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jtaft

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About jtaft

Computer Hacker/Software Engineer. Particularly interested in software analysis.

https://justintaft.com https://oneupsecurity.com

Recent public activity

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    Comment #42519603

    How does this affect exploits?

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    Comment #38740805

    I think humans are curious beings.I don’t think it would stifle innovation. Quite the Contrary, more effort will be spent on useful innovation rather than profit seeking.

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    Comment #38740765

    Interesting, In either system I don’t think I would take resources used for lawsuits into account and get the vehicles fixed (or replaced, until they are safe). We have the respons…

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    Comment #38740681

    Assume we lived in a communist society instead. How would you view the problem differently?

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    Comment #38592030

    Is the article hinting at the timing? Ie Spotify announces layoffs, stock goes up assuming less expenses so higher profit, then CEO decides to quit to take advantage of rise in sto…

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    Comment #38546296

    Reminds me of graphic designer vs css programmer https://youtube.com/shorts/YWT8Dqd-AmQ?feature=shared

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    Comment #38421692

    What about stolen mail? Would any of this details be in a bank statement?

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    Comment #38234119

    Finding the right group of people where you can be vulnerable with and be accepted is important. Everyone goes through things, we're all human.

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    Comment #38097099

    I’m always blown away by people who can reverse engineer dies. I’m curious can heat be used to detect interesting parts of a die? Ie decap then re-run target functionality and see …

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    Comment #38019372

    Gentle reminder that to much computer use can cause a repetitive strain injury. Not the same thing, but it’s good to be aware about. Breaks are important.

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    Comment #37825706

    Bending a pin stunk. I remeber jamming a flat head screwdriver into the port to try and straighten

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    Comment #37717546

    Ah thank you, had to read up on odds ratio. edit for those curious about odds ratio https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK431098/#:~:text=The%20... .

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    Comment #37717461

    With an 95% confidence interval which doesn’t include zero, doesn’t it mean that it’s statistically significant? Assuming data is valid and unbiased of course. Not a statistician, …

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    Comment #37455110

    Plant more trees

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    Comment #36987014

    Didn’t they though? Something about two quarters consecutive quarters of negative gdp growth was the original definition, it happened, and they said recession means something else.…

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    Comment #35668977

    > The fact of the matter is this: it’s so important that new housing is affordable, because there’s no way in hell I’m accepting anything less than a 20 percent return on my own ho…

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    Comment #35623271

    Salaries aren’t tax deductible normally? That seems wrong.

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    Comment #35370388

    Anyone have alternative arguments why TikTok is being banned? I heard arguments since TikTok doesn’t have public stock that wealthy individuals are losing out. Same with very liber…

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    Comment #34230989

    I think dcom does this

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    Comment #33932625

    What’s your take on accessing systems accepting passkeys on a shared computer? Or if you lose access to your devices? I think exporting passkeys could be useful. I wonder what phis…

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    Comment #33865209

    What’s an extender?

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    Comment #33728320

    Replication, not reptilian. The title makes more sense now.