A seven-day holiday in my Italian home town with family reminded me why people do not like family gatherings: it’s loud, everyone is stressed and you are treated as if…
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After a few years in the security business, most people develop “security awareness”, a useful superpower that normal people would call “paranoia”. The Awareness is super helpful in the job,…
Most of my posts in this blog are based on Scratch your own itch projects: When you have a problem and you work on a solution, then later you realize…
One definition of hackers includes the interest in understanding how things work. Android apps are such things that many people use but few people know how they work. I always…
I wanted to know this for such a long time and never had enough motivation to look it up properly. Turns out it is so easy that no one ever…
In my academic job I often need to find scientific papers about specific ideas and topics. Even though there are more specific search engines for most fields of study, I…
From time to time I have to work on files that exceed specific disk sizes. When that happens, programs begin to stutter, load indefinitely or simply crash when opening these files.
Therefore, I often need to evaluate which tools can open, edit and save big files. This blog post is a reminder to myself.
I write these posts every year, and I like to write about the blog and my personal achievements during the year, but 2020 was such a global mess that this…
I am a big fan of Git, but my love relationship only really started when I learned about the inner workings of Git. I also feel that only the Git…
Recently I had the opportunity to participate in a documentary about ransomware. The journalist that conducted the interview (not with me unfortunately) wanted to see how malware in general works…