Thanks for doing that Jadli
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Do 'responsive firewalls' exist, that would close a hacked connection just because of the size of the data that is flowing out?
[I have often thought a firewall would be a good golang project]
I do hate bugs that only pop up at 3am in the morning.
As I understand it, the problem is more in the compiler/interpreter than in the storage medium. Say, your using mysql to hold an int field - to alter the storage allocation to include more bytes is simple, even trivial. It is the language which will need to be updated to understand that it is using an unsigned integer for the unix epoch.
Take a look here.
Well done James T. and the rest of the Firebase team.
Glad to hear it, have we seen any blogs from them about why they felt it happened?
http://news.thehackernews.com/474 <-- How To Communicate If The Government Obliterates The Internet
Internet service providers having to store for a year all details of online communication in the UK - such as the time, duration, originator and recipient of a communication and the location of the device from which it was made.
They would also be having to store for the first time all Britons' web browsing history and details of messages sent on social media, webmail, voice calls over the internet and gaming, in addition to emails and phone calls
Police not having to seek permission to access details of these communications, if investigating a crime
Police having to get a warrant from the home secretary to be able to see the actual content of any messages
Four bodies having access to data: the police, the Serious and Organised Crime Agency, the intelligence agencies and HM Revenue and Customs
I think I will solve them by myself for myself in Perl.
Is the money in the form of 'a gift which could be used to run a company for a couple of months'?
Who would collect the money, just one of them in their bank account?
Who monitors the teams afterwards - or is that just up to the your sponsor/the investor?
Basically, I like the idea - but I'd be tempted to use it to allow me space to concentrate on my primary software idea more, rather than a 3 day event health hackathon solution. As an investor, I'd be worried that I'd be 'herding cats' getting three teams of three random people (for example) to continue a project they don't genuinely care about and eventually have just lost that money.
How do you plan to address these concerns?
I do make use of classes in Perl and PHP when they are presented in modules. I just don't choose to structure my work in objects.
I am using javascript as a functional language when in use with node.js or with firebase for example.
I just break my work up in simple functions which I use and re-use to do anything I need.
In regards to not developing as a programmer, of course if you have a style you will get better at it, but I find I grow better by learning more variety of skills, e.g properly securing password data with bcrypt, or playing stripes CTF2 to see where the vulnerabilities exist in software. As examples, I think there is more value in becoming a widely skilled and capable hacker, than an coding [style] guru.