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871.
by munin 15y ago
the paper here talks about the things they do to avoid exposure to timing attacks: http://eprint.iacr.org/2011/646.pdf
872.
DJB: Network and Cryptography Library (efforts against timing attacks)(nacl.cr.yp.to)
26 points by munin 15y ago|7 comments
873.
by munin 15y ago
if you paid hundreds of dollars for a device, and you pay a 50-60 dollar a month contract ... you still may be the product..?
874.
by munin 15y ago
the libraries functions can do an out of bounds access, for example: char a[16]; memset(a, 0, 100); and as I understand their implementation, this won't be found because they instrument loads and stores in code that their clang compiles .
875.
by munin 15y ago
neat! I almost accidentally implemented this when making an implementation of this paper/technique: http://www.cs.umd.edu/~mwh/papers/martin10ownership.html I bet they used llvm to do this? it would be childs play to do this in llvm ... t
876.
by munin 15y ago
y-combinator is on there representing lambda calculus at least ...
877.
by munin 15y ago
the windows heap manager can be configured to do this on a per-application basis using the 'gflags' utility. it's a useful debugging tool. you're not assured that use-after-free is going to be tightly temporally coupled with the free (a lot
878.
by munin 15y ago
I seem to recall being told by cabin crew that disobeying well-formed instructions of cabin crew was a violation of Federal law
879.
Swarm of Bricks(bldgblog.blogspot.com)
3 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
880.
by munin 15y ago
> Here is an example profile: a virologist at some research facility who has strong beliefs about the world reaching a tipping point as far as natural resources are concerned vis-a-vis he accelerating increase in population, becomes obs
881.
by munin 15y ago
any time someone says something about "the attack came from X", you should think back to this event
882.
Man-made super flu could kill half of humanity(rt.com)
272 points by munin 15y ago|148 comments
883.
Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets(ncix.gov)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
884.
Fermat's Unfinished Business(johndcook.com)
41 points by munin 15y ago|6 comments
885.
by munin 15y ago
computer forensics is currently in much the same state that arson forensics was at the time Texas sentenced Willingham to death. as far as I know, it hasn't killed anyone, yet...
886.
I challenge Jimmy Wales to a staring contest(plus.google.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
887.
WSJ details companies selling hacking tools to governments(online.wsj.com)
9 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
888.
by munin 15y ago
so lets say that you don't have the budget to keep a fully trained staff of scada and network engineers on site, 24/7. and then there's a systems failure, and the choice is either "they debug it remotely and fix the problem within an hour"
889.
by munin 15y ago
how many users does your home system have? what is your budget like to support them? what is your pain point for "at this overhead we just go out of business?" it's a lot more complicated than "just do it right". I'm not saying we shouldn't
890.
Hackers destroy water pump via SCADA abuse(wired.com)
103 points by munin 15y ago|40 comments
891.
by munin 15y ago
bad employers can think they own you. if they find out you're looking or are going to quit, they can react very poorly. especially if how they find out is seeing your resume on a job site (or worse, if a recruiter brings your resume to your
892.
by munin 15y ago
if you work for a small company (10-200), displaying the company name basically destroys any anonymity. why display your current company name?
893.
Project Ice Shield(bldgblog.blogspot.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
894.
by munin 15y ago
have you considered that we don't have an internet fridge because not enough people want it?
895.
by munin 15y ago
here's a good test: the ROSE framework is developed by LLNL. it's basically an LLVM also-ran. compare its code quality, its use experience, and its overall worth (the code for both is open source!)
896.
by munin 15y ago
a telepresence robot you say? looks like they've been scooped by bell labs: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/278794,bell-labs-builds-telepr... (among MANY others)
897.
Help kids visualize math(valzcorner.blogspot.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
898.
by munin 15y ago
really? so, when did you read about this: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/132405488.html a mom and kids gets caught in the crossfire. this was an accident, and how much news coverage does it get? had you heard about this story before
899.
Company provides intelligence by conning other company employees(forbes.com)
2 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
900.
Darpa wants "hackers" to "go on the offensive"(theverge.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments

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