The Democratization of Cyberattack
The thing about infrastructure is that everyone uses it. If it's secure, it's secure for everyone. And if it's insecure, it's insecure for everyone. This forces some hard policy choices. When I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose was QUANTUM. This is the NSA's...
Understanding programming language syntax
Somebody posted this today: Amusing, yes. But it does beg the question about the use of the punctuation at the right. It's not until you run into weird bugs that you realize that they're on your side. One of the issues that (not only) I still have with Python ACM only downloads articles once.
Chasing the photo data corruption
A couple of days ago I discovered that there was a discrepancy between a photo file on my photo disk and on a backup disk. What was wrong? Today was time to make backups to the other disk, so clearly it was time to investigate before overwriting the good version. A good thing I did, too: most of the contents of the file on my primary disk was replaced by binary zeroes, exactly the scenario that I suggested a couple of days ago. === grog@eureka (/dev/pts/10) ~/Photos/20100717/orig 193 -> md5 P7178579*F MD5 (P7178579-archived.ORF) = 56fef8f95e9fdc9caad4c4fc8049feed MD5 (P7178579.ORF) = eae72bccd667956bedcfb5273de6dd69 === grog@eureka (/dev/pts/10) ~/Photos/20100717/orig 194 -> cmp P7178579*F P7178579-archived.ORF P7178579.ORF differ: char 6617089, line 31915 6617089 is not a number that immediately jumps out and grabs you.
