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Hi, author of the blog post. This is correct - keeping PII protected has always been their concern, but recent breaches in thier's and other industries (including some they heard o…

Yep!

Thanks, fixed it

The SolarWinds incident was detect because of bad opsec by the operators who performed the FireEye op. I would image the capability was developed by an expert group in some intelli…

You're right, as long as the hardware switch is really hardware and not fake-hardware-implemented-in-software like many vendors.

I love the idea but is scaring me a bit security wise. This can be a really hidden persistence method for malware. Imagine the following scenario - memory only malware lands on my …

Nice article, thanks for the tips at the end! Personal perspective: I've been trying intermittent fasting for about four years, and found it helped a little in the beginning but th…

Exploits are possible even without DMA. Windows had a slew of USB stack exploits, ranging from the serial and modem drivers to HID device and more. There have also been in the past…

I love hearing great news about the space industry, that the way to get us humans into outer space. Can any one a little more knowledgeable explain the difference between this 3d p…

I don't think this should surprise anyone. The FBI has multiple methods for accessing locked phones: using physical exploits like those provided by Cellbrite, or through baseband a…

Love the post, good luck! Re “Productivity equiation” from Ali Abdaal: Productivity = Useful output / time x f (where f is the ‘fun factor’), but treating f as constant is wrong - …

The only reason this was detected was very overt behavior - opening AD popups. So I guesstimate for each one of these we have 10 that go undetected. This means the whole ecosystem …

How do you decide when it is safe to update?

Russia has a long history of GPS jamming for security reasons. A friend serving in the russian forces in Syria says that GPS accuracy in the country varies dramatically with Russia…

I get that breaking packages is a bad user experience, but the Linux community at large should start paying more notice to security-first software engineering. Learn a little bit f…

People need to understand that stopping Covid will take much more then a year, and can easily extend for 2-3 years. 24% of the USA population is under 18 (from google). The article…

Really nice and clear. One addition: the final example uses ProxyCommand, I find ProxyJump much more useful: you can specify multiple hops clearly and even specify different privat…

I think this approach might backfire: If purpose of the question is to test the candidate's knowledge of common libraries, then it probably is way to easy to be indicative, this ki…

Two books I that were instrumental for me to learn how to explain the architecture of my software clearly to other people were "The Architecture of Open Source Applications" Volume…