Recently I was helping someone who wanted to get started building their own transforms, and after looking at the efforts they had to go through building the transforms, I thought there must be a better, easier way to set this up. Luckily for me, I see that Paterva have now released the code for what…
Overview One thing that always bugged me was if someone says something like “Oh wow you wouldn’t believe what happ- actually nevermind”. I am far too curious and I usually want to know what was going to be said. Secondly I’ve seen this on WhatsApp too, especially in community groups / other where its usually…
Many years ago someone told me this interesting fact about how people receive compliments and it went something like this: “If a person receives a compliment, even if they know it is disingenuous, they still feel better about themselves.” What? This made no sense to me, how would that even be possible. If I was…
Over the years, halloween has always been fun for me, I basically wish I was American so that I could dress up excessively every year! This year I decided that I would like to build my own costume. Naturally I wanted all the blinken lights, but without all the hard work of having to build…
Usually I have a blog post about building/breaking something with the intention of actually building or breaking it. This one however is not like the others. It started about 2 years ago, I got a POV fan from the Lockheed Martin booth at Blackhat, it looked as follows: This is how I destroyed that fan….
Defcon every year has many many different electronic badges that you can play with / hack / blind your friends with. I was lucky enough to get one of these really cool badges and I wanted to figure out the lock codes from the hardware/firmware rather than trying to use the interface. TL;DR I didn’t end…