Study: Alternative Data Streams | Daniel Miessler
You may be interested to know about another “SECRET” that the boys in Redmond try not to advertise. It is called Alternative Data Streams, and…
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Study: SMTP | Daniel Miessler
SMTPRFC 821 SMTP is the main protocol used for sending mail on the Internet. Understanding it to at least a moderate degree is a must.…
Go OS X
Cherry OS has just come out with one of the coolest things to hit desktop computing in years. This software will allow those who don’t…
Writing | Daniel Miessler
It seems my writing has gone from something of an experiment/curiosity to something different. I am not sure what that new thing is quite yet,…
An IPTABLES Primer | Daniel Miessler
iptables is the packet filtering technology that’s built into the 2.4 Linux kernel. It’s what allows one to do firewalling, nating, and other cool stuff…
A Bigger Boat | Daniel Miessler
Well, I have published another article after over a year without doing so, and this time it has met with some fairly substantial success. The…
Diffie-Hellman | Daniel Miessler
Diffie-Hellman is a key exchange protocol developed by Diffie and Hellman (imagine that) in 1976. The purpose of Diffie-Hellman is to allow two entities to…
Why You Should Dump Internet Explorer
The time has come to dump Internet Explorer. I know, I know — you may have heard the same thing before from those that think…
Geek Battles: A Call for Perspective
“Linux sucks as a desktop.” “Windows is insecure.” “OS X is for rich, trendy art majors.” Depending on who’s in earshot, spouting off any of…
My First Experience With Linux
[ Dec 31, 1999 ] Well, it is the day before. The day of, actually. As I write this it is 1:55 p.m. and I…
The Best Argument I’ve Ever Heard For Why Someone Believes in God
A new friend and I had an extraordinarily productive and meaningful discussion about religion last night. This is noteworthy because he is a devout Mormon…
CSRF is Wicked | Daniel Miessler
I’ve been studying web security again recently and decided to do a POC of CSRF (Sea Surf) (Cross Site Request Forgery). It’s been done/covered many…