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samuiraion Swedish court: 'We cannot ban Pirate Bay'

Funny that you mention "storage vendors". In Germany we have to pay a fee as compensation on storage like USB sticks, because it is potentially used to store copyright material. It's outrageous.

http://www.geek.com/news/germany-increases-usb-flash-drive-t...

samuiraion Language-theoretic Security

The usenix paper you linked is from the langsec people

samuiraion About the Critical Security Issue in the Aviator Browser

> Several hours later, Google star vulnerability researcher Tavis Ormandy tweets(!) an embarrassing drive-by RCE in Aviator.

This bug was reported many months ago (though at that point it wasn't clear that it was actually a RCE). see:

> In early 2014, the "Error138" is reported and disclosed first time.

samuiraion PayPal Arbitrary Code Execution

Am I stupid or is this guy calling a XSS "Arbitrary Code Execution"? It also seems to be a self-xss (a XSS on his account profile, which only he can see).

How can you write so much text and be unclear about what you are doing? No wonder Paypal didn't understand anything.

samuiraion Show HN: Get coached by developers for free

Imo it's a very good thing that they have to spend a lot of time researching. Along the way they will see and learn many different things and in the end provides experience. Thus I agree with _almosnow.

samuiraion Code Archeology – Lines of code by age

> I don't really know if it will be useful in the future. But it's already fun to look over code...

samuiraion Code Archeology – Lines of code by age

That it's so interesting. A lot of people said that to me. But to me it felt more natural to highlight old code. Probably because I had this bias in the back of my mind that old code could be bad code.

samuiraion Code Archeology – Lines of code by age

I didn't want to make it look that way. The color indication is without any judgment. It's just interesting how code evolved over time. In fact you should reverse the color gradient or use different colours, so you can read code how you prefer it.

samuiraion 3% use IE9 and 14% have a disability. Why do we only cater for the former?

related: Great thoughts about "WHAT ACCESSIBILITY HAS TO DO WITH SECURITY" by Anna Shubina:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6phwEoiqLTM

samuiraion G-WAN Captcha Decode

can you show me an example. Because I can't think of one.

samuiraion G-WAN Captcha Decode

Still don't get it

samuiraion G-WAN Captcha Decode

I feel a bit observed and I don't know whether I should feel fear or joy... I'm confused.

samuiraion G-WAN Captcha Decode

I thought about using OCR - just to over-engineer it. But I wanted to show how the characters are perfectly aligned and how clear the font is. I would like to understand, what he thought, why this Captcha is so special.