Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

Last Thursday, I gave a webinar on anti-reverse engineering techniques like obfuscation, anti-debug, anti-tamper etc, including practical examples. Recording, slides and examples are now available.

Recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie1eZSiMEJ8

Slides, code & samples: https://github.com/emproof-com/webinars/tree/main/2025-01-software_protection

[RSS] Clone2Leak: Your Git Credentials Belong To Us

https://flatt.tech/research/posts/clone2leak-your-git-credentials-belong-to-us/

I’ve been thinking about what it would look like if Oracle bought TikTok, but I am not sure if they will go with a per device or per core licensing model

Project: golang/go https://github.com/golang/go
File: src/net/net_windows_test.go:374 https://github.com/golang/go/blob/refs/tags/go1.23.4/src/net/net_windows_test.go#L374

func netshInterfaceIPv6ShowAddress(name string, netshOutput []byte) []string

SVG:
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Sweden-Latvia Internet cable was reportedly cut on 26 January. @meileaben reports that packet delays between selected #RIPEAtlas anchores increased by 5-20ms at around 00:45 UTC.

However, no packet loss was observed, suggesting that the Internet successfully routed around the damage.

Interested? Read a deep-dive into a previous cable cut in the Baltic Sea by our researcher Emile Aben: https://labs.ripe.net/author/emileaben/a-deep-dive-into-the-baltic-sea-cable-cuts/

Fun fact I just found while researching my column for this week's issue of The Crux:

Google reckons you're in the top 10% of users of Gemini if you use it 20 times in the last 28 days.

That's less than once a day.

In case anyone wanted to play chess on their AS/400:

https://github.com/PoC-dev/gnuchess-as400

ghidriff - mpengine.dll - VersionTrackingDiff - 1.1.24030.4 vs 1.1.24060.5

https://gist.github.com/v-p-b/f9aa39263e125c8e3b04c4d22fd4d78d#strings

This one executed much faster than SimpleDiff (with the O(n^2) FuncName:Param algorithm)!

Unfortunately the diff is so big it's difficult to judge quality, so the next step is to come up with some metrics that can be checked automatically.

#bindiff #ghidriff

demoparties prominently featuring genML stuff feels like the antithesis of the point of making demoscene productions. bleh.

New blog post! I've recreated the ZZM music format in JavaScript. What's a ZZM? Read the article and find out! https://nicole.express/2025/zoo-of-zero-motivation.html

Cloudflare's CEO recently floated the idea of a service to block AI companies that scrape media content without compensation. It's an intriguing and possibly useful idea, and one that they could probably pull off to some degree. I didn't see this brief interview anywhere else so...

https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7287149126188691458/

Anyway, this idea is interesting coming from CF because their CEO has long argued that it doesn't want to be in the anti-abuse business absent a court order, as anything less amounts to a slippery slope of censorship. But as long as the CEO is talking about being the arbiter of good and bad, how about we start with something more prosaic, like making it easier for people to decide what parts of CF's network they don't want to see at all.

BTW, Cloudflare's mantra is that they don't "host" content in the conventional sense, but rather they are a pass-through that caches content in multiple places to make it more quickly and globally available. At the same time, their mantra on abuse has always been that selectively booting bad customers without a court order is akin to censorship, i.e. their being able to decide whether some content deserves to be online or not.

But here's the truth: Even if CF were to boot a site off its network, that doesn't "censor" the booted property, which will still have its content served from the original location. And this is why I find their argument for not doing more so disingenuous.

I'm still stunned by the ICC having their evidence on Azure.

Public bodies need to have their own infrastructure. Especially when their storage is somewhere that serves shareholders and the country where they are incorporated.

Kinda hope the UN is on independent infrastructure.

You diff binaries and immediately find the single change that adds the overflow check.

I diff mpengine.dll and break all reversing tools out there.

We are not the same.

https://gist.github.com/v-p-b/513a8f70a32c62f3ab7bf0d6a90e0941

#bindiff #ghidriff

She most definitely needs a movie. She was part of the Resistance in Holland, and
Damn, she was a badass. She also helped Jewish people escape camps and blew up some train tracks the Reich used.

The second part of my #WinDbg deep-dive into the #Windows #bootloader is up: Get ready for a decades-old registry structure, unique sorting algorithms, and lots of corner cases. The result is a modern Rust replacement for Mark Russinovich's LoadOrder tool: https://colinfinck.de/posts/nt-load-order-part-2/

I have to admit this tweet of mine at the time of Elon's takeover didn't age well:

https://scrapco.de/twitter/buherator/status/1585874987617243136/

An article about an algorithmic advancement for leaving preallocated space between sorted objects in a way that minimizes how much you have to move things around for an arbitrary insert.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-book-sorting-algorithm-almost-reaches-perfection-20250124/

OK. Hear me out.