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psk··on Cryogenically frozen RAM bypasses disk encryption methods (2008)
I think it's a reference to the movie Hackers.
psk··on When coding style survives compilation: De-anonymizing programmers from binaries
This sounds interesting. Could this be applied to Stuxnet, Duqu and malware in general, or would you require more information?
psk··on A Course on Automata Theory
I've had a few similar courses at university, but they've always been limited to NP-completeness, does anyone know how I can expand on this? That is, learn beyond NP-completeness (Books / Online courses etc)?
psk··on Intel's 10nm 'Cannonlake' delayed, replaced by 14nm 'Kaby Lake'
I'm curious, what are the quantum effects at that size?
psk··on RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting
...and I just checked the community link. Way to go :-)
psk··on RegExr: A website for interactive regex prototyping with syntax highlighting
Sites like this is great and all, but I wish they included some commonly used regexes. Like a list of 'good' regexs to validate phone numbers, emails and other common stuff.

It would actually be pretty cool to have a site like this except you could add the regex to a list, and then people could upvote the regexe depending on the quality of it.

psk··on Game of Thrones leak and watermark: a stupid tracking system
Surely it would be possible to create encoding resistant stenography. Will the stenography be affected, sure, but it should be possible to create error-resistant stenography up to a certain point.
psk··on Dropbox accesses all the files in your PC?
Synchronizing all your files sounds like space-waste. It would be trivial to determine if dropbox does that, simply by monitoring the number of bytes sent to dropbox (Create a new file of size x, determine if the stream to dropbox transmits at least x amount of bytes) or by replacing the SSL certificate in the program with your own and then set up a fake server (This would be harder) to determine exactly what is being transmitted.

If this is indeed something nefarious, I would much rather assume it would transmit file hashes rather than the files itself. Although I can't possibly imagine this is actually true, the implications would be devastating for dropbox and it should be easy to verify by an independent third party.

psk··on Why Rosyna Can't Take a Movie Screenshot
I don't know much about HDMI, but couldn't I just run the video/movie in fullscreen and then capture the output from the HDMI and save the raw output to a disk?
psk··on Easter Egg Hidden in VMWare Fusion and Workstation
Is easter eggs in VM a good idea?

Couldn't malware attempt to locate potential easter eggs in order to determine if they are in a honeypot?