Uwe Hermann @uwehermann@fosstodon.org

A real life Bobby tables! Someone registered a custom car license plate "NULL" and got assigned every speeding ticket where the image processing system was unable to determine a plate number.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/aug/13/the-fashion-line-designed-to-trick-surveillance-cameras

Two flash clips, a flash emulator, a flash programmer, surface mount soldered test points, oscilloscope probes, cat5 crossover cable, and both a TTL serial adapter as well as an RS232 serial adapter with null modem & genderchanger. Finally got my emacs setup just how I like it.

How Can AMD EPYC "Rome" 7002 Series Be Even Better? Open-Source BIOS / Coreboot

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-EPYC-Coreboot-Open-Austin

#AMD is a solid buy for me, now. All recommendations I make will be for AMD, too. I don’t care if those I convince don’t use core-boot or whatever, the gesture is not going unheeded.

Facebook Plans on Backdooring WhatsApp

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2019/08/facebook_plans_.html

Anyone interested to take over the maintenance of the driver for the floppy controller in the Linux Kernel?

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/47d6a7607443ea43dbc4d0f371bf773540a8f8f4

Holy what!

"Amazon's home security company Ring has enlisted local police departments around the country to advertise its surveillance cameras in exchange for free Ring products and a “portal” that allows police to request footage from these cameras, a secret agreement obtained by Motherboard shows."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb88za/amazon-requires-police-to-shill-surveillance-cameras-in-secret-agreement

#infosec

Announcing #coreboot 4.10
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/126183 #freesw #hardware

Glad you asked!
1. Pages load twice as fast
2. Laptop battery lasts longer
3. My privacy isn't invaded by 50 different douchebro Silicon Valley companies
4. Your fucking site doesn't slow down my computer to a crawl and I can actually read your fucking articles

The OpenBIOS Project is an open source implementation of OpenFirmware, a Firmware based on Forth (used in SUN and PPC Apple computer, among others)

It can also be used as a hosted Forth running on top of a normal operating system.

OpenBIOS is used for booting Solaris and MacOS X PPC in QEMU.

The Homepage is at
https://www.openfirmware.info/OpenBIOS

The mailing list
https://mail.coreboot.org/hyperkitty/list/openbios@openbios.org/

Debian 10 buster has been released! https://bits.debian.org/2019/07/buster-released.html

While arguing about the feasibility of reverse engineering Windows into ReactOS, I just remembered that the Windows kernel comes with an x86 emulator to run VGABIOS in.

The amount of weird shit that comes with Windows for reasons is astounding.

A single regular expression hosed Cloudflare yesterday.

https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-outage/

GnuPG — "SKS Keyserver Network Under Attack":

https://gist.github.com/rjhansen/67ab921ffb4084c865b3618d6955275f

"If you fetch a poisoned certificate from the keyserver network, you will break your GnuPG installation."

"High-risk users should stop using the keyserver network immediately."

#gnupg #gpg #keyserver #infosec #security #cybersecurity

Received my Joulescope today! It will be a great addition to my toolset. Can't wait to power optimize all the things now. I am impressed how much stuff is on the board to do the job. I wish the schematic was published so I could learn in more detail about how it works.

The reset process for GE smartbulbs is the sweet spot between "impossible to do intentionally" and "easily done by a toddler playing with the lightswitch."

https://twitter.com/numbersmuncher/status/1141527175394410498?s=21

Did you hear? There's a fan project to build Half Life 2 Episode 3. It's coming along rather nicely, and apparently it will support Linux.

https://youtu.be/54bpxhCEwDQ

Wow, this little logic analyzer for 10 bucks (and @sigrok) make suuuuch a difference working with hardware, it's unbelievable. With all the debugging options I have now, I might just be able to get the original design with the PIC working...