Add a Free SSL Certificate to Your Website

Monday, May 9, 2016

Why add an SSL certificate / use HTTPS? The HTTP protocol commonly used on the internet transmits data in plaintext. Traffic is “transparent” on the network and can be abused by a man-in-the-middle. …

First Hardware Mod: OpenWrt on a Router

Monday, April 4, 2016

Introduction Our hackerspace recently got a new tool: a hot air rework station. I decided to use it to practice by hard-modding a router to run OpenWrt (I had never done this kind of hardware work before). …

ESXi 5.5 Tinkering Notes

Monday, November 16, 2015

Introduction VMware ESX is a hypervisor that partitions and consolidates systems on standard hardware. It is an efficient and flexible virtualization platform with advanced resource management capabilities. ESXi (now called VMware vSphere Hypervisor) is free; its core functionality is largely similar, but it is smaller and more secure. …

Deploying a Hexo Blog on GitCafe

Sunday, November 1, 2015

Hexo is a Node.js-based static blog framework. It’s fast, easy to write with, and highly extensible. …

Docker Beginner Notes

Saturday, August 29, 2015

I was totally drawn in by this whale logo—loved it the first time I saw it. Docker is an open-source engine that makes it easy to create lightweight, portable, self-sufficient containers for any application. A container that a developer compiles and tests on a laptop can be deployed in batches to production environments, including VMs (virtual machines), bare metal, OpenStack clusters, and other infrastructure platforms. Compared with ordinary VM images, the biggest difference is that a Docker container image does not include an operating system kernel. …

Kali NetHunter: First Impressions

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Kali NetHunter, a mobile penetration testing platform, has been out for a while. Among Chinese geeks, opinions on it have been mixed. Either way, I’d wanted to try NetHunter for a long time—after all, being able to do some “evil” things with a phone in certain situations feels a bit like Watch Dogs. …

A Simple Crack for CKFinder 3 for PHP

Monday, August 24, 2015

Preface CKFinder is a web-based Ajax file manager. Many small websites use CKFinder in their admin panel to manage uploaded resources conveniently. …

Reverse Engineering a Campus Android App

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Preparation Phone: Google Nexus 5 Tools: …

Notes on Some Easily Confused Units

Saturday, May 2, 2015

Recently I’ve been reading articles about design, and I keep mixing up some of these units. So I need note them here. …