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jerardopeon Avast Antivirus Remote Stack Buffer Overflow with Magic Numbers

Wow. It seems as if this has been discovered by rigorous manual inspection of the code (as opposed to just fuzzing the binary to death).

Hats off!

jerardopeon Victoria Police cancel hundreds of speeding fines after WannaCry virus attack

Concerning the display: I've seen it quite often at random public places that when a technician tries to fix something on these devices, he or she will connect an external device with display and touch screen (at least when Windows 8+ is used).

My guess is that maintenance of such systems is just much cheaper. Virtually everyone knows the Windows GUI.

jerardopeon Why is the Internet so Slow?

Very interesting approach. I've read about SCION before. I believe, however, that its goal is primarily security. The reduced latency claim simply comes from the fact that they try to restrict routing in such a way that, for example, traffic with source and destination both in the US will never leave the US because of some weird routing policies. I'm not sure about this. Somehow, it seems to be against the principles of a truly free internet.