Author Archives: stemcel
Security Review: Smashing abstract—more on Lab 2
While experimenting with Lab 2 I began discovering real vulnerabilities and decided to make a security review out of it. I spent a couple days experimenting and taking notes only to find that I’d been beaten to the punch yesterday. I nearly despaired at several days’ work gone for naught, but after carefully reading both of the posts I believe that I still have something to contribute. My discussion will focus a bit more on the security of abstract and provide other additional details. Continue reading
Absent student forfeits raffle
Here at the University of Washington CSE Department we often have events called Tech Talks, where guest companies come in and give a demonstration of their technologies and expertise. Last night we had a tech talk given by Palantir Technologies, a very promising-looking company that aims to transform the way people work with large data sets by making it easier to discover and visualizing trends and connections in the ever-accumulating mountains of data generated by our modern technological culture. And at the end of the evening they planned to raffle off an iPod touch. Continue reading