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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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And another note: Locked reads must be paired with locked writes, and the CPU's bus interface enforces this by forbidding other memory accesses until the corresponding writes occur. As none are …
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When I lived in Ann Arbor, after going to work with a very green sky, I came home to a very weird sound. Quickly figured out that power was out and the weird sound was neighbors sitting on their front…
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From the wikipedia article: Abrash spent hours tracking down exact conditions needed to produce the bug, which would result in parts of a game level appearing unexpectedly when viewed from certain ca…
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The risk is that some divisions will be fully off. If it is a chain of calculations, e.g. some stress analysis, or a spreadsheet involving a chain of calculations for a financial report, it could be b…
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So far as I can tell, yes. Plus they do have occasional sponsors, plus a bit of swag. Few of us can replicate their energy and resourcefulness.
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I believe it was so.
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However I was quite concerned at the time when they said, quite incorrectly that there was no risk to their users from this bug.
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Having spent my youth on a dryland wheat farm in Montana, I would just say no. Why does everyone who sits behind a computer long to be out in the fields or workshops? My flip answer to that is that …
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The Taylor and Francis Online article: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01490451.2025.2... The rims of the micro-burrows contain 1 µm wide contours If you…
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A related article from two years ago that noted the beginning of the investigation: https://phys.org/news/2022-12-complex-life.html Article in the journal Cell: https:/…
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The article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02117-1 has more detail. The technique involves hidden Markov model (HMM) in a particular model named cobraa.…
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There is more detail in Nature Microbiology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-025-01958-0 …
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Published in the journal Phytotaxa: https://phytotaxa.mapress.com/pt/article/view/phytotaxa.694.... …
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The article includes a video. Lacking precise timestamps for detailed analysis, the research team developed an innovative method to synchronize video time using satellite trajectories and star field …
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Let's hear more!
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A referenced article by the amusing Kory: https://korystamper.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/an-introduction... Another video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
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> . If you're in cyber and don't have knowledge of these things you're either in something insanely niche, in research of some sort, or lack critical knowledge that you should have H…
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An axiom of secure programming is to never trust the client. You don't really know what the client is. Often it takes several penetrations via compromised/replaced clients to get the message…
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"Italian astronomers report the detection of a new X-ray binary (XRB), which has received the designation 4XMM J181330.1-17511 (J1813 for short). The newfound object represents the rare subclass …
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The referenced article in Nature Physics. "kagome-lattice superconductor CsV3Sb5". What is a "kagome lattice"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trihexagonal_tili…