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by munin 15y ago
I'm not sure if that's a legit complaint. Can stuff like that be taught adequately in a course or is it something you pick up by "just doing" it? A lot of classes where you program your ass off force you to make design decisions, some expli
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Shady rat, or shoddy rat(eugene.kaspersky.com)
1 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
> Currently, CS courses at top universities have very little to do with the business of actually programming, they are more based on mathematical theory. SE courses tend to look more like 'software engineering management.' Where does th
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by munin 15y ago
funny story, there was an android SW upgrade on verizon that weekend. i was halfway across the world and i accepted. i guess i'm boned! :( powerful mitm
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by munin 15y ago
this guy posted on the llvm mailing list about a week ago with these issues, a lot of them have already been patched.
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Is your “cyber security expert” full of s***?(haftofthespear.com)
2 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
967.
by munin 15y ago
yes. i'd have big problems on any other network i'd join if i wasn't sure, wouldn't i?
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by munin 15y ago
this is a risk you already run anytime you connect to any network so i'm not really sure why it makes defcon "more" dangerous.
969.
by munin 15y ago
by owning random boxes on the wifi? no, "claiming bragging rights" is what onstage demos are for :P
970.
by munin 15y ago
everyone freaks out because "oh man your computer will get hacked in N seconds on the defcon wifi". lets dissect this a little bit. if i put a computer on the defcon wifi, it'll probably be say, modern linux (ubuntu, debian, or redhat) runn
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Security is hard, let's give up(bbot.org)
2 points by munin 15y ago|0 comments
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by munin 15y ago
their grade is (sometimes) largely based on how well they pass unit tests.
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by munin 15y ago
it's funny, this is exactly how lots of lower-division undergrads at my school approach writing code! i've heard professors refer to it as "debugging via brownian motion"
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by munin 15y ago
passwords are replayable tokens. one-time passwords are not. people who actually are careful with machine security use ssh keys + sudo/opie.
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by munin 15y ago
"What would happen if the media got wind that inoculated drug users were buying even more coke than before. It would be a public relations nightmare for any business." not to mention a public health nightmare! cocaine has effects on more th
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by munin 15y ago
be careful with anything that "attacks back", the legality of that is still being phrased. yes, i know that it doesn't "really" "attack back" but when you phrase it that way you're going to raise some hackles.
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by munin 15y ago
they don't want things to be insecure, they want the computer security industry to stop being bullshit. the true irony of course is that all the flailings of the antisec movement will result in is greater revenues for the same computer secu
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by munin 15y ago
do you think people that design "workplace incentives" can read? ;)
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by munin 15y ago
possessions don't own you. attachment owns you. the difference is subtle.
980.
by munin 15y ago
25% is not token, that's 1/4th of the course! most math classes i've taken homework has been from .5% to 5% of your grade! if your homework is 1/4 of your grade in the class, that class is a "pass me" class. in some math classes the prof re
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by munin 15y ago
i don't like "you must have the knowledge of how.." based arguments. how expensive is this knowledge? bored undergrads at good to decent schools learn enough to pull this kind of thing off given a few K in bootstrap money. organized crime h
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by munin 15y ago
scary thing (imo) is that computer hacking is (compared to what you would otherwise have to do) so low cost and low risk that now "unknowable" assassinations (i.e. difficult or impossible to tell if the death was an accident or not) are wit
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by munin 15y ago
you have bigger problems if you can't say "no" to the guy who could fire you, in my opinion
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by munin 15y ago
in a perfect world, yes. but now you're relying on 2 competent, motivated people instead of 1 competent and motivated person. why rely on 2? why not just give the project manager the authority? is there something about their ability in this
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by munin 15y ago
if you are managing a team of people and you do not have at least firing power, in my experience, you are not actually managing a team of people.
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by munin 15y ago
precisely. and ultimately we all answer to the market / your customers / the giant space ants. however, how i should answer to my boss is in the form of "why was this late". if my management wants to question decisions i make, they can have
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by munin 15y ago
quit immediately. if you have a job where you have a "lead" or "manager" title but have to ask someone else before making personnel/project decisions, you are not a lead or manager of anything, just a scapegoat.
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by munin 15y ago
the irony in saying "man the cloud sucks, I'm going to run my own servers on the cloud and also backup data from that server onto the cloud" is delicious
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by munin 15y ago
"P.S. I have a long bet that SELinux is an NSA backdoor. Any takers?" Really? Zed Shaw lost the credibility to talk about anything security related with that one sentence ...
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by munin 15y ago
and so when an attacker configures thunderbird to slurp all the email out of your inbox this does .. what? why not just poll the list of most recently logged in IP addresses and track the number of currently logged in sessions/authenticatio

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