I was just a little surprised when Instagram sent me a message that appeared to 'express an opinion'...
But it set me thinking about how easy it would be for a developer to write an automated message template that leaks confidential information via an unexpected side-channel... Risk assessment of tiny scripts that do apparently innocuous things, anyone?
Names are interesting things. I once tried to get a hi-tech music themed sticker printed by one of the on-line drop-shipping companies and the artwork was rejected because of a copyright strike. I had used the word: 'Device', as in an electronic music device, but this was flagged up because 'Device' was the name of an American industrial metal band in 2012, and so was trademarked...
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NULLCON 12, Berlin, April 2022
Here's the badge that I designed for the NULLCON 2022 Berlin security conference (and highly recommended training!). The NULLCON 2022 b...
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The Microsoft analysis and post-mortems, followed by some press coverage of the Azure South Central US 'incident'. https://azure.m...
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The Nullcon Goa 2020 Conference Badge is a meta-puzzle. There is lots of data all over it, and it obviously has some meaning, but it isn'...
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