morganpyne

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by morganpyne 15y ago
To be honest, I'm just curious why we haven't seen much real malware yet. The Mac Defender stuff is a joke, but there's no reason why somebody couldn't be exploiting the recent Skype bug ( http://www.purehacking.com/blogs/gordon-maddern/s
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by morganpyne 15y ago
This is a follow up to the first article that he wrote regarding UDID tracking and privacy exposure, using OpenFeint to link UDIDs to real-world identities. It's a bit shocking to see how many apps are submitting these UDIDs to multiple dom
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A survey of how Apple UDIDs are used by apps(corte.si)
3 points by morganpyne 15y ago|1 comments
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Perhaps I didn't phrase my comment as well as I should have. Indeed all his points apply and are excellent. As you pointed out, his focus is on testing the HTTP server for performance, rather than the actual apps running on them. The point
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by morganpyne 15y ago
There are some good nuggets in this article, but he seems to miss a point that I feel is very important and yet is often overlooked in real-world web load testing; emulating an actual client behaviour under different real-world scenarios. H
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I agree that the current colour scheme makes the night time hours stand out more than the daylight ones, but I would suggest perhaps a different approach - darken the background so that the daylight hours have more contrast and the night ho
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by morganpyne 15y ago
These are good points. (And indeed, I intended to write 'Firesheep' and not 'Firecookie').
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by morganpyne 15y ago
It is actually possible to run full interactive debuggers inside vim. Personally I think Netbeans is a little easier on the eyes when doing this, but being the nerd I am I had to give it a go once I found out it was possible. Here's screens
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Is it really wise to suggest "Don't use encryption." ? Even your grandmother can steal sessions with Firecookie these days.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
While I'm relieved to see that, I wouldn't expect anything less from a trivial example such as this. I wonder if the same would be true if you hit a database, hydrated a one-to-many related series of objects from multiple tables using an OR
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Thank you for your reply. I will have a play with it if I find some free time. It's not the memory leaks in _my_ code I'm so worried about, it's the ones in other people's code :-) e.g. Doctrine used to leak like a sieve and no amount of fr
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Since I follow most of the mailing lists for Symfony 2, I have come across Silex a little while ago. However, something new I took from this article was the appserver-in-php project https://github.com/indeyets/appserver-in-php The blurb o
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by morganpyne 15y ago
One for the FP people: "Azamat say state of functional program is maintain by nomads with objective camel?! Is not make sense. Is crazy." heh ;-)
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I agree it's hugely light on technical details. But, if the exploit gains shell access to you own account, and the exploit can occur via simple message sending in Skype, and it is possible to script Skype from the command line (Applescript
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Being into woodworking (lutherie specifically), I would kill for something that could identify species by samples of wood. I think this is a very different task and extremely difficult to achieve though. Sometimes even 2 experts disagree on
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Congratulations and well done. I'm just downloading it now. My first thoughts were if it was able to identify the 320+ species of native trees we have here in NZ. My second thought was to wonder if it can be trained by the users to learn ne
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I'm been studiously avoiding the update since inadvertently installing it a while ago and backtracking furiously shortly afterwards. I hope we get some details on the versions affected and if the problem is present in v2 that we also get a
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I thought this stood out as interesting from the article: 'That's because every USB storage device has its own serial number, which can be retrieved from any computer to which it's been connected. "You're able to track that USB device in ev
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I felt like you until my daughter was born. She was unplanned but it was the best thing to ever happen to me. Yes, you do become a more complete person and your perspective changes; simple as that. I don't know if that's just nature rewirin
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De-anonymizing Apple UDIDs with OpenFeint(corte.si)
100 points by morganpyne 15y ago|14 comments
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Some really helpful comments in source :-) count++; // increment counter http1.close; // Close the connection Maybe this is all part of the ruse.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Hmm, according to this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizen_Kane#Rosebud Rosebud may actually be referring to something a bit more fun than a sled ;D
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by morganpyne 15y ago
All of your incoming email has travelled through so many insecure servers on it's way to you that encrypting it on receipt is like closing the barn door after the horse has bolted.
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I read a study some time ago which was examining the cognitive load required by humans to parse various natural languages. I cannot find any references to it at the moment, but the gist of it was that the grammatical structure of some lanug
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US Funds IP Enforcement, Offers to Draft Legislation in New Zealand(michaelgeist.ca)
68 points by morganpyne 15y ago|8 comments
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I would also recommend that you gzip any static assets and use http://wiki.nginx.org/HttpGzipStaticModule to serve these pre-gzipped files. No point in re-compressing the same files over and over again. I normally gzip all static assets a
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I actually caught myself checking your username to see if it was "Russell" (ref: Russell's paradox, regarding the set of all sets containing itself :-)
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by morganpyne 15y ago
I wonder if something like Graphene would have any applications for bicycle locks? I would love a lock made from this Graphene paper, which is allegedly 10 times stronger than steel: http://inhabitat.com/new-graphene-super-paper-is-10x-str
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by morganpyne 15y ago
These changes will come into effect on May 10th, so signups before then will still have the less-restrictive old limits and existing accounts will have these limits honoured after the changeover. Move your domains now if you haven't already
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by morganpyne 15y ago
Has anybody reviewed the terms & conditions, privacy policies etc. Is there anything in them to make me concerned that Avos will do anything with my data that I won't like above and beyond what the existing Delicious T&C were? I pre

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