Pizza Slow, Twitter post from May 27, 2015, 603392277197623297

Https://t.co/0H0UBgIeUy Schneier jumps over his own cautions that people evaluate risk poorly to skate in another empty pool of shame.

Race Condition Exploit in Starbucks Gift Cards - Schneier on SecurityA researcher was able to steal money from Starbucks by exploiting a race condition in its gift card value-transfer protocol. Basically, by initiating two identical web transfers at once, he was able to trick the system into recording them both. Normally, you could take a $5 gift card and move that money to another $5 gift card, leaving you with an empty gift card and a $10 gift card. He was able to duplicate the transfer, giving him an empty gift card and a $15 gift card. Race-condition attacks are unreliable and it took him a bunch of tries to get it right, but there’s no reason to believe that he couldn’t have kept doing this forever...Schneier on Security

Figure 1. Link preview of https://t.co/0H0UBgIeUy, "Race Condition Exploit in Starbucks Gift Cards - Schneier on Security".

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Like lots of people I suppose, I think of who I was and what I posted more than a year or two ago to be, on average, a little cringe. More than five years old? A little embarassing. Ten or more years old? A little shameful. On average, of course. So it goes.

In spite of all that, or in order to grow, I've horded my embarassments from various platforms over the years and present them here for your avoidance. This is not a place of honor, and so on.

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2015	–	74	889	554	–	–	11	2	–	–	1530
2016	–	55	12	389	1	–	3	–	–	–	460
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2025	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	222	154	22	400
2026	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	99	80	7	187
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