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> How odd, a Nazi/Hitler reference. Who'd had thought that was coming?

Are you... seriously... trying to be all "wuh buh Godwin's Law froggle boggle" in December Two Thousand And Sixteen?

Seriously dude bro? With all gravity pally pal? Ya mean it my man? Wow.

> "Correct code in C is actually easy since the language is very simple."

I broke back into this account just to share my marvel at the singly most wrong sentence in human history. The Mona Lisa of being incorrect about programming.

I audit code for security vulnerabilities in several languages professionally. You are correct about the benefits of unit testing, which is language agnostic, but C is not and cannot be Easy To Be Correct, ever, no matter what.

If by "he" you mean the person who drew the picture:

First, I absolutely LOVE it when people assume I'm a dude. Plot twist: no I don't. If you don't know someone's gender, getting it wrong with an assumption is a good way to hack them off.

Second: the function is explicitly prototyped as returning bool (I highlighted this in neon green) which means caller expects true or false. It returns a negative value that is not intended to represent either true or false but a detailed error code. THAT IS THE BUG.

If bools don't exist in C then neither does strlen, gahh.

My blog has been accruing more personal things and whiny rants lately. I decided to separate this from my doubtlessly profound philosophical ramblings about the meaning of life and Skyrim. All in all, a list of markdown gists is just about as functional as tumblr...

I did consider trying to work in the part where they shortened the keys and eventually DES became useless because of it, but it was a bit of a diversion from the salient (heh) reason I put this on the timeline, that they improved the s-boxes without explanation and that colors any subsequent requests they made to do similar.

I just went to AOL keyword OPENBSD. Or it's not 1998 anymore and it's just common sense to type domain.org instead of www.domain.org.

Why would anyone even have them be two separate machines with the same content?

Thank Goddess you weren't around during the American Civil War so you could make a huge show of NOT participating as a white member of the Underground Railroad because the plight of black slaves just wasn't your fucking problem.

Allow me to use the power you think I have to say: fuck you, thanks for nothing, jerk face. If it's "not your problem" then you are actively increasing my problems.

All my educators were men. Everyone in my chain of command from manager to CEO are men. About 90% of my industry peers are men. If they were all anti-woman then WHAT GODDAM POWER WOULD I HAVE? But they're not. Some of them even go so far as to acknowledge the general state of inequality might be within THEIR power to influence. And so here I am: a woman with a computer science degree, working information security, because not only did some men choose not to use their power to block me from getting a foothold, THEY DECIDED TO BE ACTIVELY FEMINIST and help me pull through when the misogynists were telling me to kill myself because I was a worthless slut and actively trying to prevent my career from ever starting with harassment, degradation, and slander.

Maybe I'm not your problem. But if you are just gonna kick back and relax and let misogyny sort itself out then you. are. mine.

Yeah! Opting not to render the pixel configuration on your screen in the method suggested by the other end is a crime. So is using browsers with the graphics turned off, and being blind.

[author here] I'm not supposed to directly call out corporations for mistakes in public because then their feelings will be hurt and they won't be a customer in the future ;)

I was kind of expecting someone to tell me "Spacer" was too obvious and to obfuscate it some more, but they let it slide - probably because this is not a security flaw like I'd usually be dropping, just a general oopsie.

Author here! I work in/study static analysis, so "running the program" would be entirely defeating the fun ;)

I made a spreadsheet of 53 victims I found. It seems the defining trait is that the account was opened in 2007. There was like one or two from 2006 and one from 2012 but that one may be spurious. Also, almost everyone on the list unambiguously owns an iPhone, but that may just be a coincidence owing to popularity and my sample being inherently weighted to English-speakers. Only found one non-English user I was confident was saying they got the email.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AmIfHssIKuJgdFF...

If anyone wants to take those usernames and write their own script to divine some knowledge from the API, feel free

except when they do! http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

No, I doubt that something closed in early 2010 has much to do with a new patch that has a rationale disabled from public viewing which implies it's a security emergency.