I've returned from my vacation in Las Vegas (DefCon 24) to find my PC's OS HDD failed. At first I thought the Win 10 update screwed up, but then I discovered after I used it for a while on any OS I couldn't read or write to it at all.

I've only had it for like four months :(

Ah, well. I'm replacing it with a 500GB SSD next week anyway. Woo!
In the meantime, I put Ubuntu on my internal SSD until I can get things fixed. Good thing all my data is either on other drives or on Dropbox- the only thing that one had was an encrypted Windows system + apps.

Secgen looks interesting. I'll give it a try later since I'm in Ubuntu anyway. That reminds me I also heard about some online service that lets you rent vulnerable servers to pentest while I was standing in line for DefCon tickets. Nobody knew what it was called, though. Any ideas?

Edit: Taking a closer look, my Ubuntu system doesn't seem to be seeing my other WD Black drive full of Steam games, either. Weird..
Maybe I just accidentally unplugged the cable? I'll check later.

Edit 2: Yeah, I figured out why it didn't see the other drive.
.. Look, I got frustrated. Don't judge me.

I tried installing Nvidia proprietary drivers on Ubuntu to get multi-monitor working, but unfortunately it doesn't work without disabling Secure Boot & UEFI which I sure as hell am not about to do- so I skipped it and am sticking with a single monitor for the week. Sucks, but whatever.

Decided I'd install VirtualBox as a semi-test because I never get the pleasure of running linux on this PC. Turns out the drivers it installs are unsigned so Secure Boot & UEFI need to be disabled.

.. You know what? Here's a solution: SIGN YOUR FUCKING DRIVERS YOU LAZY BASTARDS.

/rant

@MSGHero I got SecGen to start working (finally) after spinning up a VM for it. Took some work, though.
Pull requests ahoy.

So, yeah. I got VMs running under a VM. Yo dawg..

Now to figure out how in the hell I'm going to network this so everything's still accessible from the outside. Hooking it into my public-facing CTF won't be a challenge, thankfully.

At 8/14/16 05:11 PM, egg82 wrote: Now to figure out how in the hell I'm going to network this so everything's still accessible from the outside. Hooking it into my public-facing CTF won't be a challenge, thankfully.

*inserts "way over my head" emoji*

I finished implementing the new pathfinding algo. It works. Better than my old nape-based solution. It's faster, less memory-intensive, and no obvious edge cases.

If I had started with A* like I knew I should have, Lazy Theta* is an hour more code, half of which is understanding the garbage pseudocode in the research paper.

I should probably use a heap-based Priority Queue instead of a linked list one...hm

I'm gonna write a blog post about my pathfinding findings.

complete with crappy ms paint drawings

Edit: @Sam you were right

At 8/14/16 05:40 PM, MSGhero wrote: *inserts "way over my head" emoji*

I'm thinking "OpenVPN into the VirtualBox network" would work absolutely perfectly.

I'm gonna write a blog post about my pathfinding findings.

^ This

but why

At 8/16/16 02:52 AM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: but why

Because yes.

JESUS FUCKING HELL I dodged a bullet. The ONE TIME I got lazy and didn't check the full sig..

gpg --delete-key "0F6A 1465 32D8 69AE E438  F74B 6211 AA3B 0041 1886"

Nopenopenopenopenopenopenopenope

Pathfinding findings http://enkiangames.tumblr.com/

PSA Alert: NSA tools have been leaked to the general public. These tools are seriously dangerous and will cause a lot of damage in the wrong hands; now they're in everybody's hands. Lock everything you can down as tight as you can until updates and patches arrive for the zero-days now released into the wild. Trust nothing and nobody.

Edit: Following the style of the leaks, I made a codename for this operation: DUCKANDCOVER

At 8/19/16 04:00 PM, egg82 wrote: PSA Alert: NSA tools have been leaked to the general public. These tools are seriously dangerous and will cause a lot of damage in the wrong hands; now they're in everybody's hands. Lock everything you can down as tight as you can until updates and patches arrive for the zero-days now released into the wild. Trust nothing and nobody.

i got nothing to hide

At 8/19/16 04:01 PM, Sam wrote: i got nothing to hide

In that case, can I have your:
SSN, credit card details, bank information, any personal customer information, photo ID, and access to your webcam and microphone 24/7? Thanks.

;)

At 8/19/16 04:08 PM, egg82 wrote:

At 8/19/16 04:01 PM, Sam wrote: i got nothing to hide

In that case, can I have your:
SSN, credit card details, bank information, any personal customer information, photo ID, and access to your webcam and microphone 24/7? Thanks.

What's an SSN

I said nothing to hide not nothing to lose.

my dignity

At 8/19/16 06:18 PM, Sam wrote: What's an SSN

Americans get a number at birth. It's used to prove you are you even though it's not hard to find someone's last 4 digits and other identifying information.

