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by rnovak 11y ago
You're debating that he was at an airport? Or that he didn't keep the thing in his backpack? Both of those were reported by the school itself . And the tweet came from a reporter at the CNN. I'll grant that CNN isn't th
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by rnovak 11y ago
I prefer to take the optimist view: While you, I, or anyone else might debate the novelty or inventiveness of what the kid made, I'm sure he genuinely thought it was cool, and was excited about it. Then, after asking if he could brin
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by rnovak 11y ago
He wasn't at an airport. he also asked before bringing it in. He also kept it in his backpack , out of view. What else should he have done? Just given up and not tried to make something cool?
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by rnovak 11y ago
I think the biggest thing that says not a bomb was that he asked permission _before_ bringing it in[1]. [1] https://twitter.com/AnneClaireCNN/status/644158607035133952
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by rnovak 11y ago
I think it can be formally proved that software that is non-trivial cannot be written to be 100% bug free in all cases, in all contexts, and I think that's a by-product of how software runs. We have so many layers that software has to
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by rnovak 11y ago
is it facebook's mission statement to provide foreign intelligence to US agencies?
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by rnovak 11y ago
They haven't even denied breaking into the HT Network. Should they be accused, would they? I bet a dime-to-a-dollar that should they be accused, they'd release a non-statement to the press: "We cannot comment on...."
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by rnovak 11y ago
I really think that's a distinction without a difference. For all intents and purposes, they spied on google. If you consider the fact that Google considers consumers to be more product than client, the distinction matters even less. B
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by rnovak 11y ago
It's an assumption, but I'm asking why it's a big assumption. We know that the NSA spied on Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft, and those are our own (US) companies. Hacking Team produced weaponized exploits/crypto/st
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I think this discussion could get convoluted really quickly, because I bet 100% of the companies in the Fortune 500 have a different definition of what their "enterprise" network consists of, and how it's organized. I can s
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by rnovak 11y ago
Keep in mind also that I think he has access to more documents than we have. He made this statement a while back[1]: I am reviewing some of the documents Snowden has provided to the Guardian. Because of the delicate natu
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by rnovak 11y ago
I think it would be hard to go through everything, but off the top of my head: https://snowdenarchive.cjfe.org/greenstone/collect/snowden1/... Quote: For the past decade, NSA has lead an aggre
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by rnovak 11y ago
I think it's a fairly safe bet that they did, and I'll explain why I believe this. 1. The NSA has access to more info on both good crypto and broken crypto 2. Hacking Team's software & infrastructure were clearly vulnerab
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by rnovak 11y ago
Thank you, that's 100% the type of answer I was hoping for
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by rnovak 11y ago
Well, since you want to get pedantic, fine.... Regular Expressions define/describe a language. They do not, can not, evaluate to a value, and it wouldn't even make sense if they did. Regular Expressions also don't by thems
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Edit: I can't edit my post, but how about instead of down-voting, you answer my question? I don't get how my question isn't genuine.
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by rnovak 11y ago
Again, that's leaves it as a subset of Perls regular-expressions, not a disjoint/distinct set, which is what incompatibility would imply.
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What I don't get is that the example given: hello\\s+w.+d$ Is 100% perl compatible, seems more like "subset" than "incompatible". I've seen comments that say it's a "joke". Can any conf
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by rnovak 11y ago
I always wonder where people get these numbers. From what I understand, census bureaus, etc, still only say there are 7.3 billion people on Earth. Where are you getting the other 700,000,000?
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by rnovak 11y ago
I think at the end of the day, you don't know what tomorrows going to bring. You may be getting job offers now, but what does that really get you? Not sure if you're in the US or not, but at least in the US, Employment is at-will
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by rnovak 11y ago
The company I work for has released a couple products in grails (SaaS). Ultimately, it's basically a "wrapper" around very common Java tech (like Spring WebMVC). It's really nice to use to build things quickly, but when
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by rnovak 11y ago
I just realized I typed "encryption", and not "crypto". Totally wrong there, encryption definitely implies math.
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by rnovak 11y ago
No one may have written those words exactly, but the sentiment was surely there. In this[1] thread, every comment from a Mozilla employee was a justification of the decision, no one offered support to that developer or asked for feedback re
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by rnovak 11y ago
I guess I'm just use to hearing "crypto" used as a term that means both the applied part, as well as the math part, so whenever I see someone else say "don't roll your own crypto", I assume they mean everythi
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by rnovak 11y ago
Well, lets be fair here. Saying "Don't roll your own encryption" doesn't specify "maths" or "applied crypto" (which incidentally covers security/auth mechanisms). It's a bad idea to roll you
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by rnovak 11y ago
There's a US Govt agency called NIST. They sponsor "contests" basically for academics and engineers to put forth proposals for crypto algorithms, which are then reviewed. I'd read up on here[1], if it interests you at al
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This should be extended to "Never roll your own security ", because that's really the crux. As many, many people have pointed out in the past, that's why books like Modern Cryptography exist. In these books, they basi
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by rnovak 11y ago
I'll probably get a ton of hate for this, but I was disappointed with their latest announcement regarding add-ons. When one of the most prominent developers for add-ons for their platform came forward (DownThemAll!, with more than 1.3
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With every Snowden leak that has come out, you don't think the Government has access to ALL of google's tracking data? Even if they didn't, all it would take is the mere thought that you might doing something wrong, and the
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If you read that John Deere article, their specific quote is actually that you don't own the vehicle itself: ... an implied license for the life of the vehicle to operate the vehicle And fundamentally then, I think th

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