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by dsacco 9y ago
I’m speaking specifically about the case where someone is trying to reverse engineer a private API from an application. Then interacting with an API endpoint will necessarily trigger the canary. Having retrieved API secrets offensively, and
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by dsacco 9y ago
> First off, by definition like 49% of the drivers are technically better than the "average driver". No, that’s not the definition of mean, that’s (something like) the definition of median. In a skewed distribution (which dri
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by dsacco 9y ago
Friendly feedback, coming from a reverse engineer: the commenter who also answered this question gave a really good, concrete example of how this could be used in the context of DRM. When I visited your page I was initially perplexed as to
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by dsacco 9y ago
Huh. That’s...a good idea. The idea has to be developed further though. This has to be deployed on different domain names and with full content control on the web pages. I guess that’s all doable with the “private server with root access” u
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by dsacco 9y ago
> When a new item of technology is introduced as an option that an individual can accept or not as he chooses, it does not necessarily REMAIN optional. This is offtopic, but I am reminded of how Slack initially supported IRC gateways a
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by dsacco 9y ago
No it isn't, it's clearly about commercialism. The commenter makes specific examples and includes the phrase "buying decisions".
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by dsacco 9y ago
I'm not going to respond to most of your comment, but this suggestion is pretty weird: > Use unpopular OSes like TempleOS instead of giving even more market share to Google/Apple/Microsoft ...Why? You could also just use
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by dsacco 9y ago
What does "no success" mean in this context?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Recruiting and resume writing is what entrepreneurs call a "tie shop business." I'm a (successful) entrepreneur and I don't call any businesses "tie shop businesses." In a quick search, I can't ev
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by dsacco 9y ago
> The question here is can't we have banks that fulfill their basic functionality without the corrupting and destabilizing effects of the big banks? Implicit in this question is the idea that the destabilizing effects are actually
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by dsacco 9y ago
Let's assume I agree with you about how bad Microsoft's hegemony was. What exactly is the problem with "buying a stairway to heaven?" If you're actually doing good work , how is this criticism not just a vacuous at
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by dsacco 9y ago
I agree, it was more than just Internet Explorer. But it was far closer to being just Internet Explorer than it was to Bill Gates being "evil incarnate", for any reasonable definition of that term. The latter isn't even a v
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by dsacco 9y ago
A few years ago I was working as an application security consultant at Accuvant LABS. I had been reading the small business and consulting writings of tptacek and patio11 on this site and elsewhere for some time before then. My experience a
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Yeah how many of those billions are part of that economy that is actually causing the harm (wars, famine, poverty, etc) that they are then proud to “fight”? Yeah, no. I want to hear from you how, specifically , Microsoft’s high valu
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by dsacco 9y ago
> We have 20 years of reporting about the mischief of Microsoft. What more do you need? Reporting from where, precisely? And how does it negate Gates’ philanthropy? We need to see details. What may be obvious to you is entirely unobvio
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by dsacco 9y ago
> I copy paste the same links, over, and over. There's always more like you. That’s both dismissive and intellectually insulting. Please tell me how this is “PR” and not honest altruism: 1. The Gates Foundation’s philanthropy is p
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Take Bill Gates. 20 years ago he was evil incarnate, his company caught in lying, cheating, corrupting. You have to know this level of hyperbole is baiting Godwin’s Law... I’ll come right out and say it: I never thought Microsoft’s
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by dsacco 9y ago
Banks are a net positive. Without them we have no modern economy. Occasionally the economy destabalizes as part of a cycle, but it (historically) restabalizes. The media pays an outsized lens to the corruption of Big Banks, but without thei
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Counting on societies to hold their birth rate down that far is fundamentally at odds with the theory of evolution. Why?
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by dsacco 9y ago
My honest opinion is that this is vacuous. I dislike being that critical but this is important. First, I don’t think it’s meaningful to segregate this list into divisions by funding milestones, and I don’t think it’s productive to have so m
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by dsacco 9y ago
> As security professionals, we need to help entrepreneurs and educate developers find a good balance between building a business and building good security practices. This is the goal of this checklist. No offense, but that’s not an a
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Realistically, security audits or bug bounty are not doable in seed startups - where most of the time no one has any security knowledge, and no money Ehhhhhhh...I disagree. 1. Most of my clients tend closer to seed stage than to well
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by dsacco 9y ago
That’s interesting. Do you mind if I ask what textbooks/materials you used?
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by dsacco 9y ago
I don't know of any book which features them "prominently", but I also don't think you'd really need one. They are taught in various abstract algebra books, they're just taught in the fashion of, "Here&#x2
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by dsacco 9y ago
Where do I go to sell?
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by dsacco 9y ago
> when there's people that will pay ten or twenty times more for it. Ten or twenty times more! But who are these people?! Where do I go to sell them??
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by dsacco 9y ago
Really? What background do you think Concrete Mathematics needs?
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by dsacco 9y ago
You would not typically find dedicated undergraduate courses for graph theory, probability theory or combinatorics, no. At the very least you wouldn't expect to see those until you hit 300 level, but most likely not until graduate co
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by dsacco 9y ago
I took a look at the first four or so chapters and I'm not really a fan of the organization. But I think you could self-study the material and be fine. The introduction of the book explains that it's very focused on proofs, and it
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by dsacco 9y ago
> Remembering 3 pages of content per day (especially in math where concepts build on each other) is really not hard. I disagree. Or rather, I think that's unsustainable. Any given three consecutive pages from Spivak's Calcul

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