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@ValdikSS
ValdikSS / gist:c13a82ca4a2d8b7e87ff
Last active December 3, 2024 23:25
TrueCrypt hack info
  • Developers have responded:

https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/truecrypt.htm | https://twitter.com/stevebarnhart/status/472192457145597952

Steven Barnhart (@stevebarnhart) wrote to an eMail address he had used before and received several replies from “David.” The following snippets were taken from a twitter conversation which then took place between Steven Barnhart (@stevebarnhart) and Matthew Green (@matthew_d_green):

TrueCrypt Developer “David”: “We were happy with the audit, it didn't spark anything. We worked hard on this for 10 years, nothing lasts forever.”

Steven Barnhart: (Paraphrasing) Developer “personally” feels that fork is harmful: “The source is still available as a reference though.” >

@massahud
massahud / Portable Node.js andNPM on windows.md
Last active March 27, 2025 20:21
Portable Node.js and NPM on windows
  1. Get node binary (node.exe) from http://nodejs.org/download/
  2. Create the folder where node will reside and move node.exe to it
  3. Download the last zip version of npm from http://nodejs.org/dist/npm
  4. Unpack the zip inside the node folder
  5. Download the last tgz version of npm from http://nodejs.org/dist/npm
  6. Open the tgz file and unpack only the file bin/npm (without extension) directly on the node folder.
  7. Add the the node folder and the packages/bin folder to PATH
  8. On a command prompt execute npm install -g npm to update npm to the latest version

Now you can use npm and node from windows cmd or from bash shell like Git Bash of msysgit.

@m-kyle
m-kyle / README.md
Last active August 3, 2021 08:51
A tutorial for learning how to use git and GitLab

GitLab Tutorial

This document is still a work in progress. It will be used as a tutorial to help explain the basics of Git and GitLab to users unfamiliar with them.

Table of Contents

Git

@m-kyle
m-kyle / svn_clone.md
Last active August 8, 2017 10:10
Cloning SVN repository to git and pushing to GitLab

Import SVN repository to GitLab

  • Create new project in GitLab
  • Clone SVN to git

On local command line:

  1. Create users.txt file in folder where new repository will go. Add usernames, names and email address of each user, like so:
@atcuno
atcuno / gist:3425484ac5cce5298932
Last active April 5, 2025 06:45
HowTo: Privacy & Security Conscious Browsing

The purpose of this document is to make recommendations on how to browse in a privacy and security conscious manner. This information is compiled from a number of sources, which are referenced throughout the document, as well as my own experiences with the described technologies.

I welcome contributions and comments on the information contained. Please see the How to Contribute section for information on contributing your own knowledge.

Table of Contents

@dieseltravis
dieseltravis / PS-BGInfo.ps1
Last active March 21, 2025 19:16
update wallpaper background image with powershell (like Sysinternals BGInfo)
# PS-BGInfo
# Powershell script that updates the background image with a random image from a folder and writes out system info text to it.
# run as a lower priority task
[System.Threading.Thread]::CurrentThread.Priority = 'BelowNormal'
# Configuration:
# Font Family name
$font="Input"
@conspect
conspect / cult_of_ignorance.md
Last active May 29, 2024 19:02
A Cult Of Ignorance, Isaac Asimov

It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingeniously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakespeare and Milton as ungrammaticaly as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people

@sixtyfive
sixtyfive / cult_of_ignorance.md
Last active November 16, 2020 15:45 — forked from conspect/cult_of_ignorance.md
A Cult Of Ignorance, Isaac Asimov

It's hard to quarrel with that ancient justification of the free press: "America's right to know." It seems almost cruel to ask, ingeniously, "America's right to know what, please? Science? Mathematics? Economics? Foreign languages?"

None of those things, of course. In fact, one might well suppose that the popular feeling is that Americans are a lot better off without any of that tripe.

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way throughout political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that "my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge."

Politicians have routinely striven to speak the language of Shakespeare and Milton as ungrammaticaly as possible in order to avoid offending their audiences by appearing to have gone to school. Thus, Adlai Stevenson, who incautiously allowed intelligence and learning and wit to peep out of his speeches, found the American people

  1. CGI.pm is shit
  2. CGI is shit
  3. <"ARGV"> shouldn't work under use strict because thats a string dereferencing a symbolic ref.
  4. Hash Keys can't retain tainting and so can be used to propagate un-vetted data into safe spaces:
  my $hash = unsafe_thing_that_returns_a_hash();
  $dbh->query(join keys %{$hash}); # data will be untained regardless of what it is.
  1. CGI.pm should probably do something smarter than simply returning the first param when >1 params
#Function to fetch the data from Wolfram|Alpha API based on user query
Function Invoke-WolframAlphaAPI($Query)
{
Return (Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "http://api.wolframalpha.com/v2/query?appid=APIKEY&input=$($Query.Replace(' ','%20'))").queryresult
}
#Eventhandler and Flow control once the Search button is pressed
$EventHandler =[System.EventHandler]{
$Panel2.Visible = $False