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by m0nastic 13y ago
I know that people complain about Wolfram when his posts show up here (which I understand, even if I've always found his bizarre combination of eccentricity and stupendous ego endearing), I thought this was super interesting. Surprisingly,
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Nuclear Warhead Verication Using a Zero-Knowledge Protocol [pdf](boazbarak.org)
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by m0nastic 13y ago
There are certainly careers in which getting started at age 30 is unlikely to bring success (gymnast, child actor), but computer science/engineering is most certainly not one of them. You may find that when you get out of school, you don't
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Marketplace: Network-Aware Programming (Language)(tonyg.github.io)
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by m0nastic 13y ago
1.) Twitter is also asymmetric 2.) I'm pretty sure that what seemed like a good third of the sixties Batman TV show episodes involved Batman showing up to the Bat Signal only to have it have been a trap. (and yes, I consider the TV show to
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by m0nastic 13y ago
Make no mistake, you are here commenting in an elite forum of digital movers and shakers. If that idea makes you laugh, then just think what that says about CNN's sources for other subjects.
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MinimaLT: Minimal-latency Networking Through Better Security [pdf](cr.yp.to)
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I don't have any kind of knack for predicting things, but I'd argue that it's at least as likely for the "Star Trek computer" to be what things like Google Now turn into (which as far as I can tell, isn't open source at all). I would be ver
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by m0nastic 13y ago
It might just be my OCD showing, but 'clear' is my number one by an order of magnitude. next 20: 177 ls 167 cd 122 brew 120 vim 119 cabal 117 cindy (an alias for ssh'ing to my local dev box) 115 sudo 114 tmux 111 man 1
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John C. Reynolds, Eminent Programming Language Researcher, has Died (en.wikipedia.org)
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by m0nastic 14y ago
At the risk of being tautological, I think it's chilling because if he told the 10 girls he "doxed" about what he had done, I'm pretty confident a sizeable number of them would have the chills. People don't like to feel like they're being t
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by m0nastic 14y ago
In our copyright class in school, we were taught that photographers do give up copyright in the specific case of work-for-hire (with all the criteria for determining work-for-hire that entails; a la CCNV vs Reid). I've certainly had to get
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I've been a security consultant for ~13 years or so (predominantly application focused), and I'd say that all other things being equal, a good portion of it is web apps. That's mostly just an artifact of the fact that so much software over
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by m0nastic 14y ago
Dan is characterizing Rubin's position around security as non-inclusive. Not that "nothing was secure", but that any feature (X) that was prioritized was done so not just without taking security into account, but with a belief that security
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Never mind endangered animals – it's the thinkers that we need to save(guardian.co.uk)
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by m0nastic 14y ago
This is a nice effort. I'm probably in the tiny majority of people who have been using Vim for ~15 years but have never bothered with any customization or plugins (I'm also a philistine who uses the arrow keys for navigation).
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by m0nastic 14y ago
Yeah, Gui-less was an option on Server 2008, but not the default. The default for 2012 is what they call "server core" (no GUI, no desktop services). I was surprised when I took a look at Windows Server recently. I'd sort of mentally writte
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by m0nastic 14y ago
That's not really true. The current version of Windows Server by default has no GUI (and almost no services). It's configured completely from the command line (or if you follow Microsoft's guidance, remotely via powershell remoting). I cert
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Advanced Application Security Auditing Cheatsheet(github.com)
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I can also confirm that Raytheon is building up this capability (although less so than Northrop and Lockheed). If you're curious what companies are actually committing to vulnerability dev you can search any cleared jobs site for "offensive
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by m0nastic 14y ago
The idea with homomorphic encryption is that you can have the host perform computation against the cyphertext without decrypting it. They've gotten this to work, but it's still much too slow to be of practical value. It'll get faster natura
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Matthew Green cryptography guest lecture at Dartmouth(youtube.com)
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Thomson Reuters, the parent company of Westlaw (the contractor who presently has the contract in DC)
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by m0nastic 14y ago
There's a lot of information about Lockheed's implementation (search for Lockheed Kill Chain presentation), but here's a specific presentation they gave at black hat: https://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Briefings/Flynn/bh-us-12... The hig
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by m0nastic 14y ago
You don't (for the most part). You'd actually sell it to one of about a dozen small firms around the beltway who purchase vulnerabilities (who in turn either license "exploit-packs" to the government, or who work on specific tactical campai
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by m0nastic 14y ago
That's good to know actually; I think that'll probably be a good approach for my application. For what it's worth, it was seeing a video of you giving a talk about Titan that made me start looking into it. It seems super neat.
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I'm currently playing around with it for a large internal development project. My only concern (and why I'm leaning towards using Neo4j at least initially) is that I don't really yet have a good indication if I'm going to be dealing with en
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by m0nastic 14y ago
It's lyrics from a Clash song (technically a reggae song they covered, but most people associate it with them). It's about the police misusing their power.
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by m0nastic 14y ago
I'm not particularly into video games, but I thought his whole talk about thinking of their games as a platform to enable their users commerce was very interesting. I also now understand their decision to hire an in-house economist. They're
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by m0nastic 14y ago
In general, specialized hardware tends to be expensive (niche uses result in poor economies of scale), which makes it difficult to see more widespread adoption, and consequently makes them less usable by researchers. If these types of hardw

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