• Java 4 Security Policy

    As part of my retro PC project I have some old Java applets I wanted to play in the browser. These applets haven’t been signed in oh… 20 years now. Since we don’t really have to worry about security in this exercise, I’m going to disable the security policy altogether.... [Read More]
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  • NodeJS + MySQL + BigInt

    background: I have a NodeJS project that’s currently written in JavaScript and I’m converting it to be TypeScript. I’m trying to make things type-safe, from database logic to application logic. [Read More]
  • Patch SSL verify callback

    Now that we’ve gotten the SSL library identified in IDA (see last post), it’s time to change the certificate validation mode. This is useful when you want to use a cert that isn’t inside the certificate store, like a self-signed localhost cert. [Read More]