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by daeken 13y ago
It is absolutely, unquestionably unethical to do that. There's a huge, huge difference between proving a concept and stealing user data -- no matter what your end goal is. What possible positive outcome could he be looking for in tak
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by daeken 13y ago
All I have to say is: thank you. Thank you to every single person involved with Kiva in any way. Every month I have an auto-deposit into my Kiva account, and I'm always excited to jump in and distribute the funds. The team I'm i
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by daeken 13y ago
Very cool article. > Still, it’s somewhat surprising how easy it was to generate our ‘JIT’ interpreter — the code isn’t much bigger then the original version. Perhaps with some more scaffolding/helper libraries, this could be a viab
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by daeken 13y ago
I was in a very, very bad accident at 16. I pulled myself out by the steering wheel (I was in the front passenger seat) and walked over to the other vehicle to ask if everyone was okay, before finding out that I was severely injured myself
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by daeken 13y ago
Disclosing a fairly significant (albeit very niche) vulnerability like this via a comment on HN 3 weeks later isn't really best practice. Was there a disclosure prior to this post going up?
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by daeken 13y ago
Instant Crush is one of my favorite songs in recent years, for what it's worth. The chorus is just absolutely meticulously well engineered and well performed. Couldn't stop listening to it for days, along with Doin' It Righ
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by daeken 13y ago
I must say, I made a beeline for the security page and was not disappointed. While I think they underplay the risk of memory corruption flaws (namely by emphasizing backups to be critical, rather than isolating user data to minimize compro
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by daeken 13y ago
On a scale of 1-10, it was about a 15 on the broken scale. As explained in the comments on the patch, a public exponent of 1 means a private exponent of 1 (it's the inverse). This makes it completely, trivially broken.
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by daeken 13y ago
The Matasano crypto challenges ( http://www.matasano.com/articles/crypto-challenges/ ) are a great way to do this. Not by implementing crypto, but by breaking crypto in ways that will scare you away from ever imp
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by daeken 13y ago
I'm going to speak strongly against the prevailing view in the security community here: a forgot password email/username oracle is not an issue . Not in any way, shape, or form. Why? Because if I go to register an account with
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by daeken 13y ago
Could you elaborate on that? High-speed hardware interests the hell out of me, but I don't have any hands-on experience there. Any books or exercises you could recommend?
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by daeken 13y ago
It depends on what you want to do. If you want to stay on the bleeding edge of things, building awesome products and generally having a good time, then sure, always keep learning and switching toolsets and all that. But there are niches (
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by daeken 13y ago
Every time I've used Lyft, I've had a fantastic experience. I have great conversations with the drivers and we can connect for those few minutes we're in the car together, then we go our separate ways. I do treat the driver
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by daeken 13y ago
Awesome. I strongly recommend both "Little Brother" and "Makers" to every single developer I know. Makers is more directly relevant to techies.
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by daeken 13y ago
I don't. Unfortunately, most people do, and I'm a pragmatist at the end of the day.
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by daeken 13y ago
> If you want real change and bloodless revolution ... destroy politicians' careers and make their techniques impossible to maintain. I've written on this subject before, but I believe that destruction is the most effective mea
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by daeken 13y ago
One of my favorite books, but the chicken and egg problem is substantial. Hitting the "tax dodger" tipping point requires a huge number of people to break the law before it 1) has any impact at all, and 2) becomes unenforcable. I
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by daeken 13y ago
I'm a bit baffled by this myself. I'm on the iOS 7 beta, and it's far closer to WP7 than Android. (Which is awesome -- I loved WP7, just wished it had apps.)
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by daeken 13y ago
Before or after they have access to the private key, so long as an active MITM is not performed. In essence, PFS makes it such that no matter what information you have about the server's configuration, passive sniffing of data is no
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by daeken 13y ago
> How do you know the logo was prepared by an officer or employee of the U.S. federal government? They could’ve hired a design company to make it (albeit not a very good one, by the looks of it). Had they done so, it'd presumably be
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by daeken 13y ago
I've read the PoP journals many times on Kindle, and it looks great. Can't speak to the Karateka journal, but I imagine it's not far off.
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by daeken 13y ago
If you liked VVVVVV, go play Super Hexagon (preferably on a mobile device). It's the same designer, and oh god, it's the most amazing game I've ever played. It's brutally hard, but never frustrating, and it forces you
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by daeken 13y ago
> Politicians spend much of their time in office fundraising for re-election. Politicians should be disallowed from consecutive terms. They can run only when they're not already in office, preventing them from spending all their ti
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by daeken 13y ago
> If steam selled Disc Based games I very much doubt they would adopt the same model. Valve does sell discs for their games, and they're just ways of delivering bits for Steam. The DRM is 100% identical in every way.
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by daeken 13y ago
I have a feeling it's a subtle reference to Guantanamo.
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by daeken 13y ago
Honestly, I have to take anything that Steve Gibson says with a massive grain of salt. Remember, this is the man who claimed that raw sockets would destroy the Internet. Given that his suggestions are 100% speculation, I'd be willing
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by daeken 13y ago
Yeah, bit disappointing. What's actually happening is that the tickets are reserved, but I have no way of releasing them or any of that. There are still 6 tickets here -- if anyone wants one, shoot me an email. First come, first ser
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by daeken 13y ago
It's not quite sold out, but EventBee seems to be having some issues on the last few tickets for some reason. If you can't get in, refresh until the dropdown actually has tickets and you should be good to go. Sorry for the annoy
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by daeken 13y ago
There are 7 seats currently reserved but unpaid. I think they'll clear out in something like 15 minutes if they aren't paid within that window. Otherwise, it's all sold out at this point. Edit: Several tickets have opened u
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by daeken 13y ago
The videos will be recorded and made available to students. If you can't make the classes, you can always watch them after the fact. So long as you keep up with the course work, you should be just fine.

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