Computer security & forensics, reverse engineering, crypto and password cracking (& some photography). Mostly just retweeting content I find interesting.
@_kefir Oh, I still have 20 hours of postings to go through on my Mastodon timeline. Reverse timeline and quiet mode is nice and all, but sometimes I fall a bit behind on breaking news 😀
The world’s richest man swallowed the largest civilian reporting tool in history because his plan for a centuries-long empire of infinite IVF babies and cars that only kind of do what they say do was being exposed. That probably shouldn’t be allowed to happen.
Find those big files!
ncdu is TUI program to generate and view usage statistics for disk space from the current directory and below. Use -x to avoid crossing filesystem boundaries and disable file modification with -r. ionice will give ncdu less I/O priority.
ionice ncdu -x -r
How old is the earth edition according to the profession
1. Priest: 6000 years old.
2. Scientist: Earth is estimated to be 4.54 billion years old, plus or minus about 50 million years.
3. Developer/Unix/Linux users: 52 years.
@polotek An engineer will either tell you something is impossible, and proceed to do it in 20 minutes or tell you it’s trivial before realizing it’s actually going to take 2 years.
There is no in between.
In Error Code EP03, @joegrand ("Kingpin") shares his life story, which is also a history of hardware hacking. If you already know Joe from his L0pht days, or even if you don't, you'll still learn a lot about the early days in hacking from this episode.
https://t.co/AhzMvI0GeG
The hacker / infosec Mastodon servers have really reached critical mass to contain useful community and information. If you haven't tried it out yet, I really recommend it. There's enough intel and news to be viable at this point.
ODL parser now updated to unobfuscate encrypted strings. MS had changed the format.. Short blog post sharing the details: https://t.co/NIW1zHpPD7 #DFIR
Som republikaner blir jeg utrolig frustrert over hva folk klarer å velge, bl.a. i USA, mens vi må forholde oss til dette flotte kongeparet. Det skulle jo vært omvendt! Vi skulle hatt en gal konge og de skulle valgt flotte presidenter. Jeg gir opp. https://t.co/UnmzHDVPM4