dr jimbob

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Good Morning how are you, I'm dr jimbob
I'm interested in things.
I'm not a real dr,
But I am a real jim bob.

Have a PhD in Experimental High-Energy Physics, but left academia in mid-2010 to program professionally.

Mostly program/script in python, django, and jquery these days doing mostly web apps.

Also have experience programming in C, C++, java, haskell, php, and (bash) shell more in the past.

Linux as primary OS since 1999, ubuntu user since 2005 (Hoary).

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Jan 20	revised	Is this acceptable login security? deleted 78 characters in body
Jan 20	revised	Is this acceptable login security? deleted 78 characters in body
Dec 23	revised	Trying to make a Django-based site use HTTPS-only, not sure if it's secure? rolled back to a previous revision
Dec 22	revised	Future proof encryption possible in theory? added 15 characters in body
Dec 19	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? He applies crypt(user+random+time) to generate a salt (he must store the crypt, or random, time) in the db. He does not apply crypt of the password.
Dec 19	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? added 867 characters in body
Dec 18	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? added 985 characters in body
Dec 18	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? added 985 characters in body
Dec 18	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? added 98 characters in body
Dec 18	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? added 138 characters in body
Dec 18	revised	Is my developer's home-brew password security right or wrong, and why? added 2463 characters in body
Nov 19	revised	How do you explain the necessity of “nuke it from orbit” to management and users? added 4 characters in body
Nov 17	revised	Petraeus scandal - what would have been a better way to communicate electronically added 544 characters in body
Nov 14	revised	Can https be used instead of sftp for secure file transfers? deleted 355 characters in body
Nov 14	revised	Can https be used instead of sftp for secure file transfers? added 55 characters in body
Oct 10	revised	E-mail read receipt through XSS added 541 characters in body
Sep 28	revised	Does using HTTPS, TLS, S/MIME, SSL e.t.c. protect you from Deep Packet Inspection and 'Big Data' analytics? Grammar
Sep 28	revised	Does using HTTPS, TLS, S/MIME, SSL e.t.c. protect you from Deep Packet Inspection and 'Big Data' analytics? added 483 characters in body
Sep 21	revised	What defines a programming language as useful for hacking? added 155 characters in body
Sep 18	revised	What is the purpose of the entropy parameter for DPAPI.Protect? added 215 characters in body