Category Archives: Security

Ditching WhatsApp

Posted on January 29, 2021 by brucedawson

WhatsApp has served me well as a communications medium for my family, but I was never thrilled with its ownership by Facebook, and the recently announced privacy changes made it necessary for me to move on.

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Undefined Behavior *Can* Format Your Drive

Posted on May 19, 2014 by brucedawson

My last post mentioned the ‘standard’ risks of undefined behavior such as having your hard drive formatted or having nethack launched. I even added my own alliterative risk – singing sea shanties in Spanish. The list of consequences bothered some … Continue reading →

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Buggy Security Guidance from Apple

Posted on April 17, 2014 by brucedawson

In February 2014 Apple published their Secure Coding Guide. I glanced through it and noticed that their sample code for detecting integer overflow was buggy – it triggered undefined behavior, could be optimized away, and was thus unsafe to use. … Continue reading →

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