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Privacy

Light bulb spying: What’s all the fuss about?

Oh and your Zoom and [insert meeting app here] meetings are vulnerable too.Continue readingLight bulb spying: What’s all the fuss about?

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Code Life

Pro Tips For Designing Robust React Components Part II: Bundle Size

A few weeks ago, I shared some tips for improving React app performance. Let’s see how another metric can be improved - the bundle size.Continue readingPro Tips For Designing Robust React Components Part II: Bundle Size

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Code Life

Musings about Database Indexes

And not “Indicies”; I just took the Triplebyte backend developer test last night, and this was on the assessment.Continue readingMusings about Database Indexes

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Code Life

Who’s responsible for securing software?

In a world that is embracing DevOps, Infosec is not sure which one should shoulder this responsibility.Continue readingWho’s responsible for securing software?

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Academy

Everything You Wanted To Know About Bitcoin Addresses

An address is a string of alphanumeric characters which identifies a bitcoin wallet. Users can use addresses to send and receive cryptocurrency. Addresses are usually identifiers for their public keys, and are recorded on the blockchain. Addresses might have a protocol name at the beginning of them, such as “bitcoin:1aF398Csd3hF…..”. This allows browsers to open…Continue readingEverything You Wanted To Know About Bitcoin Addresses

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Satoshi Nakamoto

People claiming to be Satoshi (List of Faketoshis)

DISCLOSURE: I don’t believe any of these people to be Satoshi.Continue readingPeople claiming to be Satoshi (List of Faketoshis)

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Bitcoin

Fields of Bitcoin wallet hashes

People mainly run bitcoin2john on wallet files to get the hash, which can then be attacked by hashcat.Continue readingFields of Bitcoin wallet hashes

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Bitcoin

Gotcha, Darkside: How I Traced The Stolen Bitcoins

No, the FBI did not hack bitcoinContinue readingGotcha, Darkside: How I Traced The Stolen Bitcoins

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Satoshi Nakamoto

Has someone made a “buy with bitcoins” button?

I mean an image. You know a nice one that people can put on their checkout webpages.Continue readingHas someone made a “buy with bitcoins” button?

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Bitcoin

A full shell script implementation of bitcoin?

I’ve actually been thinking about a full shell implementation of bitcoin for some time.Continue readingA full shell script implementation of bitcoin?