Daily Archives: February 25, 2008

Wii hacked using buffer overflow

Slashdot is reporting that a lot of Wii homebrew code is being developed and released now. Apparently, a bug was found in The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess that allows you to smash the stack by overflowing the horse name … Continue reading

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Pakistan ISPs, Routing, and YouTube

Here’s a link to the article I mentioned today in class, which is related to the material that we covered on Friday: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2008/02/pakistan_censorship_order_take.html (from The Washington Post). Here’s a quote from the article: So, what happened? From everything I’ve read … Continue reading

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DVD Jon’s DoubleTwist

Jon Johansen (known for his work in defeating CSS in DVDs) has recently released an application known as DoubleTwist. DoubleTwist is designed to defeat Apple’s FairPlay DRM by playing the track’s in fast forward and capturing the analog signal as … Continue reading

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