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adamson

270 karma · joined March 2, 2016

NYC-based engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/abadamson/
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adamson··on HTTPS on Your Landing Page Is Important
Nope, you can MITM the HTTP-only landing page so the link to the login page takes you to a page that looks just like the actual banks login page, but actually just submits your credentials to an attacker.

Modifying the link would not be possible if the landing page were served over an encrypted connection.

adamson··on Nineteen people a week overdose in Richmond, dozens are dying, hundreds revived
Adding cops is pretty low on the list of reasonable jobs programs
adamson··on Rivals Intel and AMD Team Up on PC Chips to Battle Nvidia
I doubt gaming is really their endgame here, there are many reasons to want integrated GPU and CPU on the same die beyond gaming that would be relevant to Apple for desktop and mobile (integrated pipelining, higher memory bandwidth)
adamson··on Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
I don't think that was ever true (at least in the last decade)
adamson··on Savitech USB audio drivers install a new root CA certificate
Yeah but who would try to use commercial hardware as an attack vector?
adamson··on MongoDB has filed confidentially for IPO
Why is it in their interest to leak the announcement? Wouldn't that discourage other companies from filing through them in the future?
adamson··on One of the lesser reasons Soundcloud deserved its fate
Yeah that was the weirdest part of this
adamson··on Solving Industry-Specific Problems by Combining AI and Subject Matter Expertise
I'm sure they could if they really wanted to get in that business, but there are only so many product managers and engineers to go around
adamson··on Wal-Mart is telling some vendors they can’t run applications on AWS
I mean there are plenty of reasons not to do that
adamson··on Ngrok: Secure tunnels to localhost
I've been using this for web server testing since 2012. It's probably the paid tool that's given me the most bang for my buck in terms of hours saved
adamson··on The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command
That was my first thought, although it looks like they were responsible enough to make you hit return to confirm that you want to run the command
adamson··on The Fuck – An app which corrects your previous console command
Geez that term is becoming more nebulous by the day
adamson··on United Broke Its Contract with Flyers
Imagine the game theory analyses on frequent flyer sites
adamson··on F-35 Scores Impressive 15:1 Kill Ratio at Red Flag War Games
Next-gen fighters are moving in the direction of quadruple-gold-plating
adamson··on TheFacebook.com’s darker side (2004)
What was CS235? I graduated 2016 and I don't remember a course with that number ever being offered
adamson··on Understanding Uber’s Bleak Operating Economics
Are you serious? That's a really odd way of implementing that accounting trick
adamson··on The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware
Huh? F-35s are in production
adamson··on The Air Force Initiative to Replace the A-10 Warthog Is Vaporware
"Marines in planes, on the other hand, are likely to accept similar risk to marines on the ground if it reduces risk for all."

Is this an issue of different cultures within different departments, or different objectives, or what? I would hope that combined arms in a modern military would break down divisions in combat behavior like this

adamson··on Parody O'Reilly book covers
If you want to justify it even more, you can think of it as testing invariants at various points in your program flow!
adamson··on Hacking industrial vehicles from the internet
Yeah, this is kind of ridiculous. You can go from skimming the article to tracking vehicles in 30 seconds...
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