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> Would be nice to see people start tinkering again - really go crazy on protocols, experimental PHYs, etc. https://m17project.org/ https://openrtx.org/#/ https://freedv.org/ These…

> Would be nice to keep your complete config in git or the config management widget of your choice (often Puppet or Ansible). I did this with my (mostly) OpenWrt-based network: htt…

Don't forget about preemptive security freezes at credit bureaus, which you have to do for each one individually. /r/personalfinance recommends 7 by default [0], but there are many…

Fascinating, thank you for sharing. I'm impressed they were able to find so many ways to essentially confuse the GFW as to the current state of the connection. Looks like any compa…

Are you competing this weekend? I put together a small team for qualifiers and had a blast with the CTF problems. We did well enough to get challenge coins but not to move on to fi…

I also use restic and I have a cron script which runs early Monday morning every week. Restic supports auto-pruning, so I have it set up to backup a new snapshot then purge all exc…

Sure thing! Will do, I've been a little lax the past few weeks but my school semester just finished so now I should have more time again.

Wasn't at a huge scale but for one project another intern and I took a proof of concept that another engineer had done with Gremlin [1] and turned it into a full tool and ended up …

To anyone who wants an introduction to car hacking, I recommend the Car Hacker's Handbook, which is available for free online [0]. The book has a security focus but is also interes…

You are right that many pieces of software infringe on privacy. However, Zoom only recently has become one of the most widespread of these and because of that has only recently beg…

The OverTheWire Advent Security CTF had one problem this year [0] which involved reverse engineering a (self-modifying) Master Boot Record binary similar to this which implemented …

> That's why the best course of action is to not censor at all and allow the system to work itself out. I disagree with this sentiment, and upon reflection of why, it seems we've c…

I've spoken to the Chef Technology Manager and the Chief Executive Director of E-ZPass for some research I did with their system [0] and confirmed that it is not 100% reliant solel…

The thruhiking bubble also likely contributes to the similar rise in backcountry visits to Shenandoah in May and June.

Same. As far as I can tell, none of the usual restricted shell escape tricks work, so you just have to search through all the binaries on the system until you find one you can abus…