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WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight
I spent a recent flight finding out what I could do with a connection to the flight’s wifi, but without access to the internet. I was on my way home from Strange Loop, a direct flight from St. Louis to Oakland. It’s a long enough flight that I planned to purchase the $8 internet access and get some work done, but…
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Taking control of all .io domains with a targeted registration
A Hacker's Blog of Unintended Use and Insomnia.
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Verizon/Yahoo Blocking Attempts to Archive Yahoo Groups – Deletion: Dec. 14
Well, as of sometime on December 5th a huge number of the archivists that were scrambling to rescue archives from Yahoo Groups, had their {e-mail addresses} apparently banned so they can no longer…
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Why Is This Website Port Scanning Me?
Investigation of the practice of port scanning site visitors for fingerprinting and tracking.
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US telcos appear to be selling non-anonymized access to consumer telephone data
https://bit.ly/crazymobiledemo
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H.264 is Magic
A high level walkthrough of the basics of video compression techniques used in MPEG, AVC/H.264, codecs.
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Apple's git still trusts the compromised eMudhra certificates
Eleven days after Apple was notified of the eMudhra CA compromise, the git, curl and python3 that Apple ships with macOS still trust the compromised certificates.
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Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
Apple TV and iOS YouTube ads are not blocked by Pi-hole, so I researched this and discovered a flaw in Protobuf that allows me to restrict YouTube ads.
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The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining
The strangest hardware problem I've ever had to debug.
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Load Balancing
A bottom-up, animated guide to HTTP load balancing algorithms.
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Mystery signal from a helicopter
I heard a mysterious sound in a Youtube video and started to investigate.
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A Facebook crawler was making 7M requests per day to my stupid website
Francesco Napoletano is a highly competent staff software engineer with 20+ years of experience developing a wide range of tools and applications for the web stack.
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Hijack of Amazon’s domain service used to reroute web traffic for two hours
Between 11am until 1pm UTC today, DNS traffic — the phone book of the internet, routing you to your favourite websites — was hijacked by an…
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A joke domain purchase turned in geopolitical warfare
Why is the military and a cheese fortune teller contacting me about SondeHub.org
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An off-grid social network
Open Source Freelancer
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Engineering for Slow Internet
How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.
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Passkeys: A shattered dream
Firstyear's blog
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A visual guide to SSH tunnels
This page explains use cases and examples of SSH tunnels while visually presenting the traffic flows. For example, here's a reverse tunnel that allows only users from IP address 1.2.3.4 access to port 80 on the SSH client through an SSH server.
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Eight Bits of Trust: eMudhra's CA keys cracked in milliseconds
One of eMudhra's certificate authority private keys is the number 4. Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4... Another one is 56, and another is 115. I know, because I recovered all of them from their
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UK air traffic control meltdown
Some notes about the UK air traffic control meltdown
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PySkyWiFi: Free stupid wi-fi on long-haul flights
The plane reached 10,000ft. I took out my laptop, planning to peruse the internet and maybe do a little work if I got really desperate.
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How the Catalan government uses IPFS to sidestep Spain's legal block
Catalonia, with Barcelona as its capital, is currently one of Spain’s seventeen autonomous comunities. It has a long story of pro-independence movements, and has even declared itself independent in the past. Nowadays, the political climate is very heated up. A majority of catalan people want to hold a referendum for…
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The HTTP crash course nobody asked for
HTTP does a pretty good job staying out of everyone’s way. If you’re reading this article, there’s a solid chance it was delivered to you over HTTP. Even if you’re reading this from an RSS reader o...
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Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem
Two years ago, something very strange happened to me while working from my home network. I was exploiting a blind XXE vulnerability that required an external HTTP server to smuggle out files, so I spun up an AWS box and ran a simple Python webserver to receive the traffic from the vulnerable server.