Kode Vicious

Hacking on networking and operating system code for fun and profit.

[The Retro Byte @theretrobyte]

#C64 production line Germany. 1980 something

[adafruit industries @adafruit]

An expert in anything was once a beginner... There are 2,596 how-tos, guides, open-source code & more, at the Adafruit Learning System, https://t.co/ADmxgCXfvK

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

I’ve already got a piece coming out about the Facebook fail but then we had aws and now log4j. All the same problem. Nobody knows what they’re true dependencies are.

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

It is a strange world when a reader says they like KV because it reminds them of “Alexander McCall Smith, Sophie Hannah, or Somerset Maugham” but I’ll take all the compliments I can get. I somehow doubt Maugham abused his readers, or the language, as much as I do.

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

I hear other peoples’ computers are down again. /me makes popcorn

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

“Yes but you glare like brandishing a 9mm.” Best compliment I’ve gotten in a while.

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

@aprilwright The very definition of security theater.

[April C Wright @aprilwright]

You can bring filled cannolis through TSA, but not cannoli shells plus filling in a bag #securitytheater

Also ofc this happened in Boston lmao

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

@TinkerSec This is the root of the word Priapism. Why are you surprised at all?

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

@TheSweetKat s/not//and

[matt blaze @mattblaze]

A new paper by my colleagues and I on the security risks of “client-side scanning” architectures.

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

@mattblaze @evacide National Brotherhood Week…

[Communications of the ACM @CACMmag]

.@kode_vicious discusses the virtue and vice of bisection, in the latest issue of @CACMmag
https://t.co/lvW42a7tn5

[ACM Queue @ACMQueue]

Kode Vicious: Patent Absurdity:

If you run afoul of a patent and it can be shown that you had knowledge of it, your company will incur triple the damages that they would have, had you not had knowledge of the patent.
https://t.co/1td0eGZl11

@kode_vicious

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

Yes! Review of The Kollected Kode Vicious from the folks at the ACCU https://t.co/RoYVDsXPTn

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

@BeeSting14618 @mwlauthor I wish I’d written this.

[@[email protected] #ratified🐀 @mwlauthor]

@bsdphk @freebsdjournal @kode_vicious Not at all! He's why this silly thing started.

Column 1. https://t.co/ZgAafkchzy

[@[email protected] #ratified🐀 @mwlauthor]

The new @freebsdjournal also features my regular Letters column, wherein I finally chew out @kode_vicious for throwing me under this particular bus.

[Kode Vicious @kode_vicious]

@mwlauthor You may then enjoy Hail Mary which is his latest.

[Programming Wisdom @CodeWisdom]

"The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements." — Brian W. Kernighan