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by jtakkala 1mo ago
They're almost certainly not genuine accounts, maybe used for karma farming, phishing, social engineering, future malware distribution?
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by jtakkala 1mo ago
Not going to comment on the PR commentary, but the victim GitHub account is suspicious itself, recent account, a few fresh repos, following 14.5k others, and I count three surnames on the account (the username, plus two in the README histor
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by jtakkala 2y ago
Rogers and Teksavvy support IPv6
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by jtakkala 3y ago
$660k total comp (including benefits) is probably right in the median of what an e6 earns at Meta. I don’t know where you’re hearing otherwise.
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by jtakkala 3y ago
There's definitely top-notch software and security engineers making well north of £150k in the UK. As you go up in levels, it's indeed a small set of people, but FB / Google comp for a top L7 engineer working in the same spac
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by jtakkala 3y ago
I left out the company-wide holidays, which in 2022 amounted to 4, and the 10+ public holidays.
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by jtakkala 3y ago
On top of that, there are roles in FAANG companies and Silicon Valley that give ~5 weeks PTO. For example, Facebook historically has had a fairly good PTO policy in the US, and for the past several years gives at least 23 days (plus there&#
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Using short-lived certificates to protect TLS secrets(engineering.fb.com)
5 points by jtakkala 3y ago|0 comments
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by jtakkala 3y ago
The size of Canada really isn’t a valid excuse for Canada’s poor public transit, nor is Canada’s population. Notjustbikes posted a good video rebutting this argument a few days ago: https://youtu.be/REni8Oi1QJQ
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The IRS versus the Clumsy Taxpayer(forbes.com)
8 points by jtakkala 4y ago|0 comments
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by jtakkala 4y ago
Here’s a recent talk by Yann Collet at Stanford which leads into an interesting Q&A about his development of Zstandard: https://youtu.be/gZikN5hhlxA
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by jtakkala 4y ago
Did you even read the comment above? Sauna usage in Finland has basically no correlation with socioeconomic status. Pretty much everyone has access to a sauna and the time to use one. Not only is it a tradition, but Finland goes to great le
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by jtakkala 5y ago
Correct, and generally known as ‘passport control’ in Europe and many other countries. I think ‘immigration’ is primarily used by English speaking New World countries which historically had large scale immigration (as in, settlement) progra
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by jtakkala 6y ago
I've done Surat Thani to Bangkok in a first class sleeper, and indeed recall sleeping blissfully. One of my most memorable train journeys.
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Why radio receivers won’t tune 800-900 MHz(computer.rip)
439 points by jtakkala 6y ago|165 comments
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by jtakkala 6y ago
> Go was originally envisioned as a systems programming language. It was often called "a better C". This exposed Rob Pike's lack of experience in the area (IMHO) because anyone who had done any systems programming at all k
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by jtakkala 6y ago
Indeed, and in that respect Echelog was a great source of OSINT material for the anecdote I described above. That, along with `whois` data and other public databases can reveal a lot without putting oneself at legal risk.
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by jtakkala 6y ago
A long time ago parsing Echelog logs was how I was able to monitor the IRC activity of an attacker at a company I used to work at. I didn't normally sit on these channels myself, but Echelog enabled me to look back and collect data on
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by jtakkala 8y ago
The EU has required DRL's on all new cars since 2011. As an EU member state this applies to Croatia too.
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TP-Link serves outdated or no firmware at all on 30% of its European websites(ctrl.blog)
2 points by jtakkala 9y ago|0 comments
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by jtakkala 9y ago
I've got HTTPS Everywhere running and it doesn't appear to have a rule since I'm still hitting the non-TLS site.
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by jtakkala 9y ago
I completely agree about having a dedicated team, and I'd expect a company of their nature to be at the forefront of security best practices. I just checked some Equifax domains against SSL Labs, and while their Canadian site ( https:&
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by jtakkala 10y ago
ecobee | Software Developer | Toronto | https://www.ecobee.com Rapidly expanding Canadian IoT company with new products in the works. Plenty of interesting problems to work on, from crypto, databases, highly concurrent software,
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by jtakkala 10y ago
Great idea. I always thought that it's essential to log events in realtime to a remote system that is secure and harder to compromise to modify the logs post-intrusion. Way back in the day it was suggested to do this to an entirely off
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by jtakkala 10y ago
When a process exits abnormally or not and if there's unread data in the receive buffer then the kernel will send a RST, otherwise it would send a FIN.
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by jtakkala 10y ago
I gained a newfound respect for SQLite recently after reading Dan Luu's post on file consistency ( http://danluu.com/file-consistency/ ). I had always thought of SQLite as a bit of a toy database, but having read th
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by jtakkala 10y ago
Thanks! Fixed.
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by jtakkala 10y ago
ecobee | Toronto, Canada | Full-time | ONSITE (remote work up to 25% of the time possible) Rapidly growing Canadian IoT company with new products in the works. Plenty of interesting problems to work on, from crypto, performance tuning, to r
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by jtakkala 10y ago
Yes, it exists, and widely used in HFT. A few years ago Arista even introduced a switch with a built-in FPGA specifically for this purpose.
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by jtakkala 10y ago
Where I used to work we had refuelling agreements with multiple vendors. Yes, hospitals and critical infrastructure are prioritized first, but we ran on generators for an extended spell during the Northeast Blackout of 2003[1] (the outage a

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