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1. Safety and security are two sides of the same coin. Improving one improves the other.
2. You cannot assume that attackers only want to steal, not disrupt. 9/11 bombers, Anonymous DDoSers, you name it. Radicals want to do as much damage as they physically are able to do, so don't sugarcoat pentesting, do the job for real, only stopping just before any real damage is done. Stealth mode? You gotta be joking.
Commented Dec 12, 2012 on How to Hack and Not Get Caught at SpiderLabs Anterior
How to Hack and Not Get Caught
The following thoughts on internal network penetration strategies are drawn from "OPFOR 4Ever," which I'll be presenting later this week with my colleague Chris Pogue at Microsoft's BlueHat Security Conference. Network penetration testers love to complain about the unrealistic scope restrictions ...
Wow, what timing! I've experienced the same problems with MD, especially with regards to syntax confusion and Stack Overflow's out of date implementation.
As it happens, the Markdown community is working on a central site to coordinate the various Markdown implementations:
https://github.com/markdown
Anyone interested in contributing is invited to connect to GitHub.
Commented Oct 26, 2012 on The Future of Markdown at Coding Horror
The Future of Markdown
Markdown is a simple little humane markup language based on time-tested plain text conventions from the last 40 years of computing. Meaning, if you enter this… …you get this! Lightweight Markup Languages ============================ According to **Wikipedia**: > A [lightweight markup lan...
OMFG. I did more complicated things than FizzBuzz back in high school. Now I'm more disappointed in Comp Sci than I was before.
Commented Apr 22, 2011 on Why Can't Programmers.. Program? at Coding Horror
Why Can't Programmers.. Program?
I was incredulous when I read this observation from Reginald Braithwaite: Like me, the author is having trouble with the fact that 199 out of 200 applicants for every programming job can't write code at all. I repeat: they can't write any code whatsoever. The author he's referring to is Imr...
I knew it! http://speely.wordpress.com/2011/04/10/i-knew-it/
Commented Apr 10, 2011 on It Came From Planet Architecture at Coding Horror
It Came From Planet Architecture
Coming from humble Visual Basic 3.0 beginnings, by way of AmigaBasic, AppleSoft Basic, and Coleco Adam SmartBasic, I didn't get a lot of exposure to formal programming practice. One of the primary benefits of .NET is that it brings VB programmers into the fold-- we're now real programmers writ...
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