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Most egos in the valley are far too big to be starstruck by another geek ;)

You mean, can generate some plans for some first class software. ;)

Yeah, good point - I would lump that in as being the same thing. They usually get companies like General Dynamics to do this type of thing. Point is, it wasn't amateurs or "basemen…

I don't know how any reasonably intelligent person could continue to stubbornly insist that stuxnet was too lame to be done by a government agency. This isn't even a question, of c…

Yep, you're right. I was accidentally talking out of my ass. Sorry :)

Obligatory: http://attrition.org/errata/charlatan/steve_gibson/

Actually, the mess on github is hex-rays.

This came from one of the better known commercial decompilers. Which ones do you consider 'advanced'?

Have you worked at any large companies and had success with that? I'm used to dealing with people who don't know who wrote the agreement, have given it to thousands of others "with…

You should have told them not to be evil.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself. -Thomas Paine…

Man, you are clearly speaking from a position of privilege on that one. How the hell do you hold back 6-12 months salary when you can barely afford the rent, utility bills and the …

I was thinking this as well, but for a different reason. I, for one, would never enter the YC program. $15,000 (especially for that much equity) just doesn't work for most people. …

It's been called many things. Security people have self-esteem problems, so if they see something being praised, they start convulsing at the sight of this injustice and must immed…

You keep forgetting that the points that Nate brought up are completely irrelevant. The goal was not to hide from Symantec a year after the fact. The goal was to ruin Iran's nuclea…

Easy, the one that dumped perl a decade ago. It is truly archaic and has no place in a production environment anymore. The only people still using it are resisting change to a more…

Yeah, sorry, I knew it was Bulgaria...just read an unrelated headline about the Belgian government and typed that instead. I agree, it is worth looking into until there is real evi…

Changing my vote. I think the guy is nuts and/or running away. Stuff doesn't add up. -He claims a particular LEO is after him for pro-western views. This is the hardest hit to his …

Could it have been a formerly-proper light fixture installation that had a power wire borrowed to power a recording device? If I was going to bug someone for a long time, I would n…

The ICC color profile in the PNG has a copyright string of Apple 2011. If he took them mid-last year, this doesn't make a ton of sense. Perhaps someone at ZDNet re-saved them. If t…

No, the only thing that wasn't known was how he dumped metldr. This is a relatively insignificant part of the whole thing and wasn't what fail0verflow was focusing on in their rese…

A hosting company that doesn't actively inform customers of outages? Unprofessional. Nobody is going to read a status blog every day to see if an outage might happen at some point …

I can't reach anything on the fremont network, or blog.linode.com. Not sure if this is linode-specific or Hurricane Electric again. Anyone else having issues?

Are you confusing HMAC with salting?

This. I think most people "get it" by now, but I roll my eyes every time someone tries to say that those who exploit software or break into computers are "crackers". No, they aren'…