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Reverse engineering a handheld device that is used to flash the Bosch ECU memory region related to engine tuning It features: * master/slave paradigm * public + private key encryption * XOR ciphers * hardware tokens * server-side validation * .NET obfuscation * Themida/WinLicense DLL packing/obfuscation * Debugger detection Car tuning is an industry where if your car costs $60k, tuners can charge you $999. If your ca…
We have reached alpha on https://sitefitnesshq.com , an early warning service for website failures. We have just started reaching out to customers. Wish us luck.
Your certificate is expired. That's not exactly ideal for "early warning".
Now we have added itself to the list of websites it should check. So it is self secured.
Your feedback and validation certainly helps. Thank you again.
I'm writing a book that teaches people coding using JavaScript, the book that takes you from 0 (no coding background) to getting a job as a JS engineer. 2 years I ago, I had a hypothesis to see if anybody could learn coding if they tried. To test that, I reached out to random people with no coding background, most of them from underprivileged backgrounds. I figured they have fewer opportunities and are more likely to…
This wasn't anyone's sole income, so it's not a disaster. It's certainly been a learning experience, so there's that.
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Fascinating. Have you written at all about this elsewhere? Is it open source? Would love to learn more!
I have not written about it publicly at any length. Much narrower versions targeting specific data models have been used in production and I've licensed bits and pieces to big tech companies. The data structures and algorithms are non-obvious, and the join mechanics that enable arbitrary relationship type traversals on the representation hurts the brain (it really isn't visualizable). It is just an elegant instantiat…
Perhaps some of the companies have done conference talks on the systems built on top of your research?
I'm currently working on a macOS application that allows users to save and load their working context, by which I mean sets of open applications and their internal states. It has helped me reduce information overload, and allowed me to switch between tasks more efficiently - and I hope other people will find value in this as well. It's an idea I've been toying with and prototyping in different forms on and off for ab…
I look forward to using this! Have you given any thought to being able to sync a working context between computers?