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by brl 17y ago
We're a 5 developer team and we recently switched from Trac to JIRA. I haven't spent enough time with JIRA to comment on it in depth but it seems pretty nice.
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by brl 17y ago
This is a screencast which demonstrates some of the features and capabilities of the application my startup is working on. Our software is an open-source network tool framework with an emphasis on security assessment. It's also a distrib
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The Java Virtual Machine as Shellcode (Screencast of what my startup is working on)(blog.netifera.com)
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by brl 17y ago
Mainly they use Facebook for organizing perfectly legal events, as well as keeping in touch with other Nazis. Regarding illegal activity, incitement would be a better way to describe what I've seen than blatant organizing. The loose cannons
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by brl 17y ago
Many right-wing extremist groups organize on Facebook. They organize camping trips, rallies, birthday parties, and sometimes they even organize illegal direct action. I don't know if Facebook should step in or not because the profiles of t
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by brl 17y ago
This isn't only a free speech issue. Nazis are using social networking sites to recruit, organize and build political strength. In the current economic climate, the threat of white supremacist idiots being able to pull their shit together
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by brl 17y ago
It's a pretty funny one page story about the unique hazards of the Internet.
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by brl 17y ago
That HN feature drives me nuts too. I want to read about half of the killed stories. Here's the original link: http://pastie.org/475203
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by brl 17y ago
He called it pointless 'security theater' and recommended using a faster algorithm like MD5 to reduce delays at security checkpoints since terrorists will just print their own boarding passes anyways.
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by brl 17y ago
Since you have an implementation I don't have to manually extract from a library deep inside the OpenBSD source tree I think I'm going to take a look at replacing bcrypt in an application I'm working on.
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by brl 17y ago
Not sure how well thought out this decision is considering that SHA-1 has resisted preimage attacks for almost a decade longer than the SHA-2 family (since it is that much older). Re-keying hundreds of developers as well as the entire Debia
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by brl 17y ago
Just from the title alone, I can tell I'm going to like this paper :)
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by brl 17y ago
> whereas one might expect "expensive bits optimized in C" There is no important difference in performance between C and Java according to http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/
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by brl 17y ago
Thanks for reminding me why I'm never going anywhere near C++ ever again in my life. Good answer though, I was stumped.
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by brl 17y ago
> You have to check for out-of-memory, and throw an exception if so. You have to check if there is space for the allocation in the current space. This is two native instructions, a compare and a conditional branch. If the allocation f
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by brl 17y ago
In the case of a minor collection, you don't do a full mark-sweep. You only look at a small fraction of the live objects. Generally you only need to trace objects in the youngest generation which are reachable from GC roots. Since you exp
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by brl 17y ago
Seriously, Wikipedia? You deleted Fravia's page for a lack of notability?
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by brl 18y ago
> 'The Design and Implementation of Virtual Machines' Oh that book already does in fact already exist, and it's amazing: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Virtual-Machines-Versatile-Platforms...
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by brl 18y ago
The free GeoIP databases are deliberately crippled with inaccuracies. Their business model is to sell you an upgrade to the good information.
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by brl 18y ago
> Simple...sue him. That's probably not going to help the OP achieve what he really wants, getting his software finished. The programmer he hired agreed to do the work for about $8 / hour. Not sure a lawsuit can possibly make sense fro
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by brl 18y ago
A contract is only valid if something is exchanged in both directions. This is a legal principle called consideration, and in the absence of consideration a contract has no legal legitimacy. Without some transfer of IP rights either by cop
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by brl 18y ago
This seems like a pretty basic thing for the contract to specify. What else would the buyer be paying for?
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by brl 18y ago
> I'm thinking the best way would be to get someone to reverse engineer the software You don't have the source code? He just gives you a crippled binary to demonstrate his progress which only works after authenticating with his server?
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by brl 18y ago
I hear that 'Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell' is kind of annoying to break the protection on :)
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by brl 18y ago
Yes, I may be overestimating the reaction that people would have but it's not so much about privacy as abusing the trust of their users. I think most people would consider it pretty dishonest for Skype to place backdoors in their client ap
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by brl 18y ago
Yes, a better way would be to not have a contest to entice competent cryptanalysts to start disassembling Skype on the weekend. Maybe not talk about Skype attacks at all. You know, keep it a secret.
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by brl 18y ago
In the US they are probably required to provide CALEA interception capabilities to law enforcement for their dial-out service, but I doubt they have some secret interception backdoor in the software itself. If somebody who is reverse engine
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by brl 18y ago
Are you sure it can't mean anything but that? Are you sure that the best way to hide the fact that you have found an attack against Skype is to advertise a contest with a billion dollar reward to anybody who can find the same attack (or any
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by brl 18y ago
What does Windows have to do with anything? The NSA is hoovering up packets at AT&T switching stations and now they want to listen to some encrypted phone calls. Here's my interpretation of the offer. They have no intention of paying f
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by brl 18y ago
> would only have been exploitable if you explicitly configured your system to allow qmail to consume huge amounts of memory. Are you sure it's explicit (ie: changing some qmail configuration file) rather than just depending on how the

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