Today is "reminder they use AWS US-EAST-1" day.
https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status

"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:

1. Have a 'reject all' button that is as easy to press as the buttons that grant consent.
2. Test your site with no consent for user tracking.
3. Realise that all of the tracking bits are unrelated to site functionality.
4. Remove them.
5. Remove the cookie banner.

When a cookies banner tells you truth 😅

Taken from this page https://vibe-coded.lol

🪟 Calling all Windows experts!

Hack.​lu 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!

🧵⬇️

And hey, since the weather is absolutely abysmal today, I will treat you to another die shot as an extension of #nakeddiefriday.

This is КР1810ВМ86, 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

#electronics #reverseengineering #icre

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

[2] https://youtu.be/nAbCKa0FzjQ

[3] https://youtu.be/kXe-YkJ9nBs

Call for Failures @ hack.lu 2025 — Because We All Break Things

At hack.lu, we love stories of brilliance — new tools, cutting-edge exploits, and clever defenses.
But let’s be honest: the best lessons often come from things that went spectacularly wrong.

That’s why we’re bringing back the Call for Failures (CFF) — a mini-conference inside hack.lu dedicated entirely to sharing the things that didn’t go as planned.

🗓️ When: Wednesday, 22 October 2025
🕖 Time: 19:00 – 21:00
📍 Where: At hack.lu, Luxembourg

#conference #unconference #hacklu #cybersecurity

🔗 https://2025.hack.lu/blog/hack.lu-call-for-failures-at-hack-lu/

The official @Defcon recording of HTTP/1.1 Must Die has landed - join me on the mission to help kill HTTP/1.1! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUCyExOr3sE

Serious bugs often occur in third-party components integrated by other software. Ivan Fratric and I found this vulnerability in the Dolby Unified Decoder. It affects Android, iOS and Windows among other platforms, sometimes 0-click.

Integrators should update today!

https://project-zero.issues.chromium.org/issues/428075495

Hi there! This is #nakeddiefriday again!

Today I'd like to present you one of frequent sources of pain for C64 owners, the infamous PLA. This is MOS 7700R2. They failed way too often, and considering this is custom silicon, the only option was to get another one of the same.

Many thanks to @root42 for providing this sample!

SiPron link: https://siliconprawn.org/archive/doku.php?id=infosecdj:mos:7700r2

#electronics #reverseengineering #retrocomputing