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you can contact me at jpcosta at theemailfromgoogle com
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jpcosta··on I Don't Want the Details
Isn't that the same with just more steps? Seems the svp was focusing on what they will do differently next time
jpcosta··on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers
What was the answer? Asking for a vp friend
jpcosta··on ESP32 Undocumented Bluetooth Commands: Clearing the Air
Unfortunately, all too common in the security field.
jpcosta··on Lotus 1-2-3
This is fascinating, but at the same time I got to ask. Wouldn't it easier for a person as experienced as Tavis Ormandy to simply write a console version of a spreadsheet software from scratch using a modern stack?
jpcosta··on Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know
There are medical bodies staffed by professionals that study these matters, and the states (should) base their decisions on what their findings are. To me the problems starts when decision makers and then the general population start trusting fringe conclusions and trying to interpret medical data when they have no training to do so.
jpcosta··on Phrack Issue 70
neutered in what sense? besides doing the keynote speech of course
jpcosta··on How to prevent email spoofing, using an unholy combination of silly standards
Maybe try running a business?
jpcosta··on “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”
That seems to me like an unjustified and unjust generalization.
jpcosta··on 30K Macs are infected with ‘Silver Sparrow’ virus and no one knows why
I don't really think it pays off to make such distinction between virus and trojan.

`Trojan` is often used to refer to malware that provides a backdoor into your system, and if someone gets to run code on your machine it isn't your machine anymore.

jpcosta··on Our Dumb Security Questionnaire
where would one hire an auditor like this? asking for a friend
jpcosta··on Password-cracking theory against Assange unravels at extradition trial
You still have to prove who had the gun in the first place
jpcosta··on Osquery: SQL-powered operating system instrumentation, monitoring, and analytics
afaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in an enterprise setting
jpcosta··on The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user
I really wish this was the norm!

I have a very common name and signed up for gmail address right at the start. I now receive tons of spam because there are people who sign up to the weirdest things with my gmail handle.

jpcosta··on Naming things (2015) [pdf]
BRAFWTNEGASSAY would make sense to the owner of the file or someone working in that particular project. Consider it a project name, or a keyword that is relevant in that particular context. If you're working with files from different sources with multiple contributors this sort of approach works brilliantly.

You could have named it differently: 2013-06-26_KUTKLOON7_Plasmid-Cellline-100-1MutantFrac

Creation date can sometimes be lost if you copy/move the file between different mediums

jpcosta··on “Which word begins with “y” and looks like an axe in this picture?”
I would love to see a deep investigation proving/disproving this point
jpcosta··on Avoid Non-Microsoft Antivirus Software
I completely agree with you, I find this "disable antivirus" to be such a bad advice! Yes, it may work for tech savvy or security aware person. If you know what you're doing you're much less likely to get into problems. It won't work for general public though.

And the argument being made that "for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero. These bugs indicate that not only do these products open many attack vectors" could be made for any piece of software your install.

jpcosta··on Ant colony discovered in an abandoned Polish nuclear weapons bunker
eventually the pile of dead ants will be so high that it will reach the top of the vent putting an end to this madness
jpcosta··on Obfuscating “Hello World” in Python
I don't think python's syntax is icky at all and I hope you're not judging it by the looks of an obfuscation challenge.
jpcosta··on Source code of Polish electoral voting system?
There is no way to avoid that in the polish language, as someone else pointed out already. Nouns and sometimes even verbs or adjectives have gender, and you need to use either the male form or female form according to the situation
jpcosta··on ‘Superbugs’ found breeding in sewage plants
Could UV light be used at waste plants and hospitals to help prevent this kind of bacteria from spreading?
jpcosta··on A killer app for Bitcoin? – Spam and Phishing Emails Killer
What if someone flags your emails as spam deliberately, just in order to cause harm?
jpcosta··on Printers are spontaneously printing odd "SQL" strings
Could this be related with Trojan.Milicenso or Trojan.Eorezo? This is the latest (although its from June/July) threat I know of that prints random stuff

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/trojanmilicenso-paper-... http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190982 http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13519

jpcosta··on Advice needed: Intern at exploding startup vs. return to school
I absolutely agree agree with this comment, you believe in the startup you are working with and it seems you really enjoy doing that work. I would say negotiate terms you are fine with and give it another 6 months to an year.
jpcosta··on Google funded browser study declares Firefox less secure than both IE and Chrome
AFAIK there are not many comprehensive studies of this kind done without some sort of corporate\company backing. In the industry its the reputation of the company doing the study that is at stake, so what most companies do is they fund a research but reserve the right to decide in the end if the study will be published or not. If the results end up reflecting positive view on the company that funded it they publish it, otherwise they use the information collected by such study to improve the product
jpcosta··on Ask HN: Review my product concept: farsquare - A doorbell for your meetups
The concept is interesting but why did you use such a similar name to another popular service? It was really the first thing I noticed and I really dislike that.
jpcosta··on Rootkit on a Brand new Toshiba laptop
i understand the frustration, but how else would a laptop tracking software work if not by connecting to the web and listening for commands, etc? It seems that this app is created by: http://www.absolute.com/en-GB/
jpcosta··on Ask HN: Does your (non EU) company charge VAT to European customers?
I am based in europe and my hosting service recently requested me to confirm my details (country of residence etc..) to charge VAT in accordance with EU laws.
jpcosta··on We finally launched Zombal, your thoughts?
It really does sound a lot like Zombies (My Zombs?).. I thought it would be a game.
jpcosta··on Ask HN: Good Reading/Immersion in Mathematics
I really like this one: http://academicearth.org/subjects/mathematics
jpcosta··on Reddit is hiring
They say 'minimum depth' and not maximum, and there are rules for a swimming pool to be considered "Olimpic Size". See the wikipedia entry for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool
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