Collaborate Disseminate
[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?
I know that this world is very evil, and that the most unfathomable things go on around the clock, inside and outside of the "computer world". However, I sometimes really wonder if certain things can really be true. For example, … Continue reading Did a virus like this really ever exist?
What malware was the first to use a client-server architecture to relay commands?
The earliest that I could find appears to be NetBus which was written in early 1998. The next closest would be Back Orifice, which was written in August 1998… Continue reading First Known Client/Server Architecture Malware
Doing some research, I came across the Google Trends for “data breach”.
I noticed that there were very large spikes for September 2017 and July 2019:
Zooming in to the time-frame before those two large spikes, I noticed several smaller… Continue reading Which data-breaches (that triggered consumer interest) hapened around these dates? [closed]