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I've been writing software professionally now for about a decade, but I feel like I've never learned how to do it 'properly'. For example, I've never experienced agile methodology,…

I'm fairly familiar with the popular tools such as afl and Codenomicon Defensics. But I find the academic literature very opaque and don't really know where to start. If I want to …

> spread of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt I agree with your comment but, what's with the capitalization of these words?

This reminds me of the shady tactics Dropbox used to acquire the dropbox.com domain. Before that, they only had getdropbox.com. I suppose if you have VCs bankrolling you, you can d…

Most rootings/jailbreaks that have been widely released use software vulnerabilities to escalate privilege. If instead you had access to the hardware of a device, and could make an…

It's okay, was a very reasonable assumption! I'll make sure I comment on HN appropriately in the future.

My apologies, I didn't see your other reply before I deleted and reposted the comment. I thought I'd replied to the post and not the comment, so I deleted and reposted, did not rea…

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If I understand you correctly, I can see what you mean about emotional openness being a more feminine trait, and understand your implication that homosexual males may lean more tow…

Never used it, don't really get why I'd want to. I don't see the benefit.

What specific protections do you have in mind?

> This is a remote code execution vulnerability. I understand how this vulnerability can be used to corrupt the heap, as it's writing more data than malloc was asked to reserve, so…

For topics like: common vulnerabilities and mitigations, secure programming techniques, static analysis, reverse engineering, fuzzing, cryptography, and so on. Looking for some goo…