flpmor

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by flpmor 15y ago
I think that you would still hear yourself, because you hear the sound resonating from inside your body, that's why people dislike their recorded voice. In general, I am not sure that the claim that this is going to prevent people from talk
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by flpmor 15y ago
I know, and we have constantly lived along the edge of the cliff because of that. From a perspective of security it was a very poor design decision. By making those decisions you create a big security burden, the attack surface is very larg
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by flpmor 15y ago
MY first reaction was about security as well. This change of paradigm is a recipe for disaster if security is not considered from the beginning because most of the assumptions change. If it's not done carefully (things like segregation betw
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by flpmor 15y ago
It could be more haste than incompetence. Anyway, if you think about massive brute force attacks like this, they are 'silly' easy no-brain attacks more likely to come from script kiddies who downloaded a tool someone else wrote than real at
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by flpmor 15y ago
I think that a more reasonable explanation could be that the attackers were careless about building the dictionary. If it's built by parsing files and you feed the wrong file or the parser does not work correctly you end up with a dictionar
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The truth is the best bullshit(boingboing.net)
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by flpmor 15y ago
I really like "This American Life", it's not related to technology directly but it's sometimes very inspiring about how people do things. Also listen to "Planet Money".
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by flpmor 15y ago
I agree, is not consuming prevents creating, it's consuming too much takes time from creating. In that sense, developing a good filter for crap would allow you to consume faster leaving more time for creating. A second issue is that it's as
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by flpmor 15y ago
This comes from an attempt to write valid JavaScript without using any letters or numbers. It's partly for the sake of demonstrating it's possible and part for security testing reasons, to show that poorly written input validation filters c
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Where Do All The Attacks Go?(weis2011.econinfosec.org)
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