School will be keeping my *very* busy for the coming weeks apparently, as we got our final assignment for programming (VBA/.NET, meh) and it looks pretty damn time consuming. Good opportunity though to polish my database skills (yeah school taught me some new stuff on that, who'd know?)!
... depending on your country which has been derrived from my IP. Ok I'm going to say this once because it's annoying the fuck out of me: yes, I live in Belgium, I speak Dutch. We have three official languages here: Dutch, French and German. There are about 6 million people who speak Dutch and 4 million Frenchies, and a handful of German speakers.
Still, every damn websites decides to not even give me a choice and put it in fucking FRENCH. Ok, I get it, we are expected to have a basic understanding of all three languages but that doesn't change the fact I'm perfectly fine with say English or atleast a darned choice to switch to another language. If you really have to change the language automatically, then please go for the statistically most correct assumption and make it Dutch, or nevermind that, just keep it in its original because I really can't see anymore Babelfish'd translations.
YouTube wins for best product placement '09:
The song playing on the background is purchaseable with iTunes, perfect answer to all people saying "LOL WUT SUNG IS ON BGROUND?????", assuming they have the money.
These are my favourite posts: write something without having to do anything for it.
This tool still works like a charm. And I still didn't add the 3rd cracking option. Usage + more information in the original post.
Seems like thanks to the way ErrorDocument in .htaccess works, POST data doesn't get transferred, so you can't use POST data when you're using URL's rewritten by PHP rewrite.
I'm looking for a way around it at the moment.
I present you: PHP Rewrite. It was an idea that has been in my head for... ages. I intend to add a lot of new options and test it a little more because I've tested only a few scenarios, but they worked out fine. Future plan is to see if its possible to get Wordpress and what not to work with it.
Code-wise: like everything else, not a beauty. I haven't used any classes nor custom functions because it was just not necessary, it may look ugly but it works and it's fast enough. To do the mod_rewrite-style url I used a very ugly hack with include(). I also need to take a look at the regex cleaner as I'm pretty sure it still can get messed up with weird characters.
Do me a favour: anything you feel like sharing with me about this thing, either suggestions, bugs or love messages, mail them and I'll get back to you asap!
(this is a post suggested by Vendetta at BFHforum.net, thanks for the idea mate)
So you're writing an application that is intended to be used by more than one person? Is it about to leave your local test environment and will it be
a) Distributed
or
b) Used on your website?
If yes to any of the above, you might want to consider writing secure code. I'll explain in a few posts how to do this and why, without going in too much detail because honestly, I myself just use the most uber-paranoid things all the time, in a lot of occasions they're not even usable on other systems.
Everything related to secure database connections (SQL and the likes), after the jump.
After all these months with the same theme it was time for a new one, all I need now is a proper header image because my Photoshop skills aren't that 1337 as you can see. Hope you guys like it!
It's also been 15 years now a certain Kurt Cobain blew his brains out, after rewriting rock history. Sad day.
Been quite a while since I've even taken a look at my blog, or RandomBase for that matter. Anything related to RandomBase has become a ghost town as I've kind of stopped working on it: the forums have become a great place to buy viagra (over 50 spambot registrations per day) and my Akismet queue at this blog is happy to report 23k+ messages to be moderated.
Probably at a lot lower rate, but I will be making new posts in this blog again and maybe pick up where I left it. Thanks to Zspirit & Boycot at BFHforum for managing things there while I was gone.
Currently doing: writing this, working on a video downloader (don't ask...), working on automated blogs (blackhat omg), seeing the last few episodes of The Sopranos, trying to bring in some money by writing f'in Facebook Apps. That's about it, and still bored.
edit: oh right, I'm also looking at writing new tools related to hacking/security in general, that's probably something the average audience of this blog is interested in? Don't be afraid to send me your ideas, my e-mail is still where it always was.
A lot of work went into these: the new RandomBase forums! I couldn't really decide on the categories and topics so I've chosen some classic things (programming, web design) but also some not-really-RandomBase-but-still-interesting topics (marketing, gadgets, hardware).
Make sure to have a look and register if you want to receive future updates on the forum. Something you will all like: you are allowed to link to your own website or even advertise it, as long as it adds something to the forum you post it in. Imagine you have a hardware review website, don't be ashamed to link it in the hardware section: the internet is built around websites linking to each other so there is no reason for us to discontinue this trend.
A lot of thanks to ByteCoder, Leeryan and r0bin. I'm sure you guys will do fine and I hope to add new people to the crew soon.