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by sharkbot 17d ago
According to the linked article, that’s exactly what they did. It was a legitimate bug, but the security consequences were lower than low. It’s a code quality issue, not a security issue, but both are worth fixing.
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Veles, Google's open source secret scanner(opensource.googleblog.com)
2 points by sharkbot 1y ago|0 comments
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by sharkbot 1y ago
Agree. Purely opining, but I assume that it's because of the emotional connection that artistic media has on people, despite the flaws. People remember the emotions the artwork engendered, and thus the whole work is associated with the
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by sharkbot 1y ago
There are parallels to the “rapid application development” push of the 90’s. Visual Basic, Tcl/Tk, Python with Tkinter, HyperCard; all of them promised shortening the development cycle and democratizing computing. Code was interpreted
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A method to assess 'forgivable' vs. 'unforgivable' vulnerabilities(ncsc.gov.uk)
2 points by sharkbot 2y ago|0 comments
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by sharkbot 2y ago
There is no formal “next in line”. The closest potential successor would have been the deputy prime minister; Chrystia Freeland held that role until a few weeks ago when she dramatically resigned and sparked this chain of events. Currently,
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by sharkbot 2y ago
Now for the most important question: can you run DOOM on it? :)
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by sharkbot 2y ago
I’ve been thinking about this topic thru the lens of moral philosophy lately. A lot of the “big lists of controls” security approaches correspond to duty ethics: following and upholding rules is the path to ethical behaviour. IT applies thi
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by sharkbot 2y ago
I’m thinking of the metaphor between Newtonian and general relativity. At low energies, masses and velocities the two theories correspond in predictions with little discrepancy. If the velocity/mass/energies increase dramatically,
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by sharkbot 2y ago
I think that’s an oversimplification. If you have a Windows system handy, look for a file named “errata.inf” [0]. It’s a giant configuration file that is full of tweaks to make dodgy hardware work reliably. Hardware, software and firmware a
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by sharkbot 2y ago
It's also a complex number, a Unicode character, an ASCII character, an Extended ASCII character, a glyph, the multiplicative identity element, a raster image, ... The GP point is correct; we implicitly convert between all these repres
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by sharkbot 3y ago
This might be No True Scotsman, but it doesn't sound like you are a "finger gunner" after all. After (fairly) long time in the industry, it seems to come down to: - understanding what one's clients need (not what they as
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by sharkbot 3y ago
I feel like there are parallels to computer security. A lot of my experience in this domain is looking at systems that were designed in a thoughtful way, but the designer didn’t fully appreciate being surrounded by a universe (especially on
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by sharkbot 3y ago
I don’t have your answers, but the runtime source has some pointers that would likely get you the answer you seek: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/HACKING... It sounds like
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by sharkbot 3y ago
Just to be clear, there are many aspects of biology that that professor is ignoring on a regular basis that you’ve elided (hibernation, molting, limb regeneration, etc). What specifically about procreation is important enough to call that i
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by sharkbot 3y ago
What are alternatives you would suggest to these frameworks? (I am also deeply skeptical of these frameworks, but don’t have a strong argument against them, and they seem pervasive in the security industry)
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by sharkbot 3y ago
But the Ferengis changed their society to include “fe-males” due to internal politics and change from within. It wasn’t instituted from the outside, it was Ferengi society advancing via the means of their own political system. I think that
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by sharkbot 3y ago
Buy a TE pocket operator. They are reasonably priced. If you like chiptunes, PO20. If you want to sample, PO33. If you want a drum machine, PO32. I have an OP-1 and a collection of pocket operators. The PO’s are my favourite creative outlet
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by sharkbot 3y ago
Mostly a note to self: it is interesting to read this account and connect it to the financial planning case studies that show up in personal finance blogs and articles. It seems like there’s a lot of shared terminology and practice between
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by sharkbot 3y ago
Incorrect. The program under inspection could halt or could not halt; undecidability is a statement about Turing machines inspecting that program and unable to make a determination (via a clever proof by contradiction). The Halting Problem
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by sharkbot 3y ago
The halting problem has been proven definitively undecidable via proof by contradiction, by Alan Turing. The proof implicitly created the notion of Turing machines, a key model of computation. There is a solution to the halting problem. It’
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by sharkbot 4y ago
It would be interesting have a Forth running on it, as I feel the philosophies are aligned.
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by sharkbot 4y ago
I don’t mean to belabour the point, but I think the nuance is worth exploring. The key point in my view is “control”. You’ve referred to Uber.com/Xmas-sale as an example where Uber the economic entity is in charge of their own shorteni
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by sharkbot 4y ago
The article talks about ownership transfer of a url database and the potential for history rewriting. An incentivized blockchain could be part of the solution to ensure history rewrites are not economically possible. I don’t have a protocol
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by sharkbot 4y ago
I can barely believe I’m typing this, but an incentivized blockchain (aka Bitcoin et al) is a legitimate option to ensure a coherent and mutually agreed upon history of information in the face of competing economic actors. Too bad about the
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by sharkbot 4y ago
I think it could fit in with a conversational chat bot the same way that ads are part of podcasts and YouTube channels: a conversational and explicit ad that helps pay for the otherwise freely available content. Full disclosure: I work at G
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by sharkbot 4y ago
I won’t comment about your other topics, but I’ll point out that current inflation is far from “maxed out”, at least in mature Western democracies with their own central bank and currency. ~9% is high historically, but inflation has run hot
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by sharkbot 4y ago
If someone wanted to get in touch with you, what would be the best way?
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by sharkbot 4y ago
There are a few paths forward for you, and a lot hinge upon your skills outside of security (somewhat your morality). Computer security is a lucrative field, and a broad one. You could continue the bug bounty approach, which leads into vuln
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by sharkbot 4y ago
In fairness, I would likely never been recommended that book unless this article had been published and remarked upon by you, so I think there was some value even if you consider it ancillary.

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