PinnedBelief isn’t a choice.Don’t believe me? For just a moment, choose to believe that you have the ability to fly. No, I don’t mean some “but ackshually we can fly in planes” nonesense. Make the decision to truly believe that you can fly as a bird does. Can’t do it? That’s because beliefs…Belief2 min readBelief2 min read
Jul 27Questions for the Christian GodTW: SA — Old Testament Law Marriage as punishment for rape If a man is found sleeping with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel. If a man happens to meet in a town a virgin pledged to be married and he sleeps with her, you…Christianity15 min readChristianity15 min read
Mar 2, 2022How to train your MikroTik Router — Transparent proxying using NATMikroTik routers aren’t the most glamorous devices, and don’t have any fancy party tricks. However, they provide robustness and flexibility at a very affordable price — a utilitarian dream. In this article I discuss how to transparently intercept network connections, including all the initial setup I recommend for the device. Introduction What device should I get? …Mikrotik8 min readMikrotik8 min read
Apr 12, 2021Rainbow Tables (probably) aren’t what you think — Part 2: Probability, Efficiency, and Chain CollisionsYou should read Part 1 before continuing with this article, if you haven’t already. Also, fair warning that this article is gonna get a fair bit more complex than the last one. In the last article we discussed the difference between lookup tables and Precomputed Hash Chains. …Rainbow Tables7 min readRainbow Tables7 min read
Apr 10, 2021Rainbow Tables (probably) aren’t what you think — Part 1: Precomputed Hash ChainsNote: To understand this article, you‘ll need to understand password hashing and cracking first. Rainbow Tables are a very interesting but also fairly complex data structure, so if you aren’t interested in CompSci, you probably won’t be into this article. Rainbow Tables != Lookup Tables Many people use “rainbow table” to refer to “a lookup…Rainbow Tables5 min readRainbow Tables5 min read