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Cygnus made it work. Long way from those origins to the redhat or hashicorp of today though.

weirdly seems driven by AI training data IP, which if the case, I don't even get the argument.

they're starting to featurewall more actively

Vilification of discovery scans in 2012. Weird. Yes. Appstack is totally the way to go if you're an app pen guy. Shocking. Portscanning not too useful in a whitebox pen assessment,…

If you're asking social engineering questions, you're already pretty well equipped for poker. My picks in this realm were Hold'Em Poker for Advanced Players by David Sklansky and M…

I saw 50 Cent say as much on CNBC when asked about piracy of his music. He said that he thought of it as loss-leading marketing iirc. EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCzb5zpV…

TrueCrypt's plausible deniability system is dependent on a passphrase instead of an auth key iirc. Another likely difference is that truecrypt works. Neither will stand up to scrut…

It appears to be useful for admins getting convicted of CP trafficking for running a node. Does that count? Try this one: http://distributedcity.github.com/ The previous incarnatio…

Silent Circle appears to be for people who both 1) Want military-grade(ish) hardened coms and also 2) Aren't willing to set it up themselves, but trust a service provider to do it …

He demonstrated a proof of concept, collected data, and went to journalists. Cherry picking irc logs for things for possible uses of the data is weak because they have a weak case.…

OPEC has been moving to a basket of currencies instead of the USD standard for a while now, so I'm unclear on your point. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/the-demise…

Many others have read the published books and incorporated the same in their processes. I had a series of interviews that was all logic questions with a trick that you had to decod…