Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/17
Having had to use Mimikatz a few times in the past, I was not aware of the history.
So I was glad to find this elaborate article [Wayback/Archive] Mimikatz and password dumps | Ivan’s IT learning blog and the video (embedded after the signature). [Wayback/Archive] How to fix mimikatz null password in Windows 10 | WORKING 2019!!! – YouTube
Besides the history, it also explains why sometimes you only get hashes and other times you do get plain text passwords.
Recommended reading.
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
For me, saving bitbucket.org passwords fails consistently (when using app passwords, it keeps popping up the git credentials dialog on Windows each time I try to push to origin), so I need to dig deeper into [Wayback/Archive] Updating Git for Windows credentials for Bitbucket app password – Stack Overflow.
Query: [Wayback/Archive] windows store bitbucket app password in git – Google Suche
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
[Wayback/Archive] NSA Warns iPhone And Android Users—Disable Location Tracking
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Advertising ID – Play Console Help
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/16
Interesting: [Wayback/Archive] nginxinc/kic-reference-architectures: MARA: Modern Application Reference Architecture
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I wonder, 40 years later, what happened after the USSR dismantled: especially with the developments over the last 10 years and the culmination in the last 2, are these bands – banned in January 1985 – still banned in Russia? [Wayback/Archive] They were banned in the USSR – The Scotsman
The above article was published in 2014, and a full translated list in the 2015 article [Wayback/Archive] The Soviet Union Creates a List of 38 Dangerous Rock Bands: Kiss, Pink Floyd, Talking Heads, Village People & More (1985) | Open Culture.
A picture of the original list in Russian was published in the 2017 article [Wayback/Archive] A list of 38 “dangerous” Western bands banned in the USSR
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
I have a lot of old Power Point slide decks that I want to reuse in current presentations. By now however, I learned prepare all my presentation stuff in either Markdown or reStructuredText: far easier to publish and put under version control.
After searching, I could only find one tool that is still maintained doing a decent job doing a PowerPoint to Markdown conversion: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – ssine/pptx2md: a pptx to markdown converter. The tools which works great, in big part of PowerPoint content being highly structured with styles like title, subtitle and various heading levels and content types.
The thing it does not document is the prerequisites, which are these:
venv (which, despite having used Python quite often, but not proficient in it, still makes me nervous: one forgotten step and you pip everything in your global environment).This links helps me every time [Wayback/Archive] Install packages in a virtual environment using pip and venv – Python Packaging User Guide. From it, I created this little table:
Steps for setting up and using a Python virtual environment Step *n*x/MacOS Windows Comment 1. python3 -m venv .venvpy -m venv .venvOnly needed once 2. source .venv/bin/activate.venv\Scripts\activateSwitch to virtual environment 3. which pythonwhere pythonCheck if python is used from the virtual environment (should result in
.venv/bin/pythonon *n*x/MacOS or
.venv\Scripts\pythonon Windows)4. which pipwhere pipCheck if pip is used from the virtual environment (should result in
.venv/bin/pipon *n*x/MacOS or
.venv\Scripts\pipon Windows)5. ./.venv/bin/pptx2md</precode
.venv\bin\pptx2mdForce a module which didn’t add itself to the path when installed via pip 6. deactivatedeactivateLeave the virtual environment
pip install pptx2md (in order I discovered them):
pip install numpypip install matplotlibpip install scipypip install wand./.venv/bin/pptx2mdPosted in Development, Lightweight markup language, MarkDown, Office, Power Point, Power User, Python, Scripting, Software Development, venv | Leave a Comment »
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
Wow, so many valuable lessons learned in [Wayback/Archive] Security through transparency: RP2350 Hacking Challenge results are in – Raspberry Pi
Plus another challenge that they will start in a week:
As a component of the broader RP2350 security architecture, we’ve been working to develop an implementation of AES which is hardened against side-channel attacks (notably differential power analysis), and we’ll be challenging you to defeat it. Check back next week for more details.
Plus of course the very important last sentence:
All vendors have security vulnerabilities in their chips. We are unusual because we talk about them, and aim to fix them, rather than brushing them under the carpet. Security through transparency is here to stay.
Via: [WaybackSave/Archive] RPi Spy on X: “Security through transparency: RP2350 Hacking Challenge results are in … #RaspberryPi”
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/15
For my link archive on the Apple 30-pin Dock Connector:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/14
On my list of tools to experiment with: [Wayback/Archive] Delphi sorcery: Introducing Spring.Benchmark – a port of Google benchmark
This got released while I was recovering from cancer procedures, to I totally missed it.
Interesting stuff, as I knew there was the Google benchmark library*, but since I hardly do any C++ work, I never used it.
* [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – google/benchmark: A microbenchmark support library
The source code for the Delphi based Spring.Benchmark library is at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – spring4d/benchmark: Delphi port of Google Benchmark, especially [Wayback/Archive] benchmark/Spring.Benchmark.pas at master · spring4d/benchmark · GitHub.
Videos to watch before using it:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/14
For my link archive: below a series of articles my Raymond Chen on “The AArch64 processor (aka arm64)” in the order of appearance from a few years back and still very relevant today.
It is part of a few more series on processors that (were) supported by Windows. A good reference to find which version supported which processor architecture is the tables in List of Microsoft Windows versions – Wikipedia.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 