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Archive for May 27th, 2025

0x00 – Introduction to Windows Kernel Exploitation //

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27

On my reading list (plus read/watch the links it mentions): [Wayback/Archive] 0x00 – Introduction to Windows Kernel Exploitation // by [Wayback/Archive] wetw0rk (@wetw0rk_bot) / X ([Wayback/Archive] wetw0rk.github.io).

Hopefully by now, more episodes have been published.

Links from this one, including archived versions split in the same sections as the above article:

Via [WaybackSave/Archive] Alex Plaskett on X: “0x00 – Introduction to Windows Kernel Exploitation by @wetw0rk_bot …”.

--jeroen

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Naming things isn’t hard: if it contains a number, include the unit in the name (your timeout might not be in nanoseconds)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/05/27

This case, it was C# accessing a SQL back-end, but the responses to the Tweet how so many more examples not even related to software development.

Remember that plane crashing because they overloaded while they thought the fuel load numbers were in Imperial pounds where in fact they were in metric kilograms?

That’s why naming things that contain numbers should contain the unit in their name!

Related blog post: Watch “Felienne Hermans: How patterns in variable names can make code easier to read” on YouTube

Tweet: [Wayback/Archive] Nick Craver on Twitter: “Troubleshooting a hanging test suite and godDAMMIT. “In seconds”. Integer timeouts should be a felony offense punishable by an indeterminate amount of seconds/milliseconds/hours/fortnights/whatever the judge chooses.”

var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString){ ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.

var csb = new SqlConnectionStringBuilder(TestConfig.Current. SQLServerConnectionString) { ConnectTimeout = 2000 }; int SqlConnectionStringBuilder.ConnectTimeout { get; set; } Gets or sets the length of time (in seconds) to wait for a connection to the server before terminating the attempt and generating an error. Returns: The value of the SqlConnectionStringBuilder, ConnectTimeout property, or 15 seconds if no value has been supplied.

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