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My best friend in HS happened to be a genius on paper. Got straight A's freshman and sophomore year, ended up doing less well junior and senior year, and, when he got to college, f…

I thought chrome was open source: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/get-the-code It's weird to think that Google would tell you not to RE an open-source project, I must be…

I can't speak to frats or Harvard, but I can speak of personal experience of MIT. When I began taking courses at MIT, I worked my proverbial ass off in a very difficult class in CS…

I completely agree. As I get older, I find the abstractions to be much more interesting; how does one express a lambda in assembly? Functional programming in general? The simplicit…

Perl module for such: http://search.cpan.org/~asavige/Acme-EyeDrops-1.60/lib/Acme/...

That .lnk vulnerability is now in metasploit; I don't think we can safely say that Gauss is from the same org from this one piece of evidence.

Really? That sounds like it'd be very inefficient when performing context-switching heavy tasks. Does OSX just take the cache penalty or does it somehow compensate with carefully w…

Yeah, you can just take a quick pic using the camera; the light flashes for barely a second and you won't notice. Metasploit has a stager for exactly this purpose: http://www.metas…

TL; DR - No proof / source code / details on the backdoor - Outlandish claims of this being a "stuxnet" weapon Show me some source, a schematic, or a technique that you're using, a…

I'm going to go ahead and play devil's advocate; I think concern over this is really overblown. There are two things about this case that I don't really get: 1. If you're blasting …