Did you know that the first 2 digits on every PE are initials from one of the developers?
Those initials are associated with Mark Zbikowski, one of the early Microsoft developers involved with the executable format in the DOS era 😁
@k0mkc Trully an amazing job, this shows (again) that we don't need intrusive AC. The issues that this "legal spyware" give are bigger than the solutions
@1lexxi This only makes us loose confidence when reporting shit to SlopCorp. I am very dissapointed to see such a great work be turned down due to corporate greed
After getting FairPlay and key generation working in pure emulation, without a physical iPhone, I have a lot less faith in “this needs real hardware.” Apple makes some of this sound way more hardware-bound than it really is, just to scare security researchers off.
I accidentally rebooted the network switch for the entire third floor.
Internet disappeared.
Phones dropped.
About 70 employees immediately stood up from their desks like prairie dogs.
I had two choices:
Admit I clicked the wrong switch.
Become proactive.
I sent this message:
“Unannounced infrastructure resilience exercise currently in progress. Please continue normal operations.”
Then I waited five minutes and turned everything back on.
Service restored.
No data loss.
Nobody died.
The CTO replied:
“Love that we’re testing this stuff proactively.”
So I wrote a post-exercise report.
Objective: Validate employee response to unexpected connectivity loss.
Result: Successful.
Finding: Employees become extremely loud after approximately 12 seconds without internet.
Recommendation: Continue resilience testing quarterly.
My mistake now has a budget.