Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/20
Tools and steps for analysing Delphi or FreePascal code: Dependency Analysis – Pascal Today [WayBack]
Used tools:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/19
TL;DR: yes it is.
Answer by Allen Bauer at delphi – Is AtomicCmpExchange reliable on all platforms? – Stack Overflow [WayBack]
On Windows, it directly translates into lock cmpxchg which is way faster than the Windows API call [WayBack] InterlockedCompareExchange, as that is a jump to the actual code:
InterlockedCompareExchange: 00417CA8 FF2528E12901 jmp dword ptr [$0129e128]KERNEL32.InterlockedCompareExchange: 75855E40 8BFF mov edi,edi 75855E42 55 push ebp 75855E43 8BEC mov ebp,esp 75855E45 8B550C mov edx,[ebp+$0c] 75855E48 8B4D08 mov ecx,[ebp+$08] 75855E4B 8B4510 mov eax,[ebp+$10] 75855E4E F00FB111 lock cmpxchg [ecx],edx 75855E52 5D pop ebp 75855E53 C20C00 ret $000c
whereas AtomicCmdExchange looks like this:
Test.pas.20: RestoreValue := AtomicCmpExchange(FieldToBeModfied, 1 {new value}, 0 {expected value}, Success {true if the expected value was found, and new value set}); 0111A838 8B45FC mov eax,[ebp-$04] 0111A83B 8D500C lea edx,[eax+$0c] 0111A83E 33C0 xor eax,eax 0111A840 B901000000 mov ecx,$00000001 0111A845 F00FB10A lock cmpxchg [edx],ecx 0111A849 0F9445F2 setz byte ptr [ebp-$0e] 0111A84D 8945D8 mov [ebp-$28],eax
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/19
I have seen too many projects over the years trying to do input validation by checking KeyPress. This is not limited to Delphi projects (C#, VB and other projects suffer from this just as much). Most of these projects suffer from these::
If doing Delphi, then that code should be rewritten in a generic way based on examples like like these:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/18
Putting all those old USB chargers to good use:
USB LED Light Lamp for Computer Keyboard Reading Laptop Notebook PC 2016 | eBay [WayBack]
Via:
AMAZING 77 cent LED light -including shipping Pulls about 3/4 of a watt (0.14 amp @ 5v), and rivals the light output of a $20 3 watt lamp from Amazon.… – Joe C. Hecht – Google+ [WayBack]
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/15
Before you fill up your car, check if you potentially can be skimmed: Skimmer Scanner – Android Apps on Google Play
The app is open source at sparkfunX/Skimmer_Scanner: A mobile app for detecting bluetooth gas pump credit card skimmers.
A long article about reverse engineering these skimmers is at [WayBack] Gas Pump Skimmers – learn.sparkfun.com including tools to get the data out: [WayBack] MPLAB PICkit 3 – PGM-09973 – SparkFun Electronics
All via: [WayBack] Gas pump skimmers – what you need to knowIf you’re on android, there’s an app that essentially finds and pairs with the skimmer to see if it’s active… – Lars Fosdal – Google+
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/14
Some inspiration for writing a proper bookmarklet that finds or saves a WayBack machine page:
On the last link, I was hoping that the https://web.archive.org/liveweb/https://www.example.org would work but it doesn’t work for many URLs and I’m not sure yet why that is.
It has a nice tip that works though:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/14
Just in case someone has a better alternative than youtube-dl alias:
alias youtube-dl-audio-and-video='youtube-dl --keep-video --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3'
It extracts the audio and keeps the video.
The result is that also all intermediate downloads are being kept.
So even after studying the README extensively the only alternative seems to be a double download like this:
youtube-dl-audio-and-video() { youtube-dl --extract-audio --audio-quality 0 --audio-format mp3 $1; youtube-dl $1; }
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/13
Interesting tool to scan your network vulnerabilities from both outside and inside: guardicore/monkey: Infection Monkey – An automated pentest tool
Via a chain of links all around “Trojan.sysscan:
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/12
The Searching repositories – User Documentation mentions
By default, forked repositories are not shown.
But it forgets this only holds for the main search box which is conveniently called “Search GitHub” but documented as “Search repositories“:
Based on that documentation you’d think the “Search Repositories” box would adhere to the same defaults, right?
Wrong. We live in the “form over function” era so that would be too easy.
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Posted by jpluimers on 2017/09/12
At the time of discovering Welcome to workaround.org via More ISP Mail saveback – Joe C. Hecht – Google+:
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 