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Directly behind it is the student library, with an echoey three story tall open space [1] (why would you design a library like that?!). When you're there at 2am you can hear the ch…

> A common pattern in these systems is that there's some frontend, which could be a service or some Javascript or an app, which calls a number of backend services to do what it nee…

One thing that always has scared me a bit with using CAs for SSH is how you protect the signing certificates? After all, if an attacker gets that cert then they get full access to …

The main thing I found interesting about this is the idea of trying to break the taboo of working from bed, especially for those who have a disability that make it hard/impossible …

To me all these slogans around security is to ensure people really, truly, actually think about things before they go against the grain. Is using obscurity as part of your defence …

I did a Maths degree before becoming a software engineer, and honestly I think its really changed the way I think, just in general. There's something about being given a problem, o…

FWIW I've been coding since my early teens and enjoyed it a lot, but when it came to university (in 2009) I had very little interest in doing a CS degree and instead opted for Math…

It's worth noting that VPN / SSL proxies provide box to box (or process to box) encryption, whereas native SSL support provides process to process encryption. The difference being …

Yup, if you're using ssh-agent (as opposed to something like gnome-keyring) setting `AddKeysToAgent confirm` to your ssh config should cause a pop up to happen every time anything …

Isn't the other reason so that adversaries can't tell if a particular username/email has signed up? This is not so useful for something like github, sure, but certainly is useful f…

Honestly, these replies feel completely unhelfpul. This is exactly how MPs offices have always worked, staff open and respond to letters with little oversight. Now they do the same…

> And if what I’m truly trying to do is to learn to think about problems in a different way, a week-long effort at dabbling in a side project isn’t going to change my way of thinki…

"When coding on a team, I modify my strategy to carefully test code that we, collectively, tend to get wrong." I think addresses that point quite nicely?

This really highlights the differences between trying to understand and formalise the theory behind distributed systems and trying to practically build and use distributed systems.…

I totally get this; federation is hard , and its so much easier and nicer ─ as a developer ─ to have a centralised service. Often centralisation is the right choice for a particula…

Really? To me that sort of is the closest translation, but it doesn't really hit the nail on the head. But maybe that's just my weird linguistic background.

> Well that's just it, security is talked about but the buyer (the hotel in this case) is often not in a position to actually evaluate the vendor's claims. But at least the buyer b…

Fundamentally, English is a flexible enough language that if any of these concepts became common enough they would become ordinary words (probably lifted directly from German). Thi…

Genuine question: Don't the other companies talk about security in their replies to the RFQ? Wouldn't that cause the original company to stop and ask the other repliers about the s…

I wonder if this is too featureful? What is the difference between +1, heart, and hooray? Having just a +1 and -1 is unambiguous and probably covers the vast amount of use cases? P…

It would be nice if we had an effective opposition, but we don't. Not when it comes to security concerns. Corbyn's stance with trident and Stop the War means that no one, and I mea…

> If you're concerned about things getting tampered with, encryption guarantees that it won't Sure, HTTPS protects against tampering, but its not the only way. The parent comment s…