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Story of a Tshirt with a Shellcode
- fourseventy 5y agoNice write up!
- a_t48 5y agoNow I want to know if I could hijack someone's machine by sending them a malicious tshirt.
- tyingq 5y agoThere were the "RSA in one line of Perl" t-shirts that were technically illegal to export from the US.
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- grishka 5y agoI still struggle to understand how that US encryption export control was supposed to work at all. Sure one could just memorize the algorithm and cross the border?
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- tyingq 5y agoI remember the movie Elysium also had some assembler listings in it. It's not on screen long, but I saw enough to see the "enter protected mode" bit, so apparently x86 is still reigning in 2154. The still from the movie: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bb830CJCcAEcqly?format=png&name=small https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bb830CJCcAEcqly?format=png&name=...
- slim 5y agoGreat movie. I'm seeding it's torrent since 2014 (available on popcorntime)
- gav 5y agoIt looks like they borrowed the code from Intel. It's the code from Volume 3 9.10 "INITIALIZATION AND MODE SWITCHING EXAMPLE": https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples/blob/master/intel-protected/startup.asm https://github.com/cirosantilli/x86-bare-metal-examples/blob...
- pwg 5y agoIn the original Terminator some 6502 assembly shows up in some of the "what the Terminator sees" scenes: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64 https://www.pagetable.com/?p=64
- gmueckl 5y agoIs it possible that the code on the shirt was deliberately altered to avoid legal issues?
- kaszanka 5y agoWhat legal issues could it cause?
- lionkor 5y agoCopyright issues! Code, just like any other intellectual property, can't be used in basically any way unless you have written permission (such as a license)
- gmueckl 5y agoSome countries have pretty obscure and sometimes badly written laws stemming from a desire to criminalize exploits, rootkits and such.
- chasd00 5y agoRemember the dvd shirts with the code to break the drm printed on them? I use to have one, can’t remember what happened to it.