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by drvdevd 12y ago
The "forever to be deployed" part is a crucial observation. Perhaps research into how to get the Internet community to adopt new protocols is more relevant than the protocols themselves. In other words: how can we speed up the ado
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by drvdevd 12y ago
One of the most useful ideas behind rump kernels, from what I can see, is as a technique rather than an end result: it's a great example of how filesystem drivers or other typically privileged code can be reused in a lesser privileged
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by drvdevd 12y ago
What seems even more interesting about it, is that it's directly related to the paging structures in x64, making it potentially applicable to kernel mode exploit mitigations on any OS running there (MacOS X for example). It's a gr
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by drvdevd 13y ago
Yeah. I'm gonna have to agree with you here. I'm all for charity, but in the end, an app is an app. If we want to be truly unbiased, why should we care that the guy who wrote it was homeless? Shouldn't we focus on the quality
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by drvdevd 13y ago
Maybe no one person has the expertise to analyze a sample of this malware in its entirety. But treating malware samples like weapons to hide (to be even disassembled only in maximum isolation?), somehow seems similar to the line of thought
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by drvdevd 13y ago
Strange that there seemed to be no mention of why the US government shut down in the first place: they failed to raise the debt ceiling on time, right? And who has primary interest in US debt? Other governments, like China for example. So i