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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Not exactly what you're asking, but multiple CVEs have been found in Intel's Management Engine (ME) which have been used in spyware. It might not be an intentional backdoor, but it very much seems designed with out-of-band access
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Bit of an aside, but I'm wondering in what city this was in. I'm going to be job hunting soon and I was planning to prioritize the Bay Area because that's the only place I've encountered a decent density of people like t
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
If people want to read all six, here they are! https://mickens.seas.harvard.edu/wisdom-james-mickens My favorite is The Night Watch.
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
I’ve been afraid to switch from GNOME to KDE because of what I’ve heard about instability on Wayland as well as Qt being more unstable than GTK. Are these concerns overstated? Should I bite the bullet and switch? I’m on Debian but conside
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Could someone explain just what's so bad about this? My best guess is that it adds complexity and makes code harder to read in a goto-style way where you can't reason locally about local things, but it feels like the author has a
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Interesting, where I’m from in southern california, “try and” doesn’t entail completion. (The article only mentions this for “go and”, which here does indeed entail expected completion.)
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Cool article! L4 stuff is always fun to read about :) Since TCP-in-UDP seems to be involve implementing end-to-end features over UDP, I feel like a comparison to multipath QUIC might be helpful so that we can understand it better. My impres
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Here's an equivalent little script for Debian Linux (but should work on most distros), based on classhasclass's comment: NEW_MAC=$(printf '02:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x\n' $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256)) $((RANDOM%256)
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by purplehat_ 1y ago
Remarkably, there isn’t a way to solve most integrals symbolically. We say that the set of “elementary functions”, i.e. ordinary looking symbolic functions, is not closed under integration. Even if you try to add special functions in you
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by purplehat_ 2y ago
This is a great writeup, thanks for posting it. The post mentions Early Bird APC is a fairly recent development, around 2018, but process injection has been around for a long time. Is there any theoretical work being done towards locking do