Now that I got pointed to this twice (see “Via” below), I need to get one so I can play with it: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – i-am-shodan/USBArmyKnife: USB Army Knife – the ultimate close access tool for penetration testers and red teamers.
Via:
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DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/12
From a while ago. I wonder what the current state is.
[Wayback/Archive] DeCENC is yet another way to beat Amazon, Netflix video DRM • The Register
- [Wayback/Archive] .:: Phrack Magazine ::. which is also a great example on how to publish an article including diagrams in ASCII
- [Wayback/Archive] DeCSS for Linux and DVD
--jeroen
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html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/07
On my research list [Wayback/Archive] html – What can cause Chrome to give an net::ERR_FAILED on cached content against a server on localhost? – Stack Overflow
The reason what that back then this would fail (but worked in Firefox and Safari, and because I was in a hurry I didn’t research further): [Wayback/Archive] https://www.office.com/
This site can’t be reached
The webpage at https://www.office.com/ might be temporarily down or it may have moved permanently to a new web address.
ERR_FAILED
Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Mason Wheeler and [Wayback/Archive] Joel Davey.
Details:
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Of interest – GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/17
Of interest – despite the known issues and LUKS workaround through WSL – mainly as the majority was written in Delphi: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – t-d-k/LibreCrypt: LibreCrypt: Transparent on-the-fly disk encryption for Windows. LUKS compatible.
Found when researching TFrame – What is the accepted way to use frames in Delphi? – Stack Overflow.
Related: Read the rest of this entry »
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For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since a week there is Hegseth and Waltz!
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/05
For a long time there has been Alice and Bob, but since the end of March 2025 there is Hegseth and Waltz!
Nah, the last Wikipedia link does not show history, as it does not really exist.
But someone made the first Wikipedia page into the below picture where Hegseth replaced Alice, Waltz replaced Bob, and Goldberg replaced Mallory.
I found it in these places, but likely it proliferated more:
- [Wayback/Archive] Lina on X: “😂 …”
- 2600 – The Hacker Quarterly | Facebook: Johnathan Vail’s Post (cannot be archived)
[Wayback/Archive] 486367253_10232703147773777_4034863747031352064_n.jpg (766×504)
The Facebook image (see further below) has less JPEG artefacts, so is more original than the Twitter image.
Since [Wayback/Archive] Some URLs Are Immortal, Most Are Ephemeral (a highly recommended reading by the way), I archived the image in the links below the blog signature and had Google OCR the text.
OPSEC is easy if you are clueless.
--jeroen
[Wayback/Archive] 427522053-438a2589-f781-45e5-b94e-92fce4c17314.png (766×504)
Hegseth and Waltz
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaHegseth and Waltz are fictional characters commonly used as placeholders in discussions about cryptographic systems and protocols, [1] and in other science and engineering literature where there are several participants in a thought experiment. The Hegseth and Waltz characters were created by Jeffrey Goldberg in his 2025 article “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”. [2] Subsequently, they have become common archetypes in many scientific and engineering fields, such as
Hegseth
Waltz
Goldberg
Example scenario where communication between Hegseth and Waltz is intercepted by Goldberg
A similar pun was [Wayback/Archive] 487203204_10238119445586263_7274268486470714839_n.jpg (700×433)
Alice, Bob and The Atlantic
Likely all actual images have long been expired from their caches.
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Some HTTP redirect checking sites compared
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/02
Every now and then I want to check how a URL redirect, for instance when checking out why a domain failed loading in browsers a while ago because of certificate problems:
- [Wayback/Archive] SSL Server Test: vems-sassenheim.nl (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
- [Wayback/Archive] SSL Server Test: www.vems-sassenheim.nl (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)
The thing was that back then, the site officially did not have a security certificate, but somehow the provider had installed a self-signed one. Most web-browsers then auto-redirect from http to https. Luckily the archival sites can archive without redirecting:
When querying [Wayback/Archive] redirect check – Google Search, you get quite some results. These are the ones I use most in descending order of preference and why they are at that position:
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Nartac Software – IIS Crypto
Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/26
Not just for IIS, but for hardening any Windows system including ones running http.sys (like ADFS): [Wayback/Archive] Nartac Software – IIS Crypto
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HInvoke and avoiding PInvoke | drakonia’s blog
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/26
On my research list [Wayback/Archive] HInvoke and avoiding PInvoke | drakonia’s blog.
