kwesthaus

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by kwesthaus 2y ago
> 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
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by kwesthaus 4y ago
> 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: https://github.com/kwesthaus/network-co
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by kwesthaus 4y ago
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 more [1]. [0]: https://www.reddit
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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 company which wants to do business in China will just avoid
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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 finals.
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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 except the most recent 100 years, 12 months, and 5 weeks.
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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.
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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 using dgraph. The python bindings were easy to work wit
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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 interesting to skim if you just want to learn a bit about what
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by kwesthaus 6y ago
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 begun to affect a significant portion of the population, hence
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by kwesthaus 7y ago
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 AES-ECB-128, felt very rewarding to complete. I made heavy u
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by kwesthaus 7y ago
> 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 come to a real-life example of the trolly proble
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by kwesthaus 7y ago
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 solely on the transponders, and that they do use license pla
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by kwesthaus 7y ago
The thruhiking bubble also likely contributes to the similar rise in backcountry visits to Shenandoah in May and June.
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by kwesthaus 7y ago
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 abuse to print the file contents, and that seems like more of a
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Ez-Sniff: Toll Booth Transponder RF Analysis(github.com)
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