spec_laconic

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by spec_laconic 14y ago
My best friend in HS happened to be a genius on paper. Got straight A's freshman and sophomore year, ended up doing less well junior and senior year, and, when he got to college, failed out. He now parks cars in a garage. I don't really car
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
I thought chrome was open source: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code It's weird to think that Google would tell you not to RE an open-source project, I must be missing something
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
I can't speak to frats or Harvard, but I can speak of personal experience of MIT. When I began taking courses at MIT, I worked my proverbial ass off in a very difficult class in CS (course 6 by their parlance) and got an A. After the semest
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
I completely agree. As I get older, I find the abstractions to be much more interesting; how does one express a lambda in assembly? Functional programming in general? The simplicity of Python and the beauty of Lisp / Scheme / f# keep me goi
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
Perl module for such: http://search.cpan.org/~asavige/Acme-EyeDrops-1.60/lib/Acme/...
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
That .lnk vulnerability is now in metasploit; I don't think we can safely say that Gauss is from the same org from this one piece of evidence.
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
Really? That sounds like it'd be very inefficient when performing context-switching heavy tasks. Does OSX just take the cache penalty or does it somehow compensate with carefully written syscalls?
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
Yeah, you can just take a quick pic using the camera; the light flashes for barely a second and you won't notice. Metasploit has a stager for exactly this purpose: http://www.metasploit.com/modules/payload/osx/x86/isight/rev...
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
TL; DR - No proof / source code / details on the backdoor - Outlandish claims of this being a "stuxnet" weapon Show me some source, a schematic, or a technique that you're using, and then I might believe you, otherwise this is just FUD. The
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by spec_laconic 14y ago
I'm going to go ahead and play devil's advocate; I think concern over this is really overblown. There are two things about this case that I don't really get: 1. If you're blasting your data over an unencrypted wifi connection, do you have a