Mental Masturbation, Musings, and Methods

For my CPS 182S class, we have an assignment which is a competition among groups of students (and the professor) to have the highest ranking page on Google for the terms rankophilia and rankophiliac.  As such, I have created a page at rankophilia.dorm.duke.edu to be my group’s main page on Google. For now, there is [...]

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I gave my first public talk today at Duke’s TechExpo 2009. I along with my coworker Artem Kazantsev discussed the risks of SQL Injection. The presentation gives a good overview of the capabilities of SQL injection along with how to prevent such vulnerabilities. I also gave a demo of performing a SQL injection attack on [...]

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While on break, I’ve been playing around with Mozilla’s File API and integrating it with Duke Webfiles, which I work on for OIT. This is only a proof of concept since the spec has not been completed and I only implemented it in the icon view of Webfiles. Regardless, I think it is pretty cool [...]

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I got an e-mail this morning from someone who saw my post on Twitter about using LDAP on the iPhone here at Duke.  The person said they followed the tutorial but couldn’t quite get it to work.  So I figured it may be useful to post a few quick instructions on setting it up.  As [...]

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As usual I haven’t posted in a while but there actually have been some things going on that may be worth writing on here.  I’m at Duke for the summer doing research with the Physics Neutrino group, among other things so here are some things that have happened: Ethical Hacking Seminar Duke OIT gave me [...]

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