Stupid windows

What do you do if you accidentally bump the power button on windows and everything is about to shut down? I’ll tell you what I do, alt + f2. My program sits in the background and works on 9x – win7. #include <windows.h> #DEFINE ID 89023 int main(void) { HWND deskwin = GetDesktopWindow(); RegisterHotKey(deskwin,ID, 0x0008,0x66); […]

Bad Code and Microsoft Web Services

Microsoft gives out way too much info with its web services. simply dorking for ‘asmx’ files gives plenty of web service test pages. My favorite ones are the ones that don’t even bother to make sure you’re on localhost to return info: http://mapserv.utah.gov/WSUTSGID_FeatureAttributes/default.asmx?op=GetFeatureAttributes_wsdlTest It reminds me of the mail server I was reversing looking for […]

The way things were

I remember back in the day when hacking wasn’t about stealing credit cards or fooling people into downloading trojan horse apps. Hacking was a game. A mind game. A puzzle.  Maybe it never was like this, but this is how I felt.   Now when I see hacking in the news its always some sensationalist […]