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yourabi

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About yourabi

http://yousefourabi.com

Just an engineer building things.

Snitch: SSL auditing and alerting - https://snitch.io

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    Comment #11362281

    Sorry, but are you familiar with fpm? All of what you mention is supported with fpm (you can have multiple post install files added...etc).

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    Comment #11361149

    FPM pretty much solves this https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm

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    Comment #11264980

    I might be overlooking something obvious but I don't see an address in your profile (and I'd prefer not to guess). You can reach me at gmail (same user).

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    Comment #11264868

    Thanks! Do you have first hand experience?

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    Comment #9998270

    Gracenote: Emeryville, CA (SF Bay Area) - Full time, No remote, relocation possible, no visa sponsorship possible. Interested in working on crawlers and distributed systems? Intere…

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    Comment #9418670

    Using Go for the backend of https://snitch.io 1. Use Godeps to vendor your deps 2. Use Logrus for logging 3. Figure out a deployment script early one. I have a Rake script that use…

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    Gracenote: Emeryville, CA (SF Bay Area) - Full time, No remote, relocation possible, visa sponsorship possible. Interested in working on crawlers and distributed systems? Intereste…

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    Comment #8534060

    Disclosure: I'm the founder of snitch.io - a fully automated ssl monitoring service that launched last month. This is interesting. I suspect it will appeal to a certain type of per…

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    Comment #8474474

    Not really inconsistently. Firefox, Safari and IE all do this. Firefox, for example, will wait up to 10 seconds for an OCSP response ( https://wiki.mozilla.org/CA:ImprovingRevocati…

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    Comment #8472549

    Hi! The screenshots show you what the app looks like. And to your point all accounts come with a free 14-day trial. I may eventually add a free "one-off" audit - but the value in a…

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    Comment #8472519

    You should never send a private key. Private keys are private. That is a poorly written tutorial - written by someone that may not understand PKI. You generate the CSR and send tha…

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    Comment #8472511

    It is rarely that clean-cut which is why these are not defaults in server configs. If you're hosting an API that has older / embedded clients you may HAVE to support SSLv3 during a…

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    Comment #8472483

    Yep - getting this right is hard. Couple of points about the article. Browsers verify SSL certificates for revocation (OCSP). This is an ongoing service that has a direct impact on…

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    Comment #8454250

    This is why I built https://snitch.io - security and SSL secured sites in particular are moving targets and not "fire and forget". Snitch already generates an alert if a site doesn…

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    Comment #8399468

    Hi. You don't use SSL for the signup / login form :-(

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    Comment #8385970

    I use ZooKeeper in production for snitch.io. There are some interesting new alternatives such as etcd / serf/consul - but at the time ZooKeeper had the best track record (under Jep…