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by m0nastic 16y ago
You said "This blog post is basically:", which I took to mean that you referring to him specifically (as he is the author of the blog post). I apologize if you weren't targeting him specifically. Many in security are indeed condescending, a
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I don't happen to share Nate's opinion that Stuxnet is embarrassing, but I think your characterization of him based on his blog post is pretty off-base.
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F-Secure 2010 Wrapup Video about Stuxnet [video](youtube.com)
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In 2009, Jobs was on leave from January to June with Tim Cook in charge. There was a dip in the stock when it happened, but it did just fine during the period of his absence (if you define "just fine" as going from ~ $82.00 to ~ $142.00) I
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I debated making a joke at all, but figured "What the hell, it's Saturday night". I also figured Malloc was sufficiently "diety-sounding"
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Maybe he figured that no universe presided over by an omnipotent being would have made it so that Malloc was necessary.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
This isn't listening in on the phone to your sister's phone call. This is closer to listening to someone else's voicemail by guessing what their PIN number is (also not legal). There are things which are yours, and there are things which ar
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I don't see how that's ridiculous. Firesheep is a tool whose sole purpose is to facilitate hijacking a user's session. If you use Firesheep to gain access to a user account which you don't own, you're guilty of breaking the law. The fact th
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The complaint was that the parent poster was postulating that amateurs have gotten worse recently, and that that could be explained by the increased usage of zoom lenses. If I accept that the first statement is true (that amateurs have gott
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Zoom lenses have been the predominant kit lens for cameras for the better part of twenty years. I think the migration to digital (where the cost of shooting is ridiculously low) has had a much greater impact on the worsening of amateur phot
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I think choice is somewhat of a red herring (although I do recommend reading "The Paradox of Choice") Speaking for myself, I don't really care about "choice" (it falls slightly higher than "openness" as a criteria for selection; although bo
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Not to be super pedantic; but they aren't suing Apple. They've filed a motion with the USPTO to dismiss Apple's trademark filing under the grounds that it's too generic of a term to be trademarked. I tend to agree with them, as even though
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by m0nastic 16y ago
When I was a kid, we used to go dumpster diving; looking for software, discarded hardware, information, whatever. Once, I found a few 3.5" Microsoft Office disks (I think it was Office 4.0), and decided to try and complete the set. I think
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I don't really see the issue here. If an anti-leaking policy loses utility if published, than it's not really effective to begin with.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
We're in complete agreement. I hate being double and triple booked because I worry that I'm going to miss something that I wouldn't otherwise. I mind slightly less if the projects are of dissimilar types (like an app test and a network test
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Or move to a better company. I tried running away from security in 1998 and found that there's charlatanism anywhere you go. Try being a baker; no, wait, there are well-marketed charlatan bakers, too! I figure it's a new year and maybe I'
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by m0nastic 16y ago
We recently partnered with another assessment firm to handle overflow (something not one person in our group was happy about, but we spent the entirety of 2010 overworked), and in the past couple weeks I've had two issues come to me where t
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I suppose it's somewhat of a backhanded compliment. I honestly wouldn't pay money for the results I get from WebInspect (we have licenses for it, so we use it). I swear that WebInspect has gotten noticeably worse the past year and a half or
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by m0nastic 16y ago
He's also the author of Skipfish (a fairly new web scanner), which I've been making a lot of use of the past few months. It's still fairly beta, but already I find it to be more useful than WebInspect in many cases.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Fucki Manufacturing Concern will jump all over this.
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I try not to conflate my personal experience with Android to the world at large, but after owning two Android phones, I can't imagine ever buying another one (where "ever" is defined as the next few years). The first (a MyTouch 3G) was medi
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by m0nastic 16y ago
In the general sense, I don't program anymore. I work around programming (both by breaking other people's programs and reviewing source code), but I'd say the past 12 years or so the only programming I've done is limited to small scripts wr
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Apparently, the etymology of the term goes back to the Warez days, as mentioned in Jason Scott's (awesome, by the way) Defcon talk: http://vimeo.com/15400820 While the term means something differed when applied to a vulnerability (the War
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I just wanted to point out that the first link you posted had a great discussion in the comments.
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The "pop-over" UI is almost the exact same (including the icons). http://fireballed.org/linked/2010/12/22/reeder-rip//
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by m0nastic 16y ago
Did you click on the link? The side-by-side comparison is pretty damning. I think the similarities are way more apparent then just "similarities to other RSS reader software".
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I could be wrong, but I was under the impression that there very well should be Chrome OS devices which run on ARM after it launches (just not the prototype developer device Google just released).
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I hope this is true. I still don't understand why they've been so apathetic to using the Windows Phone 7 OS on other types of devices. Many reviews say that the interface would scale well to other device types, and it already runs on ARM. M
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I'm reticent to post humor here, but this article immediately made me think of this sketch from Mr. Show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkP_OGDCLY0
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by m0nastic 16y ago
I can say that after the most recent update of the Bing iPhone app, I prefer the mobile version to the mobile Google Maps client.

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