MostAwesomeDude

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by MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
I can't comment directly on his blog. What kind of asshole doesn't let people comment on his blog? :3 (Sarcasm, by the way; I don't have comments on my blog either.) More pragmatically, the tolerance of assholes is a requisite for using a c
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by MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
To expand on this a bit: with open("some.filename") as f: ... f is an opened file which is automatically closed. This isn't strictly necessary in Python, since files are flushed and closed when reaped, including in case of excepti
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by MostAwesomeDude 15y ago
It's a nit worth picking; I am ever-so-slightly hearing-impaired (congenital) to the point where I only need the $80 Bose headphones instead of the $300 imported-from-Europe headphones for my audio work, and motherboard sound cards are fine
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by MostAwesomeDude 16y ago
I have no citation, but he did say things along those lines when I saw him at Portland State not even a month ago.
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by MostAwesomeDude 16y ago
Okay. I concede.
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by MostAwesomeDude 16y ago
I seem to recall that there are five numbers involved: Source address, source port, target address, target port, and a fifth number. I want to say it's the file descriptor, but that just sounds wrong when I type it out.
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by MostAwesomeDude 16y ago
Nobody has really publicly talked about it, but there is now code in the Notchian and CraftBukkit servers to limit connections from single IPs to once every 5 seconds, and to disconnect slow logins by killing the thread after 30 seconds, ef
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by MostAwesomeDude 16y ago
The thrust of my argument is merely that one thread for every connection is bad. (Minecraft happens to use two per connection, but that doesn't change the fundamental argument.) You are correct that the problem is not directly due to thre
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by MostAwesomeDude 16y ago
You're entirely correct. I should explain that this PoC was written not to advertise Bravo, but to explain the nature of the attack to a handful of members of the community. I don't advertise Bravo -- the people that it was written for were