CryptInject, the project that came out of the Part 1 post from a couple weeks ago has finally gone public on my GitHub account! Not much to say about it, but it’s been something that I’ve been thinking about doing for an incredibly long time and I’m thrilled to finally have something out for people to […]
I adopted Windows 10 on release day, wanting to be one of the first to get my arms around the retail copy of the new OS. I was excited to play with Windows 10 before my friends, partially so I would be available in case they wanted help with their upgrades. I’m glad I installed Windows 10 […]
Have you ever wanted (or needed!) to encrypt a C# object’s children with potentially different keys or different methods? How, then, do you implement inline object encryption in a way that’s essentially transparent to a developer? I’ve been wondering about this issue for 5 years and finally decided to prototype it. This concept has come to fruition in […]
I’ve always been a huge fan of the 1995 movie “Hackers”, to the point where it is probably the most watched movie in my collection. While a lot of people rightly view it as a bit cliche with some of the cheesy dialog and general 90s pop culture, to this day it is one of […]
RT published an article today whose content made my inner computer security nerd tremble with rage. This uninformed kind of writing about cryptography makes me rage, so let me explain why your LastPass passwords aren’t being traded among foreign spies as we speak. LastPass stores things in two mediums. Usernames and e-mail addresses of its […]
The other day, a rather interesting browser “exploit” came to my attention, which utilizes the WebRTC technologies available in modern browsers (used for things like Google Hangouts, and is generally the de facto standard for any peer to peer streaming technology). I call it an exploit because of how it handles virtual interfaces, specifically when it comes […]
What life as a software engineer has taught me about the business of startups Charting the pulse of a startup company is generally the job of an organization’s executive leadership, sales, and marketing. It makes sense: they’re the ones with access to costs and revenue streams, and they’re the ones involved in client and/or investor […]
This is an issue a coworker of mine ran across the other day while trying to run “Update-Database” on his EF6 project via Visual Studio 2015. Specifically, this error only seems to occur when referencing the EntityFramework NuGet package in more than one project in the same solution. This issue appears to affect any command related […]
I was asked recently about Remote Desktop Protocol and how best to create a cheaper “Citrix-esque” way of hosting applications from a Windows server, so I’ve decided to transform some of my old instructions into more digestible content. This article assumes you have Windows XP SP3, Vista SP1+, Windows 7, or Windows 8 installed. These […]
A while ago, I was working on a project that had to provide a JSON specification to external developers, and be serializable/deserializable to an equivalent representation in C# (as an object graph). One of the frustrations I ran into as I was developing this was seeing the “$type” field get scattered across any instance of an […]
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