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by mfukar 10y ago
> since these systems are not connected to the internet, Brave, brave assumption.
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by mfukar 10y ago
If you're afraid of critical systems running Microsoft software, boy do I have news for you..
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by mfukar 10y ago
> More general advice: If you're not sure what a plant is, don't eat it. Solid.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Even if one couldn't tell the leaves apart, the bark of the trees is completely different. One is smooth, the other reddish. And of course there's no way you would mistake the brown-green husk of the walnut for manchineel fruit -
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by mfukar 10y ago
Why is that?
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by mfukar 10y ago
All this is far and away from my point. Paranoia & authority aren't the only two options here.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Your step 2 is magical, in the sense that OTHER STUFF wants THEIR data in memory as well.
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by mfukar 10y ago
I would be very interested in how you envision a system that does NOT block on page faults.
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by mfukar 10y ago
There is no fairness in cryptography, only math.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Would any body else put the same trust on whatever authority the external auditors or pentesters display?
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by mfukar 10y ago
Totally agree, and it's useful. We need people to challenge established assumptions from time to time.
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by mfukar 10y ago
You can't say we reinvent our craft because at this point all we have is some vague empirical ways of pseudo-sciensing the shit out of everything. We don't invent yet-another-new-form-of-concrete either, but we do constantly rewri
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by mfukar 10y ago
In the context of a DHT, F2F stands for friend-to-friend, i.e. authenticated nodes.
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by mfukar 10y ago
I don't know whether civil engineers can make accurate estimates. I focus on my own craft's problems. I suppose they too can make inaccurate estimates just as anybody else. However, delivery dates and deadlines are somewhat remove
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by mfukar 10y ago
"Unspecified internal Google drama" may well have been "unspecified internal Google technical arguments", yes?
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by mfukar 10y ago
I initially thought it might be referring to deterministic skip lists (Munro, Papadakis, Sedgewick, http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~celio/peer2peer/skip-net-graph/det... ), but the "linking on traversal"
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by mfukar 10y ago
You can plan, design, and engineer around things you don't know. Civil engineers have been doing it for a while now, maybe we should keep notes.
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by mfukar 10y ago
In all examples, `read` and `write` are unsigned, and since they both are the same type, no integer conversions are performed, ergo no overflow. PS. No wrap-around either, for different reasons.
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by mfukar 10y ago
So if Intel made worse hardware, it would have competition. Yes, that is true. On the other hand, it's a completely useless situation for everybody who actually wants to use hardware, instead of getting rich in the hardware business.
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by mfukar 10y ago
I retract; you aren't deflecting the issue, you have no idea what the issue is.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Real time systems with preemption exist. Non-preemption is not always a feasible choice - its disadvantages are too many.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Twitter is not news. At best, it's unfiltered information, and usually just noise and venting.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Re: data structures, ST could also use ropes, or gap buffers.
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by mfukar 10y ago
There is nothing subtle about the differences of prefix and postfix expressions. That is speaking generally, not only in C. Complaining about that might as well be complaining about parsing techniques, and that's where they would quick
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by mfukar 10y ago
You dread the tooling _now_, an age when we're lucky enough to have a checker and sanitizer for every class of error we can make with C?
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by mfukar 10y ago
No, you're wrong, and like Vess, you're deflecting the issue. Lack of hooks into anything in the system is completely orthogonal to: - increasing code that runs with elevated privileges in a system - running untested, buggy parsin
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by mfukar 10y ago
AVs have been obsolete in every way imaginable when it comes to offense. As another comment said, they're less effective than band-aids - not only they can be bypassed almost trivially, they increase attack surface.
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by mfukar 10y ago
Starting from that, you may not want to dismiss AIO & O_DIRECT in the span of a paragraph.
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by mfukar 10y ago
GH is now a magic land where "high performance" means "no numbers to back this up", "secure" means "we haven't actually been audited", and "awesome" something to the effect of "her
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by mfukar 10y ago
Portability is impossible without the standard library.

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