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The Cyber Security Club at Virginia Tech is a student organization in Computer Engineering and Computer Science at Virginia Tech.

Blacksburg, VA
Joined March 2011
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New hummingbird feeder presented a great opportunity to get some @ChronosCameras footage. Don't miss the "jet assisted take off" in the second clip.
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Want to freak yourself out? I'm gonna show just how much of your information the likes of Facebook and Google store about you without you even realising it
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The prize of the "most enlightening Wikipedia GIF so far" is given to the Dipole Antenna: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/F…
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The app used to harvest facebook data for Cambridge Analytica also harvested it from the *friends* of users that authorised it. I was talking about how dangerous this was back in 2010. It's super common, almost nobody turns off the controls which allow it.
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Since almost nobody uses cryptocurrency for payments yet, they get speculated on. In that setting, the existence of a large and technically-uninformed commmunity becomes the main determinant of value.
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Almost everything that is supposedly going to get solved with blockchain can be solved with some kind of version control hosted on a central server.
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* except for the drugs, the scams, the tax evasion, and payment-blockade-circumvention. I acknowledge that those are valid use case scenarios for bitcoin
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The best pull request in 2017
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"Latency Numbers Every Programmer Should Know" It is hard for humans to get the picture until you translate it to "human numbers":
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Got this working finally. With some more tuning, it should hold in any orientation. I'm thinking about making a clock with levitating arms
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Air Force linguist is not competent at high tech spying. Anonymous tip pages better update significantly -- this is what you're dealing with nitter.cf/josephfcox/status/8730…
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Proper machine tool engineering in action: – at Pearl District, Portland
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Encrypted traffic has a fingerprint—enough to distinguish among 200 Netflix vids with 99.5% accuracy in < 2.5 mins. mjkranch.com/docs/CODASPY17_…
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Demonstration of an oscillating square hole drill bit
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Designing a credit card emulator card | by @_conorpp conorpp.com//designing-a-cre…
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Exclusive, breaking: Who is Anna-Senpai, the Mirai Worm Author? krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/…
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