Reading the title
"This looks like a Tom Scott video"
I do enjoy these videos
I want full documentaries hosted by Tom Scott.
It doesn't even matter what they're about.
[QUOTE=Ltp0wer;49606996]I want full documentaries hosted by Tom Scott.
It doesn't even matter what they're about.[/QUOTE]
His longer speculative talks are all pretty interesting. I can see why Computerphile have him on. He has a certain charisma a lot of the other people don't and talks about every topic he can rather than just his expert domain.
Stuff like this surprises me so much. I mean, the weird, abstract exploits like that Arabic string that was making the rounds on Twitter a while ago, I get that. It's a weird, hard-to-imagine scenario with strange, unexpected results.. But when you're implementing the ability for the browser to just arbitrarily add entries to your history, it blows my mind that the people working on this feature never thought "hey, what if someone does this a million times? shouldn't we maybe, i don't know, prevent that?". It's weird seeing such simple oversights lead to potentially serious bugs in major products like Chrome and Safari.
[editline]26th January 2016[/editline]
I also think, on another note, that people like Tom Scott who provide laymen's explanations of security issues are really important. As someone who is relatively technical myself, I enjoy the videos just because it's an entertaining way of getting a summary of technical topics. But for a complete laymen, it's great to have a simple explanation of weird techno-magic made available to you, to demystify the weird malfunctions people experience and read about every day in a way that makes them seem like common sense. Even somebody who doesn't know anything about computers could probably watch this video and go "huh, can't believe they didn't think of that".
went ahead and tried out the crashchrome website
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Neat.
[QUOTE=srobins;49608007]Stuff like this surprises me so much. I mean, the weird, abstract exploits like that Arabic string that was making the rounds on Twitter a while ago, I get that. It's a weird, hard-to-imagine scenario with strange, unexpected results.. But when you're implementing the ability for the browser to just arbitrarily add entries to your history, it blows my mind that the people working on this feature never thought "hey, what if someone does this a million times? shouldn't we maybe, i don't know, prevent that?". It's weird seeing such simple oversights lead to potentially serious bugs in major products like Chrome and Safari.
[editline]26th January 2016[/editline]
I also think, on another note, that people like Tom Scott who provide laymen's explanations of security issues are really important. As someone who is relatively technical myself, I enjoy the videos just because it's an entertaining way of getting a summary of technical topics. But for a complete laymen, it's great to have a simple explanation of weird techno-magic made available to you, to demystify the weird malfunctions people experience and read about every day in a way that makes them seem like common sense. Even somebody who doesn't know anything about computers could probably watch this video and go "huh, can't believe they didn't think of that".[/QUOTE]
Tom Scott is hands down my favorite YouTuber, for exactly the reasons your edit explains.
He's great at giving you both a technical overview and a layman's overview. My friends and I watch his videos fairly regularly - I'm a computer science graduate, one friend is a psychology major, and the other is a math/physics double-major. So I get the technical computer bits, the math major gets the mathematics behind the computer bits, and the psychology major gets the layman's explanation.
Tom Scott's accessibility across the board makes him a great person to watch informative videos by.
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