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Stack Overflow, Inc. must repair the damage caused by their libel against Monica Cellio, cooperate with the community, be willing to talk, treat users with respect, learn about the world outside the United States, open the governance of the sites.

I am a developer, mainly on embedded systems, with a computer science background and security and cryptography leanings by trade. I also have interests in various other topics.

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What is the difference between authorized_keys and known_hosts file for SSH?
Sep 26, 2012
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How and when do I use HMAC?
Sep 18, 2012
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Why is writing zeros (or random data) over a hard drive multiple times better than just doing it once?
Jan 8, 2012
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How does hashing work?
Apr 6, 2013
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How would a resourceful government block Tor?
Dec 7, 2015
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Old OS memory space protection - was it really that bad?
Dec 8, 2015
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Why do we still use keys to start cars? why not passwords?
Aug 20, 2015
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environment variable accessibility in Linux
Apr 20, 2012
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Why is SUID disabled for shell scripts but not for binaries?
Sep 20, 2018
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Why is it possible to sniff an HTTPS / SSL request?
Sep 1, 2012
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