security

getting password hash on OS-X

 code, mac, security, tech  Comments Off on getting password hash on OS-X
Jan 142012
 

I keep having to look this up… so here’s a perl script (click to DL below). Also prints out some other stuff I keep forgetting how to get. Also does it for the user logged in, so you can sudo and have it work. Will die if you can’t read the hash file. Sample run: # ./get_hashpipe.pl Running Snow Leopard, version 10.6.8 You is: zen Gen UID for zen […]

Security in Bullet Time

 philosophy, security  Comments Off on Security in Bullet Time
Jan 102012
 
Security in Bullet Time

I’ve been thinking of virtual systems and probing and prodding the same. Virtualizing is sort of sticking something in amber, but instead of being a dead or frozen system it’s a place you can run anything you want for as long as you want, it’s alive; and it can be exactly like a target you want to hit, analyze, tear apart. To me in the virtual flytrap world things […]

Miss you

 friend, me, people, rememberance, security  Comments Off on Miss you
Dec 252011
 
Miss you

Just ran across a picture of Bob Abbott, who died last year… I knew him for close to 20 years… and he was a great man, I shall miss drinking with him, arguing with him, talking with him… but mostly I’ll just miss him. I also found a treasure of an interview here, which I’ll also put below (links never last…) you can find a bit more about him […]

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