My musings

OS X has a pretty fun command say that allows users to ask the system to pronounce words and even sentences from the terminal. It will literally ‘say’ anything that user asks it to. [Read More]

Sometimes it is necessary to pass a part of argument of one command as argument towards next command in the terminal. This can be pretty painful if the output of first command is long or hard to type or you are using VM without possibility to use the good old... [Read More]

For a recent project, I found myself doing web app development on another machine that was accessible only over SSH. Since the webserver would be hosted on the remote machine, I needed to allow secure port forwarding. [Read More]

Handling security incidents is an extremely time consuming process, not just for the affected organization (who needs to patch the vulnerability, make the public disclosure, etc.) but also for the researchers who adhere to the principle of responsible disclosure. The responsible disclosure requirers the researchers to make a private disclosure... [Read More]

Recently the Foreign Ministry of Estonia published its annual report titled In the international security environment of Estonia. At the end of report, there is a nice puzzle that invites the readers to decipher and find key for two ciphertext that are received by one of its operator. This puzzle... [Read More]