All Things Hacking Darkly

Nov 20, 2017

Starting Easy with a Simple Code and a Good Mystery (CC20171119)

These posts are meant to be fun and interesting, with a dash of insight. I write about all things hacking darkly, which is a bit more comprehensive than the popular notion of computer hacking. Stick around and you will…

Cracker Hackers on Stage are Like Circus Clowns

Stop me if you have heard this one before. I was at a conference on computer security and I attended a talk by some notorious hacker who implied he could hack anything easily. He produced evidence in the form of a live demonstration involving an…

Security People =? “f*cking morons”

Linus Torvalds — you know, that Linux guy — just wrote,

Some security people have scoffed at me when I say that security
problems are primarily “just bugs”.

Those security people are f*cking morons.