At 8/19/16 06:37 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 8/19/16 06:18 PM, Sam wrote: What's an SSN

Americans get a number at birth. It's used to prove you are you even though it's not hard to find someone's last 4 digits and other identifying information.

Think of it like "The Matrix" but really insecure and none of us can dodge bullets.

.. Yet.

To be fair, "nothing to hide" is a pretty loose term according to intelligence operators ;)

Blasting Agent is a HaxeFlixel game that just came out on steam. http://store.steampowered.com/app/453810/

It's also on 3DS and WiiU, although those versions use a heavily modified flixel to deal with the limitations of those platforms.

Defender's Quest is apparently working on PS4 and Xbone now.

And they added me as an official member of flixel on github.

Looking good

At 8/23/16 11:35 AM, MSGhero wrote: It's also on 3DS and WiiU, although those versions use a heavily modified flixel to deal with the limitations of those platforms. Defender's Quest is apparently working on PS4 and Xbone now.

Sweet

And they added me as an official member of flixel on github.

Congrats!

At 8/19/16 06:18 PM, Sam wrote: What's an SSN

I think it's equivalent to our NI number

At 8/19/16 03:25 PM, MSGhero wrote: Pathfinding findings http://enkiangames.tumblr.com/

Nice post! Lazy Theta* seems interesting. I have never heard of it before.

At 8/19/16 04:00 PM, egg82 wrote: PSA Alert: NSA tools have been leaked to the general public.

Is there a good description somewhere describing the tools and what they actually do ? I'm guessing there are 0 days as well. Is there a list of them somewhere?

By the way I finally pushed up my Kademlia DHT implementation.
https://github.com/prettymuchbryce/kademlia

There is a lot of work I can still do to make it better so this may turn into an ongoing project. At least until I'm reasonably happy with it.

At 8/27/16 02:06 PM, PrettyMuchBryce wrote: Is there a good description somewhere describing the tools and what they actually do ? I'm guessing there are 0 days as well. Is there a list of them somewhere?

https://github.com/adamcaudill/EquationGroupLeak

;)

EGREGIOUSBLUNDER specifically is actually about -3650-day.

Calling CenturyLink tomorrow. Something's very wrong. Even 450 up is uncharacteristically low, and I unplugged everything and restarted the router to test.

I used several different speed tests, they all showed about the same result.

At 8/28/16 11:49 PM, egg82 wrote: Calling CenturyLink tomorrow. Something's very wrong. Even 450 up is uncharacteristically low, and I unplugged everything and restarted the router to test.

That sucks

Tbh this is low too

At 8/29/16 12:01 AM, MSGhero wrote:\

Tbh this is low too

That's something I would expect with several TVs and multiple devices online. Not super-low, and I bet if you took a few of those offline everything would be good.

7, on the other hand, is.. Well, something's wrong. Getting it looked at by CenturyLink themselves tomorrow.

In the meantime, I started a new shift at my job: 3 AM - 11:30 AM.

Why? I don't know why, because I'm fucking nuts I guess.

At 8/29/16 08:20 PM, egg82 wrote: That's something I would expect with several TVs and multiple devices online. Not super-low, and I bet if you took a few of those offline everything would be good.

I have an entire apartment building online, but yeah it gets higher as the night goes on. Not too much higher though, bc people here study instead of sleep.

Jesus fuck are you fucking kidding me?? AGAIN??
This is the exact same issue I had with my other drive after four months of having it. Exact same model. The hell is this shit?

Never in my life have I had a HDD fail. Now two with the exact same model within three weeks of eachother, and only after having them < a year.

Weird that they failed within weeks of eachother when I got them both almost a year apart from eachother, though..

.. Especially weird this conveniently happened just after I updated Win 10 to the Anniversary Update.. Hmmmmm......

Flixel ended up raising about $8500 after the campaign, including extra-campaign funds. I also think Defender's Quest ppl put up an additional $3k from the start, so that's good. Hopefully this means someone can make flixel compatible with the latest versions of the required haxelibs.

pawerupsssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr7Ala5hbA

At 8/30/16 04:19 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: pawerupsssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr7Ala5hbA

Are the physics and things in r theta or are you just converting the display to that in the end of the frame?

At 8/30/16 04:53 PM, MSGhero wrote:

At 8/30/16 04:19 PM, Glaiel-Gamer wrote: pawerupsssss https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtr7Ala5hbA

Are the physics and things in r theta or are you just converting the display to that in the end of the frame?

the whole game is flat and a vertex shader warps it. physics and stuff does have a bunch of utility functions to handle the point where it wraps around correctly (lots of modulo shit for calculating distances and directions)