Joe Petviashvili

“Anyway, don’t pick these up on the street”

On the other hand, I'm sick and tired of laser pointers myself. On the third hand, the cats of Australia will be terribly disappointed.

But the fix is giving segfaults :(

you can see the snooper’s location too

“build your own fully functional Enigma machine.”

“The absurdly long URL contained the database query used to display the page's data. The SELECT also included a few non-displayed columns such as "social_security_number" and "date_of_birth", and even had several conditionals to make sure that only Active records were more...

The crew of an Alitalia flight made an emergency landing at Logan International Airport after being overcome by noxious fumes.

A routine update from Symantec Security Response wreaked havoc on a California company's clientele this week when it inadvertently tagged a program produced by Solid Oak Software as a virus and cut off the Internet access of Solid Oak customers.

every time a user adds their account to the program to back up their data, it sends and email with their username and password to his personal email box!

annotated plan of a google datacenter

“As those performing attacks against corporate IT assets become more professional we’re going to start seeing more of the following types of attacks: * Bribery * Extortion * Blackmail”

The document explains the rationale behind torturing prisoners, torture methods, and a justification for ignoring international law. Forness advocates the injection of truth serums, threatening to inject Muslim prisoners with pigs' blood, and torturing detainees' friends and family.

If you're the U.S. federal government, how can you prove to someone that something should be kept secret if you can't tell them what the secret is because it's a secret? If you're a federal judge, how can you decide more...