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C++17 Compiler Bug Hunt: Very First Results (12 bugs reported, 3 already fixed)

February 20, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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Hey, if all I have is lemons – I have no choice but to make lemonade out of them!

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if reproducible serious bugs are ignored for many months, it indicates one of three possibilities

Filed under: On.ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesOtherReports

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Bot Fighting 104. Known Bots and Environment Scans.

February 13, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

MOGdev facing a choice of 'Fair Games' vs 'Privacy'

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Most of multi-million-dollar games have a special team dealing specifically with public and semi-private bots.

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it might help to ensure that whatever-information-you-collect, DOES NOT leave the player’s box

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. IV-VIOn.SecurityFraud Prevention

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7 DevOps Mistakes that should be avoided

February 9, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

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I used to think I was doing DevOps because I was using Jenkins and because development and operations were working together. How naive

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Your job is done when you meet your customer’s expectations after delivery. 

Filed under: On.DevelopmentDevelopment Processes

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Bot Fighting 203: (Re)Actors and Short Stacks

February 6, 2018 by “No Bugs” Bunny

Short-Stacking Hacker

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there will be almost-zero information available via reading the stack frames.

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If your game is NOT really time-critical – we can go all the way to the full-scale Tor-like network out of obfuscation-only (Re)Actors

Filed under: Book: D&D of MOGs1st beta of Vol. VII-IXOn.SecurityFraud Prevention

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