scarybeast | Dark Hacker News

user:	scarybeast
created:	June 24, 2015
karma:	1.2k
about:	The real scarybeasts!

1.	Recovering “lost” treasure-filled floppy discs with an oscilloscope(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 306 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 53 comments
2.	The cleverest floppy disc protection ever? Western Security Ltd(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 339 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 130 comments
3.	Reverse engineering a forgotten 1970s Intel dual core beast: 8271, a new ISA(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 169 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 39 comments
4.	Turning a £400 BBC Micro (1981) into a $40k disc writer (1987)(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 34 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 5 comments
5.	Weak bits floppy disc protection: an alternate origins story on 8-bit(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 65 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 11 comments
6.	A wild bug: 1970s Intel 8271 disc chip ate my data(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 97 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 19 comments
7.	Sampled sound 1980s style: from SN76489 square waves to samples(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 2 points by scarybeast 5 years ago \| 0 comments
8.	Clocking a 6502 simulator to 15GHz(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 176 points by scarybeast 6 years ago \| 74 comments
9.	Dumping Yahoo authentication secrets with an out-of-bounds read(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 91 points by scarybeast 9 years ago \| 7 comments
10.	*bleed continues: 18 byte file, $14k bounty: leaking private Yahoo Mail images(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 4 points by scarybeast 9 years ago \| 0 comments
11.	Further hardening glibc malloc() against single byte overflows(scarybeastsecurity.blogspot.com) 131 points by scarybeast 9 years ago \| 35 comments