CiprianDorinCraciun/ReadingQueue/2014

2014

December

2014-12-27

• A Short History of Internet Protocols at CERN;

2014-12-09

• Port Squatting / Don't irk your local sysadmin;

November

2014-11-20

• Whats Wrong with Markdown;

• Foo over UDP;

2014-11-14

• Fixing the internet for confidentiality and security;

• When Russians thought the Internet would make them free;

• Project health, and why it's important -- part of the #shellshock afterwords;

• JavaScript is Assembly Language for the Web: Part 2 - Madness or just Insanity?;

• Will HTML ever be replaced?;

• Time for Pudding Code!;

• Is this the tipping point?;

• Bash gets shellshocked;

October

2014-10-16

• ISG Position Paper: Use of Dropbox;

2014-10-05

• Developers are users too;

September

2014-09-17

• Torvalds says he has no strong opinions on systemd;

2014-09-06

• What's the matter with PGP?;

August

2014-08-19

• Irrational Fear of Risks Against Our Children;

July

2014-07-17

• A case against syntax highlighting;

2014-07-07

• Outsourcing Responsibility / What do you do when your debugger fails you?;

June

2014-06-27

• Factory Reset, Stateless Systems, Reproducible Systems & Verifiable Systems;

2014-06-24

• A Plea to Software Vendors from Sysadmins -- 10 Do's and Don'ts;

• Quality Software Costs Money -- Heartbleed Was Free;

• The Answer is 42 of Course;

• Who Must You Trust?;

2014-06-19

• memfd_create(2);

May

2014-05-14

• Simple Binary Encoding;

2014-05-11

• Go Package Management;

2014-05-10

• Git submodules are probably not the answer;

• Why your company shouldn’t use Git submodules;

2014-05-09

• Scaling Mercurial at Facebook;

April

2014-04-02

• The /doc hierarchy;

March

2014-03-29

• Edward Snowden: 'The NSA set fire to the internet. You are the firefighters';

2014-03-28

• If GCHQ wants to improve national security it must fix our technology;

• Debian and CAcert;

• rsyslog's first signature provider: why Guardtime?;

• Which data does the Guardtime signature provider transfer to external parties?;

• Why I think Lua is no solution for rsyslog;

• RFC5424 or cee-enhanced syslog?;

• journald and rsyslog;

• What I don't like about journald / Linux Journal;

• journald log hash chaining is broken;

• why does the world need another syslogd? (aka rsyslog vs. syslog-ng);

2014-03-25

• A Few Words with Niklaus Wirth;

• On the cruelty of really teaching computing science;

2014-03-23

• The End of Agile: Death by Over-Simplification;

2014-03-21

• Inside the NSA’s Secret Efforts to Hunt and Hack System Administrators;

• I Hunt Sys Admins;

2014-03-20

• What's new with HTTP2;

• A false midnight;

• Glibc feature test macros;

• node_modules in git;

2014-03-19

• Choosing Secure Passwords;

• Metadata = Surveillance;

• Who Should Store NSA Surveillance Data;

• Surveillance by Algorithm;

• Computer Network Exploitation vs. Computer Network Attack;

• Breaking Up the NSA;

• Using git and make for tasks beyond coding;

2014-03-18

• The Logic of Logging -- And the illogic of PDF;

• Rate-limiting State -- The edge of the Internet is an unruly place;

• Standard for E-mail "spam";

• Breeding Internet Superbugs;

• DNS Experiment Concludes;

• On Free Speech and the Rule of Law;

2014-03-15

• Software user's rights;

• On Mail;

• message threading;

• mail summary files;

2014-03-13

• JSON Redux AKA RFC7159;

2014-03-06

• Parkinson's Law of Triviality;

• Scalable Conferences;

• Ivo (a view on terminals);

• Yoshimi (a view on operating systems);

• RFC 7149 --- Software-Defined Networking: A Perspective from within a Service Provider Environment;

2014-03-05

• The penultimate guide to stopping a DDoS attack -- A new approach;

February

2014-02-28

• Ripoff nation: How Verizon and AT&T stacked the deck against cellphone users;

• Finding People's Locations Based on Their Activities in Cyberspace;

• Broken by design: systemd;

• Lennart Poettering on Debian and systemd;

• Dear Debian Developers, lrn2gpg;

2014-02-20

• Flags as a system call API design pattern;

2014-02-11

• Losing graciously;

• Debate initsystem systemd;

• Debate initsystem upstart;

• Debate initsystem openrc;

• Debate initsystem sysvinit;

2014-02-13

• What happens with digital rights management in the real world?;

• International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance;

January

2014-01-29

• Why is Build automation important?;

• File up-to-date checks;

• Types of inputs and outputs: Explicit versus Implicit;

• Implicit outputs: badness in a build;

• tl;dr;

2014-01-27

• Finite Resources in Shake;

• Shake Before Building -- Replacing Make with Haskell;

2014-01-21

• How the NSA Threatens National Security;

• How the NSA Almost Killed the Internet;

• Security Risks of Embedded Systems;

• Unikernels: Rise of the Virtual Library Operating System --- What if all the software layers in a virtual appliance were compiled within the same safe, high-level language framework?;

• Center Wheel for Success --- "Not invented here" syndrome is not unique to the IT world;

• This is the Foo Field --- The meaning of bits and avoiding upgrade bog downs;

• The Road to SDN --- An intellectual history of programmable networks;

• "Evil Maid" Attacks on Encrypted Hard Drives;

2014-01-16

• bzr is dying; Emacs needs to move -- from Eric S. Raymond;

• Re: Prefer Mercurial instead of git -- from Stephen J. Turnbull;

• Endangered species of the Web: the Link;

• Broken Links;

2014-01-15

• Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion -- from Ian Jackson;

• Bug#727708: init system other points, and conclusion -- from Russ Allbery;

• Another go at Go... failed!;

2014-01-02

• Trust Me (I'm a kettle);

• The Android AppOps vanishing act;