Jeff Ferland

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"Lunch" vs. "dinner" vs. "supper" — times and meanings?

meaning word-choice nouns dialects asked Apr 24, 2011 at 15:05

english.stackexchange.com

60 votes

What's the Impact of the CloudFlare Reverse Proxy Bug? ("#CloudBleed")

known-vulnerabilities incident-response threat-mitigation threat-modeling incident-analysis asked Feb 24, 2017 at 3:18

security.stackexchange.com

59 votes

Why is AES resistant to known-plaintext attacks?

aes block-cipher known-plaintext-attack asked Dec 20, 2011 at 20:03

crypto.stackexchange.com

47 votes

"Real" Salt and "Fake" Salt

cryptography passwords hash password-management salt asked Aug 9, 2011 at 13:32

security.stackexchange.com

24 votes

Good (preferably free) resource for CISSP practice questions

certification cissp professional-education asked Jan 25, 2011 at 12:17

security.stackexchange.com

23 votes

AMD64 -- nopw assembly instruction?

c gcc assembly x86 machine-code asked Jan 25, 2011 at 20:16

stackoverflow.com

20 votes

Can we get a better wording for protected questions?

feature-request status-completed wording protected-questions association-bonus asked Apr 2, 2013 at 17:42

meta.stackexchange.com

17 votes

How to validate Jinja syntax without variable interpolation

validation syntax jinja2 pre-commit-hook asked Jun 21, 2016 at 8:22

stackoverflow.com

14 votes

Link to a specific inode

linux inode lsof asked Jul 24, 2009 at 15:51

serverfault.com

14 votes

Is a predictable MAC address a risk?

network random entropy dhcp asked Oct 26, 2012 at 6:34

security.stackexchange.com

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Memcache(d) vs. Varnish for speeding up 3 tier web architecture

stackoverflow.com

144

Something is burning in the server room; how can I quickly identify what it is?

serverfault.com

137

Does disabling right click have any impact on security?

security.stackexchange.com

122

Why not allow spaces in a password?

security.stackexchange.com

111

Regular expression: zero or more occurrences of optional character /

stackoverflow.com

108

How can I revert multiple Git commits?

stackoverflow.com

106

Is sending passwords through cellphone text messages secure?

security.stackexchange.com

105

Are "man in the middle" attacks extremely rare?

security.stackexchange.com

What would one need to do in order to hijack a satellite?

security.stackexchange.com

Mysterious visitor to hidden PHP page

serverfault.com

Technology that can survive a "Rubber-Hose attack"

security.stackexchange.com

What is difference between SQLite and SQL

stackoverflow.com

How can I see the contents of the mail whose ID I get from mailq command?

serverfault.com

Can you have more than one ~/.ssh/config file?

serverfault.com

Tell bots apart from human visitors for stats?

stackoverflow.com

How to remove screws with stripped heads?

diy.stackexchange.com

PBKDF2 usage will slow REST API down?

security.stackexchange.com

Show history of a file?

stackoverflow.com

Delete a iptables chain with its all rules

serverfault.com

Technologies that allow YouTube scale distribution?

serverfault.com

What's the Impact of the CloudFlare Reverse Proxy Bug? ("#CloudBleed")

security.stackexchange.com

How to trace a (mobile) phone?

security.stackexchange.com

How do very big companies manage their most important passwords / keys?

security.stackexchange.com

What is the purpose of a fuzzer?

security.stackexchange.com

Why does Amazon release private keys instead of public keys?

serverfault.com

Is there a way to avoid SSH typing delay?

serverfault.com

Why bracket a single letter in a grep regex?

serverfault.com

Omitting the first line from any Linux command output

stackoverflow.com

how to merge 2 big files

stackoverflow.com

How can I list my open ports on Debian?

serverfault.com