A very minimalistic approach of calling .net runtime functions or accessing properties using only hashes as identifiers. It does not leave any strings or import references since we dynamically resolve the required member from the
mscorlibassembly on runtime.
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crt.sh allows you to search for the history of TLS certificates for domains (example: *.wiert.me)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/11/19
I while ago, I bumped into [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | Certificate Search that allows searching for (the history of) TLS certificates.
One example of what it returns is [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | wiert.me (for my blog domain and subdomains).
The basic mechanism of crt.sh is to query various Certificate Transparency logs and Certificate revocation list, terms I vaguely knew, but never fully realised the vast usefulness of (including questions like [Wayback/Archive] How does crt.sh becomes aware of certificates that are in no CT logs?).
The cool thing is that most (everything?) of it is open source in the various repositories at [Wayback/Archive] Github: crt.sh.
There is also an advanced search page [Wayback/Archive] crt.sh | Certificate Search (a=1) with many more options (including linting) I really want to try later plus a bunch of background links (including the support forum at) of which some *.crt.sh returned a http 502 while writing this blog post. Will try later to see if they have started working again:
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string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow (and how Embarcadero broke one of the product version neutral redirects)
Posted by jpluimers on 2024/09/24
Quite a while ago [Wayback/Archive] string – Check if MyString[1] is an alphabetical character? – Stack Overflow asked by [Wayback/Archive] User Jeff was answered by [Wayback/Archive] Andreas Rejbrand:
The simplest approach is
function GetAlphaSubstr(const Str: string): string; const ALPHA_CHARS = ['a'..'z', 'A'..'Z']; var ActualLength: integer; i: Integer; begin SetLength(result, length(Str)); ActualLength := 0; for i := 1 to length(Str) do if Str[i] in ALPHA_CHARS then begin inc(ActualLength); result[ActualLength] := Str[i]; end; SetLength(Result, ActualLength); end;but this will only consider English letters as “alphabetical characters”. It will not even consider the extremely important Swedish letters Å, Ä, and Ö as “alphabetical characters”!
Slightly more sophisticated is
function GetAlphaSubstr2(const Str: string): string; var ActualLength: integer; i: Integer; begin SetLength(result, length(Str)); ActualLength := 0; for i := 1 to length(Str) do if Character.IsLetter(Str[i]) then begin inc(ActualLength); result[ActualLength] := Str[i]; end; SetLength(Result, ActualLength); end;
Back in 2011 I added a comment that for more than a decade would redirect to the most current documentation on the IsLetter method:
+1 for using
IsLetterwhich checks the Unicode definition for being a letter or not [Wayback] docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
Back then, Delphi X2 was current, so it would redirect
- from [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
- to [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/XE2/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
- then to [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/VCL/XE2/en/Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
- ending at [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/XE2/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
After a long outage in 2022 (see The Delphi documentation site docwiki.embarcadero.com has been down/up oscillating for 4 days is now down for almost a day.) only the Alexandria help was restored.
This killed the above redirect.
Luckily [Wayback/Archive] George Birbilis noticed that and commented this:
@JeroenWiertPluimers the correct link now is: docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/…
In order to refer to the most recent Delphi version, now you have to use [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter.
This redirects:
- via [Wayback] http://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter to
- to [Wayback] https://docwiki.embarcadero.com/Libraries/Alexandria/en/System.Character.TCharacter.IsLetter
The above breaks the help integration from older Delphi products which is bad. It is also bad because it makes it harder to port legacy Delphi code to more modern Delphi versions.
Hopefully the above gives you a bit insight how the docwiki help system was designed and what is left of that design.
–jeroen
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 