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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Do they need google/fastlys cooperation for this, or is it possible to do by running a server in the google cloud, or via some redirect that fastly hosts?
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
That's salary above the average for IT workers. The average IT worker makes $72000, while cybersecurity workers are making $78500, a 9% premium
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
<self promotion> I'm not surprised to see that the first thing you listed was patching known vulnerabilities. Staying up to date with known vulnerabilities is the baseline of a security policy, but patch management is needlessly
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Don't listen to the feedback you're getting here about pricing. It looks like you're used by people in healthcare, and they pay primarily for self-hosting. My suggestion: replace "Data not confidential" with "H
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Good News: Ubuntu now ships with unattended-upgrades on by default(blog.appcanary.com)
8 points by ontoillogical 10y ago|1 comments
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Sure, I'd like to see CERT get more funding...
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
> When I was your age I was leaving the security industry before it was cool I'm not interested in leaving the security industry. I'd rather work to change it. I'm a millennial, I guess :) > The "security industry&
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
> Solving the core problems is good for society, but society doesn't reward this behavior. I'd like to think that we can solve collective action problems like this as a society and be rewarded for it. We have to figure out how
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
And that's how you get to walk away with your dignity intact when you can't ship a working product on your self-inflicted insane timeline.
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Re Android: No we don't, but I'd be interested to know what we can do with Android to be helpful to you. Send me an email (max at our domain) if you want to talk more. vulns page: yeesh that is slow. This is the first time I'
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
At Appcanary, we're thinking about opening up our vulnerability database to be browsable and searchable by the public. If you're not sure which version has the patch for this vulnerability in your distro, here's what we know:
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
I think http://payrollhero.com/ used to do this, where they would travel as a team...
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
They're building an audience for a mass-market investment educational product. Instagram and snapchat makes perfect sense here.
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
What was your YC startup?
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Morris and badBIOS, 25 years in 2 worms(blog.appcanary.com)
5 points by ontoillogical 10y ago|0 comments
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Yeah I'm just surprised it's going to be scanning zips with the industry standard malware password for ... malware.
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
The source for that detail is here: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=82... > I think Symantec's mail server guessed the password "infected" and crashed (this passwor
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Symantec's Bad Week(blog.appcanary.com)
182 points by ontoillogical 10y ago|67 comments
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
That's a good point, and the .6 is an optimistic score (I think it was from running a subset of their model) I got the sense that the authors felt that this proves an attack of this sort was possible and viable, but that their model wa
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Heh, I was referring to OpenAI Gym ( https://gym.openai.com/ ), specifically https://gym.openai.com/envs#mujoco
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Crime relies on compression --- the "CR" stands for "Compression Ratio" The idea is that the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in the TLS compression mode CRIME attacks will build and index of repeated strings and compr
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
What's his thesis about? I can't find it.
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Your link to the NYTimes article at http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/01/magazine/tara-parker-pope-... is cut off. I think it's because HN does auto-link shortening and you copy and pasted a previous c
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by ontoillogical 10y ago
Can you explain the liquid chalk concept more? I use chalk to absorb and dry sweat on my hands, how does liquid do that? Does the alcohol evaporate super fast and leave the chalk to soak up my sweat?
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by ontoillogical 11y ago
> "hmmm, it would be easier to buy this person than to hire him." In what way did they buy him? Apple didn't buy Whisper Systems. They hired Frederic Jacobs.
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by ontoillogical 11y ago
Back when you did it, was the pay enough to support you in the off-season or did you have a second off-season job?
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by ontoillogical 11y ago
> In the United States, and nearly every other country, smoking is more common among the less wealthy and less educated. In the United States, 26.3% of people in poverty smoke compared to 15.2% for the rest of the population. College gra
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by ontoillogical 11y ago
For what it's worth this seems to be some unrelated vandalism from September 1st https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Livecoding.tv&typ...
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by ontoillogical 11y ago
1) When I was learning what "5 times 3" was I don't think I could even pronounce "commutative," let alone understand what it meant. I did know that 3 x 5 was the same as 5 x 3, but 5 / 3 was not 3 / 5 thou
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by ontoillogical 11y ago
I've read a bunch of articles about a "clever hack" the author used to get into an accelerator where they hyper-target a facebook ad to one or two influential people to convince them to accept their application. I imagine it&

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