Collaborate Disseminate
Sonos’s customer support team tried to make grumpy customers happier by telling them their emails would take a little longer than normal to answer.
But boy oh boy, they only made things worse.
Continue reading Sonos goofs again – this time revealing customers’ email addresses in Cc: blunder
An NHS health board has found itself in the awkward position of apologising to 37 HIV patients, after accidentally disclosing their identities.
Continue reading NHS service accidentally reveals identities of HIV patients in email blunder
The Dutch Data Protection Authority has confessed to making the same kind of mistake that many others have made before – sending out an email with a long list of email addresses listed for all to see in the Cc: rather than hidden away via the Bcc… Continue reading Data protection authority reports itself to itself after data breach
Analysts discover malicious code embedded in tweeted images. Continue reading Hidden Code in Memes Instruct Malware via Twitter
SmugMug, the current owners of the photo-sharing platform Flickr, are changing the platform’s model, but says it will maintain its support for Creative Commons. Not every company that has relied on the license in the past can say that. Continue reading The Creative Commons Avoid a Tragedy on Flickr
If there’s one thing C is known and (in)famous for, it’s the ease of shooting yourself in the foot with it. And there’s indeed no denying that the freedom C offers comes with the price of making it our own responsibility to tame and keep the language under control. On the bright side, since the language’s flaws are so well known, we have a wide selection of tools available that help us to eliminate the most common problems and blunders that could come back to bite us further down the road. The catch is, we have to really want it …read more
Continue reading Warnings Are Your Friend – A Code Quality Primer
But at least now you know how to get in touch with people who might have an extra ticket… Continue reading Football team drops the privacy ball with email Cc blunder
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has been fined £200,000 for revealing identities of abuse victims in a mass email.
Continue reading £200,000 fine for exposing possible child abuse victims in classic Cc/Bcc email blunder
Shared libraries are our best friends to extend the functionality of C programs without reinventing the wheel. They offer a collection of exported functions, variables, and other symbols that we can use inside our own program as if the content of the shared library was a direct part of our code. The usual way to use such libraries is to simply link against them at compile time, and let the linker resolve all external symbols and make sure everything is in place when creating our executable file. Whenever we then run our executable, the loader, a part of the operating …read more
Continue reading It’s All In The Libs – Building A Plugin System Using Dynamic Loading
In the first part of this series, we covered the basics of pointers in C, and went on to more complex arrangements and pointer arithmetic in the second part. Both times, we focused solely on pointers representing data in memory.
But data isn’t the only thing residing in memory. All the program code is accessible through either the RAM or some other executable type of memory, giving each function a specific address inside that memory as entry point. Once again, pointers are simply memory addresses, and to fully utilize this similarity, C provides the concept of function pointers. Function pointers …read more
Continue reading Directly Executing Chunks of Memory: Function Pointers In C