vaguity

Hacks/Hackers NYC: Encryption and Operational Security for Journalists (2013-09-16)

Jennifer Valentino, Wall Street Journal (@jenvalentino)

These notes come straight from Jennifer's presentation; slides at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2HGtAJEbG8PdzVPdHcwekI2V2M/edit

Background

• NSA covers 75% of internet traffic; not all is collected or sifted
• Big issues with suveillance are not the NSA but leak investigations, subpoenas, accidental disclosure and chilling effects on sources

dotsara

Open the branch you're working on in a browser (e.g. for follow-up pull requests, etc.). Got this one from Tom C. during a pairing session. It is awesome.

function open_branch { open http://[github url]/username/`basename \`pwd\``/tree/
$(git symbolic-ref head| sed -e 's/.*\///g'); }

(This lives in my ~/.bash_profile)

hubgit

Anonymising PDFs

PDF metadata

Metadata in PDF files can be stored in at least two places:

• the Info Dictionary, a limited set of key/value pairs
• XMP packets, which contain RDF statements expressed as XML

PDF files

meyerweb

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE keyboard PUBLIC "" "file://localhost/System/Library/DTDs/KeyboardLayout.dtd">
<!--Last edited by Ukelele version 2.1.10 on 2012-07-12 at 12:43 (EDT)-->
<!-- 
An OS X US keyboard layout file with the following customizations:

* Option-.   ONE DOT LEADER ( ․ )
* Option-h   UPWARDS WHITE ARROW ( ⇧ )
* Option-j   UP ARROWHEAD ( ⌃ )
* Option-k   OPTION KEY ( ⌥ )

gmom-validator-pattern

describe('Tiff problem', function() {
      it('goes a little something like this', function() {
        var NS = {};
        
        var Bing = function(myFoo) {
          this.foo = myFoo;
        };

        Bing.prototype = {
            getFoo: function() {

jeremyjbowers

Red Velvet Cake

Cake

Ingredients

From original recipe

esmooov

Until last night I lived in fear of tildes, carats, resets and reverts in Git. I cargo culted, I destroyed, I laid waste the tidy indicies, branches and trees Git so diligently tried to maintain. Then Zach Holman gave a talk at Paperless Post. It was about Git secrets. He didn't directly cover these topics but he gave an example that made me realize it was time to learn.

A better undo

Generally, when I push out bad code, I panic, hit git reset --hard HEAD^, push and clean up the pieces later. I don't even really know what most of that means. Notational Velocity seems to be fond of it ... in that I just keep copying it from Notational Velocity and pasting it. Turns out, this is dumb. I've irreversibly lost the faulty changes I made. I'll probably even make the same mistakes again. It's like torching your house to get rid of some mice.

Enter Holman. He suggests a better default undo. git reset --soft HEAD^. Says it stag

maxfenton

@import "badges/*.png";

$badges-sprite-dimensions: true;

// @include all-badges-sprites

$badges: clean-start code--viewer color drupal-ui-patterns; // and the rest of the relevant list items

.badges {
	@include horizontal-list;

nzakas

//BSD Licensed

var YourGlobal = {
    namespace: function(ns){
        var parts = ns.split("."),
            object = this,
            i, len;
        
        for (i=0, len=parts.length; i < len; i++) {
            if (!object[parts[i]]) {

bergantine

// example of string interpolation in a mixin
// matches a particular color and image together following a naming scheme for the images

$green: #7bd939;
$orange: #de712c;

@mixin sectionhead($color, $name) {
    .section-head {
        background-color: $color;
        background-image: url('../../images/masthead-' + $name + '.jpg');