The phrase most often heard at Immunity is probably, “Is it done yet?” Common parlance usually goes some- thing like this: “I’m starting work on the new ELF importer for Immunity Debugger.” Slight pause. “Is it done yet?” or “I just found a bug in Internet Explorer!” And then, “Is the exploit done yet?” It’s this rapid pace of development, modi- fication, and creation that makes Python the perfect choice for your next security project, be it building a special decompiler or an entire debugger.
Bitcoin is starting to come into its own as a digital currency, but the
blockchain technology behind it could prove to be much more significant.
This book takes you beyond the currency (“Blockchain 1.0”) and smart
contracts (“Blockchain 2.0”) to demonstrate how the blockchain is
in position to become the fifth disruptive computing paradigm after
mainframes, PCs, the Internet, and mobile/social networking.
Julian Assange, Jacob Appelbaum, Andy Müller-Maguhn, Jérémie Zimmermann - Cypherpunks_ freedom and the future of the Internet(2012)
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The Internet has led to revolutions across the world but a crackdown is now
in full swing. As whole societies move online, mass surveillance programs
are being deployed globally. Our civilization has reached a crossroads. In one
direction lies a future promoting “privacy for the weak and transparency for
the powerful”; in the other is an internet that transfers power over entire
populations to an unaccountable complex of spy agencies and their trans-
national corporate allies.
Cypherpunks are activists who advocate the mass use of strong
cryptography as a way protecting our basic freedoms against this onslaught.
Julian Assange, the editor-in-chief of and visionary behind WikiLeaks, has
been a leading voice in the cypherpunk movement since the 1990s. Now, in
a timely and important new book, Assange brings together a group of rebel
thinkers and activists from the front line of the battle for cyberspace to dis
cuss whether the internet will emancipate or enslave all of us.
Lisp is a very expressive language. Lisp is designed to let you take the most
complicated programming ideas and express them in a clear and appropriate
way. Lispers have the freedom to write a program in exactly the way that is
most helpful for solving any problem at hand.
In his speech, Kevin spelled out in detail the
incredible story of how he had cracked the case of the
FBI operation against him. Kevin penetrated the
whole operation, discovering that a new hacker
“friend” was really an FBI snitch, learning the names
and home addresses of the entire FBI team working
his case, even listening in on the phone calls and
voicemails of people trying to gather evidence
against him. An alarm system he had set up alerted
him when the FBI was preparing to raid him.
Philosophy and business don’t always get along well. Philosophy is generally not much concerned with the practical implications of its investigations and, conversely, business
is often deeply interested in the tactical outcomes of its operations.
And ethics is a loaded word. Preconceived notions of what ethics mean, even as a le gitimate field of study, often make people shy away from it as a topic of discussion. It’s
hard to talk about what we don’t fully understand and even the word itself can sometimes imply judgment: do-this-don’t-do-that kinds of directives and obligations. And we all
frequently chafe when we think we’re being told what to do.