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Absolutely this. Even if you had fancy jails or docker setups for each submission, this will be a nightmare to properly handle. Students DOSing each other exactly before the submission deadline, too.

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The actual story here is that this was done and written up by a 15-year old high school student. As such, I have to say: bravo, well done!

The claim to „deanonimization“ is stretching it quite far. At best, you could prove a known person (which you know how to contact) was indeed physically in a certain location. This can be useful, but it’s hardly deanon in the traditional sense.

As somebody with a degree in bioinformatics, I have never seen something more true in my whole life.

Some more lies from my time in academia:

• “Planning and executing medical trials” = 6 months of statistics
• “Machine Learning” = 6 months of statistics
• “Pattern Recognition” = 6 months of statistics
• “Health Data Science” = 6 months of statistics
• Biostatistics = lol jk just 6 months of statistics

Hard drives (SSDs, etc) are not the only durable storage that can be written to

Yes, I have been eyeing a soft switch into cybersecurity. Maybe not head-over-heels and maybe not entirely, but I do plan to have a significant part of my work to be in infosec.

For context, I am currently working as Tech Lead/Software Architect for a company that has a security-focused product (with an, as of today, 0 incident track record), but I work on design and scalability most days. When involved in security-related tasks, I mostly coordinate and sometimes implement security critical code under the guidance of our (small) security team.

I do have enough insight to have a positive impact on security related discussions on higher levels (think “lol, this proposed change opens up the endpoint to being exploited by x or y”) but not enough to discuss our cryptographic primitives.

In order to get my feet wet, I started doing THM (quite actively, yet I’ve hit a rut with the Windows-focused buffer overflow rooms), and I can say I enjoy it more than I expected.

However, I am unsure what concrete steps I should take after THM.

I’ve been thinking of working towards the OSCP exam, but honestly the certification landscape is quite confusing.

I am a happy backblaze user and generally I’ve only heard good things about them.

They do have multiple data centers and they are operating B2B products too.

Is there anything in particular that would make you think they could be unreliable?

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Still doing lessons and challenges on THM, 2 months in.

Just started a course on THM in my free time. Wish me luck.

Sorry, but wtf was as innovative as to warrant a GOTY in Starfield?

EDIT: no a hater, 90hrs played, overall would not recommend and genuinely don’t see what was innovative.

I have been thinking about trying Deep Rock Galactic for a long time now. Maybe now is the time?

Tableplus

Been using it since it was in beta, it just does everything I need, supports many SQL and NoSQL DBs and has been a joy to work with overall.

Found a bug in the Cassandra driver a while back and the team was very responsive and pushed a fix in just a few days.