AV vendors still relying on MD5 to identify malware
oh dear. I can see how this happened — in many cases they may not still have samples to derive new sums from :(
(tags: md5 hashing antivirus malware security via:fanf bugs)
Google Photos – Can I get out?
what’s the export policy for Google’s new Photos service? pretty good, it turns out
(tags: google export data google-photos photos archive history storage)
A higher order estimate of the optimum checkpoint interval for restart dumps
tl;dr:
the bottom line is as follows: If the time it takes to create a dump, ? < M/2 then use ?opt = ?(2?M) – ? Otherwise (it takes longer than M/2 to create a dump), just use ?opt = M.
(tags: dumping periodic-tasks scheduling frequency maths optimal interval checkpointing)