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by debatem1 7y ago
I work in security. If you're in an environment where serious ethical failure happens on the regular I would encourage you to get out. There are plenty of jobs, including in IT, where the worst you'll see is self-serving lies and
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by debatem1 7y ago
Basically I'm not willing to go to this level of drama unless the consequences of going the other way are really, really obvious. That means things like illegality, safety of life issues, ethical breaches, total project failure, etc. I
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by debatem1 7y ago
I've done similarly career-threatening things in the past and my strongest advice is to stand and deliver in an actionable way . Telling the CEO he is full of shit is not actionable. Telling the CEO that his plan will not work and tha
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by debatem1 7y ago
Remember that you don't jam transmitters, you jam receivers. Blinding an on-orbit receiver is easy regardless of whether you use lasers or radio because you know exactly where it has to be at any given time.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Seems like you could use an invertible bloom filter or similar, but I'm not sure what the performance hit would look like.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I did. I left Google to take a job that is both more interesting and that leaves me more time to do interesting things.
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by debatem1 7y ago
I was a day laborer before I went into tech or got an education. And (like most people, I suspect) I do care about living an interesting life-- I just didn't know that I was trading that away. Didn't figure it out for a long time,
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by debatem1 7y ago
"no worries" has proven surprisingly reliable for me. So far, as an American, I've used it on 5 continents in probably three dozen languages (only one of which I know well) and nobody yet has misunderstood it.
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by debatem1 7y ago
The challenge is that diets that rely on how your body metabolizes certain foods inherently depend on a lot of details about your digestive and metabolic processes. Some of those things probably are very generalizable, but many of them will
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by debatem1 7y ago
I have been a day laborer (not in India) and worked at Google (not as a researcher) so I might be close enough to both worlds. While my time at Google was very exciting for me, it didn't yield any stories that friends or family ask me
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by debatem1 7y ago
I've done some program synthesis and equivalence proving with them. It was for sure trivial to express and nontrivial to express in a way that would actually get to a solution. I know of no general shortcuts for avoiding the part where
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by debatem1 7y ago
I actually did this for a previous employer to demonstrate that we shouldn't switch to fingerprint auth-- took a photo of the big boss holding a clear glass, which nicely highlights your fingerprint.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Interesting the difference between the topline description "exposed to hundreds of items disguised as editorial content" and the one later in the page "10 articles". Could it be that a company which sells deception is pl
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by debatem1 7y ago
This would be an extraordinary sci-fi story and I would pay good money to read it.
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by debatem1 7y ago
At that point why not just LD_PRELOAD and hook the creation of all cert stores?
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by debatem1 7y ago
I know it isn't exactly what you're doing, but you might want to look at nogotofail on the Android side. It has all the per-app goodness baked in, and you could probably borrow its approach.
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by debatem1 7y ago
So, I'm confused. Does this work on a set of programs where you know eg the right command line parameters to give them or on all programs? For example, let's say I have a program which uses the openssl API to set a custom trust st
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by debatem1 7y ago
It would be interesting to see what the impact of adding hints about allocation lifetime to malloc would be. I have to suspect someone has already written that paper and I just don't know the terminology to look for it.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Ok, so you would forbid online advertising, but not advertising overall. What would you allow/ban and why (assuming that viewpoint is germane to this conversation)? I'm not sure what you mean by "at any earlier time". Ca
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by debatem1 7y ago
Ok, maybe I'm asking questions too close to my own viewpoint. Let me ask some follow-up questions that are a bit further out. Would you approve of a law which forbade advertising of any sort? Would you approve of a law which required s
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by debatem1 7y ago
This statement is too broad brush for me to actually understand where you're coming from. Let's try a few variations of the theme and see if we can suss out why we perceive this so differently. If none of these touch on your persp
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by debatem1 7y ago
Just want to give a about out to the Satelles guys, who are doing some really neat work on verifiable position and time even deep indoors.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Let's just read the first paragraph again: "Here’s a program roughly 0% of programmers know how to write: generate a list of random tweets, without duplication. You may think you know how to do this, but you almost assuredly don’t
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by debatem1 7y ago
It doesn't. The original problem statement is "generate a list of random tweets, without duplication". If you can't store the list, you're stuffed no matter what.
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by debatem1 7y ago
O(1) /extra/ space, but we must have working space at least the size of the output.
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by debatem1 7y ago
The original problem is to "generate a list of random tweets, without duplication". So lists are most assuredly allowed, and the implied constraints on the output size are in play. Using those to solve the problem under an assumpt
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by debatem1 7y ago
Interesting, thanks for the link. I wish there were some comprehensive list or taxonomy on these kinds of scams.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Cool demo, is the source live? I'd like to see how it works with ipv4-over-twitter. Edit: nevermind, found it. For those looking, it's at https://github.com/harvardnlp/NeuralSteganography
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by debatem1 7y ago
Interesting, do you mind if I ask what kind of environment you work in? Most of the non-crypto people I know will mumble about primes and factors when asked how public key crypto works, but maybe I'm just wildly out of date.
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by debatem1 7y ago
Hmm, I still see a lot of table-driven AES implementations, secrecy-only modes, GCM with attacker-controlled nonces, CBC padding oracles, etc. All of that is anecdata of course, but I don't think I'm completely off course when I s

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