I turned my back on Windows PCs several years ago. A decision I don’t at all regret. But lately I’ve been playing Doom Eternal on PS4 and due to its insane difficulty level I’ve found myself wanting to go back to where it all began – Doom 1 with a keyboard and mouse. But there’s … Playing the original Doom on Mac OSX
Jesus I fought this for so long I had to write it up. The Problem So I wanted to throw a bunch of id’s at the WordPress function get_posts() and have them come back as a nice array that I can do stuff with. The code for this was pretty simple: $args = array( ‘post_type’ … Ordering WordPress posts by the post__in attribute
I have a lease car via Motability. It’s a wonderful service and as a disabled driver I’m very fortunate to have such support. But, and it’s a big but, occasionally (actually, rarely) the car takes a knock and I need to call out on the insurance company. In this case it’s Royal Sun Alliance (RSA). … Insurance companies are liars
Once upon a time it was just news. Once upon a time that news was just printed. Before then, well, it was just gossip and ‘Chinese whispers’. News has its place. But at what cost does news come? At what point do we see that clear divide between The News and the news having passed … Thoughts on a world without news and social media
I often think about how much of my personal information is ‘known’ by the big data companies such as Google, Facebook, Amazon etc. Ordinarily I wouldn’t bat an eyelid at it but lately I’ve become conscious of how my information is used for such things as ‘advertising’. Jaron Lainer (whose awesome book Ten Arguments for … Thoughts on social media and data in 2021
Understanding the mechanics of TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is crucial in grounding your knowledge for pentesting. I wrote so many notes on the course and underlined several lines that I knew I’d need to research in more detail. One of those was the definition of the initial steps that TCP uses to create a connection. … The TCP 3-step handshake and UDP
I’ve had this site for so long and never really done too much with it. Following a fantastic week-long pentesting course I thought I’d use the site to reflect my learning process as I dig deeper into tools such as nmap, cURL, WireShark and NetCat. This site is therefore my journal of discovery and I … Blogging in 2021