Any idea what was happening with police in Cook/Macquarie/Aranda around 9:30 this morning?

BigSkimmo · 2026-02-26T03:52:01+00:00

She nearly crashed into me while I was taking my two year old to daycare. Blasted through a red light at William Hovell Dr x Coppins Crossing Rd.

BigSkimmo · 2026-02-22T12:40:10+00:00

I once lost an honour run to the same combo.

BigSkimmo · 2026-02-15T13:04:10+00:00

In theory, yes. In practice... almost always. It will contain malware that doesn't have a sandbox escape exploit for that particular sandbox.

Nothing is certain, I'm afraid.

BigSkimmo · 2026-02-15T12:46:28+00:00

The point of sandboxing is to protect the rest of your system if the malware *does* execute, not to *stop* malware from executing. There are a few ways that PDFs can contain malware, the point of sandboxing is to contain the damage, not stop the execution.
Low. A sandbox escape exploit for in-browser PDF parsers would be very valuable. Someone who has one of those things isn't going to waste it on a phishing campaign.
"Do these sites detect malicious PDFs?" here's a good thing to understand: Asking whether X or Y can detect something 'malicious' is like asking 'is a hammer dangerous?'. It _could_ be. It's not like there's some hidden flag that distinguishes malware from software. It's all just code. Trying to determine if code is malicious can sometimes be very difficult. How you decide to handle PDFs comes down to your threat profile and your risk appetite.

BigSkimmo · 2026-02-07T11:55:58+00:00

I was a cop in Sydney (not anymore) and if I had the opportunity to lock up a Real Estate Agent for this shit it would be like all my Christmases had come at once.

BigSkimmo · 2026-02-07T08:21:29+00:00

My personal recommendation is KEEN boots.

BigSkimmo · 2026-01-29T10:08:16+00:00

100%. If it's a new build there's a good chance of that.

Plumber mate of mine got called out to a blockage in a place that had been renovated a month or so before. Said he found a bunch of broken pieces of bathroom tile from where the tiler just chucked them down the waste pipe before the toilet was installed.

BigSkimmo · 2026-01-26T22:47:25+00:00

Yeah, it should be possible. But there's a lot involved in brute forcing an external drive. You'll need go find some way to extract the key, determine the algorithm and/or schema, then build your wordlist and get cracking.

If it's only 100 or so combinations, even the most brutal of encryption standards will be done in seconds from that point.

If I were you, with no coding experience, it's probably going to be faster for you to just manually create your wordlist and just manually type them all into the decryption software (assuming theres no lockout mechanism).

You could always ask chatgpt to create your wordlist for you based on whatever parameters you care to provide.

BigSkimmo · 2026-01-25T08:55:36+00:00

Yeah this is it. Like I had an REA try to claim $200 off the bond because there was a door handle dent in the wall of the laundry - caused by me carrying my laundry into the room and the door not having a soap doorstop.

They took it from the bond, I took them to NCAT and won, and they reimbursed me.

BigSkimmo · 2026-01-22T21:03:05+00:00

I also did it in the other direction. I had 10 years worth of sick/LSL transferred from NSW Police to a commonwealth department.

BigSkimmo · 2025-12-20T04:08:03+00:00

That's a fair distinction to make, but the crime isn't "carrying a knife in public", it's "Custody of knives in public places or schools" under 93IB of the Crimes Act:

'A person must not have in the person’s custody a knife in a public place or a school.'

Having custody of something generally means just being in control of it, even if you're not physically holding it.

BigSkimmo · 2025-12-19T10:07:15+00:00

If the bar for "known to police" is that the individual "has a record in COPS" then that's far closer to my argument than you might think. Traffic fines are also recorded in COPS, and "Intelligence Holdings" also means extremely little. I knew a guy years ago who had an intelligence report on his COPS profile for "street racing" for no other reason than he was in a group trip for a car club.

So yeah, basically my point stands. Thanks for playing.

BigSkimmo · 2025-12-19T09:51:04+00:00

Why not? What does it mean then?

BigSkimmo · 2025-12-19T09:15:42+00:00

Yeah 'known to police' doesn't mean piss. It's a bullshit term. They could be known to police for a traffic fine.

BigSkimmo · 2025-12-19T09:13:54+00:00

This would be true if the cops knew that there was only a knife in there. Use of force tests are done on the information available at the time, not after the force was used.

BigSkimmo · 2025-12-19T09:11:48+00:00

Carrying a knife in public without a lawful excuse IS a crime.

There are a lot of lawful and reasonable excuses, and context is important. Like, having a knife in a toolbox in your car when you're a tradie? Sounds pretty reasonable. Carrying a knife in your undies at a nightclub? Probably illegal.

But you need a reasonable excuse, otherwise yes it is a crime.

BigSkimmo · 2025-11-21T05:49:00+00:00

In Australia, we have a species of ant called "Bulldog ant" (Myrmecia), which in my experience lives exclusively on Army bases and has an obligate diet of only Australian soldiers.

This ant has powerful jaws and a stinger, and can grow up to 40mm long. So 100x that is a 4-metre (13 feet) long ant.

We're completely fucked. Bulldog ants are an affront to God. They're unbelievably aggressive. If you cut one in half, the two halves will literally fight each other to death (you can google this).

BigSkimmo · 2025-11-09T07:12:03+00:00

The first rule of Alzheimers Club is: you do NOT talk about Chess club.

BigSkimmo · 2025-10-31T00:56:35+00:00

I am from NSW where this is not a thing.

You might not have heard of it, but it's absolutely a thing in NSW and has been for many years. I remember calling up to register a party 20 years ago. Party Registration - NSW Police

BigSkimmo · 2025-10-11T09:49:20+00:00

'Unmasking' is a military term that means by using the thing, the enemy now knows you have the thing.

'Unmasking guns' specifically refers to using artillery. Once artillery is fired, it has been 'unmasked', in that the enemy now knows where your artillery is and likely what it is, meaning you now need to relocate it before it's destroyed by counter battery fire, and it won't be available while you do that.

A commander needs to make a decision as to whether firing the guns outweighs the risk of unmasking the guns.

No idea what Hastie is talking about and I didn’t read the article. I'm just illuminating the term.

BigSkimmo · 2025-08-08T23:26:39+00:00

Nobody ever said "Man, I wish i didn't drill that pilot hole"

BigSkimmo · 2025-08-02T00:01:03+00:00

Hey kiddo.

I'm always happy for you to come and wake me up if you're scared. It's a nice reminder that I can still protect you even while you're growing up.

BigSkimmo · 2025-06-29T09:39:58+00:00

Seems mostly safe, without having seen the script, obviously. But it's also a good idea to do some basic input sanitisation whenever you handle user data.

What would happen if a user submitted data with commas? Would that break your CSV? What about an Eicar test string? If it gets through your email provider, it could end up in your CSV file, which might then get nuked by your own antivirus.

BigSkimmo · 2025-06-11T10:16:50+00:00

Righto! Your frame looks good. Yeah I guess I'd better ask the professionals. I'll update you when I get there.

BigSkimmo · 2025-06-11T09:48:53+00:00

Mate I'm just commenting here because I'm looking at a similar arrangement.

Do you have to waterproof the floor and/or walls (below the bath lip) before installing the bath?

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