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In what experts are calling a novel legal outcome, the 22-year-old former administrator of the cybercrime community Breachforums will forfeit nearly $700,000 to settle a civil lawsuit from a health insurance company whose customer data was posted for sale on the forum in 2023. Conor Brian Fitzpatrick, a.k.a. "Pompompurin," is slated for resentencing next month after pleading guilty to access device fraud and possession of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

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Today, we welcome the 40th government onboarded to Have I Been Pwned's free gov service, Malaysia. The NC4 NACSA (National Cyber Coordination and Command Centre of the National Cyber Security Agency) in Malaysia now has full access to query all their government domains via API, and monitor them

TLDR; You can find the project repository here. Motivation I recently took up pottery as my new favourite hobby and I needed a better way to control the firing of my pots. For my first few pots, I just re-purposed my very cheap metal casting forge. I built this out of eight 1" thick fire bricks, some fire cement, an electric stove top “burner” and a cheap PID controller. The cheap PID controller was horrible.

Update (2025-09-07): The replacement CPU also died and I have given up on Intel. See Bye Intel, hi AMD! for more details on the AMD 9950X3D. Turns out my previous attempt at this build had a faulty CPU! With the CPU re...

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I’ve been noticing a lot of fun stories lately about bugs in old software that suddenly showed up in newer Windows versions. For example, here’s an excellent writeup by Silent about a bug in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas that laid dormant until Windows 11 24H2 came out. MattKC also recently posted a cool video […]

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I loved this talk from Alexander Petros titled “Building the Hundred-Year Web Service”. What follows is summation of my note-taking from watching the talk on YouTube. Is what you’re building for future generations: Useful for them? Maintainable by them? Adaptable by them? ...

Today's links Are the means of computation even seizable?: Magic Saran Wrap is a mind-game. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep r...

Microsoft on Tuesday released software updates to fix at least 70 vulnerabilities in Windows and related products, including five zero-day flaws that are already seeing active exploitation. Adding to the sense of urgency with this month's patch batch from Redmond are fixes for two other weaknesses that now have public proof-of-concept exploits available.

Wise has stolen more than $60,000 AUD from us, and refuses to let us access it.

We’ve had a Wise account for around 5 years (since they were called TransferWise). It’s been a really useful way to transact in foreign currencies, and pay for things when we’re travelling for work.

In early-April 2025, Wise asked us to provide some additional information on our Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs) by uploading a statement of shareholders, and the ID of the owners. Perfectly reasonable stuff for an entity that pretends to be a bank to ask for.

Today's links Who Broke the Internet? Part II: Mr Lehman Goes to Geneva. Hey look at this: Delights to delectate. Object permanence: 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024 Upcoming appearances: Where to find me. Recent appearances: Where I've been. Latest books: You keep readin' em, I'...

On nearly exiting the elevator and losing sight of everything.

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Following up on a previous article I wrote about backwards compatibility, I came across this document from Rick Byers of the Chrome team titled “Blink principles of web compatibility” which outlines how they navigate introducing breaking changes. “Hold up,” you might say. “B...

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The Have I Been Pwned Alpine Grand Tour is upon us! I've often joked that work is always either sitting at my desk at home in isolation or on the other side of the world, and so it is with this trip. As we've done with

The Collector I describe myself as a hobby collector. They mostly centre around making things, I have always been interested how things are made. How it All Began The first book I ever read was an science book. I learned English watching “Mythbusters” and “How it’s made” the Discovery channel. I have almost set fire to the house on many occasions as a young child. Growing up on a farm, certainly encouraged manual labour, taking things apart and fixing them.