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jhaldermon The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

Fantastic! I miss the original ShadyURL.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31386108

jhaldermon A Remarkable Newly Deciphered Hittite Tablet Sheds New Light on the Trojan War

Even Hittitologists celebrate April Fools Day.

jhaldermon Northern lights forecasted to be visible into upper United States tonight

Don’t worry mother, it's just the northern lights…

jhaldermon Robot can rip the data out of RAM chips

Incredibly "cool"! The physical-chip-swapping version of the cold-boot attack is extremely general, but it's always been very labor intensive—that's why automation like this could be a game changer.

Here are some photos from our original experiments 15 years ago, to help you picture what's involved in doing these attacks manually:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080225131822/http://citp.princ...

Needless to say, our setup (and approach to lab safety) was rather privative by today's standards:

https://web.archive.org/web/20100616201843/http://citp.princ...

jhaldermon LogJam Attack [video]

Here's the website and paper:

https://weakdh.org/ https://weakdh.org/imperfect-forward-secrecy-ccs15.pdf

jhaldermon Mapping hidden corridors and chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza

The muon imaging idea originates with Luis Alvarez, who also flew on the mission that dropped the first atomic bomb, discovered what killed the dinosaurs, and won a Nobel Prize for contributions to particle physics. Truly the kind of mind that inspires science fiction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Walter_Alvarez