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by bostik 7y ago
> There is also a 'forced shutdown' API, but for whatever reason in testing for me it has always been slower than a graceful shutdown. I have no idea what it does internally I have sort of reverse engineered what the two opti
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by bostik 7y ago
I honestly feel that the best we as an industry can do about it is to start referring to biometrics as "amputationware". As often and widely as possible. Until the public perception about them changes, vendors will keep pushing th
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by bostik 7y ago
I keep telling to people who want to get into infosec one thing over and over: most of the infosec work is not about breaking [into] things, it's about incredibly boring reporting. The truly interesting bits are on what to investigate&
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by bostik 7y ago
We were scheduled to fly from Edinburgh to London last year, when the previous meltdown happened. Luckily we got notified well before anyone got to the airport and managed to book train tickets instead.
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by bostik 7y ago
Even in that space, one stands out from the rest. ANGST!
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by bostik 7y ago
> There are bots that feign transaction so that others react in a specific way. In the last moment these are canceled again, too late for competitors to still react. In stock exchanges at least, what you describe is called spoofing. Th
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by bostik 7y ago
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by bostik 7y ago
In my sibling response I mentioned that just 5 articles have been truly valuable. In no particular order: DOI: 10.1109/MC.2003.1204375 ; "Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History" DOI: 10.1109/AGILE.2013.17
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by bostik 7y ago
I agree with your sentiment. However, I believe you are missing the forest from the trees. The desired result of the regulations is, first and foremost, accountability . This includes, but is not limited to, audit trails and provenance. Bu
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I'll dig out the archive when back at the office, next week. There is plenty of research into iterative/agile development, slightly less into quality, and surprisingly little on accountability. The most valuable sources have been
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by bostik 7y ago
I am going to hazard a guess: you have not been exposed to some of the nuttier regulations within this space. The regulatory demands in financial technology, and especially in those industries where both the regulators as well as majority o
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by bostik 7y ago
What a sneaky wording. > fetches Amazon’s price for products that users see on Walmart.com, Target.com and elsewhere. To me that reads: "we will turn your computer to a node in our scraping botnet". I would guess the internal
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by bostik 7y ago
I wish I could find the article - there was a report on the effect of installed solar panels and the cost of AC on the (single-family) properties they were on. Would have been in 2016 or 2017, maybe. But in any case... The overall reduction
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by bostik 7y ago
Please no. The last time they had a global problem, everyone scrambled for more than a week. (Cloudbleed) This 30-minute global outage was pretty nasty, but not anywhere near as awful. Timing helped, as nothing truly critical was affected.
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by bostik 7y ago
This is a solved problem. Open-shoving is a feature of sit-n-gos, so of course people have simulated these and compiled so called "pushbot tables". The parameters are basically pot size and winning probabilities against a random h
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by bostik 7y ago
In online poker (at least with 100BB stacks) it's customary to top up between hands if you're below full stack. The reason is simple: with table stakes, your maximum win for a hand is constrained by your own stack size.
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by bostik 7y ago
This is one of those where the nature of the attack and inference together make the case. The attackers were inside the system for several years . Marriott is a high-end hotel chain, whose establishments are used by state level travelers.
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by bostik 7y ago
This has far more potentially far-reaching connotations than the BA fine. Yes, Marriot failed to conduct proper due diligence. Yes, they should have been able to detect the breach earlier and block the attackers' access. And yes, the a
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by bostik 7y ago
I have one. 1. How can someone who does not have an account prevent themselves from being tagged and/or identified in uploaded photos? Corollary: why isn't the tagging and identification of a person an opt-in feature only?
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by bostik 7y ago
Shodan safari. If you're researching internet-facing setups of anything , shodan is an excellent resource. You'll still have to actually investigate and sample the data from the discovered locations, but that's where even ru
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by bostik 7y ago
My ISP drops SSH connections (actually any TCP connections) that have been idle for too long. I have worked around that by adding Host * ServerAliveInterval <suitable number> to my SSH client config. Works wonders.
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by bostik 7y ago
Right, twice in three months... Our exchange team have promised to do a writeup on the technical and design tradeoffs with regards to the language transition. I'll prod them a bit, and maybe we shall have a properly exhaustive post on
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by bostik 7y ago
Smarkets | Full Time | ONSITE (London, UK; also Downtown LA, California) We're a modern betting exchange, going technology first to enable proper price competition in a field of fat commissions. Join a small, agile, and fast-growing te
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by bostik 7y ago
Near the very end of a decidedly lame duck film Babylon A.D. there is an incredibly beautiful and serene scene. The camera pans through ruins in the middle of still creeping wilderness, and stops in an open room where a deer is drinking wat
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by bostik 7y ago
Thank you for confirming, I was quite certain it was you. And I do agree with you, within reason: financial industry tech regulation is largely fine. ("Sane") The regulations tend to state the intent of a rule, and may even spec
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by bostik 7y ago
> Hollywood is vile. "Let us mutilate you because you have a dream that will otherwise die." If there was a way to condense that one to just a few words, it would make one hell of a T-shirt slogan.
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by bostik 7y ago
Funny that you should mention cargo-culting and regulations. In my experience, much of the cargo-culting is driven by regulations. And a good part of that has been caused by the industries being regulated, as an unfortunate consequence. N
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by bostik 7y ago
Writing a book is easy. You sit down by the keyboard, slit your wrists, and pour your self out. (That's not a typo, btw.) I've written one, and in the process acquired a near limitless admiration for those who can do it for living
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by bostik 7y ago
> What if we moved from "everything is a file" to "everything is a URL"? Oh, Hello RDF.[0] (Granted, in RDF everything is a URI but that's a minor detail here.) At one point in my life I spent two years trying
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by bostik 7y ago
Heh, most systems could fit their entire working dataset in 1TB and never worry about I/O. Except for logs, of course. Those things are incredible disk space hogs. Also, serialising data to logs can surprisingly expensive. (Our ES logg

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