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slipstream-

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About slipstream-

slipstream/RoL - security researcher, reverse engineer, software preservationist

aka: Rye, Rai-chan, raylee

twitter: @TheWack0lian irc: irc.rol.im #RoL ( https://rol.im/chat/ )

Recent public activity

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    Comment #17625005

    not the website owner but people involved in the PUP ecosystem. i'm sure that if installcore supported linux, then the linux binaries would also be bundlers.

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    Comment #17624940

    seems to be just another bundler from the same network (installcore), but packed with a different exe packer

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    Comment #17624928

    pup bundlers also tend to be signed. just checking for a valid signature would not be enough

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    Comment #17624924

    one of those "make money online"/"internet marketing" type people just wanting to get the affiliate commissions from a pay-per-install network of the PUP bundler type.

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    Comment #17455970

    I was assuming that a hypothetical increase in Tor use would also increase the number of onion services.

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    Comment #17454319

    I would hope that Tor usage in the EU goes up.

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    Comment #17433315

    There's always Tor (doesn't Facebook in particular run an onion service?)

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    Comment #17416001

    I downloaded all the floppy images from this archive, and found some interesting (from a historical perspective) documents on some of them. Lists of computing equipment owned by th…

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    Comment #17412255

    This can be done by, say, boosting the Plume/PeerTube content from Mastodon.

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    Comment #17412219

    https://halcyon.toromino.de/ https://pinafore.social/

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    Comment #17412139

    there are a few alternate web user interfaces that work with the Mastodon client API (which Pleroma also implements); halcyon and pinafore being two of them. To be more specific, H…

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    Comment #17388487

    Doesn't look broken to me (Chrome 67)

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    Comment #17278231

    I didn't even notice it was a derivation of the Konami code until you mentioned it.

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    Comment #17277598

    Interestingly enough, this is the same key combo used to show information on a crash in several N64 games, including Doubutsu no Mori (the original N64 version of Animal Crossing).…

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    Comment #16781054

    MS's compiler is annoying, it'll only support anything more modern than ANSI C if you give your files a .cpp extension...

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    Comment #16744047

    here's some interesting people I follow: @crowd42@infosec.exchange @tinker@infosec.exchange @xeb@mastodon.social @lain@pleroma.soykaf.com I'm @slipstream@mastodon.social and @Rairi…

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    Comment #16674061

    Unencrypted at rest.

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    Comment #16313608

    This reminded me to check thedailywtf.

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    Comment #16251012

    ...win2000 pre-release? or did you mean NT 4?

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    Comment #16138987

    Relevant: https://longhorn.ms/ - a website containing research about pre-reset Longhorn.

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    Comment #16098551

    Previous discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7983008 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7959068

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    Comment #16037494

    then apply it to a router?

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    Comment #16036394

    Huh. I assumed Boot Guard was a thing that happened in the IntelME bootrom. I guess I'm too used to similar things in game consoles.

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    Comment #16035955

    That bug described requires modifying the ME firmware image, which Boot Guard prevents...