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+1 Probably my favorite talk at Strange Loop this year. It's worth watching just for the minute or so starting here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOiZatlZtGU&t=33m

The Guardian did a piece on this last year including a video of part of the ceremony: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/feb/28/seven-peop...

They need to sound way scarier than that, though. BONECRUSH: Buffer Overrun Neatly Exceeds Current Reusable User Storage Hindrances FACENEEDLE: Foreign Actors Can Execute Nefarious…

Steering wheels have 9 times more bacteria than a public toilet seat. That's 967,402 bacteria! Well by cutting the number of steering wheels per person to 0.1, over 104,345 billion…

You taught me python the hard way. I watched all the videos at 1.5x speed so I will always picture you as having a curt, snappy, slightly high-pitched voice. Also, that's nice of y…

I'm a fan of the 'c-spiral' rule/ http://c-faq.com/decl/spiral.anderson.html

He mentions Musk by name.

'skeptical' doesn't seem like the right word. I think 'loathsome' would be more fitting. While the author makes some good points, it was hard to consider them legitimate given that…

I should make a distinction between the data itself and the processes through which the data is collected and used. I'm not saying that the data related to every case should be mad…

Agreed, but I still think it bears some relevance in this situation. Is any security added by making these programs and processes secret? What would the security issues be if every…

Security through obscurity came to mind when I was watching US Cyber commander, Keith Alexander, testify at the senate hearing yesterday. In this clip ( http://www.c-spanvideo.org/…