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by bradford 10y ago
Relevent portion from the article: "US government took the rare step of publicly pointing the finger at the Russian government, accusing it of directing the recent string of hacks and data breaches. The intelligence community declined
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by bradford 10y ago
[disclaimer, also MS employee]. This has already devolved into opinion territory but I don't think you're giving C# enough credit. I picked up F# relatively early in it's lifetime (2006ish?), back then there were many languag
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by bradford 10y ago
> "...your stance "this isn't a backdoor because it requires physical access; if you've given up physical access you're already screwed" is beyond disingenuous. " Ok, I'm open to the possibility th
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by bradford 10y ago
With all due respect, What argument do you think I'm trying to make? I ask this because I'm still rather unclear about the argument that the original article is trying to make . I'm even more confused about what conclusions
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by bradford 10y ago
I think you're missing my point (and my poor wording probably didn't help). A backdoor that requires physical access isn't a backdoor. If an attacker has such access, you're already screwed. A backdoor that requires ad
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by bradford 10y ago
requiring admin rights for an exploit is certainly a lower barrier to entry than is requiring physical access, but I think my point still stands: if someone has those rights, you're already screwed.
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by bradford 10y ago
Ok, I get it. The message is "don't use backdoors, because they'll inevitably get leaked", which I agree with. Unfortunately, I don't think that's the message that's being interpreted by the vast majority
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by bradford 10y ago
>> Isn't a secure boot policy that can be bypassed with physical access more secure than none? >Of course it isn't. Really? Suppose that you are choosing a new device. You can choose one that let's a remote hacker i
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by bradford 10y ago
(disclaimer, MS employee, non-security expert here). I've read through the article, here, and in other places, and I'm seeing sentiment that this is a big fuck up on Microsoft's part. I might be completely misunderstanding,
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by bradford 10y ago
They probably could, but would they? At least in the US, publicly traded tech companies are accountable to shareholders: There's some transparency in the accounting, and it's hard for them to throw millions of dollars at a problem
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by bradford 10y ago
Everything you said is true, but I'd like to elaborate a bit further: sometimes state involvement can be inferred when the exploit involves computing resources which could only be reasonably wielded by a nation-state . For example, s
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by bradford 10y ago
I highly doubt it. The interaction required by the user wouldn't suit a mobile game very well. Additionally, the game is CPU intensive and would, as is, drain the battery very quickly. I imagine both these issues would mean a massive
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by bradford 10y ago
> Nobody compares all N! permutation for sorting, and nobody checks all N! tours when solving a TSP. Doesn't this depend on what you mean by 'solve'? If you really want the single best solution, you're stuck with c
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by bradford 11y ago
I haven't used C++ in about... 12 years. I'll admit ignorance about the updates that have occurred in recently, so I've got a general question: How is the compatibility between different versions? Specifically, would a C++
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by bradford 11y ago
I'll confess ignorance over what exactly the converter does, or how it does it. I don't know anything more than what was announced today. The article says that it converts win32/.net apps into appx packages, and I'd assu
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by bradford 11y ago
(disclaimer, I'm a Microsoft employee and this is only my opinion). There's an important distinction which often don't see discussed when this topic comes up: It can be very dangerous to install a program on your machine, bu
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by bradford 11y ago
One, it's not clear that you can compare dazzle camouflage to digital camouflage. The design, as well as the visual attributes, are very different. Two, the effectiveness of Dazzle was debatable: https://en.wikipedia.org&#x
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by bradford 11y ago
This statement infuriated me: > "...And bike lanes are a dangerous lure, giving would-be riders a false sense of security that it’s safe to ride on streets" Proponents of vehicular cycling would state that the safest place to b
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by bradford 11y ago
It's not illegal (at least where I live). It's been legal for a few years now and I assure you that things haven't gone to hell in a hand-basket. Do you think it should be illegal, and if so, why? (edited for clarification)
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by bradford 11y ago
You say that Tinder reduces the "time investment and biological risk" of [sex]. I'm not a Tinder user, how does it reduce the biological risk? wouldn't the risk of an STD be just as great, if not greater, than the status
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by bradford 11y ago
Bruce's article linked to this article ( https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/06/04/microsoft-disk... ), which does have a statement about the elephant diffuser, including why MS removed it and its
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by bradford 12y ago
Indian restaurants probably follow a somewhat industrialized method which cuts down on labor. Following a recipe from a cookbook is really quite laborious: grinding spices and mixing them in the correct proportions took me a long time to co
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by bradford 12y ago
There are many applications/areas where finding and fixing bugs is 'good news'. Cryptography isn't one of them. Stakeholders really expect this stuff to work before relying on it, and I can't imagine anyone is hap
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by bradford 12y ago
While you're probably joking, this seems incredibly incompetent since a better mitigation exists: Disable Adobe's flash plugin on IE.
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by bradford 13y ago
There's no 'natural' way of editing the project files: if you think that the 'natural' way of doing it is by clicking junk in a gui, then you are assuming too much. While I'm probably in the minority, I edit my
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by bradford 14y ago
For non-mathematical explanations I liked this video, which uses a paint mixing analogy to explain the one way functions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3QnD2c4Xovk
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by bradford 14y ago
" ... It's clean and modern, it's content instead of chrome, it's crisp and legible ..." I'm also an MS employee, and I really hate it when I see fellow MS employees talking like this on forums. It's soulless corporate marketing jargon, de
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by bradford 15y ago
click the lower left corner. It's functionally similar to pressing the old start button. though there's clearly some guesswork involved, since no start button is present.
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by bradford 15y ago
(disclaimer, I'm a MS employee). some advantages: * Hyper-V support( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/07/bringing-hyper... ). * Refreshing to a clean state without reinstallation. ( http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2012/01/04/re
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by bradford 15y ago
This question shows a lot of the confusion that people have around windows 8. I partially blame Microsoft for this, and I also largely blame uninformed comments on technology related websites that have, intentionally or not, spread misconc

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