Hacker News: netsec_burn

New comment by netsec_burn in "Are AI Labs Pelicanmaxxing?"

netsec_burn — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:46:37 +0000

Addressed in the article, in case you're curious.

New comment by netsec_burn in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

netsec_burn — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:06:49 +0000

Speaking from experience, the LLM agents adapt fairly well to these contexts too. It's not at all FUD, you're at a significant disadvantage if you don't compete with AI now. I went to a CTF recently against teams I have won against every year, and within 10 minutes of the event starting they had solved every challenge. They have an agent loop and it solves everything immediately, so they won. Anyone attempting to solve the challenges on their own has no chance, even if you think "maybe this is too out of the box for LLMs". Furthermore, the DEFCON CTF you're referring to has quals, and if you don't qualify you don't get those challenges in the finals. Quals has mainly binary exploitation challenges which Opus (and others) solve as long as you hold the gas pedal down on your API bill. I don't believe it's hyperbole to say CTF is dead, as a competitor.

New comment by netsec_burn in "Claude Code removed from Anthropic's Pro plan"

netsec_burn — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:04:59 +0000

I can't even sign up for Max (last tried yesterday), their credit card processor has issues.

New comment by netsec_burn in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

netsec_burn — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 00:27:07 +0000

Another trope: longer README.md's than anyone would make, or want.

New comment by netsec_burn in "MacBook Air with M5"

netsec_burn — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:04:42 +0000

I prefer the Dell Rugged line or Thinkpads, since a single water droplet on the keyboard is enough to kill this laptop.

Break Me If You Can – Attacks Against 3DES/AES NFC Technologies

netsec_burn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 15:59:51 +0000

Article URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/100

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46755201

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Breakmeifyoucan: Exploiting PKO and Relay Attacks in 3DES/AES NFC Technologies

netsec_burn — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 13:36:39 +0000

Article URL: https://breakmeifyoucan.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46753971

Points: 11

# Comments: 0

New comment by netsec_burn in "Show HN: FlopperZiro – A DIY open-source Flipper Zero clone"

netsec_burn — Wed, 09 Jul 2025 21:27:41 +0000

Also the Kiisu which is 1:1 with capabilities, plus a few more.

New comment by netsec_burn in "Dismissed Nuclear Bomb Specialists Recalled by Energy Department"

netsec_burn — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 23:50:08 +0000

https://archive.is/u6UQU

New comment by netsec_burn in "Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?"

netsec_burn — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 22:43:51 +0000

The allowed types are a bit misleading. Any binary is accepted, any architecture. You can upload shared objects, ELF executables, PE binaries, etc.

I like to give it bomb executables (reverse engineering challenges) to test it.

New comment by netsec_burn in "Ask HN: How are you using LLMs for traversing decompiler output?"

netsec_burn — Sat, 04 Jan 2025 20:04:14 +0000

I made a site to use LLMs to help me with reverse engineering. The output is surprisingly readable, even with C++ classes. Let me know any feedback you might have: https://decompiler.zeroday.engineering/

New comment by netsec_burn in "The 'Invisibility Cloak' – Slash-Proc Magic"

netsec_burn — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 17:28:20 +0000

I can answer the writing to /proc one. It is sometimes useful to hotpatch running programs with /proc/pid/mem.

New comment by netsec_burn in "CapibaraZero: A cheap alternative to FlipperZero based on ESP32-S3"

netsec_burn — Wed, 16 Oct 2024 10:30:01 +0000

Or the LilyGO T-Embed CC1101.

New comment by netsec_burn in "Did your car witness a crime? Bay Area police may be coming for your Tesla"

netsec_burn — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 16:40:20 +0000

https://archive.is/M81lw

New comment by netsec_burn in "OpenAI is good at unminifying code"

netsec_burn — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 12:00:06 +0000

I recently learned this too, just a few months ago. Ended up making a frontend so I could do it automatically: https://decompiler.zeroday.engineering/

New comment by netsec_burn in "Magic Wormhole: get things from one computer to another, safely"

netsec_burn — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 18:01:43 +0000

I've used wormhole once to move a 70 GB file. Couldn't possibly do that before. And yes, I know I used the bandwidth of the relay server, I donated to Debian immediately afterwards (they run the relay for the version in the apt package).

New comment by netsec_burn in "MIFARE Classic: exposing the static encrypted nonce variant [pdf]"

netsec_burn — Sat, 17 Aug 2024 00:20:56 +0000

Not yet, I'm writing it. Will be available by the end of the month, feel free to follow the PR: https://github.com/flipperdevices/flipperzero-firmware/pull/...

New comment by netsec_burn in "Open source AI is the path forward"

netsec_burn — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 01:27:28 +0000

How? They are prohibited from using it in the license.

New comment by netsec_burn in "Llama 3.1"

netsec_burn — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 15:09:11 +0000

Today appears to be the day you can run an LLM that is competitive with GPT-4o at home with the right hardware. Incredible for progress and advancement of the technology.

Statement from Mark: https://about.fb.com/news/2024/07/open-source-ai-is-the-path...

New comment by netsec_burn in "Google's Gemini AI caught scanning Google Drive PDF files without permission"

netsec_burn — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 13:17:42 +0000

I fixed this by disabling the Photos app and using Google Gallery (on the Play store). It's the same thing as Photos for what I was using it for, without the online features.