prasdud rambles
Read Stop Using Chromium Browsers, They Don’t Love You
Exploratory, Engineering

Stop Using Chromium Browsers, They Don’t Love You

tl;dr – Chromium browsers enforce conservative memory limits by design. Firefox makes different trade-offs and behaves very differently under memory pressure.

#Browsers#JavaScript#Memory
Read Pixie Dust Attack
Research, Security

Pixie Dust Attack

tl;dr - An attack which leverages a QOL feature to hack into a WPS network.

#Cybersecurity#Wi-Fi#Exploitation
Read Blockchain 101
Exploratory

Blockchain 101

tl;dr - Blockchain at its core, is basically a database with the special properties of immutability, decentralization, distributed consensus and transparency.

#Blockchain#Cryptocurrency#Distributed Systems
Read Randomness in Computing
Exploratory, Research

Randomness in Computing

tl;dr - Random numbers aren't really random. Well, sometimes they are, but not really, it depends whether you think we live in a deterministic universe or not. Does it really matter if a number is true random? Sometimes.

#Randomness#Entropy#Cryptography
Read QR Codes: An Introspection
Exploratory, Research

QR Codes: An Introspection

tl;dr - Very cool piece of tech that allows very large data to be held in a very small space, comes in various sizes and versions.

#QR Codes#Encryption#Data