Isolus · HackerTrans

Yes, the final decision to revert to Microsoft was taken in 2017. But in 2014, the mayor of Munich began an investigation into how to return to Microsoft products. And he was also the one who negotiated the location of the headquarters with Microsoft in 2013.

Isolus

há 2 anosdiscuss

No, they didn't. That happened for example in Munich. But that is on the other side of Germany. And there is already a joke that MS can't move their german headquarters every time a state or big city want's to move away from MS products. (They did this when Munich changed back to MS producs - but of course this was pure coincidence.)

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há 3 anosdiscuss

I find it inconvenient that pluggable eSIMS are so hard to get. In my opinion they combine the best of both worlds. You can download profiles without wating for SIM cards and you can put them in different phones.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Also many SIM cards (UICCs) / embedded SIM modules as well as e.g. the Secure Element that Samsung uses for Knox run with Java Card.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Most German universtities have applied at an early stage for a class B network block therefore they have little pressure.

When I asked the IT staff at my university years ago, they said that there are still some very old routers without IPv6 support in use. And since everything seems to work with IPv4 for the university administration, there is no money for new ones.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

Whenever you present a certificate to the passport, its current time is updated by the "valid from" value if it's newer then the current time.

It's not perfect but if you started you trip in another country with such a system and where a more recent certificate was used, your passport will deny access.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

I don't know anything about this particular case, but about these systems in general. They can work without any operator or network connection. They verify that you have a valid passport and that the taken image (face) matches the one stored in your passport. But for modern passports they use Extended Access Control which requires up to date terminal certificates to access the data (you have to update them in the range of days) und you can give these systems revocation lists and lists of unwanted persons. If any of this is not updated, they stop working.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

NIO ist doing this with it's Power Swap Stations. But there are too few to really use them.

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há 3 anosdiscuss

In a lot of other countries in common language a ton is a metric ton.

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há 4 anosdiscuss

I'm pretty sure these changes are great for e.g. standard TLS connections.

But I don't quite understand what this means for other/custom curves.

For example I'm often using brainpool curves. Currently I just set the CurveParams and I'm done.

They are part of a lot of official standards (especially in Europe/Germany but also for e.g. travel documents in the ICAO standard) so I can't get around them.

Do I have to implement everything for that curves myself? That would probably be more insecure than just using crypto/elliptic.

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