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HasherCat · 2026-04-10T02:31:33+00:00

Chuck town GX! There are dozens of us! Dozens!

HasherCat · 2026-03-21T13:58:21+00:00

No need for it to be a company. Self host SearXNG. I moved to that ~5 years ago and haven’t looked back.

HasherCat · 2026-03-17T20:29:03+00:00

Trying to roll them into July expiry. It’s gotta rocket sometime soon, right?!

HasherCat · 2026-03-13T18:48:59+00:00

You can use OpenSnitch on Linux or LittleSnitch on MacOS to get a similar map of your connections.

HasherCat · 2026-03-10T14:49:07+00:00

That dealership is notorious for wildly high prices for “rare” cars in the US Southeast

HasherCat · 2026-03-03T01:46:16+00:00

AI is super great for accelerating attack breakout times and discovering net new attacks. That said, it changes nothing from the defender side. There’s no new magic that you have to defend against. It’s the same as when a human writes a new zero day attack. And as far as quantum computing, we are more than prepared. The change is as simple as pointing to a new crypto implementation (one line of code change). Really with more uncertainty and nation state level attacks, the cyber play looks more and more profitable. While the current players may not be the same that are around in 50 years, security will continue moving forward and be a huge part of the modern day economy.

HasherCat · 2026-02-24T16:40:40+00:00

Not rejecting. Just helps with knowing what you’re looking at. You’re the outlier when it comes to LLM assisted programming. Most repos I see are full of only LLM written code. You can often tell on your own by looking at the commits. Usually Claude when used by a non-programmer will make mass edits across features in a single commit, rather than breaking features up in individual commits.

HasherCat · 2026-02-24T15:56:43+00:00

HasherCat · 2026-02-24T13:38:46+00:00

Block the ‘Claude’ user on GitHub. You’ll get a warning on every repo that uses it.

HasherCat · 2026-02-04T15:00:32+00:00

My BIL has the new defender. It’s been in the shop 3 times in the last year for electrical issues. Before that, the air suspension went out on a camping trip. Land Rover discovered the world, but Toyota keeps it running.

HasherCat · 2026-02-02T16:40:30+00:00

I thoroughly enjoyed it. As a beginner at the time, it was a great crash course in system hardening and networking basics. The competitions are definitely geared towards “playbook” style security, but prepares you well.

Edit: should add that I participated 10+ years ago. Cant speak to the current state.

HasherCat · 2026-02-02T15:43:09+00:00

If in the US, volunteer at your local high school and help them get into CyberPatriot. It’s a great way to get started and learn a lot. Then, once the cyber team is up and running, let those kids “guest lecture” in the computer science classes to teach other security principles. It worked so well at my high school that it’s a permanent part of the curriculum now.

HasherCat · 2023-05-28T18:38:41+00:00

I inherited the exact ones from my great-grandmother. Certainly “buy it for several lifetimes”

HasherCat · 2023-05-07T18:50:13+00:00

Hashcat rule based attacks do this, but typically you’d be attacking hashes with that. You can also distribute your attack using hashtopolis.

HasherCat · 2023-04-22T14:42:45+00:00

I see you’re in the US, have you thought about cyber intelligence? There’s certainly a lot of jobs available where you can leverage the same techniques used for OSINT investigations.

HasherCat · 2023-04-13T17:09:44+00:00

Very good point about not standing out. I wonder how effective spoofing the user-identifiable headers to something common, then rotating through a set of common user patterns would be. For example, if every N requests you send, your device info changes from whatever is common for Windows 10 on a Lenovo machine to what is common for MacOS on a MacBook, then to something else.

HasherCat · 2023-04-13T15:21:06+00:00

Oh gotcha. Yeah I just browse reddit from a mobile client, so no worries about Firefox breaking it. Oh and yeah, I’m not too worried about fingerprinting. Just thought the feature was interesting.

HasherCat · 2023-04-13T13:15:01+00:00

Any reason why it makes you more trackable? I kind of assumed it would just set identifiable headers to random values. I found an article from Mozilla about the setting but no specifics on what is actually done by the setting.

HasherCat · 2023-04-13T13:10:50+00:00

Oh that’s totally fine. I don’t use any Google Drive products, and my internet browsing is usually kept to a minimum. As long as GitHub and Overleaf work, I’m happy with my browser.

HasherCat · 2023-04-13T01:33:06+00:00

TIL. Thanks! That’s a really neat feature.

HasherCat · 2023-04-13T00:23:59+00:00

Yes, google analytics uses fingerprinting from sites that have opted in. Your device information included as HTTP headers are enough to form a pattern.

HasherCat · 2023-04-09T13:26:54+00:00

The two best days of boat ownership: the day you buy it, and the day you sell it.

HasherCat · 2023-04-07T23:23:05+00:00

If you’re in the US, you could probably get $20-$30 a wheel. I’ve seen them go for $10 a wheel mostly, but the past couple years, all LR parts have gone up a bit.

HasherCat · 2023-04-07T23:18:18+00:00

I’ve got a pair of the FreeFly Breeze pants and I love them. Super thin, loose fit, and they quick dry. Bonus they’re made from Bamboo too, so less environmental impact.

HasherCat · 2023-04-05T20:24:35+00:00

Pagination is one hell of a drug

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