Collaborate Disseminate
We had good discussions about it being safe or not five years ago, and it was defaulted to yes on the kernel way over 3 years ago (with a note calling anyone security conscious who disable it as paranoid)
So, was it exploited after all in … Continue reading Was Unpriviledged User Namespaces exploited since it started to default to YES?
I did find some information online stating that LM hashes were deactivated by default since Vista / Windows Server 2008.
But when were NT hashes introduced for the first time?
(Also, do we have a primary source for this?)
Continue reading When did Windows switch to NT hashes? [closed]
Are you interested in the history of beer, food science, or just a fan of gathering “um, actually” details about things? Well you’re in for a treat because FoodCult (exploring …read more Continue reading Making Beer Like It’s 1574, For Science And Heritage
[Rural Heritage TV] has video of a private tour of a working, two-story, steam-powered sawmill at Lake Itasca, Minnesota. This is believed to be one of the only working steam-powered …read more Continue reading Chugging Along: A Steam-Powered Sawmill Still Makes Its Mark
The Brain virus is an early virus targeting the IBM PC / MS DOS platform.
Sometimes, it is claimed that one of the virus’ purpose was to prevent the copying of some software that the virus was distributed with.
For example from the virus’ … Continue reading Could the Brain virus technically prevent software piracy?
I am very well aware of the reason that e-mail is such a nightmare/mess today, in so many ways. This is not what I’m asking about.
I’m wondering why it was originally decided to make e-mail so convoluted. Just to make one simple and obviou… Continue reading I find the e-mail (as method of message exchange) convoluted and easy to break [closed]
I wouldn’t have thought that certificates could be used to track my history, I thought they were essentially login credentials, but I installed some to use my Uni wifi and now my google pixel 3 has a warning that says "Network may be … Continue reading I installed internet certificates on my android to connect to uni wifi, can they see what I’m doing at home?
While reading about password breaches, it occurred to me; where are the TOTP shared secret breaches? Because TOTP relies on a shared secret (unlike say U2F) the server has a copy of the shared secret, which lends itself to the same vulnera… Continue reading Historical examples of breached TOTP secrets?
I am trying to find out about the security of cc:Mail (documentation, v. 8.3).
The manual (Administrator’s Guide v. 8.1, p. 4) says it
Includes an enhanced data-transmission encryption scheme.
The Post Office files and the mail archive f… Continue reading Security of cc:Mail (~1985 – 2000)
N.B. Asking this here instead of Movies.SE because I’m wanting to know about the cipher itself and any history, which this site is more suitable for.
In S01E05 of The Wire, at around 45:00, it’s revealed that:
In more detail:
Each digit … Continue reading Did The Wire invent the "Jump 5" cipher?