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What was the answer? Asking for a vp friend

Unfortunately, all too common in the security field.

This is fascinating, but at the same time I got to ask. Wouldn't it easier for a person as experienced as Tavis Ormandy to simply write a console version of a spreadsheet software …

There are medical bodies staffed by professionals that study these matters, and the states (should) base their decisions on what their findings are. To me the problems starts when …

neutered in what sense? besides doing the keynote speech of course

Maybe try running a business?

That seems to me like an unjustified and unjust generalization.

I don't really think it pays off to make such distinction between virus and trojan. `Trojan` is often used to refer to malware that provides a backdoor into your system, and if som…

where would one hire an auditor like this? asking for a friend

You still have to prove who had the gun in the first place

afaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in a…

I really wish this was the norm! I have a very common name and signed up for gmail address right at the start. I now receive tons of spam because there are people who sign up to th…

BRAFWTNEGASSAY would make sense to the owner of the file or someone working in that particular project. Consider it a project name, or a keyword that is relevant in that particular…

I would love to see a deep investigation proving/disproving this point

I completely agree with you, I find this "disable antivirus" to be such a bad advice! Yes, it may work for tech savvy or security aware person. If you know what you're doing you're…

eventually the pile of dead ants will be so high that it will reach the top of the vent putting an end to this madness

I don't think python's syntax is icky at all and I hope you're not judging it by the looks of an obfuscation challenge.

There is no way to avoid that in the polish language, as someone else pointed out already. Nouns and sometimes even verbs or adjectives have gender, and you need to use either the …

Could UV light be used at waste plants and hospitals to help prevent this kind of bacteria from spreading?

What if someone flags your emails as spam deliberately, just in order to cause harm?

Could this be related with Trojan.Milicenso or Trojan.Eorezo? This is the latest (although its from June/July) threat I know of that prints random stuff http://www.symantec.com/con…

I absolutely agree agree with this comment, you believe in the startup you are working with and it seems you really enjoy doing that work. I would say negotiate terms you are fine …

AFAIK there are not many comprehensive studies of this kind done without some sort of corporate\company backing. In the industry its the reputation of the company doing the study t…

The concept is interesting but why did you use such a similar name to another popular service? It was really the first thing I noticed and I really dislike that.

i understand the frustration, but how else would a laptop tracking software work if not by connecting to the web and listening for commands, etc? It seems that this app is created …