Now’s my first year at university. We’re given credentials so we can login into the computers around the campus, which run Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and —surprise!— have not been updated in a whole lot of time. After using them for some time, the unevitable happened: It lacked my essential set...
Today I saw SnowShoe Stamp. SnowShoe Stamp describes itself as a great way to link physical assets to virtual ones. I have to admit it: when I heard of them, my first thought was “Oh no, yet another company that rebrands NFC”. Later I realized I was completely wrong. SnowShoe...
Flash has always intimidated me. Websites usually use it to evade inspection (together with minified JS) or to make use of specific features (clipboard, memory, …). Turns out, in practice Flash helps in reverse-engineering. This is because there are few Flash obfuscators and people don’t think anyone is ever going...
When I was three years old, my father would take me to the computer, which ran Windows 95. He would open Word and set a big dingbat font, that had animals instead of regular letters. I pressed the keys, and some dinosaurs, elephants and zebras appeared on the screen. I...