Today marks the 12th anniversary of the day Satoshi Nakamoto published the #Bitcoin white paper. We’ve compiled a few facts surrounding the release of the nine pages that made history.
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Part 1 and 2 of BlackHoodie Virtual "Introduction to x86-64 Reverse Engineering" are online on the BlackHoodie Youtube channel youtube.com/channel/UCzOFMTa…
Looking for a tool to help you with your online open source investigations? Then check out the Bellingcat Online Investigation Toolkit, with tools organised into tabs for easy discovery docs.google.com/spreadsheets…
This is the first time I get to vote in a Presidential election. Since I have a unique history, I wasn't allowed to vote in the past but Nevada finally restored my right to vote this year.
It didn't matter much to me before, but now it really does matter!
Now who do I vote for?
[BLOG] Beware the Bad Neighbor: Analysis and PoC of the Windows IPv6 Router Advertisement Vulnerability (CVE-2020-16898) blog.quarkslab.com/beware-th… by @fdfalcon
Vollmer makes a good point about the importance of considering how regulations affect people's liberty: "Agencies should adopt a 'freedom-enhancing' policy as part of their rulemaking procedures." realclearmarkets.com/article…
The advice from so many government agencies to wash your hands and don't touch your face reminds me of "don't write down your passwords" and "don't click" advice. #CoronaVirus
He was the very model of a modern major general, with information classified, compartmental, and residual. He knew the kings of England and he quoted fights historical, from Wounded Knee to Big Horn in order court-martialable. theduffel.co/38oQoGc
Alleged Vault 7 leaker trial finale: Want to know the CIA's password for its top-secret hacking tools? 123ABCdef • The Register theregister.co.uk/2020/03/05…
So I've written my own version of the 'wc' program using asynchronous state-machine parsers (because reasons). I have to make sure it, too, works, because legacy
If you're a reporter and following the Assange Espionage Act extradition case--and you should be, since it's possibly the biggest press freedoms case in a generation--it's worth reading this thread on the defense's first arguments, which really blow a hole in the govt's case.
Shannon's information entropy stuff is a good example where "computer science" is absolutely a "science" that helps us understand the nature of the universe.
The biggest flaw in computer science is that it's decades out of date. The modern curricula was designed around 1980 and hasn't changed much since. It's more like a class in medieval literature than a class in modern literature.
For example, students are still indoctrinated into the RISC religion even though it's been obsolete since 1995 having been replaced by OoO (out-of-order) microprocessors.