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by jjguy 16y ago
"First post" and it's relevant and useful. 3 hours old and -zero- noise. This is why I love HN. You avoided commenting on the substance of their position, though. From your role as a security researcher, I suspect you're in the google ca
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Infographic: 100 years of tax brackets.(weathersealed.com)
1 points by jjguy 16y ago|0 comments
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Kottke: Avg dude vs. pro football player in 40 yard dash(kottke.org)
31 points by jjguy 17y ago|10 comments
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by jjguy 17y ago
The same project with Win32 PEs: http://www.phreedom.org/solar/code/tinype/ I've used that page as a reference several times over the years.
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Graph of Canadian water consumption during gold metal hockey game(flowingdata.com)
1 points by jjguy 17y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 17y ago
oh! That's even more interesting. The security community spins lots of FUD talking about the "insider threat," but there's very little real data to back up the threat. "Credible data describing the scope and impact of unwelcome insider ac
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by jjguy 17y ago
10 bucks on 0day.
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Nate Lawson's list of interesting talks at 26th Chaos Communication Congress(rdist.root.org)
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by jjguy 17y ago
I pay $8/mo for a VPS and run OpenVPN [1]. There's a nicely-done OS X client [2], and OpenVPN will run on whatever port/protocol combination you need. You also get the benefit of a shell account on your own little corner of the internet
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by jjguy 17y ago
My CSOTD is OS X. I'm a Windows guy, 15 years of win32 development. But at home, I use a Mac.
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The Role of a U.S. Cybersecurity Czar(cs.columbia.edu)
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by jjguy 17y ago
really? http://dilbert.com/blog/entry/hunter_becomes_the_prey/
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Documentary of an ant colony from the inside out(kottke.org)
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by jjguy 17y ago
The suggestions below are solid: R Python + matplotlib I've used and been impressed by both. Starlight and Palantir may fit your needs, but those tend closer to enterprise applications -- I get the sense you're searching for some
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Ross Anderson's "Economics of Security" resources page(cl.cam.ac.uk)
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by jjguy 17y ago
I spent some time studying Self-Organizing Maps, a neural network algorithm from Teuvo Kohonen, a Finnish professor. The internet has plenty of resources: http://www.google.com/search?q=self+organizing+maps I implemented the two canonical
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Economics of p2p: Peer to peer sharing results in "pure public good"(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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100 years of Big Content fearing technology, in its own words.(arstechnica.com)
36 points by jjguy 17y ago|16 comments
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by jjguy 17y ago
(1) follow your heart. love what you do, ignore everything else and good will come. despite your doubts, this is true. (2) Any degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville will be better received by potential employers than all deg
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The impact of shutting down one spam-friendly colo(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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Photo deletion on social network CDNs (or lack thereof)(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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by jjguy 17y ago
I got a job with the hospital on campus, doing custom win32 app development. Nothing huge, just business process facilitation with some windows-native glue apps. Under market consulting rates, above typical college rates, I walked to the of
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Facebook's "Democracy Theatre"(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
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Cookie Forcing: Overwrite SSL-only cookies from a non-SSL session(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com)
1 points by jjguy 18y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 18y ago
Four years after reading this the first time, I still remind myself of one insight: engineer vs. managers and "fixing problems" vs. "managing problems". You can find this discussion under the heading "Problems: managing, fixing, and solvin
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The Hacker's Diet: Losing weight the hacker way(fourmilab.ch)
50 points by jjguy 18y ago|53 comments
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by jjguy 18y ago
I don't understand why this keeps getting passed around. Buffer overflows in the hash reference implementations have zero relevance on the algorithm's hashing effectiveness. Fortify posted the results of their static analysis tool to the w
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Reverse engineering Facebook photo links; circumvents privacy settings(lightbluetouchpaper.org)
82 points by jjguy 18y ago|25 comments
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Pcapr: download packet captures for common tools/protocols/etc(pcapr.net)
1 points by jjguy 18y ago|0 comments
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by jjguy 18y ago
293 days ago: "Ask YC: What tools do you use for notifications of server/site uptime?" http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=180951 Lots of good suggestions there.

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