benzinschleuder

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Deterministic Usenet Vault(github.com)
6 points by benzinschleuder 7y ago|0 comments
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Apple Maps Flyover Reverse Engineering(github.com)
246 points by benzinschleuder 8y ago|26 comments
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Google Earth Reverse Engineering(github.com)
342 points by benzinschleuder 8y ago|37 comments
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Amazing. Did they need to jailbreak or physically open the phone to find all this stuff? They talk about reversing binary images and using their "Legilimency" toolkit; I wonder if a vanilla phone was enough to research all this an
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Done, thanks!
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Ask HN: Can we add link previews to Hacker News links?
2 points by benzinschleuder 9y ago|2 comments
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Ask HN: SHA2 vulnerability post was removed. Why? Is it legit?
15 points by benzinschleuder 9y ago|10 comments
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Ask HN: How do companies like Telegram exist anonymously?
2 points by benzinschleuder 9y ago|1 comments
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Is a kill switch purpose to protect against a new infection? It doesn't help decrypting the files i guess? What is it used for?
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Thanks!
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Seems to work both ways. Receive random file from unknown people or send chosen file to unknown people? EDIT: was just explained in other comment by meejah, thanks! ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14649727#14650551 )
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Probably all "slots" would be "occupied" and everybody gets the attacker's sent file, iiuc.
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
It operates over the Internet instead of Wi-Fi / Bluetooth and it initializes transfers by a code.
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by benzinschleuder 9y ago
Does the session key hash help if the attacker guessed the code correctly?
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by benzinschleuder 10y ago
at the moment its very tailored to macOS and has plenty rough edges because its for personal use. But I'll gladly clean it up a bit and put it on github if enough people are interested and/or i will write-up how its "protocol
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by benzinschleuder 10y ago
Some time ago, I implemented a little tool for myself which backups folders incrementally on usenet (deterministic message-id creation from a secret key, append-only style with metadata, parity, encryption etc. so you only have to remember
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iOS apps can persist data between installs
3 points by benzinschleuder 10y ago|0 comments
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iOS Keychain Privacy Issue
2 points by benzinschleuder 10y ago|1 comments
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by benzinschleuder 10y ago
Dunno, tried it on OS X and it's colorful and looks good.
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by benzinschleuder 10y ago
It works in the Terminal, too! curl http://wttr.in/london
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by benzinschleuder 11y ago
Not sure about being the middleman yet. What if the big Usenet providers decide to delete data or we violate their non-business-usage policies? But on the other hand it's really cheap indeed! We can cancel our Usenet subscription and
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by benzinschleuder 11y ago
Usenet is also usable for backups. Normally you would upload a huge encrypted RAR. Some time ago i built a tool where you can store files/folders incrementally on Usenet with encryption, parity etc. I put much effort into this. It was