iDevices is looking for a Software contractor to work with us for 3-4 weeks.
Responsibilities:
- This person will be writing test scripts for the SDK.
- Must be comfortable in either Mac OS X or FreeBSD environment.
- The test cases are documented and need to be coded.
Requirements:
- 5 years experience with C
- Familiarity with Embedded/Firmware programming, UDP, sockets and networking;
- Experience with unit and functional test harnesses
iDevices | San Francisco, CA / Avon, CT | Backend engineer | Full-time | Onsite
iDevices is looking for a Backend Systems Engineer, preferably with Erlang experience, to be involved in all aspects of the company's infrastructure and operations. This person will be working on server-side architecture, coding and troubleshooting, and maintaining security of backend servers.
Responsibilities:
• Maintaining the backend modules;
• Participating in architecting new capabilities;
• Implementing new capabilities;
• Design and maintenance of performance instrumenting subsystems;
• Maintaining security of backend servers;
• Design and maintenance of provisioning procedures.
Requirements:
• BS/MS in Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
• 5+ years relevant experience
• Preferably Erlang experience, but quick learners are encouraged to apply
• Experience with high performance switching frameworks
• Experience with UDP messaging
• Extensive knowledge of Linux and FreeBSD
• Knowledge of Cryptography stacks
Binney is suggesting the proper approach - safe manual customizations that require manual cryptanalyzis, which is not scalable.
If only few % of users start to roll out their own custom crypto, not stronger than ROT-13, that would completely overwhelm the interception industry, including the state-level players. There is no automated tool that can cryptanalyze in real time someone's naive but unique idea what crypto should be.
In other words, this is shifting the paradigm where few high priests of the open source crypto design few key components for billions to use, and cryptanalysis has to deal with only few problems which are eventually automated, to the problem where tens of thousands of brains construct their own weird crypto which has to be manually cryptanalysed. Cryptanalyzers would need to employ millions to achieve this.
Feel free to do this on top of the blessed crypto stacks.
Most Americans are conditioned to defer to cops and cower when interacting with cops. This is the part of idolatry of uniformed men (aka 'thugs with guns') in the USA. For them 'common sense' means kneeling whenever a cop lays an eye on you.
In much of the rest of the world cops are treated as government employees, paid to risk their lives in confrontational situations (as they don't have many other skills, that is the main reason they are paid for in the first place.) It is not uncommon for a citizen to confront a policeman and request him/her to be civil. You don't get beaten or shot for that.