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mdisraeli

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About mdisraeli

Michelle D'israeli: Feminist Hacker based in the Midlands, UK, working in Security and Service Management

@mdisraeli on twitter, for everything else there's Google ;)

The usual disclaimer: Anything I write is my own personal opinion and may not reflect that of my employers past, present or future, etc

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    Comment #9591453

    Neat little experiment! Delays between packets are not normally logged, so detecting this would be a challenge - any ideas of the best way to detect this sort of channel? Interesti…

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    Comment #9515160

    Something similar was done by journalists for the UK 2015 General Election. They took Democracy 3, an indie game with a very complex neural net simulation, and attempted to find ou…

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    Comment #9482844

    Get in touch with your previous students, both those in academia, and those in industry. If they're in academia, ask about their industry connections. If they're in industry, ask i…

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    Comment #9276416

    If you are finding it difficult to stand for extended periods, consider getting your feet checked, and if you have already, using your prescribed orthotics (insoles/shoes/other sup…

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    Comment #9162728

    I thought that was probably what you were doing, and it's a good check - one of the ones I tend to do myself when investigating strange things! Just thought I'd add for other reade…

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    Comment #9161827

    The Google results start with things like VirusTotal, which has several scannners which declares the gif as being a malicious site. The gif itself is almost certainly not malicious…

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    Comment #9154220

    For the record, I'm completely in agreement with "feature, not a bug". For myself and many people I know, mental health stuff makes more sense when looked at like that, and it also…

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    Comment #9148712

    It is often difficult to get a diagnosis of PTSD when you've not been at war or subjected to a singular catastrophic event. And even if you did, there may not exist treatment pathw…

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    Comment #9148689

    And on a far more simple level, disassociating and returning from it is utterly terrifying, and worse still one might know that their loved ones will have also had a very difficult…

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    Comment #9148657

    Disassociating doesn't always work like played out in films or TV, sadly. It's terrifying, and often find it hard to trust what's in front of you. Familiarity is needed, as it acts…

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    Comment #9122176

    Glad it wasn't just me!

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    Comment #9122156

    Leonard Nimoy gave many of us a role model to look up to, and his work inspired many future works of fiction that inspired even more. How many of us were called "Spock" by bullies,…

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    Comment #9084107

    Anything where you can turn a batch job into a constant stream is going to be of major appeal to large scale industrial production. Pretty much a perfect example of a disruptive in…

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    Comment #9051647

    Neat, thanks for running the experiment to see how differing MP3 encoder settings affect the lost portion. This explains why 320kbps is generally accepted amongst DJs, as any loss …

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    Comment #9050502

    If you can't hear it, was it ever information?

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    Comment #9050353

    320kbps with highest quality setting is pretty much an industry standard now, and many DJs, myself included, make use of that. As you've looked into this before, do you know what t…

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    Comment #9050341

    That would explain the phasing/flanging like sound which gives the ghost recording such an eerie feel

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    Comment #9032317

    At EMF Camp last summer, Dan W gave a great talk about his similar Unknown Fields trip on a container ship. This by far was one of the highlights of the event, as it was extremely …

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    Comment #9002685

    I get your overall point, but in turn you've overlooked the Relationship layer - basic compassion means that the victim gets to make the call as to if something hurt them. If someo…

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    Comment #8969671

    Can anyone give any insight to the impact of these changes to businesses in EU countries other than the UK?

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    Comment #8957134

    Thanks for the additional context, both for the importance of the repost, and in general regarding this incident. As a woman working in tech, I was understandably very upset about …

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    Comment #8943317

    It should be noted that the link is to a supplemental, providing running updates on the response to Mark's series of articles: Infamous http://markbernstein.org/Jan15/Infamous.html…

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    Comment #8834159

    Polymorphism typically referred to worms and viruses that changed their own code base as they spread. Most infections, however, happen from phishing emails either with attachments …

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    Comment #8734553

    Worth noting that us in the Security industry are regularly seeing malware using Google's cloud services as command and control systems for their botnets (at least in terms of the …