Mounting an NFS share (DNS-320) in Ubuntu
I wanted to stream videos from my NAS (a D-Link DNS-320) on my media centre (running Mythbuntu). Here’s how to use NFS. First, set up an NFS share on the DNS-320, using the GUI. The only ‘gotcha’ is...
View ArticleSolution to Part One of the GCHQ ‘canyoucrackit.co.uk’
The image on canyoucrackit.co.uk contains x86 code. So save typing it out by hand, I googled a couple of bytes and found a text version someone had kindly put up. Next, I took a dummy exe file...
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Solution to Part Two of the GCHQ ‘canyoucrackit.co.uk’
In the previous post, we found the following url: http://canyoucrackit.co.uk/15b436de1f9107f3778aad525e5d0b20.js (In case link disappears, I’ve put a copy here). Having never written an emulator/VM...
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Solution to Part Three of the GCHQ ‘canyoucrackit.co.uk’
Download the exe found in the previous part: http://canyoucrackit.co.uk/da75370fe15c4148bd4ceec861fbdaa5.exe (Mirror: part3.zip) Load it up in Olly and we immediately find we need cygcrypt-0.dll. To...
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MythSimpleVideos Released!
I’ve finally gotten around to releasing my new MythTV plugin. Take a look at it here: http://jwandrews.co.uk/mythsimplevideos/ “MythSimpleVideos is my MythTV plugin which provides alternative...
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Saleae Logic Analyser Clone Teardown and Reprogramming
I bought a cheap ($18 shipped) logic analyser from China (via AliExpress) which recently arrived in the post. It’s a clone of the $150 Saleae Logic Analyser. Here it is: And here are its insides: A...
View ArticleHardware Breakpoints: VirtualBox vs VMware
Debugging code which doesn’t want to be debugged (think software protection, anti-debugging tricks etc.) can be a headache. Some plugins do exist for OllyDbg (Phantom, StrongOD to name but a few)...
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Breaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 23 lines of Python
As an avid reader of HAD I was intrigued by this post explaining how someone had broken MintEye’s audio based CAPTCHA. The image version of the CAPTCHA looked interesting and so I thought it might be...
View ArticleBreaking the MintEye image CAPTCHA in 34 lines of Python
Several people have complained that importing OpenCV is cheating and that claiming MintEye was broken in 23 lines is disingenuous. So, here’s a solution in 34 lines of Python: import sys import os...
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