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wglb
69,333karma·9,653submissions·January 13, 2008
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At home, Simple country boy
wgl at ciexinc.com
twitter: @wgl8
w8lvn, 7019, 3519, 1819 and occasionally 7074.000
Formerly at kCura/Relativity, security. I do application penetration testing for hire these days. Happy to chat about application security, programming, and ham radio. My conversations about agriculture are not that interesting.
Security: https://ciexinc.com/ Of particular interest are the solarwinds articles at https://ciexinc.com/blog/solarwinds/index.html Old very fun projects: https://ciex-software.com
“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of the rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.
I am haunted by waters.”
Beware the anxiety industrial complex.
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> Seems that a judge does not understand the impact of asking company X to "retain all data" You can count on the fact that the judge does in fact understand that this is a very routine p…
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I can tell many stories about the giant spreadsheets. The larges of them has near 1000 rows. And if you have a lot of security-conscious customers, you will get a lot of them. And they supposedly all …
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When I was doing security training for the engineers at Relativity, I gave each attendee (ultimately all of engineering) the book. I saw Cliff speak twice at the Dayton Hamvention. The first time was …
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https://archive.ph/2025.06.19-151703/https://www.nytimes.com... …
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This is an excellent writeup. This rhymes with the complexities noted in https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/why-is-that-bank-bran... . Lots of seemingly little things that are…
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Reference: https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/neurophotonics/v... …
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Another related article: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-06-major-sugar-substitut... …
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Thanks!
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Article in Current Biology: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)... One wonders about the forensic implications of this.…
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Article in Physioliogy https://journals.physiology.org/doi/10.1152/japplphysiol.002... …
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More detailed article in Science: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adr3834 …
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Referenced article in Optica: https://opg.optica.org/optica/abstract.cfm?doi=10.1364/OPTIC... …
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Underlying article https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)... …
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Paper ar https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23402
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I have a friend who is a Forensic Attorney (certified Forensic Examiner and licensed attorney). He says "You folks are putting all of this subpoenable information on Google and other sites"
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Article in Nature Electronics: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01380-8 …
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Many ham radio operators always know what time it is UTC as they participate in worldwide events. Some can even tell you what time sunrise and sunset are at interesting places across the world. My wif…
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Tim’s station is one of the biggest in the world. His tallest tower is 240 feet high. Some stations do use SDRs to feed the reverse beacon site. https://beta.reversebeacon.net/main.php…