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by tsally 17y ago
...who has a grant from the NSF in high speed crypto.
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by tsally 17y ago
This idea isn't a bad one. In case anyone is interested, the most successful private space company so far is SpaceX, started by a co-founder of PayPal. It recently (December 2008) won a contract from NASA to resupply the ISS. I believe t
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by tsally 17y ago
I love how they just casually mention that they've been scanning the entire internet. It makes sense to me from a technical perspective, but quantifying the internet is still a pretty amazing thought in my mind.
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by tsally 17y ago
If you are changing the signature of a method that is part of the implementation in order to improve readability, clean up design, or remove dead code, it is refactoring. Refactoring isn't just as simple as renaming classes and methods; it
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by tsally 17y ago
This isn't always (or even usually) true. Sure, the IDE will verify the compile time correctness of the code, but unit tests check for run time correctness. So if you refactor a method to add an additional parameter, unit tests will catch
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by tsally 17y ago
The problem with that is that unit tests are so useful during refactoring. If you have enough unit tests, you can pretty much refactor at will without worrying about your program silently breaking.
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by tsally 17y ago
MIT has plently of hackers that could just roll their own. The most suprising part is that they didn't do that, and just went with the packaged solution.
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by tsally 17y ago
It's because he's frequently right, and has little patience for people that can't hack it. He expects a higher level of coding maturity and complexity than most people do. Zed's attitude results in a less welcoming image but a higher leve
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Lab Analysts Now Have To Testify In Court About Their Tests(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by tsally 17y ago|0 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
I have an account on this: http://www.cse.illinois.edu/turing/ Had very similar thinking, but decided against it because of usage policies. :-p
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NSA@Home: Fast SHA1 Generator Using FPGA (RE: Engine Yard Hashing Contest)(nsa.unaligned.org)
38 points by tsally 17y ago|8 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
Good point, I had never thought about it quite that in depth before. However, I am still willing to contend that large companies who can afford the staff do (or should) have large internal patch sets for OpenSSH, FreeBSD, etc. You can be
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by tsally 17y ago
The licenses are actually not that long. Just read them. You'll be able to make a pretty good guess as to what they are meant for and how they will work in practice. If you want airtight legal advice, only a lawyer can get you that.
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by tsally 17y ago
You're right, there are no certain answers. In fact, sometimes it seems that community and company participation is kind of arbitrary. It is because of that uncertainty that I believe in the GPL. The GPL licsenses provide legal incentive
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by tsally 17y ago
In this post, whenever I use GPL I am using it to refer to the class of licenses (AGPL, LGPL, and GPL proper), not the specific license. Remember that Colin is FreeBSD's security officer, so it's probably pretty obvious which camp of open s
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by tsally 17y ago
For the people on here who hate the GPL, you need to realize that you can make large (sometimes even massive) contributions to the open source community and still run a multi-million dollar business. I've written about this before. See a
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by tsally 17y ago
qmail is a program written in C which runs on UNIX. Trying to secure that is a near impossible task. What are you talking about? There hasn't been a published security flaw in qmail yet.
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by tsally 17y ago
If it's for a product you love (and it should be if you're doing a start up), it's not tech support. It doesn't even feel remotley close to tech support. It's just fixing or explaining something that matters a lot to you. Hackers always
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by tsally 17y ago
Splitscrean in Ubuntu is actually quite easy with Nvidia's driver package. I don't know what kind of granular access control Window's 7 has, but I can't imagine it's more granular than the functionality Unix can provide through groups. Th
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by tsally 17y ago
How many verions are you going to skip before you switch to something that is actually engineered well?
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by tsally 17y ago
Personal firewalls actually don't work, and the reason is usability. iTunes has 6-12 different executables with different names that require approval. How is your average personal going to tell whether a program with a strange name is par
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by tsally 17y ago
I agree with most of what you say, but it's important to remember that antibiotics actually work. Antivirus is pretty much on the same level as leaches and bleeding, if we want to keep going with the medical analogy. In fact, I don't thin
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by tsally 17y ago
Link is to the Google cache with the following message: "Well, this is my goodbye header for milw0rm. I wish I had the time I did in the past to post exploits, I just don't :(. For the past 3 months I have actually done a pretty crappy job
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Milw0rm Shut Down By Owner(74.125.47.132)
31 points by tsally 17y ago|12 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
For those that don't know, Daniel Bernstein is the author of qmail, which is probably one of the most secure pieces of software ever written (and a mail transfer agent at that!). Around its initial release, Bernstein offered $500 dollars f
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Bernstein's New Mission Is To Cryptographically Protect Every Internet Packet(cr.yp.to)
59 points by tsally 17y ago|21 comments
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by tsally 17y ago
Textbooks are usually placed on reserve, which has a 2 hour time limit. You take the book, get the work you done you need to do, and return it right there. There should be a waiting list as well, so you can time your workload appropriatel
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by tsally 17y ago
Apple considers RAM user serviceable, so upgrading to 4GB wont void your Apple care. Just take the time for a week to monitor your RAM usage. You'll probably notice that you max out 2GBs a lot. If you do any kind of virtualization, you d
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by tsally 17y ago
If you didn't already know that WEP was vunerable, you probably shouldn't try anything like this. In terms of relevant news for this site, attacks against WEP are 8 years old. Why do we care about this anymore? The types of tutorials are
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by tsally 17y ago
If not technical in terms of CPU cycles, technical in terms of design. For one, I don't have to scroll all the way to the bottom of Stack Overflow to see the answers to a question. Stack Overflow also loads far faster, and has unobtrusive

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