Posts by You aint sin me, roit 653 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Feb 2016
A Gandalf level C wizard will have progressed beyond the stage of "It's cool that I know C so well I can condense 20 lines of code into a single unintelligible line that takes a maintainer a day to attempt to unpack".
Maintainability and readability are fundamental to good code. If this is not reflected in your code then you aren't a good programmer let alone a wizard.
See also: "Not documented, not done"
I saw a documentary about terraforming Mars...
Just before the ancient reactor started melting the ice caps releasing enough of an atmosphere to support human life, Arnie was having quite a hard time. The way his face was exploding I doubt he'd have lasted long enough to cover a couple of metres, let alone 300.
On Mars robots are better than people.
Arnie's face ------------------->
The UK wants precisely the same capability to evaluate all of the files on all citizen's phones.
To prevent kiddy porn of course, and only a paedo would object to that. Besides, if you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear...
People assume the Online Safety Bill is about protecting children, but it is as much about "terrorism", a nebulous term at best. It can be used as required by whoever is in power...
The Chinese think that anything Muslim is indicative of terrorism... I imagine you wouldn't have to go too far to find some UK politicians with similar views.
It's the UK too. Lorries aren't allowed in the overtaking lane on 3 Lane motorways.
And there are local areas where on 2 lane motorways they are restricted to one lane at peak times. For instance the 2 lane section of the M11 as it goes through a hilly region, and approaching the end of the A14 before it merges into the M1 and M6.
"Sorry, Control, still stuck in traffic on the M25. No spy updates at present."
Meanwhile, driver in the adjacent car, phone held up to his face... "Oh no, that's one of those SUSPICIOUS Huawei cars... I'll ring you back later."
Helicopters, because you'll never be alone in a Huawei car!
That was over 20 years ago... and was arguably useless, The maths has always been freely available.
Check out Huawei's phones. Can they handle TLS and HTTPS? Indeed they can, the crypto is already there.
And it's not as if the Chinese haven't created their own variants. For ECDSA and ECKA they have SM2 (and SM9). SM4 corresponds to AES. SM3 corresponds to SHA-256.
What's more, western companies realize that to do business in China they have to play the game, and are investing heavily in supporting these Chinese algorithms.
Pirate, coz even if the US says they can't have crypto they'll still get it...
When I was working on similar cards a decade ago it was a design requiment that it's not secure... most terminals/readers out in the countryside couldn't support the security, the costs were prohibitive.
The cards might have been a glimpse of a utopian future but in reality were just "papers". If a little more durable.
Maybe he should have thought about it before buying 9% on the quiet. Or making an offer to buy the company.
Though he must have had some idea, because getting rid of the bots was one of his "reasons" for taking Twitter private.
Or is it just a smokescreen because he's feeling a little over-exposed?
Takes me back 30 years...
"Welcome to your teambuilding course, for this is YOUR course..."
Hearts sank, morale instantly deflated.
After a morning of team games he corners me during lunch... "I couldn't help noticing how well you got on with your team mates."
"We've all met before", I reply.
"But the teams were made up from different departments."
"Yes, but we all go to the same pub at lunchtime", say I, with the clear subtext that the pub is where real teambuilding gets done.
And where I'd rather be.
I don't believe JPMorgan Chase are groundbreakers in PQC.
Certainly not to the extent that they deserved this article-long advert.
And any article on QKD is perverse not to mention Chinese efforts: 2000km fibre key distribution, satellites used to transfer keys (intercontinental).
NIST ran their usual crypto competition for PQC algorithms and are busily selecting their faves. There are already trials for so-called hybrid schemes for TLS.
Though it is still a moot point when a powerful enough quantum computer will be built That troubles current crypto, or even if one can ever be (the number of error correction qubits would appear to increase exponentially...).
Also, the first five paragraphs seemed to have very little to do with the subject. A niche example of my employer being careless with data being conflated to me exhibiting insecure behaviour...
Ok, I'm an employee, my employer knows things about me. How does that affect my right to privacy? How does any of that have any bearing on my personal life when I'm not at work? It's the employer's duty to safeguard the personal information they do have, so how is that relevant to me not getting the privacy I deserve?
In any case, instead of giving up on privacy because users might be a bit leaky (!), why not expect corporations to provide the basics of security? For instance the reluctance to use multi-factor authentication is not down to the users, it's the fault of the plethora of sites that don't even offer it!
I'd expect better aspirations from a graduate of cyber security and computer forensics.
The point is that Arm have been losing engineers and it is hard to replace them, so they need to pay (above) the going rate.
Security guards are fundamentally important but are easily replaced.
Likewise support staff.
I find it interesting that the research teams get less than the engineers, probably reflecting the notion that they have a really "cool" role and so are less inclined to jump ship.
First sentence of the report in the Guardian
"The world's largest and most powerful space telescope..."
With a note at the end acknowledging the correction.
It's possible that the error was the fault of the original source, it's an Associated Press report.
Users will inevitably be told of the "advantages" of making all that data available, just like they already are by bookface, Amazon, Google, .... People already believe tailored ads are a good thing!
Facebook will default to "share all pod data" with such a complex interface for selectively denying access that most people will take one look and think "fuck it" and click on OK.
Put all your eggs in one basket, sit back and let Facebook make omelettes for you.
No, Mr Bond, I expect you to die.
And this time I won't tell you my plan beforehand just in case you manage to escape.
But seeing as you asked, and I'm a megalomaniac who just can't resist spilling the beans... I'm going to crash the value of Bitcoin by threatening to bring the original Satoshi stash to the market. I'll buy up on the cheap and then announce that I've destroyed the key to the stash, driving the price up again! And there's nothing you can do to stop me!
Indeed, and I'd go further...
Someone might want to have a quick chat so I can solve their problem, I might not appreciate the interruption to my work.
We use an internal chat system. You can ask me your question, I can look at it and decide when I want to answer, without dropping what I'm doing for a less immediate issue. And we have found this essential to manage interactions between team members strung across multiple time zones and continents, where there is no possibility for a chance meeting in the coffee room.
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