[redacted] @redacted@mastodon.social

"A particularly haunting comment is posted by one Hackernews: a Haskell program that translates C to Rust, which gives us a brief peek into the grotesque Godless painscape where the Rust Evangelism Strike Force plans its webshit-brigading operations."

OH GOD.

People that run #Linux and care about #security must read this:

https://grsecurity.net/the_truth_about_linux_4_6.php
https://lwn.net/Articles/410674/

And the post by hansoku-make at https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/64rsoh/openbsd_61_released_april_11_2017/?st=j1ezcq1u&sh=12316891

Phase 1: carefully curate mastodon.biz, make very brand/corp friendly. pre-populate it with several thousand markov scenebots that follow and boost brands

Phase 2: once brand critical mass is reached, sever any federation and cast it adrift

Phase 3: Periodically inject/tweak the markov bots so that the reaction metrics and data mining look consistent within the instance.

Phase 4: pray it doesn't return like V-ger.

Hello! I'm an account created to get followed by followbots!
Please boost this post!
Boosting will cause this to appear in the timelines of instances with followbots, who will then follow me!
I shall post a list of all followbots who follow me, afterwards.
Thank you for participating! :heart::robot:

Hoping SO hard that "interviews don't work" becomes the next cargo cult among startups.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/08/opinion/sunday/the-utter-uselessness-of-job-interviews.html

Disclosing "cellphone contacts and social-media passwords" goes beyond having "nothing to hide". It jeopardises other people that trust you.

I can tolerate the TSA pat-downs, but you can't ask me to make decisions with the rights of others.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-considers-far-reaching-steps-for-extreme-vetting-1491303602

. @redacted @Unprovable it is not inevitable as long as we shun that bs. A company here is hurting its image not helping it. If an #infosec company follows you, block that shit immediately and tell them to leave.

This is not a marketing tool.

TheZZAZZGlitch's awesome April Fools 2017 event (Game Boy reversing challenge) is now over. Here's my writeup: https://gist.github.com/Wack0/1a84651e7e7e0c6f7d5fb5888e361123

I was discussing autonomous vehicles with a Frenchman. Summing it up by: The Turing test for autonomous vehicles is to be able to cross the place de l'étoile (Paris) quickly & safely.

a really sweet article about reverse-engineering and exploiting the Broadcom WiFi firmware https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2017/04/over-air-exploiting-broadcoms-wi-fi_4.html

Still trying to get my head beyond 140 chars, so for now I'll just ctrl+v each message 3 and a half times per toot.

"Thus, determining the correct rate
at which to refresh DRAM cells has become more difficult, as also
indicated by industry [45]. This is due to two major phenomena, both
of which get worse (i.e., become more prominent) with technology
scaling. First, Data Pattern Dependence (DPD): the retention time of a DRAM cell is heavily dependent on the data pattern stored in itself and in the neighboring cells [69]. " - worth reading: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1703.00626.pdf

Anyone into some hardcore #mathematics? tl;dr there's been a new development of an novel way to prove Riemann, and Linear Algebra/Hermitian and Hamiltonian operators is not my forte...

Specifically, looking to discuss the finer points of this; http://journals.aps.org/prl/pdf/10.1103/PhysRevLett.118.130201

I refuse to believe the terrible culture of the internet is just how things are now. We don't need a technical solution. We need a cultural solution.

Just be you. Don't try to be edgy or aloof or cool. Don't try to make money. Be real. Be nice. Connect with humans.

x86: broken check in memory_exchange() permits PV guest breakout

The XSA-29 fix introduced an insufficient check on XENMEM_exchange
input, allowing the caller to drive hypervisor memory accesses outside
of the guest provided input/output arrays.

IMPACT
======

A malicious or buggy 64-bit PV guest may be able to access all of
system memory, allowing for all of privilege escalation, host crashes,
and information leaks.

http://xenbits.xen.org/xsa/advisory-212.html

HOLY FUCK. NO BOTS FOLLOWING YOU FOR SAYING BITCOIN. I LOVE THIS PLACE.