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Is true hacking dead? What we lost
Realtime rendering and videogame programming mostly, but I love computer science and visuals in all their forms. This is a notepad of my ideas.
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 8,771 posts.
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PIA VPN to be acquired by malware company founded by former Israeli spy
telegra.ph/private-internet-access-vpn-acquired-by-malware-business-founded-by-former-israeli-spies-12-0120191,004 points359 commentsSecurity & Privacy details
arccompute.com/blog The following article contains quotes and links meant to inform VPN consumers concerning the ownership, affiliations, and past business practices of Kape Technologies (formerly known as Crossrider) in light of their acquisition of Private Internet Access VPN. I'd like to start by giving credit…
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The Information Apocalypse (2018)
My friend Aviv was recently the subject of a popular Buzzfeed article about the possibility of an impending “information apocalypse”. tl;dr: Aviv extrapolates from the fake news crisis that started in 2016 to a world in which anyone can create AI-assisted misinformation campaigns indistinguishable from reality to the…
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An Overview of Cryptography
Free, evolving crypto tutorial since 1999!
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64 bits ought to be enough for anybody
How quickly can we use brute force to guess a 64-bit number? The short answer is, it all depends on what resources are available. So we’re going to examine this problem starting with the most naive approach and then expand to other techniques involving parallelization. We’ll discuss parallelization at the CPU level…
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It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
Many readers probably believe they can trust links and emails coming from U.S. federal government domain names, or else assume there are at least more stringent verification requirements involved in obtaining a .gov domain versus a commercial one ending in .com or .org. But a recent experience suggests this trust may…
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Machine Learning on Encrypted Data Without Decrypting It
Explore cutting-edge cryptographic techniques for machine learning on encrypted data. Discover how to process sensitive information without decryption, ensuring privacy and security.
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Hidden Cam Above Bluetooth Pump Skimmer
Tiny hidden spy cameras are a common sight at ATMs that have been tampered with by crooks who specialize in retrofitting the machines with card skimmers. But until this past week I’d never heard of hidden cameras being used at gas pumps in tandem with Bluetooth-based card skimming devices.
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If you care about user privacy, don’t use Facebook JavaScript SDK
With email aliases , you can be anonymous online and protect your inbox against spams and phishing.
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Personal and social information of 1.2B people discovered in data leak
Bespoke cyber investigations and dark web intelligence — threat actor attribution, asset tracing, digital forensics, and ransomware negotiation.
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Flan Scan: Lightweight Network Vulnerability Scanner
Flan Scan is a thin wrapper around Nmap that converts this popular open source tool into a vulnerability scanner with an easy deployment.
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Cname cloaking, a disguise of third-party trackers
An in-depth exploration of a new method used by tracking companies to disguise their third-party trackers as first-party trackers.
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Bad Binder: Android In-the-Wild Exploit
Posted by Maddie Stone, Project ZeroIntroductionOn October 3, 2019, we disclosed issue 1942 (CVE-...
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The trouble with VPN and privacy review sites
Evergreen privacy guides, threat modeling, encryption, practical tutorials.
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How Cybercriminals Profit by Tapping Your Email
A few days ago I came across the CBC story on how a Canadian man had been defrauded out of $800,000 when cybercriminals inserted themselves into a real estate deal and had the funds diverted to themselves: Here is the "Whois" record for the fake domain used to send the…
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Facebook: We don’t need your consent
The world's largest social network believes it has found a way to bypass Europe’s strict privacy laws.
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Windows will improve user privacy with DNS over HTTPS
Announcing and explaining our intention to support DNS over HTTPS in future versions of Windows
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Infectious Executable Stacks
In software development there are many concepts that at first glance seem useful and sound, but, after considering the consequences of their implementation and use, are actually horrifying. Examples include thread cancellation , variable length arrays , and memory aliasing . GCC’s closure extension to C is another…
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CVE-2019-1347: When a mouse over a file is enough to crash your system
Advanced security testing platforms for hardware and software investigations. Collaborative tools, proven attack libraries, and expert services for security teams.
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We Can Choose an Internet Without Surveillance
The internet is not just a network of computers—it’s a network of people. We hold great power in deciding its future.
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Privacy: Is That iPhone?
A new Mozilla-Ipsos poll reveals that a majority of iPhone users treasure privacy — but aren’t aware of the device's ad tracking
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Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional
Government Must Have Reasonable Suspicion of Digital Contraband Before Searching Electronic Devices at the U.S. Border
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I got my money back from a scammer by contacting his mom on Facebook (2016)
Personal Blog of Christian Haschek