What Wallaroo Labs is Reading (September 4, 2018)

Happy September! Look forward to a new Wallaroo release later this month with some new resiliency features, additional sources, sinks, and an API for you to “build your own” integrations.
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“This podcast from Andreessen Horowitz is ostensibly about ‘category creation’, but it covers a wide range of topics related to startup sales and marketing.” via @casio_juarez
“A tweet about this hit my circle this week, but the arguments it makes go back a long time. The absurd 2D patterns chosen for the illustrations are damn funny” Same Stats, Different Graphs: Generating Datasets with Varied Appearance and Identical Statistics through Simulated Annealing via @slfritchie
“There’s some ouch in this…” Spectre et al. mitigation performance impact numbers via @SeanTAllen
“Slides for Yaroslav’s future presentation on lessons learned using Kafka on Call of Duty” via @enilsen16
“ATtention Spanned: Comprehensive Vulnerability Analysis of
AT Commands Within the Android Ecosystem.” From the Abstract: “… In this work, we systematically retrieved and extracted 3,500 AT commands from over 2,000 Android smartphone firmware images across 11 vendors. We methodically tested our corpus of AT commands against eight Android devices from four different vendors through their USB interface and characterize the powerful functionality exposed, including the ability to rewrite device firmware, bypass Android security mechanisms, exfiltrate sensitive device information, perform screen unlocks, and inject touch events solely through the use of AT commands. …’ via @slfritchie
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