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I imagine in any situation you have an ELF binary you need to analyse but have no source for it. Reverse-engineering and forensics come to mind.

This is anecdotal, but when I don't floss my teeth hurt.

You _can_ use the GNU Autotools on Windows, though you need a shell installed (and a vaguely sane POSIX environment). CMake does a good job targeting a bunch of environments, including Windows.

Sorry, I don't follow. How is the quote you highlighted related to not rolling your own crypto?

Telegram is known for having dodgy security:

http://unhandledexpression.com/2013/12/17/telegram-stand-bac...

Not these days; rm refuses to recurse on root. This can be overridden with --no-preserve-root or by appending a *.

That's seriously cool. What's the stability/speed like?

True, but they're one of a few investigating new ways of launching rockets without having to go through the thick lower atmosphere and from stationary. Everything they're learning could be used to build a launch system that drops rockets from very high in the atmosphere -- imagine how much more efficient they'll be.