Dan Learns Stuff

Three years ago in July, I completed Dan Boneh's online cryptography course with distinction through Coursera's Cryptography 1 .  Si...

It turns out that using the convenience function ENCRYPT$ENCRYPT_ONE_RECORD on OpenVMS for AES CBC does something squirrelly.  It will not l...

Above is Dan Kaminsky's keynote at the inaugural DEF CON China.  It was nominally about Spectre and Meltdown, and I thought it was im...

Durin g my second Postman meetup as part of the Las Vegas Test Automation group, we were able to cover some of the more advanced features...

In Behat, I added a singleton to our contexts to store things across scenarios, but I ran into trouble when trying to keep separation betwee...

I gave a talk on using Postman while testing. We covered the UI, creating a collection, working with environment variables, and chaining te...

I finished reading  @tarah's  book  Women in Tech . What better way to celebrate its paperback release than with a quick review. Five ...

I’m a member of an online community of testers called uTest  (the practitioner-facing side of Applause ).  The company hosts a social netwo...

Compare and Contrast: Tesla 's response to researchers:   http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-how-tesla-will-win-the-coming-hacking...

Of all the things to get peeved about, you wouldn't think commercials would be one of them.  In spite of avoiding commercials by cutting...

Coming into my fifth year of Software Testing, I began to rethink it as a discipline. The current debate is between traditional methods of ...