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I wrote a bugtraq post about the Microsoft ClickOnce Installer/Updater system, and how it's relatively easy to strip away code signing and man-in-the-middle an update and inject your malicious code.

The idea is simple.

The other day I had cause to trigger an event firing in ASP.Net without actually having the user trigger the event, so I went about figuring out how that worked.

I have given you all the ability to comment on my blog.

It's a well-popularized piece of trivia that during the State of the Union, one cabinent member stays behind, and doesn't attend, just in case someone manages to kill the first 17 or so people in the line of succession. 2 days ago (Jan 27, 2010), Shaun Do…

Before I decided to major in Computer Science, I looked at schools for Architecture.

Every so often I run into some simple (or not-so-simple) cipher and I'm curious what it means.

Bruce Schneier is wrong.

It's so much fun to optimize but it's neither deterministic nor logical.

I updated the travel page with some GPS coordinates of my move down to Buenos Aires.

During the same WAN Party that I built howdyougetthatscar.com I also got into an argument with John Bristowe and Phil Haack about, in succession, the foreach loop, IEnumerable, yield return, and then LINQ - and my mostly-unjustified hatred for all of them.

Have you ever had to explain a random scar?

In a spurt of productivity, last night when I got home I decided that instead of sleeping, I was finally going to pave my laptop and install Windows 7.

This probably isn't news to anyone, but the only reason society functions is because people break the rules.

It's rare for me to write an essay, as opposed to code, but this is something I've been thinking about recently.

This is a post I've had in the works for months now.

I run a gentoo server as my router.

After I posted my last article about crypo.biz and their "military-grade encryption algorithm" I got an e-mail from the author of the site and code.

I didn't really think this would turn into a series, but part 2 has arrived!

So there's a million things I could have done and I didn't really do any of them - but I finally put up the travel page with some actual content.

Does this disqualify me from no more free bugs?

this must be house-cleaning time, because in addition to my bucketlist, I've also published my RSS reading list in OPML format.

I've finally gotten around to publishing a list I wrote up for Boldly Go Solo after they published an off-the-cuff list of extreme items.

After Devscovery I've been trying to decipher the magic behind .Net lately, reading the beginning chapters of CLR via C# and playing around.

I am no longer a hyprocrite.

I added a new Proof of Concept - this one on an authentication idea I had for lost passwords.

This is what I really worked on two weeks ago.

I updated the site just a tad.

If you've seen my Bastardizing a Backup Adventure in Code, I should note that there's this really cool thing called webhooks that work like that.

Just so you know guys, this is why everyone who does know how to program well in some other language hate perl. if(false){ print "Seriously.

Project Upstream is a social network experiment that randomly connects two people via an AIM connection.

Two updates in one day?!

In case you were wondering, I started comparing the transfer speeds of different protocols.

A horrible experiment gone wrong from last weekend has been immortalized on the new adventures in code section.

I've been shuffling things around and adding links here and there, but I just put up the first significant content the other day, a Proof of Concept I thought up.