gizzlon

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by gizzlon 15y ago
Highly recommend "Silence on the wire" : http://nostarch.com/silence.htm It's the opposite of a practical security book, more philosophical I guess. A good read, full of more or less crazy ideas ..
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by gizzlon 15y ago
A little off topic maybe, but I have literally never hear of any of those shows you listed.. OTOH, I do watch revisio3 shows from time to time and I can name many of their sponsors.
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by gizzlon 15y ago
"That's silly. No one in their sane mind would serve web requests AND do heavy processing in the same thread - no matter what language" Sure you could, depends on what you are doing.. In many cases it's fine that the request takes a secon
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Good idea.. they should do this.. Maybe the encryption is too "heavy" for mobile phones? (uses too much battery ore whatever) ?
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Intruder compromises user database for Star Trek Online(nakedsecurity.sophos.com)
1 points by gizzlon 15y ago|0 comments
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by gizzlon 15y ago
If you're using a client your mail is probably delivered to a local smtp server, might bounce around for a while, and is then delivered to gmail server. You don't know that the last step uses ssl/tsl. Even if it does, what about the 3 other
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by gizzlon 15y ago
my thoughts exactly.. Wasn't most of what we today see as great works of classical music paid for by the church or a king? His statement is simply false..
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Can't read the full text.. Guess I'll have to take their word for it =/
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by gizzlon 15y ago
You just email them? No encryption or anything like that? Kind of funny that a security audit is the thing that trigger this .. =/
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Thanks.. "[snip]..one might envision that instead of worrying about a lack of resources, the elasticity of the cloud could actually provide a surplus of compute, network and storage utility that could be just as bad as a deficit" http://
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by gizzlon 15y ago
I wold argue that "DoS" is not vague, just a broad term. Aanyway.. You're right, it boils down to bandwidth flood (or maybe CPU..) in the end. Maybe CoS is not really a technical term, just made more relevant by the technological changes. O
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by gizzlon 15y ago
You have a point, but the difference is that url's are not usually considered secret and are therefore not treated the same way a password would be. For example in the browser..
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Is that a term? "Cost of service attack" ? If not, let's coin it :) Cost-of-service-attack: Consuming bandwidth or other resources in cloud based solutions to drive up the cost of running the service. Very easy when the cost is so tightly c
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Looks cool! And very geeky :)
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How to have great ideas(jamesaltucher.com)
1 points by gizzlon 15y ago|1 comments
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by gizzlon 15y ago
But humans are not born with a "passion to do X" and then live their entire lives in a vacuum. If it was seen as a quick way to build wealth and fame, I'm sure more people would be passionate about curing cancer.
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by gizzlon 15y ago
I get your point, but it's hard to shake the feeling that "deferred altruism" is just an "excuse" to keep everything to our self. Also, I strongly believe it's hard to turn generous after being very selfish for a long time. Guess that's wha
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Wonder if this is related to the launch of their new datacenter? Did the bugreport say?
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by gizzlon 15y ago
"Piracy is obviously a big problem. But it is a problem in practically every country." Inside businesses? Really? Don't think I have ever seen pirated software at the places I have worked, and I don't believe it's very common. I have seen
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by gizzlon 15y ago
I'm not GP, but I found it difficult to follow as well and stopped after 2-3 paragraphs. "So here goes the question: [..]" What is the question? It was kind of difficult to get what your point was and what you where arguing. Please, just
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Probably because many people don't believe that anymore.. Last time i flew (in Europe) most people did turn off their cell phones etc. Well, at least it seemed like they did.
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by gizzlon 15y ago
The best way to stop something like this would probably be to claim that they disrupt other important, life preserving services. That would probably keep most people from putting them up.
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Just FYI, I think that really depends on what kind of a person you are.. Some people prefer to write because it gives them an opportunity to explain things in an ordered, and well thought out fashion.
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by gizzlon 15y ago
A little OT, but this was very surprising: "MS is making a push back to the command line for server products). Core is the GUI-less version of Windows that uses DOS and PowerShell for user interaction. It has a much lower footprint (50% le
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by gizzlon 15y ago
"At user groups I hear a lot of people saying they selected MongoDB because "They had millions of rows and SQL just couldn't keep up"" hehe :) At work we do 500 million + in Mysql, billion(s?) if you count all the tables. But to be fair,
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by gizzlon 15y ago
"I can't really explain why, but wrapping my head around DVCS took an embarassingly long time " I guess the longer you've used a centralized approach, the more "intrenched" that way of thinking is, and the bigger the mental shift has to be
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Parrot in the browser! Don't really know a lot about it, to be honet, but it could work :) "Parrot is a virtual machine designed to efficiently compile and execute bytecode for dynamic languages. Parrot currently hosts a variety of langua
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by gizzlon 15y ago
Not a "C guy", but I simply read it as: Strings could be missing a "\0" and therefore some function could read too far later on..
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by gizzlon 15y ago
I wonder how hard this is to set up if you run your own mail server.. should be pretty easy.. Do you get a lot of spam to addresses like admin@domain ?
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by gizzlon 15y ago
you have to expect it to peak a lot higher though.. The requests are probably not going to be distributed evenly over 24 hours.. (edit: but yeah, you only need 100 servers if you're running something with "enterprise" in the name ;)

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