xwintermutex

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by xwintermutex 12y ago
One can prepend any data to a zip file and it will still be valid.
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
Now it would be a nice next step if he uses his wifi card's RSSI + Helmholtz reciprocity to verify the theory.
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
This was also mentioned in an article about the Defcon 22 contest, posted on HN too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8189549 . Apparently, the translation ceased to work now?
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
I would expect that you need to acquire the raw footage; post processing (and compression) will ruin the data.
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
I clicked to the end because I appreciate this work of art.
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
The original article states: "One of Python’s most visible users, Dropbox — who also employs Python’s creator Guido van Rossum — recently announced it has migrated major parts of its back-end infrastructure from Python to Go" and
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
The file is dissected here: http://blog.erratasec.com/2014/07/reading-xkeyscore-rules-so...
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
I would like to run a Tor exit-relay, but I am too afraid to do this, as I live in a what used to be liberal western country called "the Netherlands". Where the police sometimes raid Tor exit-relays on purpose, to discourage peopl
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
That reminded me of "LoseThos". It would have been an interesting coincidence if multiple people were asked by God to create a 64-bit OS, but it is the same guy; he renamed it into TempleOS.
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
Not to nitpick, but wifi is radio. The propagation of radio waves depends on their frequency. The frequency wifi operates on is in the GHz, which mostly is line-of-sight only. This is not always practical. See [1] for an overview of frequen
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by xwintermutex 12y ago
I have been wanting to create something similar for years. Before I had access to the Internet, I used "packet radio", a CB-radio based network (there were/are amateur radio band versions too). The whole Netherlands, as well
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by xwintermutex 13y ago
That is a great idea, a series of programming exercises for the Linux kernel. I never needed to do kernel programming, but it always seemed terrible interesting to me. This will probably motivate me to actually do so!
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by xwintermutex 13y ago
Two years ago, when I was 28, a 20cm large tumor was found between my lungs, after increasing problems with breathing. I was lucky enough to have "the right cancer", and to live in a western nation. As far as scans can tell, it is