Kode Vicious: The Elephant in the Room
It's time to get the #POSIX elephant off our necks.
By writing code for the elephant that is Posix, we lose the chance to take advantage of modern hardware.
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Combining Static and Dynamic Analysis for Effective and Efficient Whole-program Specialization
Leveraging scalable pointer analysis, value analysis, and dynamic analysis
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OSS Supply-chain Security: What Will It Take?
#Cybercriminals are exploiting the fact that #OSS supply chains are easy to penetrate.
A discussion with , Falcon Momot, George Neville-Neil, and Chris McCubbin
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Thomas A. Limoncelli:
Operations and Life
Split Your Overwhelmed Teams. Two teams of five is not the same as one team of ten.
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The Rise of Fully Homomorphic Encryption
Often called the Holy Grail of cryptography, commercial #FHE is near.
Once commercial FHE is achieved, data access will become completely separated from unrestricted data processing.
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Mapping the Privacy Landscape for Central Bank Digital Currencies
As central banks all over the world move to digitize cash, the issue of privacy needs to move to the forefront.
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From Zero to One Hundred:
Demystifying zero trust and its implications on enterprise people, process, and technology
Is #ZeroTrust a marketing tool to sell existing best practice, or a new cybersecurity standard?
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The Arrival of Zero Trust: What Does it Mean?
It used to be that enterprise cybersecurity was all castle and moat. First, secure the perimeter and then, in terms of what went on inside that, "Trust, but verify." But what about now?
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Research for Practice: Crash Consistency
Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem.
Ram Alagappan of UIUC surveys recent research on the guarantee that application data will survive system crashes.
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#KodeVicious
The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project
Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.
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Comments on the CSRB #Log4j Event Report
We in FOSS need to become much better at documenting design decisions in a way so that the right people find it, read it, and understand it, before they do something ill-advised or downright stupid with our code
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To bridge the gulf between researchers and practitioners, Digital Threats: Research and Practice (DTRAP) was launched in 2020 to solve timely, relevant, and important #cybersecurity problems. Read the first editorial here: bit.ly/3PDmPXK #75YearsofACM
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Privacy of Personal Information
Going incog in a goldfish bowl
With the growing reach of the Internet and the volume of data being generated, data protection and, specifically, preserving the privacy of individuals, have become particularly important.
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Kode Vicious:
Securing the Company Jewels
GitHub and runbook security
The key question all good people ask during security interactions remains, "What problem are you trying to solve?"
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Escaping the Singularity
I'm Probably Less Deterministic Than I Used to Be
I once thought the universe was ruled by cause and effect, and computing made sense. But life and computing can be a crapshoot, and that fact has given me a new peace
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Research for Practice: Covergence
In distributed systems, there are two approaches to data consistency: consensus or convergence. Here we look at four variations on the theme of convergence, drawn from four areas of computer science.
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The Challenges of IoT, TLS, and Random
Number Generators in the Real World
Bad random numbers are still with us and are proliferating in modern systems.
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In the new #ACMByteCast (in partnership w/), chats w/Charu Thomas (), wearable computing researcher, hacker, & entrepreneur. They talk order picking, bar codes, #AR, & the future of supply chain.
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The Bikeshed
Linear Address Spaces: Unsafe at any speed
It seems almost like a law of nature: Any successful computer architecture, under immense pressure to "improve" while "remaining 100 percent compatible," will become a complicated mess.
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When Should a Black Box Be Transparent?
When is a replacement not a replacement?
Supply chain issues are both real and the world's latest excuse for everything.
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Walk a Mile in Their Shoes: The Covid pandemic through the lens of four tech workers
We share stories from the amalgamated diaries of 20 individuals who submitted more than 150 diary entries over the first year of the pandemic.
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Case Study
FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of #Healthcare #Data
James Agnew, , and Adam Cole discuss the efforts and misadventures witnessed as we approach the reality of healthcare providers exchanging patient records.
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Long Live Software Easter Eggs!
Software developers will keep writing code, building libraries, and disseminating the "Schwartz" of software Easter eggs in all corners of the digital galaxy.
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Autonomous Computing:
We frequently compute across autonomous boundaries but the implications of the patterns to ensure independence are rarely discussed.
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Distributed Latency Profiling through Critical Path Tracing: Actionable and precise latency analysis.
Scalable and accurate fine-grain tracing has made CPT the standard approach for distributed latency analysis for applications such as Google Search.
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Kode Vicious: The Planning and Care of Data
Caring for data requires forethought, but in our rush to create stakeholder value we act like data gourmands, until, like Mr. Creosote, we explode, scattering half-digested data all over.
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Middleware 101
Middleware is more than an OO solution for request-response commands. It can incorporate pull-push events and streams via multiple gateways by combining microservices architectures to develop a holistic decentralized ecosystem.
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