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by munin 10y ago
I took classes in my PhD where we would read 4 papers a week, which is close to one a weekday. Some of the papers were very theory-heavy, when those came up you would spend half a day just reading. Of course, for a seminar class, you do the
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by munin 10y ago
People still look for backdoors of that type, though. Additionally, if you really made something that specific, that was only ever discovered and used to hack an election, and the only people that could have done it were the chip vendor...
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You don't have to trust them that much, though. These are all COTS components used in every other computerized system everywhere, so any backdoors the authors want to slip in would have to impact only the voting system, and not raise a
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by munin 10y ago
Early in my PhD I went to a big NSF event with a bunch of young researchers, so senior students and junior faculty. This NSF event did a "speed dating" event (quickly re-named at the last minute to "rapid fire cross collabora
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by munin 10y ago
If you implement RSA from the textbook, as a simple formula, you'll leave yourself vulnerable to padding based attacks that can recover the private key. It turns out that though the formulas are straightforward and the math can be expl
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AV hasn't been about "blacklist the bad executables" for a long, long time.
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If this skeeves you out, wait until you see the verification process that (US) aerospace and industrial programs have to go through. talk to one in a bar and they'll bluff and bluster about the "verification" and "intens
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by munin 10y ago
equal parts administrator and the state, since as I understand it the tuition hikes track funding cuts at the government level for higher ed. that is the real killer. so, do the taxpayers see the money as reduced sales and property tax?
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by munin 10y ago
Software foundations: https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf/current/index.html VST: http://vst.cs.princeton.edu/ Dafny: http://rise4fun.com/Dafny/tutorial You are proba
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by munin 10y ago
Because if you disagree with it you get your face bashed in?
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Why would you get a PhD in physics if you would go into data science? Just get a data science job. Why would you think that someone that spent six years of their life thinking about light, energy, matter and the universe would be satisfied
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by munin 10y ago
How is a consumer supposed to answer any of these questions for themselves?
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Special order to comma.ai from NHTSA(scribd.com)
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> There's just very little domestic interest in math and physics, despite both feeding into rather favorable job markets Oh yeah? What jobs are there for a physics PhD to do physics in that isn't academia? Government research l
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by munin 10y ago
The article says that the system wasn't hacked so much as a database backup was left on an unsecured, public site and was discovered. It seems plausible, from the described timeline of events, that the discoverer didn't know what
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by munin 10y ago
Do you think that improving the model does not fall under "provide the Services to Customer?"
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At my university, I've asked about educational priorities only to be told, by senior professors, "making this class better or worse won't help anyone's career." This is probably what you mean by "having differe
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frequently, yes, if it uses compcert or cakeML or something.
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by munin 10y ago
I guess the concern is that both sides will get expert witnesses with equally long CVs to make equally compelling arguments and then it's on the jury to decide which PhD they want to believe. Not sure how that helps.
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> he represents a group of people who haven't been represented for the last 40 years No he doesn't. He doesn't appeal to or represent poor whites, those vote D. He also doesn't appeal to or represent minorities, immig
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by munin 10y ago
Do you ever find it ironic that you are trying to combat totalitarian fear-mongering with an argument that in part is literally "think of the children?"
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by munin 10y ago
looks like we found the grad student! but seriously, as a grad student, absolutely no one gives us respect. not our peers, our bosses, or society. why would you expect some random on the internet to do better?
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by munin 10y ago
yes but since an application is DRM the hacker groupthink decided that this was a double unplus good thought and so no one should think it lest evil happen.
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by munin 10y ago
You don't pay me. The C-suite pays me. Thanks for making this personal when it has no need to be, by the way. Personal attacks aside, let's you and me go out to a bar and sing songs of how things should be. Tomorrow, we have to go
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by munin 10y ago
Personally, I have an appreciation for it. I'm a working security professional. However, for a decade and a half I've been part of many different security regimes at many different organizations. None of them had an appreciation f
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by munin 10y ago
Nobody wants this. No "security guy" who has a choice wants to spend half their workload waiting for PRs to come in so they can chime in with feedback about default configurations. No product programmer wants to deal with some &qu
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by munin 10y ago
> Yuppie millennial parents are hands down the worst Did you read the article? If I have to choose between "get arrested and have my kids taken from me" or "have angry old man yell about me on the internet" the choice
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by munin 10y ago
Is there an example of the (specific) timing attack mentioned in the article being exploited?
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> not trivial to revive it after blackout and yet, we do it on the regular. edit: > real and well organized attacks are very very rare and why is that? if the system is as vulnerable as they say and the world is as full of enemies as
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by munin 10y ago
that scenario is covered in the second paragraph ;)

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