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Thomas and Erin Ptacek on software, security, cryptography, hiring, and the occasional cocktail.
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Stop Making TUIs
Our field has a weird relationship with terminal and command line interfaces. The time has come to re-evaluate it. I'm on a kick lately getting my friends to try building native user interfaces. I built my first serious Mac application a few months ago, a
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The Emacsification of Software
You want a good Markdown viewer more than you think you do. We're all reading a ton of Markdown. It's been the lingua franca of software development since long before LLMs. But now agents have led us into a cursed renaissance of TUI tooling, and the readi
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Vulnerability Research Is Cooked
For the last two years, technologists have ominously predicted that AI coding agents will be responsible for a deluge of security vulnerabilities. They were right! Just, not for the reasons they thought. Within the next few months, coding agents will dras
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I Went To SQL Injection Court
Should public bodies in Illinois, like cities and school districts and sheriff's departments, be allowed to hide information from Freedom of Information requests by keeping them in databases? That question is before the 104th Illinois General Assembly, th
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What if we had the SockPuppet vulnerability in iOS 16? - Apple Security Research
The next post in our XNU memory safety series examines how our hardened kernel allocator performs in the real world against a previously patched but powerful UAF software vulnerability. In this detailed analysis, we find out what might happen if SockPuppe
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Troy Davis (@troyd) on X
I found a large black-hat content marketing org. they're paid by startups, then they pay bloggers to write about clients' products for @ITNEXT_io, @ThePracticalDev, @freeCodeCamp - and pretend to be regular users/fans. they then submit to Reddit & HN from
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SockPuppet: A Walkthrough of a Kernel Exploit for iOS 12.4
Posted by Ned Williamson, 20% on Project ZeroIntroductionI have a somewhat unique opportunity in this writeup to highlight my experience as an iOS research n...
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