You're confusing two different people from the article. The person who checked-in the broken PRNG code was a Google employee named Kasper Lund. The person who found the bug when they were using the class to generate session ids was Mike Malone.
So now that we know it's Kasper Lund who broke this within the V8 engine, is someone going to do a code audit of all checkins he's done within the Dart SDK to make sure he hasn't broken anything related to PRNGs and cryptography?
The article doesn't claim it's new information. The article is about the fact that Google has finally fixed it and the backstory behind the broken code.
No random coder. A guy employed by Google and now working on Dart. One can only hope that he hasn't touched anything else related to PRNGs, cryptography, etc. since he wrote this broken code 7 years ago.
Yeah, seems rather convenient that the part in the Hackaday title and in the article that mentions that this was in Google's V8 engine was left out.
Plus I couldn't help but laugh at the comment to the commit that put in this shitty PRNG:
This is great, I had talked to Ivan once about it before. It's good that we avoid system random for a few reasons, including thread safety / lock holding / etc.
I know nothing of the implementation though, I would have gone with mersenne twister since it is what everyone else uses (python, ruby, etc)
Sounds like some real quality code reviewing there, bub. *golf clap*
Is it on CNN? Fox News? MSNBC? The BBC? Any national or international news station or website? If not, the GP AC is correct. Nothing will come of this. The average person won't ever hear about this.
Because Ubuntu on TVs (remember back when that was gonna be on all sorts of TVs back in 2013?), tablets and phones have been wildly successful. *rolls eyes*
How is it tangent? If he can't even come up with his own ideas even after talking to his advisors than thesis work is probably beyond his level. And again, his very questions are what he should be answering himself with his own research. That's the whole point behind a grad thesis to begin with.
No, the submitter is just asking for ideas. 99% of the work is the implementation, and the submitter is not asking for any help with that.
So then why don't they work that out with their thesis advisor? That's the entire reason you have one.
Secondly, no, 99% of the work in a thesis is not implementation unless you're getting a degree from a shit school and you have a rubber-stamp committee. The vast majority of your thesis is in the original research you did and writing down your findings from that research. The implementation is just a prototype to show off a working example of your ideas.
And yet basing something on number of licenses sold is stil far better than counting a person watching The Hobbit as a user because the SFX was rendered on an Ubuntu computer.
And yet Windows 10 still has vastly more users than those of Ubuntu. And Microsoft doesn't have to count people connecting to a Windows server or people watching a movie that may have been edited on a Windows machine as users to reach their numbers.
What he was really saying is that of the roughly 20 Billion devices on earth capable of running an operating system, Ubuntu is on 5% of them.
Bullshit, the person wasn't talking about 1 billion device but users:
How many "users" of Ubuntu are there ultimately? I bet there are over a billion people today, using Ubuntu -- both directly and indirectly. Without a doubt, there are over a billion people on the planet benefiting from the services, security, and availability of Ubuntu.
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Why would you bother to think they are AI-controlled bots? Someone probably just wrote a script to make 4 million accounts with pre-populated data.
Yeah, might as well have had no code review at all.
And to clarify, my original post was about the Google employee who broke V8's random number generator.
You're confusing two different people from the article. The person who checked-in the broken PRNG code was a Google employee named Kasper Lund. The person who found the bug when they were using the class to generate session ids was Mike Malone.
So now that we know it's Kasper Lund who broke this within the V8 engine, is someone going to do a code audit of all checkins he's done within the Dart SDK to make sure he hasn't broken anything related to PRNGs and cryptography?
The article doesn't claim it's new information. The article is about the fact that Google has finally fixed it and the backstory behind the broken code.
And how many of the Javascript monkeys actually understand functional programming? A handful?
No random coder. A guy employed by Google and now working on Dart. One can only hope that he hasn't touched anything else related to PRNGs, cryptography, etc. since he wrote this broken code 7 years ago.
Yeah, seems rather convenient that the part in the Hackaday title and in the article that mentions that this was in Google's V8 engine was left out.
Plus I couldn't help but laugh at the comment to the commit that put in this shitty PRNG:
This is great, I had talked to Ivan once about it before. It's good that we avoid system random for a few reasons, including thread safety / lock holding / etc.
I know nothing of the implementation though, I would have gone with mersenne twister since it is what everyone else uses (python, ruby, etc)
Sounds like some real quality code reviewing there, bub. *golf clap*
Plus libraries and hospitals aren't selling private info to advertisers.
Pumping fluids down into the will, usually the normal recourse, just isn't working, said [copmany spokesperson Anne] Silva.
Great editing as always, timmay.
You provide consumers value in order to justify purchasing. Otherwise they deserve to go out of business. Companies aren't owed our money.
Is it on CNN? Fox News? MSNBC? The BBC? Any national or international news station or website? If not, the GP AC is correct. Nothing will come of this. The average person won't ever hear about this.
Cool story. Now why would the average TSA agent know or care? Not everyone lives in your nerd bubble.
Because Ubuntu on TVs (remember back when that was gonna be on all sorts of TVs back in 2013?), tablets and phones have been wildly successful. *rolls eyes*
How is it tangent? If he can't even come up with his own ideas even after talking to his advisors than thesis work is probably beyond his level. And again, his very questions are what he should be answering himself with his own research. That's the whole point behind a grad thesis to begin with.
Hopefully his work will carry over how on Stack Overflow they don't fall for these "Do my homework" questions.
Then you went to a diploma mill not a real university.
No, the submitter is just asking for ideas. 99% of the work is the implementation, and the submitter is not asking for any help with that.
So then why don't they work that out with their thesis advisor? That's the entire reason you have one.
Secondly, no, 99% of the work in a thesis is not implementation unless you're getting a degree from a shit school and you have a rubber-stamp committee. The vast majority of your thesis is in the original research you did and writing down your findings from that research. The implementation is just a prototype to show off a working example of your ideas.
Not true! Windows Phone beat Sailfish and BB10. Not that that is anything to brag about.
Isn't the whole point of thesis work that you find some novel solution to a problem through your own research not enlisting others to do it for you?
And yet basing something on number of licenses sold is stil far better than counting a person watching The Hobbit as a user because the SFX was rendered on an Ubuntu computer.
And yet Windows 10 still has vastly more users than those of Ubuntu. And Microsoft doesn't have to count people connecting to a Windows server or people watching a movie that may have been edited on a Windows machine as users to reach their numbers.
What he was really saying is that of the roughly 20 Billion devices on earth capable of running an operating system, Ubuntu is on 5% of them.
Bullshit, the person wasn't talking about 1 billion device but users:
How many "users" of Ubuntu are there ultimately? I bet there are over a billion people today, using Ubuntu -- both directly and indirectly. Without a doubt, there are over a billion people on the planet benefiting from the services, security, and availability of Ubuntu.
Which of those do you think is bigger and/ or more important?
Mobile by far. It's why Apple makes 10s of billions of dollars a year selling iPhones while Canonical still hasn't show it's even profitable.