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The Art of Cybersecurity (And how to get into it)

You put on your black hoodie, install Kali Linux, change your Facebook cover photo to edgiest pic related to hacking that you can find and boom! hacker mode. Hell yes, you’re ready to become the next Elliot Alderson and hack the FBI with your 1337 command line tools, that router in your neighbour’s living room that you always wanted access to, a...

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Optimistic Nihilism

It’s past midnight, you can’t sleep and all you can think about is how large the universe is or wondering if you’ll ever make it and have a stable life with a family and a job and all that.

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Acronyms

Humans like acronyms generally, who wants to waste time saying 4, 5, or even 10 words when they can say one catchy word? In the tech world, acronyms are quite fascinating. Let’s take a look at some of the bizarre ones I came across recently.

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Buffer Overflows: The Basics

There are a lot of ways to make the software you write vulnerable (if you’re a developer) or to exploit existing software (if you’re on the other side). In this post I’ll be talking about buffer overflows. A buffer overflow is a bug in software where memory gets overwritten due to a buffer being assigned a value that is bigger than the buffer’s...

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What's Foss?

A little bit of a background in case you’re not computer savvy, all of computer software is written using a programming language in plain-text files. These files are called “source codes”, where as if you have the source of an application, you can understand what the program exactly does and you can change whatever you want in it. The sources ar...

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