Dubious security vulnerability: Program allows its output to be exfiltrated April 16, 2024 Apr 16, 2024 04/16/24 Raymond Chen Once the output is generated, the program can't control where it goes.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: System corruption caused by an administrator April 4, 2024 Apr 4, 2024 04/4/24 Raymond Chen If your goal was to corrupt the system, you sure are doing it the hard way.
The history of computing, as told by the hallways of Microsoft Building 41 April 2, 2024 Apr 2, 2024 04/2/24 Raymond Chen A walk through history, in the form of wall textures.
Dubious security vulnerability: Manual operations can cause a program to hang March 26, 2024 Mar 26, 2024 03/26/24 Raymond Chen You did this to yourself.
Microspeak: Closing out, duping out February 20, 2024 Feb 20, 2024 02/20/24 Raymond Chen Making work items no longer appear on a query.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking a domain administrator from the local administrator February 13, 2024 Feb 13, 2024 02/13/24 Raymond Chen If you pwn the machine, then you pwn everyone on the machine.
On using milliseconds as a measure of network latency February 6, 2024 Feb 6, 2024 02/6/24 Raymond Chen There's a limit to how much technology can improve.
It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway: Attacking another program by modifying its memory January 2, 2024 Jan 2, 2024 01/2/24 Raymond Chen If you assume the existence of a vulnerability, you can use that vulnerability to attack something.
2023 year-end link clearance December 29, 2023 Dec 29, 2023 12/29/23 Raymond Chen Ringing out another year.
Microspeak: Locked and loaded December 19, 2023 Dec 19, 2023 12/19/23 Raymond Chen Armed and ready, with the suggestion that no further changes will be needed (or accepted).