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xtrapolate

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    Comment #18687945

    > "If even SQLite can have a RCE vulnerability, I'm convinced that it is not feasible for anybody to write safe C code." This has much less to do with C, than it has to do with the…

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    Comment #18655970

    > "you give Plaid your username and password, and Plaid scrapers on their servers log into your online banking account" So your username and password are just kept in some internal…

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    Comment #18654203

    The favicon is Apple's logo? https://www.romerogames.ie/favicon.ico

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    Comment #18616422

    > "I'm partial to Iran because a multi-lateral treaty was signed. Iran stopped nuclear enrichment. In exchange, western countries pledged to provide economic relief and stop sancti…

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    Comment #18597657

    > "It's hard to tell what, if anything, you are recommending here." I don't think it's that hard to tell, you're simply ignoring what's been clearly written. So I'll quote it again…

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    Comment #18597608

    > "Did you read the entire article? The whole point was that "delay loading" a particular DLL prevents a static analysis in the compiler from inserting hooks to perform expensive o…

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    Comment #18597281

    > "The first fix was to avoid calling CommandLineToArgvW by manually parsing the command-line." > "The second fix was to delay load shell32.dll." If your build pipeline is continuo…

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    Comment #18560255

    > "SRI has been available for two years and it still isn't being used enough." Two years is relatively fresh. There's probably a significant amount of customers with browsers that …

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    Comment #18560190

    > "When I was a college instructor I found that when I tried hard - putting a lot of thought into pedagogy, having weekly (open notes) quizzes, assigning challenging but fair homew…

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    Comment #18560111

    > "isn’t it up to the universities to provide a majority their value in the form of education" I'm not sure how this statement addresses my claims. How do we measure/quantify the q…

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    Comment #18559441

    > "A teacher (also called a school teacher or, in some contexts, an educator) is a person who helps others to acquire knowledge, competences or values." The target audience is a cr…

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    Comment #18531339

    > "gene is for CCR5, which currently doesn’t have known function" It's in the article: > "Even if editing worked perfectly, people without normal CCR5 genes face higher risks of ge…

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    Comment #18454013

    > "How does the url http://redacted/ work?" I apologize for the confusion. I used an actual server there (ie. http://somename.com ) but chose to redact the actual URL from this pos…

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    Comment #18453986

    > "What specifically are your concerns? What about what you've learned will create an exorbitant bill?" Abusing the containers to send large amounts of outgoing traffic would do ju…

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    Comment #18453897

    > "I’m confused as to how anyone would think this is alright to do." Could be placeholders from development that ended up going live. I wouldn't jump to conclusion.

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    Comment #18453250

    Getting an exorbitant bill from DigitalOcean after someone has abused your "containers" would not concern you then?

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    Comment #18453005

    > "He needs to be running a client-side service, not running whatever someone enters on his machine" I would say that for the most part, websites such as this don't actually need a…

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    Comment #18452577

    Good job. However, I was able to run the following on your machine (on the publicly available demo page): def hello(): import os print(os.system("whoami")) print(os.system("hostnam…

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    Comment #18439489

    SAP is not paying for the product here. SAP is paying for the long list of customers using and relying on Qualtrics today [1], many of whom are Fortune 500 and government agencies.…

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    Comment #18413502

    Do people actually give away their email address when stumbling across a mysterious non-descriptive landing-page that says nothing about who or what a company is? In other words - …

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