| Name | Nick |
| Where | Security at Google Cloud |
| Web | https://nickg.ca |
| Opinions | My own, not necessarily my employer’s view etc |
I wrote a little post about my experience with using Cursor for a couple hours.
Given it’s international women’s day, I’d like to encourage you all, but especially Dutch men to read these ‘anti-acknowledgments’ in a PhD thesis. This is not from somewhere else, it’s from Delft. And it’s not from the 1950s, but from the present. Unfortunately what academic life and culture in The Netherlands is still like. The author is just one of the few who actually spoke up about it, but there are many stories like it.
(Alt at https://pastebin.com/cqLvxX1f)
Related to this, I was once filling out a background check while joining a new job. I was annoyed about it because I didn’t want to share my personal information with a sketchy site but my new employer wasn’t interested in alternatives to accomplish their objectives in the background check. So when I was picking a password for this site I picked a few random letters and then added on one of the standard SQL injection strings like ' or 1=1-- and thinking to myself it would all go into a password hash anyway so it didn’t matter.
It did matter, because the site then banned me from the platform. I now had no way of completing the background check and I started to panic a bit, thinking that I might not get this job I really wanted.
Thankfully it turned out they had only banned my IP address, so filling out the information from somewhere else was enough to get it working again. https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/114002752430755212
Attached: 2 images Every time you deploy an "application firewall" to production, an angel loses its wings
Applied cryptographers during the holidays looking at novel cryptosystems be like:
That's not a foot-gun, it's a missile-toe!
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