irfan

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by irfan 8y ago
Ok I had my first horror story with custom clearance today. Going to give nazdeeq.com a try next time :-)
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by irfan 8y ago
I disagree with the last point. Services like MyUS, Viabox etc. are cheaper than Nazdeeq in many cases.
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by irfan 9y ago
Is there a better way to check if an OUI is being used by a mobile phone or a router? e.g. There are plenty of huawei/apple routers and if one of them is in your neighborhood, you'd always get incorrect count. Similarly, there are
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Transmitting FM, AM, SSB, SSTV and FSQ with Just a Raspberry Pi(rtl-sdr.com)
109 points by irfan 11y ago|23 comments
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by irfan 11y ago
I had been downloading the zone file for .PK domains on daily bases until they blocked the zone transfers. Based on comparison of these daily zone files I managed to publish the statistics [1] and also broke the news about hacked .PK domain
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Spoofing GPS Locations with Low Cost TX SDR [pdf](media.defcon.org)
4 points by irfan 11y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 11y ago
What about installing OpenWRT on RaspberryPi with USB WiFi dongle which can be used like any other router? Can they ban it as well?
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by irfan 11y ago
This is how flightradar24.com and flightaware.com work
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Robert Mazur: The man behind the downfall BCCI(tribune.com.pk)
2 points by irfan 11y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 12y ago
Great effort but isn't wikipedia a better place to make such documents?
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by irfan 12y ago
3 wrong approaches towards UX/Security 1. Extracting username from email 2. Extracting password from email and setting it same as username 3. sending password in plain text email.
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by irfan 12y ago
Just launched @PakistanEdits Unfortunately IP addresses of Govt. owned institutes are not available but its fun to see what is being edited from the whole country :-)
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Pakistan launches protest with US against NSA spying(tribune.com.pk)
1 points by irfan 12y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 12y ago
This is how their homepage appear in my chrome: http://i.imgur.com/UCfMstr.png
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by irfan 12y ago
The app uses parse.com API for all communication (and probably for all data storage) and I haven't seen it communicating with anything other than parse, getsentry and flurry services. Does hacking the app means hacking parse.com?
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by irfan 13y ago
I moved my personal blog from posterous to pelican long ago and hosting it over heroku for free. Optimized it for exceptional performance and got 99 page speed score: http://www.i.com.pk/exceptional-performance-without-mod_p
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by irfan 13y ago
Interesting point is that no sweet shop owner knows any sweet by the name of 'Jhajaria' in Lahore. Even 'Fazal Sweets' shown in this ad doesnt know about it. Same seems to be the case in India: http://thedaily
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by irfan 13y ago
In 2007 I did the same level of digging with a facebook puzzle solving game. Game used to post daily puzzles and top scorers (solving the puzzle in minimum time) were shown on global leaderboard. At that time, the app was not using any kind
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Why I no longer rely on online news [A confession](i.com.pk)
2 points by irfan 13y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 13y ago
Interesting, tried making my version main(O){10<putchar(5^--O?82-(31&4763657>>5*O):10)&&main(2+O);}
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Show HN: How I got page speed score of 99 without mod_pagespeed or apache(l.i.com.pk)
1 points by irfan 14y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 14y ago
Cool idea btw "love", "coffee" example doesn't work
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by irfan 14y ago
"take a random photo" might be NSFW
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Stack Exchange Winter Bash(winterba.sh)
1 points by irfan 14y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 14y ago
There are 975 .Pk domains registered by MarkMonitor. google, visa, PayPal, sony, zynga, microsoft, hp all rely on MarkMonitor for their identity in Pakistan. It seems that MarkMonitor's account with pknic was compromised. 110 .PK domains ha
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110 .PK domains managed by MarkMonitor got hacked by turkish hackers(i.com.pk)
3 points by irfan 14y ago|0 comments
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by irfan 14y ago
quite incomplete. why not ask github users to fork, contribute as fixtures & send pull request
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by irfan 14y ago
I was talking about simple http connection for API instead of https for API
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by irfan 14y ago
I had a similar problem when using SSL connections. I'm not sure about your data by in my case the data was pretty much public data and there was no harm in using simple HTTP connection. This significantly improved the speed and no more ver
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by irfan 14y ago
New version of whatsapp for iOS is there.

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