sjtipton

LinkedIn's Intro - an Intro to Insecurity Heaven for Attackers?

Continuing on the discussion from this week in regards to email security, I think it would be a good opportunity to discuss the objectives behind LinkedIn's new email service, Intro. The service has raised an eyebrow of many in the technological blogosphere in the past month. Richard Bejtlich, chief research officer at Mandiant, cannot come to a logical realization that "someone thought this was a good idea." (Perlroth, 2013) Describing his reaction as "flabbergasted," Perlroth reveals what security researchers are warning as "a dream come true for hackers or intelligence agencies" in regards to the professional network's new mobile app.

So what is Intro? Perlroth describes in the New York Times Technology article that this new mobile app is "an e-mail plug-in for iOS users that pulls LinkedIn profile information into e-mails so that the sender’s job title appears front-and-center in e-mails on a user’s iPhone or iPad." While some describe t

kunalmodi

module RetryableTyphoeus
	require 'typhoeus'
	
	include Typhoeus
	
	DEFAULT_RETRIES = 1
	
	class Request < Typhoeus::Request
		def original_on_complete=(proc)
			@original_on_complete = proc

metaskills

def save_and_open_page
  dir = "#{Rails.root}/tmp/cache/capybara"
  file = "#{dir}/#{Time.now.strftime('%Y-%m-%d-%H-%M-%S')}.png"
  FileUtils.mkdir_p dir
  page.driver.render file
  wait_until { File.exists?(file) }
  system "open #{file}"
end

nebiros

group :production do
  gem "unicorn"
end

bds

git push origin master && git push heroku master && newrelic deployments

coreyhaines

--colour
-I app

metaskills

# If you are not on a Mac and do not want the URL 
# copied to the clipboard, remove the pbcopy command.

function gitio () {
  local url=$(curl -s -i http://git.io -F "url=$1" | grep "Location: " | cut -d" " -f2 | tr "" "\n")
  echo "$url" | pbcopy
  echo $url
}

netmute

Game of Life

An implementation of Conway's Game of Life in 140 characters of Ruby.

Author

Created by Simon Ernst (@sier).

tsabat

Prereq:

apt-get install zsh
apt-get install git-core

Getting zsh to work in ubuntu is weird, since sh does not understand the source command. So, you do this to install zsh

wget https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/raw/master/tools/install.sh -O - | zsh

nz

# app/models/post.rb

class Post
  
  searchable :auto_index => false, :auto_remove => false do
    text :title
    text :body
  end
  
  after_commit   :resque_solr_update, :if => :persisted?