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Most VPN Services are Terrible

Short version: I strongly do not recommend using any of these providers. You are, of course, free to use whatever you like. My TL;DR advice: Roll your own and use Algo or Streisand. For messaging & voice, use Signal. For increased anonymity, use Tor for desktop (though recognize that doing so may actually put you at greater risk), and Onion Browser for mobile.

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Create PDF files from Markdown sources in OSX

When [Markdown][markdown] appeared more than 10 years ago, it aimed to make it easier to express ideas in an easy-to-write plain text format. It offers a simple syntax that takes the writer focus away from the formatting, thus giving her time to focus on the actual content.

The market abunds of editors to be used for help with markdown. After a few attempts, I settled to Sublime and its browser preview plugin, which work great for me and have a small memory footprint to accomplish that. To pass the results around to other people, less technical, a markdown file and a bunch of images is not the best approach, so converting it to a more robust format like PDF seems like a much better choice.

[Pandoc][pandoc] is the swiss-army knife of converting documents between various formats. While being able to deal with heavy-weight formats like docx and epub, we will need it for the more lightweight markdown. To be able to generate PDF files, we need LaTeX. On OSX, the s

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	{
	"wednesday": [
	{
	"title": "Keynote - Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World",
	"speaker": "Bruce Schneier",
	"tags": [
	"Security"
	],
	"description": "You are under surveillance right now. Your cell phone provider tracks your location and knows who's with you. Your online and in-store purchasing patterns are recorded, and reveal if you're unemployed, sick, or pregnant. Your e-mails and texts expose your intimate and casual friends. Google knows what you're thinking because it saves your private searches. Facebook can determine your sexual orientation without you ever mentioning it. Corporations use surveillance to manipulate not only the news articles and advertisements we each see, but also the prices were offered. Governments use surveillance to discriminate, censor, chill free speech, and put people in danger worldwide. And both sides share this information with each other or, even worse, lose it to cybercriminals in huge data breaches. Much of

	'''

	HeapWalker - Walking Windows 7 process heaps using pydbg
	Author : Debasish Mandal
	Blog :http://www.debasish.in/
	Twitter : https://twitter.com/debasishm89

	Description : This python script is simplest implementation of Windows HeapWalk() API.
	It uses pydbg and allows user to Walk Through debugee process's heaps on the fly.

	/*
	* Optimized egghunt shellcode for win32 (32 bytes)
	*
	* Credits: http://www.hick.org/~mmiller/shellcode/win32/egghunt_syscall.c
	*
	* Description
	*
	* This code works by abusing an NT syscall (NtAccessCheckAndAuditAlaram)
	* whereby it uses the kernel to validate whether or not a set of addresses
	* is valid, and, if it is, whether or not they match the 8 byte egg we're

	// Just before switching jobs:
	// Add one of these.
	// Preferably into the same commit where you do a large merge.
	//
	// This started as a tweet with a joke of "C++ pro-tip: #define private public",
	// and then it quickly escalated into more and more evil suggestions.
	// I've tried to capture interesting suggestions here.
	//
	// Contributors: @r2d2rigo, @joeldevahl, @msinilo, @_Humus_,
	// @YuriyODonnell, @rygorous, @cmuratori, @mike_acton, @grumpygiant,

	package main

	import (
	"bufio"
	"log"
	"net/rpc"
	"os"
	)

	func main() {

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