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Why I Use FAT32 Even Though It Sucks

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

After I bought my 1.5TB drive, I decided to put my 300GB drive into an external enclosure for some portable storage.
I wanted the drive to be in FAT32 format so that I can both read AND write it from Linux and Windows. NTFS is usually only readable from Linux. The large clusters are inefficient for [...]

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MIT Students Silenced About Subway Vulnerabilities

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

A restraining order was issued against three MIT students who were to make a presentation at Defcon. They were about to reveal security vulnerabilities that they discovered in the Massachusetts train fare system.
The EFF is appealing the decision on the grounds that the restraining order is a violation of the student’s free speech rights.
Ironically, the [...]

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