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by gtank 13y ago
Just because a given surveillance/warfighting/CNO technology COULD be developed doesn't mean that one should immediately go do it.
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by gtank 14y ago
If the intelligence/SOE component of WWII interests you, I cannot recommend enough the book "Bodyguard of Lies" by Anthony Cave Brown. Some of his conclusions and theories have been proven inconsistent in the light of new information (decla
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by gtank 14y ago
That was probably the proximate quote, but interestingly this has been a fairly common metaphor. Catullus is the oldest use I'm aware of, but I have no doubt it is older. http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catullus_22
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Kickstarter: muppet graveyard(scottlocklin.wordpress.com)
4 points by gtank 14y ago|0 comments
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by gtank 14y ago
Kunstler's "The Geography of Nowhere" ( http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/125313.The_Geography_of_N... ) examines this issue in depth. Excellent read.
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by gtank 14y ago
I do post my email here (profile) and would love to chat with some HN people around Atlanta and/or GT.
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by gtank 14y ago
Matasano also likes interns! I worked with them for the past two summers and can't say enough good about the experience. You will learn (or get to practice) the things tptacek mentioned above as well as web apps, mobile, ruby, a staggering
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by gtank 15y ago
Similarly Andy Gavin wrote a series of blog posts about the development of Crash Bandicoot. It's more of an overview than the journals, but still interesting. http://all-things-andy-gavin.com/2011/02/02/making-crash-ban...
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by gtank 15y ago
Fedora has proper disk encryption as a checkbox option during installation. It's very easy to set up.
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by gtank 15y ago
It's probably not a question of access to the information but one of the contents identifying to the source. Wikileaks caught a lot of bad publicity over their spotty sanitization of the Afghanistan leaks.
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by gtank 15y ago
Sections 7 and 8 of this paper [1] discuss inducing memory faults and potential countermeasures. Specifically they indicate that many desktop PCs shipped without ECC hardware at the time of writing (2003). I'm not sure to what extent that's
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New DNS hijacking technique exploits RAM errors(domainincite.com)
61 points by gtank 15y ago|28 comments
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by gtank 15y ago
We shall lay low their towers and sell their engineers to the Shanzhai.
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by gtank 15y ago
Similar, and interesting in the context of LulzSec releases, is @PastebinLeaks on Twitter. It scans Pastebin for a variety of things (mail address lists, PGP keys, SQL dumps, and router configuration files have all popped up so far). They'r
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by gtank 15y ago
I assumed there must be some kind of special deal going on but the shape of it eluded me. This sounds reasonable. It also suggests the idea of bug/theft insurance for corporate hardware use - pay a little extra and maybe we'll alert you whe
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by gtank 15y ago
> using a stolen SIM card to download almost $200,000 worth of data from the internet. What does '$200k worth' of Telstra data look like anyway? If you're prepaying at the highest levels[1], it's $1.50/GB up to 10GB. If it was this, she
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by gtank 15y ago
I'm surprised that IP address mappings still have the kind of legal weight that authorizes raids. Anyone can acquire a deniable IP by walking down the street to Starbucks (better yet, drive 15 minutes) or pointing a Pringles can at a distan
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by gtank 15y ago
How has Absolute ensured that other malware authors won't be able to piggyback off their system? Can my malware add a hosts file entry and cause this data to be sent to my servers instead? Could I replace the Absolute software with a botnet
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by gtank 15y ago
Keep in mind that CCDs can be sensitive enough to background that they're usable as chaos for random number generation[1]. I am not a physicist or photographer, but it may be that some of those spots are the result of settings, damage, came