These last days I must be set on a Apple devices destruction mode. First I lost access to my MacBook while trying to increase its physical security – I configured it to boot from network and I lost all access to boot sequence commands. I think my model has an EFI bug because the security-mode set to full doesn’t ask for a password when I start/restart my laptop, only asks for password if I want to boot from other devices....

I just found a nice interview with CrackZ here. He nails the point that curiosity and intellectual challenge trumps above everything else but also demonstrates the process from not caring about the impact of his acts to something more “ethical”. His site is still one of the best resources for Windows reversing, especially regarding dongles. I have also decided to publish an incomplete version of my trainer for Contract Killer. I see that cheating is widespread so I think there’s not much impact from doing this....

This will be a story in development, which is kinda of funny taking in account the target in question. I might be wrong on all this but my instinct is hinting me that I’m not. After the Contract Killer post I got very much interested in verifying these kind of implementations in other apps. This morning I had a flash into my mind about checking what happened with the NY Times app....

Let me start this post with a little rant. The iPad is a great product but it’s full of “spyware” and that sucks big time. One might argue that it’s not spyware, it’s just sending bits of information. Well, for me it’s damn spyware because I’m not authorizing the apps to send any information, much less unique pieces of information that can identify you forever. I can’t even conceive why the enterprise world will adopt the iPad with these kind of problems....

I decided to mess around with this blog template style sheets and use a better font and change some minor things. I added three new pages at the navigation bar – one with all available gdbinit files in this site, another for my GDB patches and a tag cloud (still have to tag old posts). I will also add a page with all source code published here. This small gdbinit update implements some fixes and a new command rint3 (check the file header for the changelog)....