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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Sep 26, 8:47
The Inside Story Behind MS08-067 http://blogs.technet.com/b/johnla/archive/2015/09/26/the-inside-story-behind-ms08-067.aspx …. Are we cool talking about this now?
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Aug 4, 3:06
Enjoying this inspirational cord cutting Ars article: http://arstechnica.com/staff/2015/08/i-finally-kicked-cable-tv-to-the-curb/ …. Can I use HBO Now subscription with HBO Go app on Xbox One?
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Jul 30, 1:28
OK we get it, cars can be hacked http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/07/ownstar-researcher-hijacks-remote-access-to-onstar/ …
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Retweet of kottke

2015 Jul 22, 2:01
With a technique called Crispr, DNA editing is becoming easy, cheap, and potentially scary http://kottke.org/15/07/copy-and-paste-but-for-dna …
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Retweet of anildash

2015 Jul 11, 5:09
Theaters will probably be like most industries: "We have a strict prohibition policy on tech. Unrelatedly, youth attendance is plummeting."
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Apr 14, 9:51
Time of year we're reminded that Intuit spends millions to ensure we have to do our own taxes - for sake of freedom! http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/16/technology/personaltech/turbotax-or-irs-as-tax-preparer-intuit-has-a-favorite.html …
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Retweet of taoeffect

2015 Apr 11, 11:12
On "front doors" (lol) and key splitting: "FBI+Apple" is just FBI if Apple must do what FBI says. http://apps.washingtonpost.com/g/page/mobile/world/encryption-techniques-and-access-they-give/1665/ …
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Retweet of ncardozo

2015 Apr 11, 10:58
The NSA does not have "an absolute right to gain access to every way in which two people may choose to communicate." http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/04/nsa-dreams-of-smartphones-with-split-crypto-keys-protecting-user-data/ …
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Tweet from David_Risney

2015 Mar 29, 10:53
Any more technical details on the GitHub DDOS beyond this http://insight-labs.org/?p=1682  for the curious?
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Retweet of JustRogDigiTec

2015 Mar 18, 10:48
Xpath in #EdgeHTML using CSS selectors and WGX (Wicked Good XPath) http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2015/03/19/improving-interoperability-with-dom-l3-xpath.aspx … The tech here is amazing. #ICodeReviewedThat
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Retweet of matthew_d_green

2015 Feb 18, 10:07
If you're a technology worker who has any access to sensitive keys or secrets, read all the way through this piece. https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/02/19/great-sim-heist/ …
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Retweet of __apf__

2015 Feb 11, 7:44
want to live the experience of a non-technical user? watch someone narrate what they think an ssl warning is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngCIU7b5j-M …
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Retweet of DrPizza

2015 Feb 11, 12:38
btw, @fxshaw, if Microsoft wants to rebrand with my new logo, I'm sure we can come to a suitable arrangement. http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/cool-microsoft1-300x150.png …
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jacobrossi: now uses HSTS, which "coincidentally" is in EdgeHTML engine rolling out to the tech preview

2015 Jan 22, 11:45
Jacob Rossi @jacobrossi :
http://status.modern.IE  now uses HSTS, which "coincidentally" is in EdgeHTML engine rolling out to the tech preview https://github.com/InternetExplorer/Status.IE/commit/31297bc1c8aaf43b4459d49764b5a865b5f66223 …
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David_Risney: "With crypto in UK crosshairs, secret US report says it’s vital". I think the secret is out on crypto.

2015 Jan 15, 10:10
David Risney @David_Risney :
"With crypto in UK crosshairs, secret US report says it’s vital". I think the secret is out on crypto. http://arstechnica.com/security/2015/01/with-crypto-in-uk-crosshairs-secret-us-report-says-its-vital/ …
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Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR,...

2014 Oct 6, 2:45


Live coding in VR with the Oculus Rift, Firefox WebVR, JavaScript and Three.js

“I built a live-coding web app for the Oculus Rift where you code in JavaScript using Three.js and watch the world change around you in real-time.”

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Why do Nigerian Scammers Say They are from Nigeria? - Microsoft Research

2014 Aug 26, 3:53

Mass mailing Internet scams intentionally use poor spelling, grammar etc to filter down to target ignorant audience .

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Fish vs Fish in Street Fighter II

2014 Aug 20, 6:22

Fish vs Fish in Street Fighter II - Computer vision translates the location of two fish in an aquarium into SF2 moves.

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The Secret Life of SIM Cards - DEFCON 21 - simhacks

2014 Aug 16, 1:07

A DEFCON talk “The Secret Life of SIM Cards” that covers running apps on your SIM card. Surprisingly they run a subset of Java and execute semi-independent of the Phone’s OS.

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Verizon’s Accidental Mea Culpa | Beyond Bandwidth

2014 Jul 17, 6:57

Level3 counters Verizon’s recent post about Netflix traffic.

"In fact, Level 3 has asked Verizon for a long time to add interconnection capacity and to deliver the traffic its customers are requesting from our customers, but Verizon refuses."

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