robert-wallis

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by robert-wallis 13y ago
Certainly the string library, of all places, should be using secure code. I'm sure there are sooo many people running Linux on pre-OSX Mac harddrives formatted with HFS that could be hacked with a buffer overflow. Are you seriously arg
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by robert-wallis 13y ago
wait for it... the exact section of the code that contains the "sprintf" I mentioned will pop into your screen. Just be patient.
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by robert-wallis 13y ago
sprintf buffer overflow in the string library https://github.com/LuaDist/lua/commit/52eff16f51750cf47afaa5... This library is not included in NetBSD as far as I can tell: http://cvsweb.netbsd.org&#
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by robert-wallis 13y ago
I just created a model from a table with over 20 columns. A few days ago I had to hardcode a list of settings I screenscraped into a JS array in the Chrome console. You can't refactor things like that.
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by robert-wallis 13y ago
Wouldn't it be ironic if the list were hosted by a company who's revenue largely comes from ads. Like most internet companies today. Maybe some kind of balance would be better than a block list. Effective ads that don't ann
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by robert-wallis 13y ago
I always believed leaders should do the main thing the company does. Microsoft's new CEO should write software and make hardware. It's hard for me to respect a manager that doesn't understand what I do.
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by robert-wallis 13y ago
interview video http://www.twitch.tv/jenesee/c/2488434
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
Just checked, you can now enable SSL, but by default it is not enabled. No doubt most people don't have it on. Therefore, Yahoo is still an insecure email service.
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
Why promote Yahoo!'s email service? They still don't use SSL after you are logged in right? Sending your plaintext session cookie over the net, allowing people in your coffee shop to hijack your email. Nobody should be encouraging people
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
MVP
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
Any reason the logo is on the right instead of standard left? https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&biw=1435&bih=762...
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Indie game dev uses runway as key determinant.(plus.google.com)
2 points by robert-wallis 14y ago|0 comments
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
In other news, "Windows laptop gets compromised, media responds 'And your point is?...'" It would be nice if the attack vector were the main focus of the article, but how much publicity would "Java plugin allows Facebook and Apple to be hac
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
Chrome's "click to play" plugin setting chrome://settings/content has a nice user experience, because on YouTube you click the video that you want to play instead of clicking some off menu to enable Flash on the whole domain. I think that
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
This makes me think of a "degree, in fashion, from France" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZFOab0Ar4M #portal2
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by robert-wallis 14y ago
What about the security angle? The registrar should log these transactions with the IP address and probably the UA string so they can tell the customer what computer they were using when they did it. And if it wasn't them, then investigat