Oh the fucking irony

I received this fantastic t-shirt 😌

My old iMac 2010 is returned operative after 12 GB of Ram; it seems reborn!

Pleasantly surprised to see that my country's media group (CBC for Canada) has a few repositories up on GitHub.

cbc vs gcm vs ... for my app?

currently ive get ecb 256 bit already implemented and working well, but i want an extra layer of privacy. if you had to send your ssn or credit card number over a vulnerable network, would you be more comfortable encrypting it with cbc or gcm?

So when I started at my current company, I was the second developer in the company. My job is to handle the embedded development side of our product. The existing code base? Made in fucking China. All of the comments were in Chinese too. They had implemented Huffman compression incorrectly and AES CBC encryption incorrectly as well. It was seriously some of the worst code I've ever seen. I remember one gem I found:

Int header = *(*int) "MGIK";
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Did I just break AES-CBC?