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My guess is that 100% robustness wasn't a big concern. Getting 80% of a lot is good enough.

I wouldn't call a RAM scraper an exploit. ASLR isn't an effective protection against a program that reads from memory. Driver signing in newer versions of Windows is a more appropr…

You probably don't realize how much crossover there is between the military and intel. For example, the CSS in NSA/CSS - http://www.nsa.gov/about/central_security_service/

But here are a couple of things to consider. 1. If I make more than approx $106k a year, I cap out on paying FICA. 2. As far as I know, everything I buy at places like Amazon costs…

Are you serious? National security != fighting terrorists. From Wikipedia for the lazy. > National security is the requirement to maintain the survival of the state through the use…

Government contractors are not considered government employees.

> So your arbitrary code is running as admin - what more could a security flaw in the bundled installshield get you? In the days of Antivirus products and executable whitelists, th…

Yes, you are right - if dropbox doesn't have it then it won't work. But you imply that it most likely won't have it. And what myself and perhaps others are saying is it most likely…

Losing ASLR on a single DLL does provide that very specific known-address code.

I don't see where that says they spy on each other. I only see bits that mention they spy on other countries of common interest e.g. China and share that data.

I didn't realize extensions were largely javascript. Thanks for the pointers.

I read that article as explaining why a web application can't do crypto with javascript. As someone that knows almost nothing about browser extensions, can you elaborate on why one…

Air temperature and pressure are much different at the higher altitude.

> If the government wants to recruit more hackers, they need to sweeten the offer; but how can they do so with (a) government-controlled funding and salaries, (b) strict background…

How do you know you weren't exploited? You say that you aren't a security expert.

I can't remember schedule exactly, but I feel like the Adonis Jot was on time. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/531383637/jot-capacitive... I've backed one other project. It is …

I've kicked into 2 projects and one has delivered so far. I expect the other will eventually. Jot stylus - http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/531383637/jot-capacitive... They are …

You bring up education a few times. Given the length of his work history, is it even important at this point? Why are you so interested in it? I ask because a lot of people claim t…

> Any C/C++ application built with Visual Studio 2010 won't run on Windows 2000 or XP prior to SP3. By default you can't but you can adjust the build settings and it works fine.

Which programming language(s) is/are used?

That was written by a kid sitting in jail for computer crimes. NOT the same as Hacker News.

CMake (or perhaps Scons, but I have no experience with that) might be useful for you. Although going through the motions of writing build scripts for you build system might not be …