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…
A blog about IT, security and whatever crosses my mind.
Dbof's Blog Posts
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
This post is inspired by a lot of questions I get about emails: Hey I got this strange email the other day… There are different…