Aaron Zar, Co-Founder and CEO of Silent Pocket

On this special edition of the podcast we speak with Aaron Zar, co-founder and CEO of Silent Pocket. Silent Pocket has been a long time sponsor of the show and it was great to catch up with Aaron to get his thoughts on the current state of digital priv… Continue reading Aaron Zar, Co-Founder and CEO of Silent Pocket

Following Pigs: Building an Injectable Livestock Tracking System

I’m often asked to design customer and employee tracking systems. There are quite a few ways to do it, and it’s an interesting intersection of engineering and ethics – what information is reasonable to collect in different contexts, anonymizing and securely storing it, and at a fundamental level whether the …read more

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Stretchy sensor tracks its wearer's health via their skin

One of the stretchable, flexible, skin-adhered BodyNet sensors

It was just last year that we heard how scientists from Stanford University had designed a skin-worn sensor that measures stress via cortisol levels in the sweat. Now, researchers from that same institute have announced a similar sensor that tracks other vital signs.

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Identifying and cloning NFC Card double size UID – type mifare plus 7 byte 2k or classic 7 byte 1k

I am trying to clone/write copies of an NFC card. I am using an ACR122U-A9 receiver and running nfc-tools on a kali linux VM.

The card I am trying to clone is identified as a Mifare Classic 1k tag
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A Briefcase Pentesting Rig For The Discerning Hacker

In the movies, the most-high tech stuff is always built into a briefcase. It doesn’t whether whether it’s some spy gear or the command and control system for a orbiting weapons platform; when an ordinary-looking briefcase is opened up and there’s an LCD display in the top half, you know …read more

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British Airways introduces digital baggage tags to simplify luggage check-in

No-one likes to queue at airport check-in lines, it eats into your holiday time, and can be both boring and tiring. Now British Airways has signed up for ViewTags, reusable electronic baggage tags that can be attached to luggage before holida… Continue reading British Airways introduces digital baggage tags to simplify luggage check-in

Reverse Engineering Cyclic Redundancy Codes

Cyclic redundancy codes (CRC) are a type of checksum commonly used to detect errors in data transmission. For instance, every Ethernet packet that brought you the web page you’re reading now carried with it a frame check sequence that was calculated using a CRC algorithm. Any corrupted packets that failed …read more

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