What’s your relationship with numbers?

Something that I am thinking about, after my last ILP class. Statistics are important. They provide measurement to the results. I typically treat numbers as “something there, needed, but not something that I work from”. Money and numbers are secondary for me. This definitely makes me approach things from a different perspective. But I am […]

You are spidered!

I was testing my wifi connection once and did the ego search to see if I was getting the proper network settings. And I was surprised to find out that some site knew a lot about me! Without my knowing! They spidered me! Collected information on my name from various sources and pulled it together. […]

Apple protects some core binaries via encryption

“By now we know that OS X uses encrypted binaries for some critical apps like Dock, Finder and LoginWindow. Amit Singh explains the implementation of this protection scheme which makes use of the AES crypto algorithm and a special memory pager in Mach. The so called Do Not Steal Mac OS X (DSMOS) kernel extension […]