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starev

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About starev

Student; interested in everything from security, to web applications, to low level programming and hardware design.

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    Comment #1165558

    The difference is that you assume that the learning + industry experience + chance at a job later will make up for the not-being-paid. In this case, there is no potential for getti…

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    Comment #1158643

    It's hard to say what it is to "understand" an operating system, though. Knowing how it works in a fairly broad sense, or even knowing how specific parts of the kernel work doesn't…

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    Comment #1056059

    If you encrypted or otherwise obfuscated the payload of the attack, it would make log analysis (particularly on the network level) difficult, and may help get around things like an…

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    Comment #1055115

    What I wonder about is what do they mean by "stealth programming"? I can think of just programming with white text on a white background, but that wouldn't serve any security relat…