My notepad

After a power outage I was greeted with this delightful error… TASK ERROR: activating LV 'pve/data' failed: Check of pool pve/data failed (status:1). Manual repair required! [Read More]

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]

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]

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]

I needed to generate a .sig to load into IDA and identify some certificate store functions in an executable. [Read More]