PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.
Today is "reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1" day.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
if youβre writing a post on infosec stuff
take a moment and check if the company blog provides date of publication
because if your post is not dated, i hate you.
"Do Red Dead Redemption 2's Power Lines Connect to Anything?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTtMCoJrGxk this is incredible
TL;DW they didn't get it 100% right and there's some mistakes and several anachronisms in there, but overall, holy shit
How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:
When a cookies banner tells you truth π
Taken from this page https://vibe-coded.lol
πͺ Calling all Windows experts!
Hack.βlu CTF 2025 (http://flu.xxx) has a great Windows kernel exploitation challenge, sponsored by @binary_gecko. And the best thing about it? Solving it can earn you a ticket for @offensive_con 2026!
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And hey, since the weather is absolutely abysmal today, I will treat you to another die shot as an extension of #nakeddiefriday.
This is ΠΠ 1810ΠΠ86, an otherwise identical clone of Intel 8086 made by Soviets at an unknown plant.
The 8086 was extensively reverse-engineered by @kenshirriff -- give his blog a read!
SiPron page: https://siliconprawn.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:unknown:kr1810vm86
Something that I love about technology is that it often used in new, unexpected, and delightful ways.
While @mattgodbolt created @compiler_explorer to better understand whether features could be used given his constraints at $work [0], it has since found many new use cases.
Matt used it to teach us what compilers do [1, 2] and @lefticus used it to introduce Stack Usage [3].
[0] https://xania.org/202206/happy-birthday-ce
[1] https://youtu.be/bSkpMdDe4g4