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wglb
69,332karma·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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Published in the jounnal science https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0882 …
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https://rosenzweig.io/
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Are you older than Cobol?
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Whippersnapper
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Article in ACS sensors: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acssensors.4c03737 …
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Article in Journal of Archeological Science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X2... …
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Article in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41477-025-02079-6
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I don't think the analogy holds. If one thinks of the history of programming, think about the IBM 1401. The first programming was done without the advantage of assembler. Once SPS was introduced,…
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I didn't mean this in a flippant way, and in fact have been experimenting with telling gimini "examine this code for SQL injections" and "examine this code for cryptographic flaws&…
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Write a prompt that asks to detect sql injection in each source code model. Or other security issues.
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Not what I have found with gemini. What is particularly useful is the comments about reasoning about new code added at my request.
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https://github.com/wglb/gemini-chat Almost entirely generated by gemini based on my english language description. Several rounds with me adding requirements. (edit) I asked it …
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Static analysis tools were the bane of my existence being security guy at a software provider. A customer insisted on running a popular one on our 20 million line code base. Two of us spent two weeks …
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Yes, someone has. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44738004
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Out of curiosity, why is that?
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The point is that there are better books to start with. The title sets unrealistic expectations.
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I do believe he is teaching courses about LLMs and associated technolgies. He is the author of two major texts on AI. Yes, the LLM can produce code at a high rate, but you aren't going to learn a…
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After all this time, I am not all that convinced that Object Oriented Programming was all that much of a sliver bullet. Its impact is less that Cox claimed, in my opinion.
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One test is that you build a system that works and solves some problem, and that it keeps working.
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Disputed charges by the user. I know of one payment processor that specifically seeks out these high-risk businesses. Consider one of many possible scenarios would be that of a spouse who is alarmed a…
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I was a consultant at a very large insurance company in the 90s when the dictate came from the top “no more assembler”. There were a few groans from the audience of developers.
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This is in my past, so no COBOL recently but in one of my first consulting gigs I wrote several business programs in RPG III. Which is the nightmare that you might imagine it is. Think plugboards. Hal…