reverse engineering

security

Revisiting the Black Sunday Hack

One of the most impressive hacks I've ever read about has to be the Black Sunday kill. Since the original 2001 Slashdot article I read on this [http://slashdot.org/articles/01/01/25/1343218.shtml] is 99.9% quote, I'm going to do the same.

By Jeff Atwood ·
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.net

Obfuscating Code

Robert Cringeley, in a post early last year, raised some concerns about reverse engineering .NET code: .NET is almost exclusively Just-In-Time compiled. JIT'ing means, "I was just about to interpret this, but I'll compile it at the very last minute instead." In effect, the

By Jeff Atwood ·
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software development concepts

iPod Hacking via Modem

It’s the coolest hack in years – The Sound of iPod: I got an iPod for Christmas. The ipodlinux project was one of the main reasons for my choice and so I started exploring the iPod as far as I was able to. I patched the bootloader and got some

By Jeff Atwood ·
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.net

Visual Diff Tools

I'm currently building a .NET library that constructs .MHT files, aka single file web page archives. That's what you get when you perform a File | Save As | Web Archive, Single File operation in IE6. HTML is a great, standard format for building richly formatted one-off reports,

By Jeff Atwood ·
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