via a phone call. https://krebsonsecurity.com/?s=SMS&x=10&y=14 https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/10/voice-phishing-scams-are... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2018/08/hanging-up-on-mobile-in-...

On: Oblivious DNS: Plugging the Internet’s Biggest Privacy Hole

[publicarray]

>> The root server would just see your NS lookup for .com, ...

> That's not how DNS works today so you're asking for a major re-architecture.

Actually that is how QNAME minimisation (on the resolver) works https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7816

unbound has some nice slides: https://ripe72.ripe.net/presentations/120-unbound_qnamemin_r...

On: Ask HN: What encrypted Dropbox alternative do you use?

[publicarray]

Cryptomator.org inside iCloud. I like it because I'm responsible for the password. There is no password reset feature.

Also a +1 for Keybase.

On: Yahoo hack warning: What happened and should you be worried?

[publicarray]

I don't think it's a new hack it's just that the internal investigation has lead to more findings of the already talked about cookie hack: https://www.tripwire.com/state-of-security/featured/more-yah...

On: Map-dl: Download Google Maps

[publicarray]

Thanks, It all started when I got asked whether I could build a simple way to download specific areas of google maps. The following day a college asked whether it was possible to just get the traffic layer and download it for further analysis. So map-dl was born :-)