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kavefish

10 karma · joined February 17, 2013

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/kavefish; my proof: https://keybase.io/kavefish/sigs/wPBa_HPLuWUwuRJSbhAmKPHzn1ybz4ff2jOW8CMYoGQ ]
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kavefish··on Pwning the Ladybird Browser
With decades and decades of memory safety lessons in the books, it's hard to imagine how C++ was the language of choice when starting new browser from scratch in 2018.
kavefish··on What happened with the substation attack in North Carolina?
The video inspired me to explore the open source grid map at atlas.eia.gov, but it sure looks like the online map was locked down.

Despite the sidebar saying the map is visible to the public, the maps never load and I'm seeing access denied errors for map resources in the console.

There could be multiple explanations for the map to stop loading, but the error messages sure give me the impression that it was to restrict access to this information, and that makes me a little sad even though I can understand why it might be tempting to restrict given the circumstances.

kavefish··on Flask Security Architecture for Diverse, Security Policies [pdf] (1999)
Nice one Nick. Flask is really a beautiful architecture. The primary SELinux author once said, "SELinux doesn't add complexity. It exposes complexity that was already there." MAC policies for general purpose computing environments trended toward unmanageable complexity, but the fit is much more natural in constrained computing environments such as smartphones.
kavefish··on Linux Foundation quietly drops community representation
@grsecurity went to a sponsor-based model because they kept getting ripped off

Edit: Source https://grsecurity.net/announce.php