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I'm on the engineering team at Blockstack, and wrote the client-side encryption functions used by applications. I totally agree with the idea that if software uses encryption, it s…

The following example is pretty much the chief reason why I will not be porting much software to Python 3: $ python3 Python 3.6.3 (default, Oct 3 2017, 21:45:48) [GCC 7.2.0] on lin…

> Even if thousands of developers from HN switch, that would hardly move the needle. Ordinary users just won't care about any of this. Thousands of developers from HN make websites…

I agree about this ethical concern, but this attack also shows that reporting the holes to manufacturers is of limited use -- these exploits have been known to manufacturers since …

From [1] "in the case of blocking workloads, it’s extremely difficult to determine the number of threads that optimizes overall throughput because it’s hard to determine when a req…

Have you thought much about address space randomization? It's a reasonably effective security strategy, but it essentially requires enough unused bits in the address space. If you …

This is actually an interesting point. A compromised user table could conceivably be used for all sorts of nefarious purposes. If the attackers "having access" to the information i…

What about this exploit really requires a US supply chain? Why do you believe that the Five Eyes have fewer exploits for hardware originating from BRICS nations? Don't intelligence…

Let the switch cost something like 1 unit and the analysis on the Wikipedia example still holds - at the switch, drivers face a choice between a 41 minute route and a 45 minute rou…

In Go, and other type-safe languages, the compiler usually knows exactly which ints are being used as pointers. This is the difference between "precise" and "conservative" GC and i…

If you check out the draft ( http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-04 ), it looks like either the client or the server is able to initiate and send data along the HTT…