Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 4,333 posts.
Welcome to acronym city! The Court of Appeal of Brussels has made an interesting ruling. A customer complained that their bank was spelling the customer's name incorrectly. The bank didn't have support for diacritical marks. Things like á, è, ô, ü, ç etc. Those accents are common in many languages. So it was a little…
Not long ago, the ability to digitally track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a dangerous power that should remain only within the purview of nation states. But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows…
Border Gateway Protocol is the de facto protocol that directs routing decisions between different ISP networks, and is generally known as the “glue” that holds the internet together. It’s safe to say that the internet we currently know would not function without working BGP implementations.
When you can’t remove an app which you installed just a few minutes ago, you know there’s something wrong. Here’s the solution, and why this is bad security.
Hello, Lately I have been looking into race condition bugs affecting websites/web-applications. Here is a good resource to learn about th...
What is credit card fraud, how we noticed it and how it impacted our business.
The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,000 people to surreptitiously insert huge numbers of pseudonymous and other deceptive writings into the stream of real social media posts, as if they were the genuine opinions of ordinary people. Many academics, and most journalists and…
Personal blog of Julien (jvoisin) Voisin
Hacking on a plane, by Midjourney AI
The systemd-analyze security command gives your systemd service units an automated security rating. This is a good starting point for security hardening.
A lesson in Sia wallet seed safety
ptrpaws's blog on reverse engineering, programming, vr finds and miscellaneous stuff.
We show that modern cryptographic software on mobile phones, implementing the ECDSA digital signature algorithm, may inadvertently expose its secret keys through physical side channels: electromagnetic radiation and power consumption which fluctuate in a way that depends on secret information during the cryptographic…
A review of the /e/ OS Android-alternative operating system for mobile devices, as used on the Teracube 2e smartphone.
I've removed my website from indexing by Google . The proximate cause is Google's new effort to DRM the web ( archive ) but there is of course so much more.
Seriously.
I recently decided to get a wireless speaker for our Kitchen. Sonos seems like an obvious choice these days. The sound quality and aesthetics were very appealing. So I ordered a Sonos One SL speaker. In terms of sound quality and looks, I was very pleased. I’m not an audiophile but the sound quality seemed…
Landlock is a Linux API that lets applications explicitly declare which resources they are allowed to access. Its philosophy is similar to OpenBSD’s unveil() and (less so) pledge() : programs can make a contract with the kernel stating, “I only need these files or resources — deny me everything else if I’m…
In the previous blog post, I looked at the EC firmware in my laptop. This time I will look into the WiFi firmware of the same laptop.
Schmidt said: I think judgment matters. If you have something that you don’t want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn’t be doing it in the first place. If you really need that kind of privacy, the reality is that search engines—including Google—do retain this information for some time and it’s important, for example…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today proposed fines of more than $200 million against the nation’s four largest wireless carriers for selling access to their customers’ location information without taking adequate precautions to prevent unauthorized access to that data. While the fines would be among…
Switch up your browser and search engine, add some plugins to block surveillance, and get a little technical with DNS servers.
Conventionally, email addresses published on webpages may be protected from email-harvesting spambots via various HTML, CSS & JS-based techniques. This alternative technique is SVG-based.
Corporate branding and advertisements are ubiquitous in society today and almost impossible to avoid. What if we lived in a world where consumers were blind to this surplus of corporate branding? Brand Killer is a technology demonstration that envisions a future in which consumers can use augmented reality to opt out…
I monitor the @CVENew Twitter feed to keep up with any interesting new vulnerabilities that are released. On December 11th CVE-2020-29589 was published claiming that “the kapacitor Docker ima…
