This commit marks the end of an era for me -> https://t.co/LDMEz6i9 . Farewell, my dear web framework.
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I just did a little work on one of my open-source projects, just so I don't break my streak on @github. Don't know if that is a good thing.
`git filter-branch --tree-filter` with 3k+ commits and 7k+ files on an overloaded NFS is not a recipe for a good time. #git
Just stopped myself from over-generalizing a new library before it got out of hand, and feeling pretty good about it.
I'm starting to transition all my sites from Apache/FastCGI to nginx/gunicorn for the asynchronous deliciousness.
My #cryptography package (PyTomCrypt) finally supports #Python3! http://t.co/65mVPi2r
Stuxnet
I recently watched a TED talk by Ralph Langner, lead of one of the teams attempting to reverse engineer the virus to determine its purpose. My original reaction on Twitter was:
#Stuxnet sent prerecorded status data to the engineers to hide how unhappy the centrifuges really were. Via #TED talk http://t.co/UjNu2yuG
The most terrifying part about this attack is that while it was highly targeted, all of the exploits and actions it took are remarkably generic and can easily be retargeted to many other types of systems. There are many targets, and they are very vulnerable. The community of engineers and developers working with these sorts of control systems have, up to this point, not felt the need for a level of security paranoia that many software systems presently require.
There is some good discussion in the comments on Reddit:
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Today I learned that the PayPal APIs do not always use UTF8; the donator who triggered this discovery was rather concerned. Oops.
Just spent 6 hours building a new tool to realize that it already comes bundled with every system I use. #facepalm
