C can be memory safe, part 2
This post from last year was posted to a forum, so I thought I'd write up some rebuttals to their comments.The first comment is by David Chisnall, creator of CHERI C/C++, which ...
C can be memory-safe
The idea of memory-safe languages is in the news lately. C/C++ is famous for being the world's system language (that runs most things) but also infamous for being unsafe. Many want to solve ...
I’m still bitter about Slammer
Today is the 20th anniversary of the Slammer worm. I'm still angry over it, so I thought I'd write up my anger. This post will be of interest to nobody, it's just ...
The RISC Deprogrammer
I should write up a larger technical document on this, but in the meanwhile is this short (-ish) blogpost. Everything you know about RISC is wrong. It's some weird nerd cult. Techies ...
DS620slim tiny home server
In this blogpost, I describe the Synology DS620slim. Mostly these are notes for myself, so when I need to replace something in the future, I can remember how I built the system ...
No, a researcher didn’t find Olympics app spying on you
For the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, the Chinese government requires everyone to download an app onto their phone. It has many security/privacy concerns, as CitizenLab documents. However, another researcher goes further, claiming ...
Journalists: stop selling NFTs that you don’t understand
The reason you don't really understand NFTs is because the journalists describing them to you don't understand them, either. We can see that when they attempt to sell an NFT as part ...
Example: forensicating the Mesa County system image
Tina Peters, the election clerk in Mesa County (Colorado) went rogue and dumped disk images of an election computer on the Internet. They are available on the Internet via BitTorrent [Mesa1][Mesa2], The ...
Debunking: that Jones Alfa-Trump report
The Alfa-Trump conspiracy-theory has gotten a new life. Among the new things is a report done by Democrat operative Daniel Jones [*]. In this blogpost, I debunk that report.If you'll recall, the ...
Review: Dune (2021)
One of the most important classic sci-fi stories is the book "Dune" from Frank Herbert. It was recently made into a movie. I thought I'd write a quick review.The summary is this: ...
