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by munin 12y ago
well you could go work at google, amazon, facebook, or microsoft if you felt like writing an unending stream of javascript to better serve people ads. there are researchy parts of those companies but getting a job there is a lot like gettin
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by munin 12y ago
> Whenever I want I can stand up and do a quick and dirty eyeball scan of the office and gauge who's deep in thought and shouldn't be disturbed, who maybe needs help with something, who's picking their nose on Facebook. Pr
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by munin 12y ago
> The auditorium at NSA headquarters is named after him it is named after both william and elizabeth friedman, both of whom were professional cryptographers who worked for the US government.
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by munin 12y ago
well, this is how textbook blackmail starts. you can probably compute an inverse "rides of glory" measure and detect people with something to hide, make a stab at what it is, approach them, and pressure them, without ever leaving
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by munin 12y ago
I think it says something about yourself, when you meet weird people and attribute their weirdness to some government scheme.
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by munin 12y ago
no they don't, checking IRQL has nothing to do with "operating as silently as possible".
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by munin 12y ago
it would be really good if the people reverse engineering malicious software knew how computers worked: "This Regin driver recurrently checks that the current IRQL (Interrupt Request Level) is set to PASSIVE_LEVEL using
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by munin 12y ago
this is the entire point of defenses like ASLR and stack canaries. the attacker knows they are there, but knowing the form of the defenses doesn't inherently aid the attacker...
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by munin 12y ago
or, gosh, incorporate a security system that doesn't rely on obscurity of defenses or ignorance on the part of your attacker..?
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by munin 12y ago
this information gets populated without you sharing it. if you pay utility bills, rent, buy a house, appear in court, or other similar acts, those acts get stuck into online databases forever. so to not "expose" your personal info
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by munin 12y ago
not much, wouldn't matter. what you REALLY should wonder is, something like x86, but with code pointers stored in a separate address space.
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by munin 12y ago
true! because the lectures are delivered asynchronously you can survey a broad amount of material. again, I definitely think that the world is a better place for having available courseware, but you shouldn't let the brand name of the
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by munin 12y ago
speaking from some experience in putting together and running a mooc class (as well as non-mooc classes), they are very watered down versions of their original courses. after a lot of soul-searching, I think that the world is better for hav
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by munin 12y ago
> I keep hearing that it's difficult to get right. It's not. ... > and a LOT of work ????????
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by munin 12y ago
I'm not sure how this is "scalable", the "scalable" thing about tools like sslsniff was that earlier versions of SSL used a mechanism for key exchange where the MITM could cache the key negotiated between the client
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by munin 12y ago
you don't own your apartment, but renter laws generally forbid recording and spot inspections by landlords...
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by munin 12y ago
what's funny about this is that if you use google mail through the web browser, you can't do email signing or encryption, but your IP address isn't visible to the person you send mail to. but, if you use a 3rd party MUA so th
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What is probabilistic programming?(pl-enthusiast.net)
4 points by munin 12y ago|0 comments
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by munin 12y ago
each ride with the magnetic paper also costs $1 extra, to incentivize using the RFID, but the RFID cards stop working after a month and when they do you have no way to get the balance off of it the way you do with a paper card. yay!
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by munin 12y ago
I know of schools that don't give W2s, pretty sure that is just illegal and also pretty sure those schools get dinged by the IRS regularly for this. some student friends of mine get paid in very sketchy ways, like in personal checks fr
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by munin 12y ago
> I'm sure the mafia would love the end of the witness protection program. if there was truly no privacy, then the Mafia would cease to exist. think this through.
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by munin 12y ago
football programs only pay for themselves at a small number of universities, almost all subsidize them. http://www.acenet.edu/news-room/Pages/Myth-College-Sports-Ar... http://www.usatoday.com/story
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by munin 12y ago
> you need functional infrastructure. So you cut where you can, and that is at the teaching end. what is the point of the infrastructure if there is no one to teach?
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by munin 12y ago
the courts and their interaction with science has always been tenuous, the story of arson investigators, fire science and criminal justice is similarly terrifying http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/09/07&#
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by munin 12y ago
if you limit your shopping to companies that can respond timely to security incidents, you won't shop at all.
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by munin 12y ago
Will he? What about the tens of thousands of other people that can run that tool? What about people that can type queries into SHODAN? Why are they not problems? If you don't think that you government should spy, that's fine, a lo
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by munin 12y ago
An anonymous hacker announces that they owned thousands of home routers to scan the entire Internet, security expert Rob Graham runs his masscan tool to scan the entire Internet, but when it's disclosed that .govs run nmap it's ti
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Don’t Let Your Children Grow Up to Be Farmers(nytimes.com)
4 points by munin 12y ago|0 comments
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by munin 12y ago
Why wouldn't I claim a bond on every e-mail I received from e.g. google and twitter?
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by munin 12y ago
so they hold your router hostage. then what? you buy another one. whatever.

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