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Boulder, Co is no longer affordable. Most likely the reason it is no longer on this list. The average house price is $668,000 and the average rent $2,600. I used to pay the same in rent while living on Wall Street in NYC for a one bedroom corner unit apartment.

Every time I see his posts I think about the book The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. I would recommend reading it for anyone who might be having the discussion or dealing with death in their life.

https://www.amazon.com/Tibetan-Book-Living-Dying-Internation...

Another great resource for learning R is Swirl. I can't recommend it enough.

http://swirlstats.com/

This is just sad. Didn't something similar happen with Ronald Reagan in the 1980s?

http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-men...

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2013/04/timeline-mental-...

A Burglar’s Guide to the City is a good read. I have recommended it to a number of people. Two weeks ago while visiting San Fran I went to a security meetup and mentioned the book. One of the individuals pulled out the book and said he was reading it. Then he turned to a page that mentioned his name and noted his contribution to the book. Small world. One of my favorite subjects in the book is Nakatomi Space[1].

[1] http://www.bldgblog.com/2010/01/nakatomi-space/

It's usually up to the discretion of the stewardess. NPR recently had a great piece on this.

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/23/475388651/when-it-comes-to-fli...

Looks like the SE didn't matter. Interesting note from Apple conference call. "2:11 pm iPhone SE not included in these results, as it launched after the end of the quarter, but demand has been very strong. Demand exceeds supply, but we're working hard to meet demand. iPhone SE puts us in strategic plan to attract new customers."

Source - http://www.macrumors.com/2016/04/26/q2-2016-earnings/

I'm not surprised. I think Apple underestimated the demand for the iphone SE 64 GB. Its been out of stock in most stores since it was released. Apple's shareholders should be asking why can't anyone buy it in a store? Also many people don't want wait two weeks to receive their phone when they buy it online.

Thank you for posting this. Its a great example of the power of community. Its kind of sad the police are not involved in these fights. Having off duty police officers as security would allow them to interact with their community.

As others have said it's mostly the desire to learn. A lot of the brightest reverse engineering I have met started off hacking video games. They started with a desire to either understand the game or create cheats. From there they dug into the code.

Reverse engineering has a very romantic view from the outside. In actuality a lot of it is learning esoteric topics and boring concepts to be able to apply it to a single task. It takes a certain mindset to stick with it.

The main pre-requisite is being able to read and understand assembly language. From there it's operating system fundamentals, memory layout, compilers, basic understanding C & C++ and Python is popular in the RE community.

The RE sub-reddit has a good introduction for beginners.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ReverseEngineering/comments/hg0fx/a...

I'd recommend checking out their "Weekly Infosec News Recap".

https://summitroute.com/blog/2015/12/27/downclimb/

"Boredom: the desire for desires" - Leo Tolstoy

I wish Amazon or someone would make a smaller kindle. I'd really like something the size of an iphone (6 or lower). It would be nice to have an ebook reader that could fit in my pant or jacket pocket.

You and Your Research by Richard Hamming

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

I'll buy their stock. I have bought four Fitbits for my family and they all love them.

For more information on this topic check out Hexacorn's "Beyond good ol’ Run key" series. http://www.hexacorn.com/blog/category/autostart-persistence/

OPSEC is hard. EXIF GPS from the image.

GPS Latitude Reference {0x01} = south latitude (S) GPS Latitude {0x02} = 37/1,5142/100,0/1 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 37° 51.42′ == 37.857° GPS Longitude Reference {0x03} = east longitude (E) GPS Longitude {0x04} = 145/1,1502/100,0/1 [degrees, minutes, seconds] ===> 145° 15.02′ == 145.250333°

https://www.google.com/maps?q=-37.857,145.250333&z=15

Cool but I'm pretty sure someone needs to read up on the algorithms used by the ghosts...

http://gameinternals.com/post/2072558330/understanding-pac-m...

Here is a link with some more technical details

https://securelist.com/files/2015/02/Equation_group_question...

A similar question was asked on the RE stack exchange.

http://reverseengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/1817/i...

My recommendation would be to check out radare2.

There seems to be some confusion in the comments here. This platform isn't for sharing or reporting vulnerabilities. It is for sharing data or indicators of compromise related to attacks. This data could be URLs or IPs, etc. The sharing of this type of data is already a common practice in vetted communities. Here are some links with more information.

http://threatexchange.fb.com/#slide=1

https://www.facebook.com/notes/protect-the-graph/understandi...

No, it's not misleading. "The National Football League takes in more than $9.5 billion per year and is exempt from Federal taxes." source http://www.forbes.com/sites/tomwatson/2014/01/30/the-real-su...

Update: Keep down-voting all you want. The Forbes article is weak in classifying all of the NFL as one entity. The below link gives a good overview of the structure of the NFL and it's tax exceptions. I'm glad I read it. That said the NFL still shouldn't be a non-profit organization. http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2014/01/nfl-tax-exem...

Is this new to anyone? I have been using bit-bucket for writing a book for a couple of months. I figured this is pretty common. The Markdown language is great for writing technical material.

What is more amazing is the NFL is a non-profit organization and is exempt from paying taxes.

Kind of sad that 75% of the comments in this thread are negative or pedantic. I work as a reverse engineer and I thought it was a good "gentle primer".

> While I think this sort of research is useful- I dont think this is anything that will affect people in real life.

Minus the part where ADT is having to defend themselves against a class action suit. I'd consider that "real life".

Am I the only one that thought this article was super creepy? It reaffirms my reasoning of not using Google and if searching for anything personal in nature I should use TOR.

Ditto, on the view of Verizon as a corporation. That said their security team is filled with a lot of good people.

Thank you for the response. I never really thought about defense-in-depth from the angle of slowing an attacker down. I have always thought about it from a detection standpoint. You make a good point. Cheers.