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> That's why we ask the question about 3 people in broadly different areas. Frankly, if you don't recognize at least one of those names and understand the foundational contribution…

> If all they can come up with is "Minix" and "that pissing contest with Linus", then I might see if the Linux devops guys have an opening. If they're that incurious, they'll do fi…

> Since the article doesn't really endorse XTS in any context, I'm not sure your proposed title is accurate. But it's also not saying that you shouldn't use XTS for full disk encry…

I agree. Although the article content is good and reaches a good, nuanced conclusion, the title is going to confuse people. Many people will only ever encounter XTS when setting up…

The public standard shouldn't include the secret values, but rather identify the (verifiable) process for generating the public values, in order to assure people that they were not…

It's a great policy. Stripe was doing this 2 years ago: http://blog.alexmaccaw.com/stripes-culture Anyone know if they still do it, even after growing?

With emphasis on experienced - Levison was represented for a bit by a business attorney. He may have passed the bar, but he was completely inexperienced in federal criminal cases.

Even law enforcement characters were upright: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wL9Li0f1Po

Except that the Linux ISO is not called "Firefox." It would be OK for the Linux distribution to use the Firefox trademark descriptively to say that it includes Firefox, but that's …

> Keurig is free to do what they want, just as a consumer is free to choose whichever coffee maker they want. The issue isn't whether Keurig should be free to add DRM to their prod…

I wonder why Mozilla doesn't go after these sites for trademark infringement. Mozilla made Debian change the name of their Firefox package to Iceweasel because they made modificati…

Robert Graham (ErrataRob) pointed out some problems with this study: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/02/that-trollers-are-sadists-...