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Comment It won't be the last (Score 1) 109

by usmcpanzer on Wednesday May 13, 2020 @10:50AM (#60055972) Attached to: Huawei Denies Involvement in Buggy Linux Kernel Patch Proposal

If there was truly nefarious reasons behind the code submit, it probably wasn't the first, nor would it be under a name easily traceable to Huawei. It has been done, and will be done, just don't expect it from a group named "Chinese Hackers #23".

Comment Re:RPN is scarey! (Score 1) 107

by usmcpanzer on Wednesday February 20, 2013 @12:40PM (#42956293) Attached to: Two Years of GNU Guile Scheme 2.0

RPN has always scared people. It's why HP calculators don't dominate the market.

Scheme (and Lisp) uses prefix notation, i.e. the operation symbol + comes first, (+2 2). Reverse polish notation, also known as postfix notation, the operation symbol comes last, (2 2 +).

Encryption Could Make You More Vulnerable 126

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 11, 2008 @01:18PM from the also-condoms-give-you-aids dept.

narramissic writes "It sounds like a headline straight out of The Onion, but security researchers from IBM Internet Security Systems, Juniper, nCipher and elsewhere are warning that the use of data encryption could make organizations vulnerable to new risks and threats. There is potential for 'A new class of DoS attack,' says Richard Moulds, nCipher's product strategy EVP. 'If you can go in and revoke a key and then demand a ransom, it's a fantastic way of attacking a business.'"

Next Year's Laws, Now Out In Beta! 238

Posted by CmdrTaco on Monday February 11, 2008 @12:30PM from the something-to-read dept.

Frequent Slashdot Contributor Bennett Haselton writes with his latest which starts "If I were writing laws such that I wanted everybody to agree on how to interpret them, I would use the software development life cycle: First, have lawmakers (analogous to "developers") write drafts of the laws. Then a second group (the "test case writers") would try to come up with situations that would be interpreted ambiguously under the law. Then a third group, the "testers", would read the proposed law, read the test case situations, and try to determine how the law should be applied to those cases, without communicating with the law writers, the test case writers, or each other. If there's too much disagreement in the third group on how the law should be applied, then it's too vague to be a proper law. The only laws which made it through this process would be ones such that when they were finally passed, most citizens (the "users") could agree on how to interpret them, in cases sufficiently similar to the ones the test case writers could come up with."

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