periodic reminder for infosec folks: stop deciding things are done badly or "insecure" outside of the context of a threat model
it's disingenuous and irresponsibly ignores that security and cryptography are fundamentally about balancing risk tolerance and risk abatement
Session Round 2
Earlier this week, I wrote a blog post succinctly titled, Don't Use Session. Two interesting things have happened since I published that blog: A few people expressed uncertainty about what I wrote about using Pollard's rho to attack Session's design (for which, I offered to write a proof of concept and report back with results), and Session wrote a blog claiming to rebut the claims made in that blog post.
If you’ve recently installed Homebrew you may have installed a Trojan Horse if you used Google to find it
https://alecmuffett.com/article/110957
#HomographAttack #hacking #homebrew
Seems that new windows update bring some changes in NTFS as its no longer possible to delete folders with ::$INDEX_ALLOCATION allocation trick with DeleteFile api.
"Technology giants must do more to co-operate with law enforcement on encryption or they risk threatening European democracy, according to the head of Europol". She considered end-to-end encryption incompatible with democracy? https://www.ft.com/content/1e6a600d-8620-4ed6-a4cd-5c454d6247ba
Note to progressive politicians: If you don’t offer real solutions to problems, voters will follow people who offer fake solutions.
Austrian-born American actress and inventor Hedy Lamarr died #OTD in 2000.
At the beginning of World War II, along with George Antheil, Lamarr co-invented a radio guidance system for Allied torpedoes that used spread spectrum & frequency hopping technology to defeat the threat of radio jamming by the Axis powers. However, the technology was not used in operational systems until after World War II, & then independently of their patent.
Finally! https://sethmlarson.dev/how-to-disable-copilot-in-github
Thank you @harrysintonen for making me aware #github #copilot
In ~1h, we’ll explore the awesome and clever DOOM.PDF!
https://www.youtube.com/live/t17joAiWBkE?si=clV3nvyFZ5DjKQ5e
Project: microsoft/TypeScript https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript
File: src/compiler/utilities.ts:3549 https://github.com/microsoft/TypeScript/blob/cbac1ddfc73ca3b9d8741c1b51b74663a0f24695/src/compiler/utilities.ts#L3549
function isExpressionNode(node: Node): boolean
SVG:
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light https://tmr232.github.io/function-graph-overview/render/?github=https%3A%2F%2Fgithub.com%2Fmicrosoft%2FTypeScript%2Fblob%2Fcbac1ddfc73ca3b9d8741c1b51b74663a0f24695%2Fsrc%2Fcompiler%2Futilities.ts%23L3549&colors=light
For those of you who are also deep into Windows #reverseengineering, #bootloaders, and #WinDbg: My first blog post on researching the Windows driver load order and all its quirks is out, beginning with some WinDbg fundamentals: https://colinfinck.de/posts/nt-load-order-part-1/
The TikTok ban, the Musk Twitter takeover, the Facebook moderation policy changes, the Republicans’ rapidly intensifying crackdowns on speech... let these be the proof you needed to move anything you care about online to a space you control.
Digital sovereignty is more important than ever.