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Sorry, I had misread your comment.

Or the ones who were genuinely interested in the inner workings of networking pursued careers in that area.

Just wanted to say, yeah BinRev was awesome. I was there, and (without dropping handles/names/etc.) I'm pretty sure we used to talk quite often ;)

I'd like to disagree that biege boxing COCOTs wasn't useful.

First off COCOTs were owned by customers, so the magic did not happen at the telephone switch. Quite the opposite.

When VoIP started emerging, a handful of COCOT companies and their operators figured out how to place long distance calls for a fraction of the usual price. Instead of placing LD calls over the telephone network, any LD call would be intercepted by the COCOT firmware. Instead, a local number would be called and rerouted over the Internet. This was a type of extender, and one could beige box these pay phones to pick up DTMF tones and figure out the number of the extender and its access codes. Sometimes an access code was even optional for a call to go through the extender. Like many extenders, these became abused like hell.

It really was the best scanning software around. Even today, I'd take a good bet that its the best.

I was a PLA'er for a few years. Great community, abit more of a pranking community than a heavily technical one.

Thanks for such a quality war dialing app :) Seriously.

No.

LOL yes, yes yes. I've heard stories of people who met him while staying at the HHH in Brooklyn.

If I'm understanding the logic that this article presents... Apparently after Prozac was introduced, depression became a huge phenomenon in the US. It showed up everywhere. This is evidence to suggest that antidepressants caused depression.

Wat?

Ruby isn't my first or only language. I'm pointing out that there doesn't seem to be much of any analysis or reasoning behind his posts. That's it. It amuses me that people automatically assumed I meant Ruby > all. I haven't claimed that and definitely do not think that. I think this is actually a sign of how people judge other languages really badly.

Dude, every one of your posts on HN I've seen has been about how Ruby sucks and should be thrown away. Either you're a troll or you're a very angry and upset person. Either way, I feel sorry for you.

For those that don't know how this exploit worked, I think the "exploit" gem description provides a pretty good explanation:

   'A Proof-of-Concept PoC gem that exploits a vulnerability in the Psych YAML parser, which allows the #[]= method to be called on arbitrary Objects.
   If the #[]= method later calls eval() with the given arguments, this allows for
   arbitrary execution of code.'

Welcome to the life of a software dev.

Thank you.

+1. Agreed.

+1. Exactly. This is why so many of these bugs are coming up now. It is a very good thing.

I did not mean this sarcastically. It is much better for bugs, especially security bugs, to surface and be dealt with ASAP. Rails is a fantastic framework, but when you have so many dependencies on external libraries, all contributed by different people, things like this are going to happen. I don't think it has anything to do with Rails in particular.

Thanks!

Great news. It's good that all of these bugs have been surfacing lately.

I don't have anything to offer atm other than a sincere wish that you find something that makes you happy and sustains your financial needs. I'm sure you'll find something soon-- hang in there!

Paid internship positions, I hope.

Am I the only one that feels like I'd rather be making money and enjoying myself at the same time, rather than stressing out about putting 50% of my income towards retirement?