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I found your assessment out of context. The context of this article was essentially: "Should we force hackers to come work for us via selective service, even if they are older than…

These attacks are not interesting. They require superuser functionality. Can't believe this wasn't mentioned. If someone has superuser access on your database, it's game over. The …

The problem is, USD is the only legal tender. When I sell Intel stock, that where I made profit in USD. I pay tax on that. But if I trade BTC for DOGE, I haven't made any money. Al…

The military is the antithesis of hacking culture: - Play by the rules, even if they don't make sense, because I said so. - Listen to people above your paygrade, even if they are c…

>But I don't and trying to remedy that is proving to be a huge uphill battle. I have six years of college. I worked at a Fortune 200 company at one time. I was one of the top stude…

Generally, airports are out of the way from the usual populations that commit these crimes and don't see a lot of traffic from them.

"... has challenged the widely-held assumption that diamond prices could only go up." Did people really believe this? Sounds like these people are as delusional as cryptocurrency f…

I don't understand how the stellar case and the bitcoin case differ in a network partition. You said "if Stellar fell apart and became partitioned, you would stay on DB's side." Ho…

If you really need to collaborate on the same file, can't you just share a session in tmux?

There's no free lunch. You're paying for it.

Isn't it sad that we can't have an exciting new technology because the threat that some outsider will blow themselves up? Is there really nothing we can do about this, either now, …

Why does every piece of software have to be an """experience""" now? I don't want experiences. I want simple, usable tools that stay out of my way. Why does it feel like every stan…

In my opinion, the reason it hasn't taken off yet is because smart contracts are limited to tokenization. Smartcontracts are an amazing idea, but unfortunately they are limited to …

I mentor plenty of people, women included, thank you very much. I am always willing to help. What I am not willing to do is stick my and my families' neck on the line and take unne…

I'm a male at a tech company, and since the #METOO incident, I have taken defensive steps to ensure I am not embroiled in any career-ending accusations of sexual harassment. I have…