Hack The Box Invite Insight

I’ve (re)started the Cryptopals Crypto Challenges too many times to remember. I think I’ve implemented a Vigenère solution from scratch enough times, and I need a new technical challenge that I can periodically jump into with enthusiasm and then procrastinate into memory oblivion.

Ethics of Brain-Computer Interfaces

Some Preparatory Musings

I recently got an invitation to watch a debate between the UMBC philosophy and computer science departments regarding the ethics of brain-computer interfaces.

Breaking Vigenere

And Other Fun with Cryptography

I’ve been messing around with some basic cryptography challenges ever since DEFCON, which was a ton of fun and very informative. The most recent challenge involved breaking a Vigenere cipher (also known as a repeating…