nathanappere

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by nathanappere 15y ago
Just checked it and you're right. I believed I had encoutered the behaviour I described but I do not remember in which context. Anyway glad I learned something!
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by nathanappere 15y ago
I believe this is incorrect. The server usually listen on one port, but everytime it does an accept, a different random port is used, and the client start talking to the server on that new port.
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by nathanappere 15y ago
Bourbon does this and much more : https://github.com/thoughtbot/bourbon
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by nathanappere 15y ago
Although it does nos focus on memory profiling, the best serie of post I know on memory allocation is Gustavo Duartes one: http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/anatomy-of-a-program-in... http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/how-the-kerne
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by nathanappere 15y ago
And yet there are a lot of active exploits targetting Windows. If your logic was sound, given that Windows is by far the most used system it should also be the most secure: then again I invite you to research the subject, security reports o
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by nathanappere 15y ago
"if you look at their competitors, Windows is much farther ahead in the security realm" and that of course is not heresay but solid facts. If you exclude linux, bsd distros, and solaris of the "competitors", then you may be right. So far mo
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by nathanappere 15y ago
I do agree on the fact that it is totally embarassing for Dropbox, and I do not either recall a similar issue with Microsoft, which does not make it safe. DEP / ASLR mechanism have been "easily" bypass several times this year, which to me i
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by nathanappere 15y ago
I happen to use 7 / archlinux / Os X almost equally. Of course my comment was trollesque, but an affirmation like "Microsoft ... tends to be very good about security updates" is not realistic. Time elapsed between exploit discovery and patc
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by nathanappere 15y ago
To me, going to Microsoft for security is like going to the desert for ice-cream. The article seems quite biased, since "embarassing security failures" tend to happen more often at Microsoft.