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Private Thoughts on Blue Hat

blue-hat.jpgAs I mentioned, I was out at Microsoft’s Blue Hat conference last week. As it was a private event, speakers’ names are being kept private right now. I’m all in favor of privacy.

Unfortunately, that makes it hard to properly attribute this bit of genius:

1 bottle of beer on the wall, 1 bottle of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 0 bottles of beer on the wall.

0 bottles of beer on the wall, 0 bottles of beer, you take 1 down, pass it around, 4294967295 bottles of beer on the wall.

Michael Howard’s blog post, “A useful primer to Integer overflows/underflows,” reminded me of it, but I had the misfortune of hearing one speaker sing that for another.

[Update: Max Dornseif publicly credits {link to http://blogs.23.nu/disLEXia/stories/9716/ no longer works} Ilja, who points out the coincidence here {link to http://blogs.23.nu/ilja/stories/11478/ no longer works}.]

Blue Hat on privacy-enhanced person by OrchirdArts.

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