Ian Foster retweeted
Fun story on this @patrickc , when you purchased stripe[.]com the former owner still had a valid SSL certificate. It lasted a couple years into your ownership IIRC.
@lanrat and I discovered this and gave this example at Defcon a 8 years ago (expired by that time)
.@patrickc on how Stripe got its name:
"We just couldn't come up with a good name... We were literally reduced to picking random words late at night."
"One of the folks at Stripe had the bright idea of, 'Why don't we just assemble a big list of words and email all of the owners of the dot com domains?'"
"And then we also continued our own creative process. We came up with memorable names like PayDemon... We thought it was super clever because we could have this awesome mascot."
"The owner of stripe.com generously responded to us and had an offer that was at least within our plausible budgetary range."
"But we couldn't decide between PayDemon and Stripe. I swear I'm not making this up... If we could not settle on a name by December 20th, 2010, we would just default to Stripe. And we couldn't think of a more compelling name, and so Stripe it became."
Patrick Collison w/ John Lilly at Stanford University (2015)
We ran out of IPv4 addresses long ago. There is a wait-list per region. I've started tracking the ARIN IPv4 wait-list: lanrat.github.io/ARIN-IPv4-W… There are some pretty interesting stats. Its growing faster than it can be serviced, even though the throughput is increasing.
New Blog post: How to tunnel WireGuard over TLS using SNI Domain Fronting with socat to egress restricted networks behind a DPI firewall lanrat.com/posts/sni-domain-…
Have a Linux server with multiple IP addresses and want to control which IP address is used when? Use Address labels to influence Linux IP Source Address Selection! lanrat.com/posts/linux-src-i…
Hey @jacksoncheek, thanks for making ismyplanea737max.com. Sad to see it used up more data that you were expecting. I can get you more resources if you are hitting limits if you need. DM me.
2022 had ~60% more .christmas than any year prior! The #dns TLD almost doubled in size this season compared to all prior years.
dns.coffee/zones/christmas
Ian Foster retweeted
Day 1 done! Today was the first day of the @pebble_dev
Rebble Hackathon weekend! We've got just under 50 hackers building new watchfaces & apps for the @Pebble
smartwatch. 6 are already live on the appstore (Some pictured below) 🚀🚀🚀
I reverse engineered a popular cheap bluetooth USB power meter and made a data logging web-app to view, graph, save the data from the BLE broadcasts. lanrat.github.io/usb-meter
source: github.com/lanrat/usb-meter
Huge spike in new Ukraine related domains recently... #DNS
dns.coffee/search/trends#Ukr…
#Ubuntu 22.04 LTS is shaping up to be a really solid OS. It will ship with Linux 5.15, Gnome 42, Wayland, and more! The only downside is the forced usage of snapcraft with no easy way to remove. I've documented the best steps for removing it here lanrat.com/remove-snap-from-…
Ian Foster retweeted
Packet Hack Badge has been our most intricately designed badge of all time and saw wild response at #HITBCyberWeek. Special thanks to the @wallofsheep Doc for the artwork and @lanrat for refining the code.
Badge story and code now online at @Hacksterio
hackster.io/433948/the-packe…
In the middle of @hackinthebox at #HITBCyberWeek Tigard designed by @securelyfitz quickly came to the rescue allowing @wallofsheep to flash the badges created by @tweetsfrompanda.
Huge spike in new "metaverse" domains recently. Likely due to Facebook's rebrand announcement theverge.com/2021/10/19/2273…
A good chunk of them look like domain squatters.
dns.coffee/search/trends#met…
Ian Foster retweeted
🕸️ CertGraph by @lanrat
An #osint tool to crawl the graph of certificate Alternate Names
Designed to be used for host name enumeration via SSL certs, but can also show you a "chain" of trust between domains and the certificates re-used between them
github.com/lanrat/certgraph
Ian Foster retweeted
ToorCon San Diego 2021 is a GO! Now with new shiny COVID-19 safety reqs 💉
Talks. Demos. Fun! Oct 12-14, 2021.
CFP and Reg NOW OPEN. Submit your research for a chance to join us on the beach this October! 💻😎🏖️
sandiego.toorcon.net/talks
New @toorcamp dome idea? 🤪
Ian Foster retweeted
Get ready for the 2021 Google CTF! Runs for 48 hours, starting Saturday, July 17, 00:01 UTC! Details: security.googleblog.com/2021…