Daeken

I used 960gs for the first time last night, to build the template for http://daeken.com/ (had to finally switch from Posterous). It was amazingly simple, even for someone completely CSS brain-dead. Really can't say enough good things about it.

This is quite good (only concerns Web security but worth a read). http://daeken.com/2013-03-17_So_You_Want_To_Be_A_Breaker__Pt__1__Web_S…

I first learned about this technique from Cody Brocious' post (http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos) about his WebGL demo 'Magister' (http://demoseen.com/windowpane/magister.html). That file has a .html extension, but it's also a valid PNG. In his post, he discusses this technique as well as others. Cody's goal was to compress already minified WebGL code and achieve some pretty impressive results from a ridiculously small file for a demo contest. He also put the JS loader (which is much smaller than the linked decoder) in a custom chunk on the PNG itself. By doing it that way, you can have a PNG that when renamed also contains a web page and/or more Javascript. It's an interesting technique, for sure, but I've never been able to find a real use for it beyond the compression. With a content-type sniffing vulnerability or something, it could be an interesting way to deliver content to browsers, but otherwise it's really just a curiosity as best I can tell.

Here are some examples of HMAC canonicalization vulnerabilities: http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-12-18-AWS-signature-version-1-is-… http://daeken.com/confusing-crypto-blobs

Actually, the statistics today are largely better than at any point in history we have statistics for. Here's a nice aggregate: http://daeken.com/2014-04-16_Spoiler__The_World_Isn_t_On_Fire.html There is a shitload of good things going on in the world. You just have to pull your head out of the negativity echochamber present in a lot of Internet communities, most notably parts of reddit.

This technique has been around since prior to 2008 at least, the biog entry below introduced the code[1], along with providing a tool to compress your js into an image using ruby [2]. The technique has a legitimate use as a suave compression method and was termed "super packing" in 2011 [3] [1]http://blog.nihilogic.dk/2008/08/imageinfo-reading-image-metadata-with… [2]http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/canvascompress/ [3]http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos

You mean like this? http://demoseen.com/windowpane/magister.png.html (I'm not the creator, I just happen to share an IRC channel with them.) There is a description of how it works at http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos

That reminds me of this (from HN a while back): http://daeken.com/superpacking-js-demos An html/png hybrid (among other hacks)

HN user daeken has been writing an OS in .NET http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os

Incredibly relevant: Daeken's Hardware Hacker Manifesto: http://daeken.com/the-hardware-hacker-manifesto Sony probably has the upper hand legally here. The DMCA seems to be pretty explicit about these kind of this, at least from my non-lawyerly reading of it. Even so, this is quite unprecedented. Apple and Nintendo have both had devices hacked, often by these same people (there's at least two iPhone Dev-Team members there, four members of Team Twiizers, and, of course, geohot), but they never took any kind of legal action. (Somewhat unrelated, but funny: even Nintendo found out "bushing"'s real name and phone number. I wonder why Sony didn't go through that trouble and referred to him pseudonymously.)

Emokit project announcement that led to this post: http://daeken.com/emokit-hacking-the-emotiv-epoc-brain-computer-0 Discussion thread on Emotiv's forums relating to Cody's Emokit project: http://www.emotiv.com/forum/forum15/topic879/

Nice try, Mr. Renraku :-) (http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os)

Renraku is an operating system. More information here: http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os

http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os (So others don't have to go hunting for it like I did.)

Why I see people talking about OSes a written in high level languages a lot lately? Remember the C# one came on HN? http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os I think an OS written in an OO language will demonstrate why some people were actually worried about OOP. http://www.geocities.com/tablizer/oopbad.htm

There's a difference between a flake, and moving between things that obviously aren't going to work. Nothing ever gets shipped from him, nothing failed quickly to begin with. ( I don't just mean Alky, either. ) Stop parroting community tropes. Examples: Alky http://daeken.com/daeken-discount-program https://github.com/daeken/RenrakuOS - 2010 https://github.com/daeken/EveInject - 2009 Quote from his blog: """ What have you built and what are you building? Product-wise, I haven't built much; the biggest thing I've built was Alky, which allowed the conversion of Win32 binaries to run natively on OS X and Linux. It was a marginal success, although it ended up failing later for business reasons. These days, I'm working on a few things: Renraku: http://daeken.com/renraku-future-os This will eventually be combined with OpenBAMF/IREctive: Reverse-engineering platform and module store (My primary for-profit project right now) Books The Emulator's Handbook: A book on building an emulator from start to finish. There's simply nothing there yet, which is a damn shame -- we need to get people involved here. So far unnamed: A book on reverse-engineering game protocols and emulating them. In the future, I'd like to be developing and selling Eyetaps and other hardware around Renraku. """ This isn't fail-fast, it's ship-nothing. It only bothers me because he keeps attention-whoring for every little idea he gets and ends up disappointing anybody who thought it was cool.