vezzy-fnord

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3511.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Although a pretty good feat, I thought the Joomla! backdoor in the GPL was sneakier and more interesting. These characters should trigger an alarm if caught by eye in a source file.
3512.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
I believe that classification would be more suited for a *BSD user or someone concerned with integrating the Plan 9 userspace into their workstation. Linux has a pretty low entry point nowadays. Plenty of people I know surf the web, use Sky
3513.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
So is this basically LFS with built-in PXE boot support and orientation towards servers?
3514.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Originally saw this on r/netsec. A very good watch. You can tell Mudge is passionate about what he's speaking and the stories he shares offer some insight into the recent political climate.
3515.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Indeed. Although there hasn't been much public cryptanalysis on it (besides that it's susceptible to a cold boot), it's proprietary and owned by Microsoft. Then again, he did say "at least". It probably is better th
3516.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
They'll be heard only by those who choose to hear them. It's pretty difficult to explain to a layman why they should value free over proprietary software, because most of the benefits aren't really noticeable to the average u
3517.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
I'll have to check these out. Obviously, these are only three books and there's plenty of others, but I believe that 'Code' by Charles Petzold should be a must-read for developers, hobbyists and CS students alike.
3518.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Given that C++ originated as a superset of C, it is perhaps not that surprising to see this quirk as a remnant. C++ has a whole bunch of other issues, however. The inundation of poor educational resources on it and the fact that many treat
3519.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Isn't brand loyalty wonderful? Good on these two for exploiting one of the oldest cognitive biases out there. How's about a Reddit Sundae next time?
3520.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
All the more interesting when you consider that Google's mass of data is an invaluable resource to the authorities.
3521.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Reminds me of all those legacy bugs in IE6 that achieved the same result, or RSnake's crash that involved an insane HTML width attribute. But hey, it took until IE9 to pass Acid3. Who knows what's in Trident?
3522.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
With all due respect to Mr. Grossman, this was a pretty dull article. "Clicking on delete doesn't actually get rid of your email from the system." Yeah.
3523.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
I'm not sure what to think here. The PHP team's voluntary naming convention violation, people who can't be bothered to RTFM or that I actually read the whole rant in its entirety. This little quirk's been famous for so l
3524.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
A bit optimistic, I think. Although it could be generally lumped in that Generation Y is more about openness and freedom of information, it depends on the individual mind. There's plenty of authoritarian-minded young people, and let&#x
3525.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
This is somewhat of a red herring. It's more feasible for the NSA to attack from a side channel, and with their influence that's what they've been doing. No doubt they may have optimized some attacks on already previously wea
3526.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
Funny how a lot of public WLAN networks have almost the same loading speed.
3527.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
So shall mark the beginning of a new age where people will let go of their shiny portable tracking devices and become more conscious of their privacy. Oh wait, no it won't.
3528.
by vezzy-fnord 13y ago
It's nice as a footnote, but in the end it's just a trivial observance that has no real significance. I don't treat it as any different from a regular day.