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by gavingmiller 2y ago
It’s a good callout, shouldn’t have editorialized like that.
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by gavingmiller 2y ago
Not even close to the point I was making: If you want to get taken seriously, write to audience.
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by gavingmiller 2y ago
The piece the author is missing, and why zendesk likely ignored this is impact, and it's something I continually see submissions lacking. As a researcher, if you can't demonstrate impact of your vulnerability, then it looks like j
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by gavingmiller 2y ago
zendesk is 6k employees, they have general council on staff
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by gavingmiller 5y ago
3 is hardly a sea shanty of vulnerabilities for a 7 year old library. I think you're conflating releases with vulns.
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by gavingmiller 6y ago
In no way is this an interns fault. If your entire infrastructure relies on the secure password of ... checks notes ... a single intern! then you're doing it wrong.
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by gavingmiller 7y ago
Anyone know if the `smuggler` tool used is available online? Can't find any reference to it in github or elsewhere, and I'm not familiar with it. Edit: Found it here: https://github.com/gwen001/pentest-tools&#
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Clarifying ProtonMail and Huawei(protonmail.com)
210 points by gavingmiller 7y ago|64 comments
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by gavingmiller 8y ago
> Why’d he quit? ... he told me this: at each stage of a company’s growth, they have different needs. Those needs generally require different skills. What he enjoyed, and what he had the skills to do, was to take a tiny company and make
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by gavingmiller 8y ago
> TVs blaring in waiting rooms when you'd prefer to just sit in silence. When I can, I turn the TVs off. No one has complained yet.
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by gavingmiller 8y ago
> Getting motivated to lift 2x a week is another issue... Was in the same boat until I started doing group classes. Used that to build accountability, motivation, and a "vocabulary" of how the gym works. Now I could spend hours
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by gavingmiller 9y ago
Not training managers on how to manage. When devs are promoted into management or team lead positions they are not given adequate training on what it means to manage / lead. Thus devs don't learn what good management is, and the s
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by gavingmiller 9y ago
Password protected zip. And/or wrap in another zip is usually enough to thwart Gmail
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
As a happy customer of 1Password, it would be great to see you connect with Have I been pwned?[1] for watchtower notifications. [1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
corrected - thanks
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DHH answers: What makes Rails a framework worth learning in 2017?(quora.com)
200 points by gavingmiller 10y ago|130 comments
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
I'd love to DM you with some questions about Toronto. Can you ping me via my profile info?
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
> 'progressive' practices such as unlimited vacation Unlimited vacation is not progressive and it is also unhealthy. It causes feelings of guilt while on vacation. Often there's an unspoken obligated to check-in (email &am
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
Your solution of mapping to a grading system A,B,C,D; or terrible, crap, better, best was mentioned in another thread about this article. It's a common thought, however it's incorrect because you're still leaking substantial
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
It's an assumption on my part, and anecdotally a correct one. Having included this entropy example in a number of talks and asking the audience what's wrong, the majority of the technical audience did not know, nor did they have a
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
One friend is in a townhouse in North Vancouver. Rented for a while, then bought. Real-estate is stupid silly there. I've also heard talk of people moving to Victoria as an alternative.
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by gavingmiller 10y ago
I can speak a bit for western canada; Vancouver has seen many of the larger/top companies open offices: Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, etc. so plenty of jobs to be had there. I live in Calgary and have seen many peers move to Vancouver f
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
Question - are you primarily a windows or mac developer? Because the counter part on mac is sublime text and I see a ton of that!
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
I'd agree 100% on this. As a Canadian, looking at our future career prospects it is in our best interest to learn how to work well as remote employees.
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
Troy Hunt's original story has more technical details which are worth the read: http://www.troyhunt.com/2016/02/controlling-vehicle-features...
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
This has actually already been studied/tried in the 70's in Dauphin, Manitoba [1][2]. The experiment saw a decrease in accidents, injuries, and mental health issues. [1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mani
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Sorry Chef(blog.danivovich.com)
5 points by gavingmiller 11y ago|0 comments
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
That's not what this means at all. In any given company there are X individuals across Y teams involved in deploying a piece of software (never mind an emergency patch). Stakeholders in this context refers to all those involved to make
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by gavingmiller 11y ago
Moving the obvious Privacy & Security implications aside, the idea of accessing all of my child's conversations with their doll is disturbing. For parents using this "feature", it normalizes the environment of surveillanc
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Fixing File Access Vulnerabilities in Ruby/Rails(gavinmiller.io)
1 points by gavingmiller 11y ago|0 comments

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