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Alex Gaynor

@alex_gaynor@robot.villas

Alex Gaynor's writing on software security, memory safety, cryptography, programming, open source, and technology policy.

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  • Security wish list for 2019 #Security #Technology #OpenSource

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    Jan 6, 2019

  • Optimize for Auditability #Security #Software #Auditability

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    Dec 13, 2018

  • The worst truism in information security #InfoSec #Security #Truisms

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    Jul 20, 2018

  • Lessons learned at USDS #Software #Security #OpenSource

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    Mar 20, 2018

  • Known unknowns - zero-days in the wild #CyberSecurity #ZeroDay #Vulnerability

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    Feb 20, 2018

  • The mysterious case of (deny dynamic-code-generation) #SoftwareSecurity #Programming #Tech

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    Jan 29, 2018

  • A vulnerability by any other name #Security #Software #Vulnerability

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    Nov 20, 2017

  • Response to Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein's remarks on Encryption #Security #Encryption #Policy

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    Oct 13, 2017

  • Surviving Apache Struts CVE-2017-5638 #Security #Software #OpenSource

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    Sep 18, 2017

  • Categorizing Security Engineering Work #Security #Engineering #Software

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    Sep 11, 2017

  • Forward secrecy is the most important thing #Security #Cryptography #OpenSource

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    Apr 26, 2017

  • Introduction to Certificate Transparency for Server Operators #Security #Web #OpenSource

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    Apr 17, 2017

  • A year of tracking my HTTP requests #Privacy #Security #HTTP

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    Mar 26, 2017

  • SHA1 and Richard Feynman #Security #Cryptography #OpenSource

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    Feb 26, 2017

  • Looking for work #OpenSource #Software #Career

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    Dec 23, 2016

  • OSS-Fuzz initial impressions #OpenSource #Security #Fuzzing

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    Dec 3, 2016

  • Intro to threat modeling #Security #ThreatModeling #SoftwareDevelopment

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    Jul 29, 2016

  • Anatomy of a Crypto Vulnerability #Crypto #Security #Vulnerability

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    Mar 14, 2016

  • Announcing letsencrypt-aws #Security #OpenSource #Automation

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    Jan 20, 2016

  • Don't have environments #Software #Security #Programming

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    Jan 19, 2016

  • Shrinking your code review #SoftwareEngineering #CodeReview #Programming

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    Dec 29, 2015

  • 5 critically important security projects #Security #OpenSource #Programming

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    Nov 28, 2015

  • Telemetry for Open Source #OpenSource #Security #Telemetry

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    Sep 3, 2015

  • Rust: A modern programming environment #RustLang #Programming #OpenSource

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    Jul 20, 2015

  • Tips for Improving Your Company's Security #Security #Software #Business

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    Jun 8, 2015

  • Tips for Scaling Web Apps #WebDev #Scalability #Programming

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    May 27, 2015

  • Introduction to Fuzzing in Python with AFL #Fuzzing #Python #Security

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    Apr 13, 2015

  • Red Hat and the Open Source Community #OpenSource #Community #Tech

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    Mar 30, 2015

  • DevOps vs. Platform Engineering #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #SoftwareDevelopment

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    Mar 6, 2015

  • Software Of the People, By the People, For the People #Software #OpenSource #Community

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    Feb 3, 2015

  • The State of the News and TLS: Part II #Security #TLS #OpenSource

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    Dec 30, 2014

  • The West Wing Revisited: Let Bartlet Be Bartlet #TV #Commentary #Politics

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    Dec 21, 2014

  • The State of the News and TLS #Security #TLS #OpenSource

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    Nov 12, 2014

  • I Hope Twitter Goes Away #SocialMedia #Tech #OpenSource

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    Oct 30, 2014

  • My Ideal Development Environment #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming #Tech

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    Oct 27, 2014

  • The West Wing Revisited: Six Meetings Before Lunch #TV #Commentary #Analysis

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    Oct 19, 2014

  • The West Wing Revisited: The White House Pro-Am #TV #Commentary #PopCulture

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    Oct 18, 2014

  • The West Wing Revisited: 20 Hours in L.A. #Television #Media #Analysis

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    Oct 17, 2014

  • The West Wing Revisited: Celestial Navigation #Tech #Security #OpenSource

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    Oct 16, 2014

  • The West Wing Revisited: Take this Sabbath Day #TV #WestWing #Analysis

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