This is fascinating, but at the same time I got to ask. Wouldn't it easier for a person as experienced as Tavis Ormandy to simply write a console version of a spreadsheet software from scratch using a modern stack?
There are medical bodies staffed by professionals that study these matters, and the states (should) base their decisions on what their findings are. To me the problems starts when decision makers and then the general population start trusting fringe conclusions and trying to interpret medical data when they have no training to do so.
I don't really think it pays off to make such distinction between virus and trojan.
`Trojan` is often used to refer to malware that provides a backdoor into your system, and if someone gets to run code on your machine it isn't your machine anymore.
afaik one of the main motivations that led to start osquery project was precisely to have a cross platform tool to allow collecting much needed information from all your hosts in an enterprise setting
I have a very common name and signed up for gmail address right at the start. I now receive tons of spam because there are people who sign up to the weirdest things with my gmail handle.
BRAFWTNEGASSAY would make sense to the owner of the file or someone working in that particular project. Consider it a project name, or a keyword that is relevant in that particular context.
If you're working with files from different sources with multiple contributors this sort of approach works brilliantly.
You could have named it differently:
2013-06-26_KUTKLOON7_Plasmid-Cellline-100-1MutantFrac
Creation date can sometimes be lost if you copy/move the file between different mediums
I completely agree with you, I find this "disable antivirus" to be such a bad advice!
Yes, it may work for tech savvy or security aware person. If you know what you're doing you're much less likely to get into problems.
It won't work for general public though.
And the argument being made that "for example, see bugs in AV products listed in Google's Project Zero. These bugs indicate that not only do these products open many attack vectors" could be made for any piece of software your install.
There is no way to avoid that in the polish language, as someone else pointed out already. Nouns and sometimes even verbs or adjectives have gender, and you need to use either the male form or female form according to the situation