Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/04
Voor mijn link archief als ik er aan toe kom om ook een PQC web-site in te richten: [Wayback/Archive] Volledig Post-Quantum Cryptografie website, een mooi artikel van [Wayback/Archive] Harld (@harld@masto.ai) – Mastodon die sommigen kennen van een of meer van deze sites:
Via
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/04
Is it OK to help with [Wayback/Archive] twitter/communitynotes: Documentation and source code powering Twitter’s Community Notes?
Some of the involved Twitter accounts (various languages now have their own accounts):
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/03
Choose your prefixes by default, especially if you name them after someone else’s product.
In this case, SQLite suffered from McAfee starting to use sqlite_ as prefix for temporary files in 2016.
SQLite had been using that prefix for a long time, and properly cleaned up these files during application shutdown.
McAfee didn’t cleanup after themselves which, after a long track record of dissatisfying users – [Wayback/Archive] The McAfee update mess explained | Reuters – wasn’t an incident, didn’t surprise techies, but prompted regular users to blame SQLite, some even tracking down their developers and call harass them.
McAfee apparently was deaf for a warning that then had been present for more than 10 years, as this got changed change in 20040522:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/11/03
[Wayback/Archive] datetime – What is the difference between UTC and GMT? – Stack Overflow
TL;DR: they used to be different but have been the same for a while now.
The difference is summarised in [Wayback/Archive] Hans Kruse on Twitter: “TIL; I should use OffsetDateTime in Java. An interesting discussion on UTC vs GMT and the historical differences was posted on Stackoverflow. – UTC has leap seconds – GMT had stretched seconds Nowadays they are the same.”
The historic difference however means that when handling past timestamps, you need to be aware that the differ between GMT and UTC.
Which means it is worth to read the whole Stack Overflow question with the most important answers: a trip down memory lane.
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/30
Via [Wayback/Archive] Post by @maaike.bsky.social – Bluesky
[Wayback/Archive] Disappointed Optimist on Twitter: ““What do you mean the carpet is killing people?! Carpet can’t -“
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/29
Chrome 156 – Settings – main column of settingLast night (I have a lot of open tabs, so it needs a while to re-open), I upgrade Chrome to Version 156.0.8078.49 (Official Build) (arm64).
This morning, it had restarted with a new chrome://whats-new/ page (note WordPress does not allow thechrome scheme in URLs to be in links so I highlight all of these as code).
That page lied.
The What’s New page mentions «To turn off this feature, go to Chrome’s settings > AI in Chrome > Gemini in Chrome. Then, turn off the “Media understanding” setting.» and a link Learn more¹ which in turn indicates the setting is at chrome://settings/ai/gemini
That setting does not exist. It redirects to chrome://settings/, which does not have an “AI in Chrome” entry, see the screenshot on the right and the ones below.
Searching for “AI in” also is of limited use. chrome://settings/?search=ai+in finds “Skills in Chrome” which is chrome://settings/ai/skills under the setting “AI innovations” at chrome://settings/ai. The good thing is that it made me turn off the “Enable Skills in Chrome” setting.
BTW: This was the update to Version 156.0.8078.49 (Official Build) (arm64).
--jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/28
These didn’t take long for [Wayback/Archive] Mitmproxy 12.3: eMudhra Edition to appear with these commits:
It is by [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – mitmproxy/mitmproxy: An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers. · GitHub which I mentioned a few times before on my blog¹, so now is the time introduce the mitmproxy category.
Oh BTW: like Diginotar, eMudhra lists about half of the affected certificates as coming from the Netherlands. See the O=eMudhra BV, C=NL bits at the [Wayback/Archive] eMudhra Intermediate CA Compromise.
I won’t go into much detail as why it is so easy to generate these eMudhra certificates, as a much better job already has been done at [Wayback/Archive] Why Were eMudhra’s CA Keys Easy to Guess? · Metaheuristic
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/28
Will probably be useful for me somewhere in the future: [Wayback /Archive] hasherezade/exe_to_dll: Converts a EXE into DLL.
It is based on [Wayback/Archive] Calling Arbitrary Functions In EXEs: Performing Calls to EXE Functions Like DLL Exports | mavlevin
When reversing or fuzzing an executable, being able to run an arbitrary function with controlled data is extremely helpful. Through iteratively playing with the function’s parameters and examining the output, we can better understand the function’s logic.
Note that this best works with console EXE files as UI based ones far more often assume their main module is the process itself (for instance to load resources).
TODO: check what happens when applying this to Delphi and .NET based .EXE files.
Via [Wayback/Archive] hasherezade on Twitter: “If you ever need to convert an EXE into a DLL: // #exe_to_dll “
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/27
During a private conversation, someone mentioned that there is a storm of CVEs and someone else asked if this was because people have been sloppy in programming for a very long time.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] CVE: Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures has a table of Published CVE Records with totals which I have copied:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2026/10/27
[Wayback/Archive] snowcra5h/windows-api-function-cheatsheets: A reference of Windows API function calls, including functions for file operations, process management, memory management, thread management, dynamic-link library (DLL) management, synchronization, interprocess communication, Unicode string manipulation, error handling, Winsock networking operations, and registry operations.
Via [Wayback/Archive] snowcrash on Twitter: “🚀 Just released an updated Windows API function cheatsheet! 📚💻 Level up your skills in #ReverseEngineering #MalwareAnalysis and more with this comprehensive resource. #WindowsAPI #CheatSheet 🔗 Check it out:”
–jeroen
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