Hugo Landau

Articles in category Computing

• computing The Bootstrapping Exam: Escaping from “Trusting Trust” 20240204
• computing I'll be speaking at 37C3 (and have some spare tickets) 20231203
• computing Expect-CT Lite: A humble proposal for minimal CT enforcement in TLS certificates 20231028
• computing Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident, part 2: XMPP-specific mitigations 20231028
• computing Mitigating the Hetzner/Linode XMPP.ru MitM interception incident 20231020
• computing Why even let users set their own passwords? 20230722
• computing The problem with federated web apps 20230701
• computing Web-based cryptography is always snake oil 20230625
• computing Writing a KVM hypervisor VMM in Python 20230604
• computing Modern CPUs have a backstage cast 20230530
• computing Patterns in register map design 20230520
• computing Binary formats and protocols: LTV is better than TLV 20230510
• computing Memoirs from the old web: IE's crazy content rating system 20230506
• computing Client certificates aren't universally more secure 20230503
• computing Memoirs from the old web: The KEYGEN element 20230429
• computing On numbering hegemonies and namespace monopolies 20230423
• computing Memoirs from the old web: server-side image maps 20230422
• computing The inscrutable nature of UK rail ticketing 20230207
• computing Against risk-based authentication (or, why I wouldn't trust Google Cloud) 20230203
• computing Netheads vs. bellheads redux: the strange victory of SIP over the telephone network 20230127
• computing Producing HTML using string templates has always been the wrong solution 20230115
• computing Memoirs from the old web: The GateKeeper access control system 20230107
• computing Let's Encrypt now supports ACME-CAA: closing the DV loophole 20221217
• computing The Talos II, Blackbird POWER9 systems support tagged memory 20221029
• computing Computers are an inherently oppressive technology 20220612
• computing The Demise of the Mildly Dynamic Website 20220502
• computing Website redesign and editorial changes 20220502
• computing How the K-line got its name: history of IRC daemon configuration 20210616
• computing Freenode commits suicide, is no longer a serious IRC network 20210615
• computing I have now been banned from Freenode 20210613
• computing Why the GDPR is a threat to a free internet and should be ignored by those outside the EU 20210612
• computing A thought experiment: High-Availability IRC 20210527
• computing Freenode IRC operators perform mass seizure of channels for mentioning Liberachat 20210526
• computing Freenode IRC operators now engaging in routine abuses of power 20210522
• computing Having a bank account without having a phone number 20210511
• computing Live feed of the HN Top 30 as an IRC Channel 20210402
• computing Patterns in application-layer protocol design 20210316
• computing A taxonomy of I/O architectures 20210313
• computing Attributes of configuration languages 20210219
• computing How secure boot and trusted boot can be owner-controlled 20210212
• computing In the future, even your RAM will have firmware; and the subject of POWER10 blobs 20210204
• computing Modifying and running a binary by recompiling a reverse engineered disassembly 20201205
• computing The different kinds of authentication protocols 20200923
• computing Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) is a circuit switched computer network 20200920
• computing USB Mass Storage and USB-Attached SCSI... are both SCSI 20200911
• computing A brief introduction to SCSI 20200909
• computing Myths about USB NKRO and how USB HID works 20200409
• computing Mis-fitted USB ports, an epidemic 20200109
• computing Total Advertising Denial 20191112
• computing XML is almost always misused 20191029
• computing The evolution of the web, and a eulogy for XHTML2 20191026
• computing Cloudflare considered harmful 20191023
• computing The PowerPC AS Tagged Memory Extensions 20190831
• computing On the opening of the Power ISA, and the chilling effects of proprietary ISAs 20190828
• computing The i.MX8 cannot be deblobbed 20190611
• computing Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil 20190602
• computing Rethinking files 20190602
• computing Extended Validation certificates have always been useless 20190523
• computing Adventures in reverse engineering Broadcom NIC firmware 20190416
• computing Running Baldur's Gate 2 in windowed mode at high resolutions 20190416
• computing Grow-up and grow-down technologies 20181130
• computing Why Intel will never let owners control the ME 20180722
• computing Legal Analysis of the “Admiral” Anti-Adblocker DMCA Incident 20170812
• computing Phone numbers must die 20170116
• computing Rackmount Improv HSM 20161125
• computing Let's Encrypt for IRC Networks: A Deployment Guide 20160321
• computing The Cultural Defeat of Microsoft 20160308
• computing Microsoft has stopped making Windows 20160305
• computing Why I will never use Windows 8 or Windows 10 20160304
• computing Psychological effects of coding style 20160302
• computing Death to the Win32 console subsystem 20160219
• computing Why I don't like smartphones 20160213
• computing The Normativity Manifesto 20160210
• computing Zero-G Programming 20160207
• computing The Bourne Ambiguity 20160206
• computing Nexuses Redux: Nativity 20160206
• computing Embedding of binary data into programs 20160115
• computing There are no secure smartphones. 20160114
• computing TLS and the Policy MitM Armageddon 20151203
• computing Why the AGPL is often unenforceable 20151124
• computing Linux's GPLv2 licence is routinely violated 20151124
• computing Why I don't like smartcards, HSMs, YubiKeys, etc. 20151028
• computing The Straight Line Principle 20151001
• computing On Nexuses 20150904
• computing On Normativity in Configuration Management 20141009
• computing Insyde BIOS Issues 20130614
• computing Coroutines in C 20130314
• computing A usable Linux desktop 20130227
• computing Notes on building lexers 20130227