Stories by vitplister

Dave Farber has died

The Untold Story of the Nintendo Entertainment System [video]

Backing up Spotify

Unix V4 tape from University of Utah (raw)

Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs

Creative Technology

Bruteforcing Pwgen Passwords

Virtual Boy at 30: The legacy of Nintendo's biggest console flop

Another Crack in the Chain of Trust: Uncovering (Yet Another) Secure Boot Bypass

Lossless data compression by large models

Famicom Expansion Audio

/bin/sh: the biggest Unix security loophole (1984) [pdf]

A Retrospective on the Source Code Control System [pdf]

RFC 9559: Matroska Media Container Format Specification

Attacking Connection Tracking Frameworks as Used by Virtual Private Networks

Library of Congress Recommended Formats Statement

Some thoughts on real open source Artificial Intelligence

Did Turing prove the undecidability of the halting problem?

Microsoft leak of PlayReady developer / Warbird libs

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