brainscdf · HackerTrans

My personal best practice is to always create a thread pool on program startup and distribute your tasks among the thread pool. I use the same best practice in all other languages too. Is this best practice sound or can it lead to problems in some corner cases?

brainscdf

6년 전discuss

> or tell the reader your assumptions

It is right there in the first section of the article.

"In this discussion, we assume that we already know some basic properties of arithmetic operations such as the distributive property of multiplication over subtraction, existence of the additive inverse of real numbers, etc."

brainscdf

6년 전discuss

> Not that I expect Google to issue fake certs, but DigiNotar also doesn't command 80%+ browser marketshare to soften the blowback.

Not sure how that is relevant. DigiNotar was a trusted root CA in all major browsers. So if an attacker managed to get a fake certificate issued by DigiNotar, they could attack 100% of the users visiting the website for which the fake certificate was issued.

In fact, they did issue fake certificates by accident due to a security breach. As soon as the error was caught, their CA certificates were removed from all browsers. They went bankrupt! That's how serious this business of issuing certificates is.

brainscdf

6년 전discuss

Fun question: Is CSS Turing complete yet?

brainscdf

6년 전discuss

> Oh yeah, it'd be great if Google could MITM half the SSL on the internet...

How exactly would Google MITM half the SSL on the internet by virtue of issuing certificates via ACME?

The private key never leaves the subject's system (the system hosting a website for example). Google would never have access to the private key for which it would issue the public key certificate.

Further, if Google abuses its power by issuing a fake certificate for another website and uses that to MITM all traffic to that website, all browsers and systems would remove the offending CA certificates from their trust store immediately. Look what happened to DigiNotar.

brainscdf

6년 전discuss

Nice analysis! Never realized that Google has pushed down the #1 result so far down at the bottom! It took me 4 mouse scrolls to actually find the #1 result (a Wikipedia article) for "lollipop"!

It really shows how much the UX has deteroriated over these years. In early 2000s, Google was the hallmark for simplicity, speed and usability. Now it is ugly, bloated and clumsy!

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