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Amen. All these people who parrot, "Don't roll you own crypto" need to get out of the math/programming kitchen and go get a crypto burger from some national fast food joint. My adv…

Often times, the hack is through a web front-end. Back-end systems (such as DBs) are heavily firewalled, logged, monitored, etc. and are generally very well protected. Systems guys…

The Cone of Silence lives.

"Inelegant" is really a matter of opinion.

We use SHA1_Pass. It does not store password data. It generates passwords as needed. The info required to generate the passwords is stored on our internal wiki. The secret sentence…

Very inspiring. I have no interest in start-ups and that sort of thing, but I do admire your intestinal fortitude. You hung in there and did it. And really that's all life is about…

This is the same reason I re-wrote a lot of my Python code in C++ many years ago. Distributing one self-contained, statically linked executable just works and even the most clueles…

Very well said. There is no one perfect programming language, no one perfect algorithm and no one perfect data structure for all problems and constraints you will face as a CS prac…

Great read. This sentence sums it up best I think, "Why, why, why would people expect to get great results if they flaunt all the best-practices that have developed over the past 2…

The world is all about trivialities today and escapism (let's not face reality). Especially in the West. Young men and women (in general) don't really mature until their mid 30s an…

Most people don't understand it. Never have. Never will.

Triple rot13 (like Triple DES) is government approved. echo -n word | \ > wm --rot13 --words stdin | \ > wm --rot13 --words stdin | \ > wm --rot13 --words stdin result: jbeq Howeve…

Law Enforcement is a very tight knit community. They trust each other and that trust builds over the years. They are almost like a family. And apparently, this is their go to guy f…

Not only are more people depressed, but more actually die during the winter too: http://wattsupwiththat.com/2010/01/06/winter-kills-excess-de...

It's been my experience that many cultures have this problem, not just China.

Security through obscurity is useless. I have heard people repeat this for the last 20 years. They are wrong and they have no idea what they are talking about. They just parrot wha…