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Using Hinge as a Command and Control Server
A proof of concept demonstrating how to use the Hinge dating app as a C2.
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The most popular blog posts about networking & internet on Hacker News. 130 posts.
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You can use newline characters in URLs
We locate web content using special addresses called URLs. We are all familiar with addresses like https://google.com. Sometimes, URLs can get long and they can become difficult to read. Thus, we might be tempted to format them like so in HTML using newline and tab characters, like so: <a…
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Flawed routers flood University of Wisconsin internet time server (2003)
ABSTRACT In May 2003, the University of Wisconsin - Madison found that it was the recipient of a continuous large scale flood of inbound Internet traffic destined for one of the campus' public Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers. The flood traffic rate was hundreds-of-thousands of packets-per-second, and hundreds of…
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An interactive tour of the spanning tree protocol
Root election, port roles, proposals and agreements, topology changes: explore RSTP through simulations powered by MSTPD compiled to WebAssembly.
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LLM Networking with MikroTik
I’ve been refraining from saying ‘vibe networking’ or ‘vibkrotik’ or some other abomination, but it is true - I have been using LLMs to setup a few networks these last few months, and things have generally gone over swimmingly.
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Are we self-sovereign PKI yet?
Every end-to-end encrypted messenger ships a fingerprint UI. Almost nobody opens it. A note on what's actually missing.
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One parser, two bugs, many routers: Exploiting Broadcom WiFi across eCos, Linux
A vulnerability in Broadcom’s proprietary WPS implementation enables unauthenticated attackers within WiFi range to leak memory and achieve unauthenticated remote code execution on millions of routers. This post covers its discovery through agentic vulnerability research, exploitation across eCos and Linux platforms…
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Debugging my new network, when 10 Gigabit Ethernet Runs at 300 Megabits
I've been moving my home storage over to a UniFi UNAS Pro 8 as part of a larger ...
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Building my own network stack
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