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JamesNay | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Latest best practices to detect keyloggers on Windows/Mac/Linux?

It's basically a lost cause: for whatever approach you take, the enemy piece of software will always be one ring below you - completely safe from your memory access.

In academics there is nothing really interesting about key loggers specifically. It's just a software, that reads memory.

You could whitelist processes, but the attacker will patch itself into whitelisted programs at runtime and run under their hood - low level kernel operations are the things, that an attacker ignores, when she already is a kernel module or sits in your ME. That's why Antivirus solutions are basically useless against a skilled attacker.

JamesNay | 4 years ago | on: Juniper breach mystery starts to clear with new details on hackers and U.S. role

Bloomberg at the frontline of "having no idea how anything works at all".

When the NSA designed DEC, they primed it with constants, that you'd need to know to break the encryption with low effort.

Somebody discovered that and made it known publicly.

So now before the rumors evolve into actual security engineers looking into it, the NSA creates a scapegoat APT, that "altered" some "code" at Juniper.

Of course nobody finds out, who those APT are, because attribution is 1% more accurate than astrology.

JamesNay | 4 years ago | on: How to stop writing like you’re in college

This is stupid. As everybody else, I prefer concise explanations of complex problems, but sometimes, you're better of writing fewer descriptive and long sentences, rather than writing a fuckload of paragraphs.

JamesNay | 5 years ago | on: I Built a Complete P2P RSS Podcast App in a Single HTML File

Horrible and unusable. Pulls javascript files like hell and doesn't at all understand, how podcasts are being consumed. Listening states _must_ be synced across all devices. This is basic functionality

1. Missing Import/Export Functionality. It's called OPML. 2. Missing search integration of the biggest Podcast Providers. A simple lookup at apple's directory would've been enough, but I guess there wasn't a prefabricated piece of JS available for the task.

The only interesting aspect of this project, the WebTorrent and IPFS integrration, remains basically useless, since you would need a +500 user base for this, to work properly.

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