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Police CyberAlarm Uses Alarming Cryptography
Today we’re going to be talking about this code, shared on Twitter by Paul Moore. It’s worth noting that this code snippet was after Paul attempted to alert them to security issues with…
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 1,615 posts.
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Tailscale ate my network (and I love it)
No matter where you go, there you are If you're like me, you travel occasionally. Access to your office from home, or from an airport loun...
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SMS phishing is way too easy
Impersonating someone in SMS texts is way too easy, we must change this to prevent social engineering fraud.
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AirPlay and Touch Bar = Network Disaster
Mnpn's website and blog containing projects and other information.
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Ultrasonic Payments
Experimenting with ultrasonic data transmission in JavaScript as a payment method.
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AOL 3.0 reverse engineered
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Don't send to Gmail over IPv6
Yes, some people do it, and yes, for some people, it works fine. But..... If you're standing up a new server and it has an IPv6 IP address, ...
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How fast are Linux pipes anyway?
Pipes are ubiquitous in Unix --- but how fast can they go on Linux? In this post we'll iteratively improve a simple pipe-writing benchmark from 3.5GiB/s to 65GiB/s, guided by Linux `perf`.
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Using a catch-all domain is a mistake
After about a decade of dealing with this madness, surely it's been worthwhile? No, not really.
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XMODEM in 2022
Let's start at the beginning: it all started with me trying to boot a system which receives its initial ramdisk over XMODEM.
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So long, home T1 line; hello, hacking the T1 router
Floodgap has had a T1 line since I moved into this house in 2011. I'm one of those weirdos who runs my own hardware and prefers to avoid ...
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Getting a vanity phone number with four consecutive digits
Automating Verizon number searches to find rare phone numbers with repeating digits.
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Setting up a Pi Hole made my home network faster
Discover how a single Raspberry Pi can speed up your home network by acting as a DNS server. Learn the steps to set up Pi-hole and enjoy faster, more secure internet today!
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Windows OS, Services and Apps: Network Connection Target Hosts (2021)
This post lists the internet communication targets of the Microsoft Windows operating system, including its various services and UWP apps. This post is a part of my application network connection monitoring series, a group of articles that explain how to analyze the network traffic of any Windows or macOS app.
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Extracting TLS keys from an unwilling application (2020)
I want to be able to inspect the traffic of programs running on my computer. I don’t really trust those programs and ideally I’d like to put nearly all of them into a high security jail. One of those programs is Oculus software. There are a few reasons why I want to be cautious about Oculus software.
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Tunneling Wikipedia through WhatsApp to (maybe?) get around WiFi restrictions
In-flight messaging I was on a Delta flight the other day, and I was thinking about how they offer free messaging from your smartphone. How do they limit the wifi? Maybe they have some basic filter that says “deny everything except the urls for these 3 messaging apps”, which makes sense conceptually. What if we don’t…
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460M Indian Internet Users Are Now on IPv6
NOTE : This data is generated by using the ISO 3166 economy code information provided in the allocation and assignment statistics reports as generated by the Regional Internet Registries. This code reflects the economy in which the entity to whom the allocation or assignment was made is located, but does not…
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Why do USB-C hubs still have USB 2.0 ports? (2021)
[If USB2.0 is too boring, learn about the details of 50 different Thunderbolt-4 docks – yep you read that right, there are 50 different models – find out which ones are identical inside…
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Pages that didn't make it into “How DNS Works”
Pages that didn't make it into "How DNS Works"
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Scapy: Low level packet hacking toolkit for Python
Code level discussion of web scraping, gray hat automation, growth hacking and bounty hunting
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UK telecom EE blocks archive.org
Well at first that looks weird. It pings and all so I jump to incognito mode, and…
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Using LEOs and GEOs
Once you head away from the areas that are serviced by modern terrestrial cable infrastructure, the available digital communications options are somewhat limited. Some remote areas are served using High Frequency radio systems, using radio signals that bounce off the ionosphere to provide a long distance, but limited…
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Calling NSA to find your encryption key after a few bits were flipped (2010)
I was just alerted to this story by one of the followers of this blog… Last month Voyager 2 began returning some unusual signals. This story is being reported by alternate news outlets as s…
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My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home
My favorite internet service provider, init7, is rolling out faster speeds with their infrastructure upgrade. Last week, the point of presence (POP) that my apartment’s fiber connection terminates in was upgraded, so now I am enjoying a 25 Gbit/s fiber internet connection!
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Is XMPP any good? Also, let's write a client in Tcl, maybe
I still have my Nokia 5800 lying around. It runs Symbian. That platform is quite different from Android. For one thing the internal storage size is 81 MB - less than what your single android app takes up, even in RAM, and it works faster than modern smartphones - e.g. the SMS app opens instantaneously. Another…
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Using SNI proxying and IPv6 to share port 443 between webapps
I hate HTTP reverse proxies and want my webapps to listen directly on port 443. How can I make this work in a world of IPv4 scarcity?
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What I learned from making a DNS client in Rust
A lot about sockets, syscalls and bits
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Internet Mail 2000
The sender's ISP, rather than the receiver's ISP, is the always-online post office from which the receiver picks up the message.
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