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They're almost certainly not genuine accounts, maybe used for karma farming, phishing, social engineering, future malware distribution?

Not going to comment on the PR commentary, but the victim GitHub account is suspicious itself, recent account, a few fresh repos, following 14.5k others, and I count three surnames…

Rogers and Teksavvy support IPv6

$660k total comp (including benefits) is probably right in the median of what an e6 earns at Meta. I don’t know where you’re hearing otherwise.

There's definitely top-notch software and security engineers making well north of £150k in the UK. As you go up in levels, it's indeed a small set of people, but FB / Google comp f…

I left out the company-wide holidays, which in 2022 amounted to 4, and the 10+ public holidays.

On top of that, there are roles in FAANG companies and Silicon Valley that give ~5 weeks PTO. For example, Facebook historically has had a fairly good PTO policy in the US, and for…

The size of Canada really isn’t a valid excuse for Canada’s poor public transit, nor is Canada’s population. Notjustbikes posted a good video rebutting this argument a few days ago…

Here’s a recent talk by Yann Collet at Stanford which leads into an interesting Q&A about his development of Zstandard: https://youtu.be/gZikN5hhlxA

Did you even read the comment above? Sauna usage in Finland has basically no correlation with socioeconomic status. Pretty much everyone has access to a sauna and the time to use o…

Correct, and generally known as ‘passport control’ in Europe and many other countries. I think ‘immigration’ is primarily used by English speaking New World countries which histori…

I've done Surat Thani to Bangkok in a first class sleeper, and indeed recall sleeping blissfully. One of my most memorable train journeys.

> Go was originally envisioned as a systems programming language. It was often called "a better C". This exposed Rob Pike's lack of experience in the area (IMHO) because anyone who…

Indeed, and in that respect Echelog was a great source of OSINT material for the anecdote I described above. That, along with `whois` data and other public databases can reveal a l…

A long time ago parsing Echelog logs was how I was able to monitor the IRC activity of an attacker at a company I used to work at. I didn't normally sit on these channels myself, b…

The EU has required DRL's on all new cars since 2011. As an EU member state this applies to Croatia too.

I've got HTTPS Everywhere running and it doesn't appear to have a rule since I'm still hitting the non-TLS site.

I completely agree about having a dedicated team, and I'd expect a company of their nature to be at the forefront of security best practices. I just checked some Equifax domains ag…

ecobee | Software Developer | Toronto | https://www.ecobee.com Rapidly expanding Canadian IoT company with new products in the works. Plenty of interesting problems to work on, fro…

Great idea. I always thought that it's essential to log events in realtime to a remote system that is secure and harder to compromise to modify the logs post-intrusion. Way back in…