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by m0nastic 14y ago
The name was suggested to me many many years ago on IRC, but I'm sure it resonated at least partly because of the way I'm wired. ;)
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I think the advice folks are posting here is very good. I'm about a week into the process of incorporating a company and trying to figure out how in the hell I'm going to do this. While not particularly novel advice, the one thing I can adv
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I hadn't really ever given this much thought, but now if I categorize the overwhelming majority of my friends, they fall into the following buckets: High-School Friends (who I still stay in touch with, although only peripherally, as I don't
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Why HTTP/2.0 does not seem interesting(varnish-cache.org)
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It's a little pricey (I think it's meant as a textbook), but DJB has a book on post-quantum cryptography‡ He also has an intro paper (which is probably more along the lines of what you're looking for)‡ Hash-based cryptography, code-based cr
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No, I've decreed that after a decade breaking applications professionally, there isn't an application scanner I've used (and I've used very very many) that is worth anything. I am not as philosophically opposed to scanners as I think Thomas
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Not that your approach needs validation, but I'm going through the exercise of building out an app sec practice, and for what it's worth, I've adopted the same approach (we're not using automated scanners).
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My neighborhood is still out (upper NW DC), which has been fun. This is definitely the longest outage I've seen since living in the area (I actually don't think I've seen a power outage last more than a night in 12 years)
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GE's system (at least the one originally set up by Jack Welch) isn't quite the same, although the idea is similar‡. Basically there are 3 "bands" in the Welch system (with the lowest band being 10%). You reward the top band (20%) heavily, t
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RIM instituting developer crunch to get BB10 shipped(ottawacitizen.com)
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From the GCC 4.6 Release notes‡, 4.6 already supports: Static assertions Typedef redefinition New macros in <float.h> Anonymous structures and unions 4.7 supports: Unicode strings the predefined macros __STDC_UTF_
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Improving Security in the Latest C Programming Language Standard(blog.sei.cmu.edu)
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A bad couple of years for the cryptographic token industry (blog.cryptographyengineering.com)
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Paper on Prisoner's Dilema Suggests Optimal Extortionist Strategy(edge.org)
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You know what, I actually think I agree with you more here then you probably think I do. I don't actually think that all workplaces should become banal, corporate, photocopies of one another. What articles like this seem to show by the comm
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By the way, an easier way to potentially avoid situations like this (for those wondering what is/isn't appropriate in a work environment but are having trouble conceptualizing what's "appropriate" in a work context): Just don't go to shitty
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Naturally, the point of trying to promote a professional, inclusive workplace is really a scheme to reinforce sexual shame on a mass scale. How about places that just don't objectify a group of people?
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I really wish that were true, but it's not what I've observed in general. Granted, the "hacker culture" I'm most familiar with is the "security-type" of hacker (as opposed to developers/makers), but its culture is rife with every kind of 'i
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I had a client who used to call me up and ask me to come up and meet them for a "very important meeting", wherein I'd arrive and they'd go to a strip club. They did this several times, and I was never particularly comfortable with it. They
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by m0nastic 14y ago
As for the main point of Mikko's post, I have never understood why so many folks in the netsec industry are arrogantly pessimistic about the innovation of others. I found Flame jaw-droppingly amazing. Infosec is an inherently pessimistic
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I don't know if it's of any help, but I offer my own experience: I read Neuromancer as a teenager, and it had a profoundly transformative effect on my life (probably more than any other book). It first introduced me to the idea that a perso
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Luca Bolognese (who was on the F# team at Microsoft, and who gave the first talk on F# that I ever watched) left Microsoft to go to Credit Suisse, so that makes sense. As to other financial firms using F#, Don Syme (the F# lead) posts F# jo
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I actually wish that were true. I don't have any real interest in this particular case, but I would actually find it fascinating if a billionaire used his corporate resources to settle a personal vendetta against another compnay (although i
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Ford just publicly made a statement approving of their results from Facebook ads: https://twitter.com/Ford/statuses/202574566613200896
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As far as I know, you still can't upload pictures from the web browser, so you need a native app to interact with photos.
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There's actually logistical reasons why that's potentially difficult, (having actors show up at premiers for example). I think considering that "overseas piracy" is the big stated concern for Hollywood (less people downloading cam-rips, mor
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I saw it in 3D yesterday (begrudgingly, as I hate 3D, but the theater I went to only showed it in 3D). The 3D is used to pretty good effect for the most part (ie: it's not 20 minutes of normal footage and then a gratuitous 3D shot of someth
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Every time I hear a story about this, I am reminded of one of my favorite things ever concerning German traffic cops and speed cameras: http://boingboing.net/2008/10/27/german-traffic-cops.html
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I learned this lesson the hard way several years ago. I can't stress enough the importance of making sure wherever you go isn't a place that just rubber-stamps W2 returns. I made the mistake of going to H&R Block during the year I was 1
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To try and shine at least something of a positive light, there is a wide difference in overall fuckededness among different government agencies. Yesterday I was sent the testing methodology requirements document for a specific agency that w

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