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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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From the Review of English Studies: https://apps.crossref.org/pendingpub/pendingpub.html?doi=10.... A better link to the research: https://academic.oup.com/res&#x…
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Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09163-z
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Paper on the arxiv server: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06284
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Paper in arxiv https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01005
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Article: journal Insect Conservation and Diversity https://resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/17524598 …
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Paper in Zookeys: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/111308/
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The paper in Nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41928-025-01397-z
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The article in nature: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-025-02748-x
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How unattractive do you think it will make it for them?
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What do you expect this to do, long term? I’m curious.
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Source article in the journal Iraq: https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S002108892... …
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Arxiv article: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19244
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Ariv paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20634
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> Do you remember the actual Heartbleed bug? Vividly. I spent a full week on remediation, even though the risk we had was traced to a single linux box exposed to the internet that had tens of kb o…
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> Legacy codebases can eventually become more expensive to maintain than to rewrite I'm wondering what the cost would be of rewriting Chrome, at 20 to 30 million lines of code, in Rust? I susp…
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For whatever reason, my career has been driven by curiosity, first computers and Fortran II, then real-time medical data analysis, then compilers, then collection of batch financial data from dozens o…
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My favorite crypto bug was not a memory safety issue: https://i.blackhat.com/us-18/Wed-August-8/us-18-Valsorda-Squ... Was a fascinating detective story to illustrate it.…