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mkosmo

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About mkosmo

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/mkosmo; my proof: https://keybase.io/mkosmo/sigs/JpQcqsMeefVeLH0c6VGi--9fgF1Q_hTB_Id9qfqPe60 ]

Recent public activity

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    Comment #14291175

    Agreed, a popped account is a bad thing, especially if it's published as such. A larger risk would be somebody popping one of the compromised-credential repositories. Then you've g…

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    Comment #14291161

    I've asked many devs why they chose Mongo over a RDBMS. They can never give me a technical answer. It's always 'it's cool' or because they just read something about it on some non-…

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    Comment #14291104

    Makes me wonder what they require to classify the bug as a security bug. Perhaps it gets classified otherwise since there's no data leakage other than an address? The existence of …

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    Comment #14291084

    No updates since 2005, designed for 6.2... Holy cow you had to go dumpster diving to find that script. I love the guy's changelog, though! :wq

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    Comment #14288869

    And even if it was, there were ways to get anonymous execution through the task manager, or the infamous help-dialog login bypass.

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    Comment #14288850

    That'd make sense. Written in python, for python (at least initially) since the author likes python :-) Looks like a neat start to a new project. The built-in IRC client made me ch…

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    Comment #13590135

    It's never too hard to figure something out if you're given the whole shebang instead of a loose breadcrumb trail.