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The article you linked to is kind of confused and I'm not sure I blame them. This stuff is really complex! According to the proposal[0], leaf certificates are prohibited from being…

By being better than the competition. That is the answer.

It is really not a good idea to let your naked record go to a 3rd party. If you need your root to be an A name, go with a DNS provider that will do URL redirects. If you trust them…

I don't know specifically about the `crashme` tool but I can say that fuzzing is not a technique that has gone out of vogue. In fact it is standard security practice for finding il…

Here comes the flame war about how our educational system has declined in the past hundred years. In an attempt to head that off at the pass (Hey, if you're going to have a cliché …

There are a lot of problems with HFT (high-frequency trading) that basically boil down to proximity to the exchange. If you haven't paid for a colo inside their datacenters you can…

Does anyone know what this is? Does anyone have any more info on where the colors come from?

No I will add a little more detail. When Netflix starts sending enough data through standard connections that they start to cripple the internet, they will set up peering agreement…

In June, RadioLab (The NPR show), did a show called "Oops" that had a section on this. It was a REALLY interesting episode and continues to be a spectacular podcast. If you're inte…

I'm far from impressed with this. How is ?? any different from a guard ( || )? I use that all the freaking time in every language. I've never written a line of C# and even I know a…