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What was the answer? Asking for a vp friend

Unfortunately, all too common in the security field.

This is fascinating, but at the same time I got to ask. Wouldn't it easier for a person as experienced as Tavis Ormandy to simply write a console version of a spreadsheet software from scratch using a modern stack?

There are medical bodies staffed by professionals that study these matters, and the states (should) base their decisions on what their findings are. To me the problems starts when decision makers and then the general population start trusting fringe conclusions and trying to interpret medical data when they have no training to do so.

neutered in what sense? besides doing the keynote speech of course

Maybe try running a business?

That seems to me like an unjustified and unjust generalization.

I don't really think it pays off to make such distinction between virus and trojan.

`Trojan` is often used to refer to malware that provides a backdoor into your system, and if someone gets to run code on your machine it isn't your machine anymore.

where would one hire an auditor like this? asking for a friend

You still have to prove who had the gun in the first place

afaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in an enterprise setting

I really wish this was the norm!

I have a very common name and signed up for gmail address right at the start. I now receive tons of spam because there are people who sign up to the weirdest things with my gmail handle.

BRAFWTNEGASSAY would make sense to the owner of the file or someone working in that particular project. Consider it a project name, or a keyword that is relevant in that particular context. If you're working with files from different sources with multiple contributors this sort of approach works brilliantly.

You could have named it differently: 2013-06-26_KUTKLOON7_Plasmid-Cellline-100-1MutantFrac

Creation date can sometimes be lost if you copy/move the file between different mediums

I would love to see a deep investigation proving/disproving this point

I completely agree with you, I find this "disable antivirus" to be such a bad advice! Yes, it may work for tech savvy or security aware person. If you know what you're doing you're much less likely to get into problems. It won't work for general public though.

And the argument being made that "for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero. These bugs indicate that not only do these products open many attack vectors" could be made for any piece of software your install.

eventually the pile of dead ants will be so high that it will reach the top of the vent putting an end to this madness

I don't think python's syntax is icky at all and I hope you're not judging it by the looks of an obfuscation challenge.

There is no way to avoid that in the polish language, as someone else pointed out already. Nouns and sometimes even verbs or adjectives have gender, and you need to use either the male form or female form according to the situation

Could UV light be used at waste plants and hospitals to help prevent this kind of bacteria from spreading?

What if someone flags your emails as spam deliberately, just in order to cause harm?

Could this be related with Trojan.Milicenso or Trojan.Eorezo? This is the latest (although its from June/July) threat I know of that prints random stuff

http://www.symantec.com/connect/blogs/trojanmilicenso-paper-... http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH190982 http://isc.sans.edu/diary.html?storyid=13519

I absolutely agree agree with this comment, you believe in the startup you are working with and it seems you really enjoy doing that work. I would say negotiate terms you are fine with and give it another 6 months to an year.

AFAIK there are not many comprehensive studies of this kind done without some sort of corporate\company backing. In the industry its the reputation of the company doing the study that is at stake, so what most companies do is they fund a research but reserve the right to decide in the end if the study will be published or not. If the results end up reflecting positive view on the company that funded it they publish it, otherwise they use the information collected by such study to improve the product

The concept is interesting but why did you use such a similar name to another popular service? It was really the first thing I noticed and I really dislike that.

i understand the frustration, but how else would a laptop tracking software work if not by connecting to the web and listening for commands, etc? It seems that this app is created by: http://www.absolute.com/en-GB/

I am based in europe and my hosting service recently requested me to confirm my details (country of residence etc..) to charge VAT in accordance with EU laws.

It really does sound a lot like Zombies (My Zombs?).. I thought it would be a game.

I really like this one: http://academicearth.org/subjects/mathematics

They say 'minimum depth' and not maximum, and there are rules for a swimming pool to be considered "Olimpic Size". See the wikipedia entry for http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic-size_swimming_pool

But it would demonstrate a homework well done and a genuine interest in the company.