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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

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The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

I’m not going to lie, I was skeptical about starting The Folk of the Air series. Shannon had made a really big deal about it and was adamant that I read it. I know she loves faeries, and I love magic, and we both really enjoyed Holly Black’s previous book, The Darkest Part of the Forest, so I decided to give it a go.

I was not disappointed. This book was full of very detailed descriptions of magic and how things worked, which is something that I appreciate in a magical book — how they don’t just say something magic happened and then don’t describe how it happened. This book gives all of the hows in epic detail, which I really loved. This is one of those books that has the ability to really transport the reader to an altogether different place from mortal reality, and you really get sucked in.

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How to SSH to a Jailbroken iOS Device over USB

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How to SSH to a Jailbroken iOS Device over USB

I recently had to set up testing against our Akamai Staging environment which uses a different IP address than production. This required me to get a new MacBookPro that would support the latest version of MacOS, as well as the latest version of Xcode, just so that I could have sudo access to change add an entry in /etc/hosts in order to build the application from source and run it in the iOS simulator (since the Simulator doesn’t come packaged with the iOS AppStore). Then I had to carry around another computer in my backpack simply because I refuse to separate from Arch Linux and i3-gaps (which can perfectly emulate the Android version without issues), but I digress…

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Optimizing Python Code Using Cython: A Beginner’s Introduction

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Optimizing Python Code Using Cython: A Beginner’s Introduction

There are much better resources than this blog that will lead you down the rabbit hole of Cythonizing your Python code, but this is just a very easy introduction, outlining my own personal experiments as a Cython beginner, myself. In this tutorial, we will use my dictionary creation tool, brutalist, as a really bad example of how to Cythonize some Python code.

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Generating Large Password Dictionaries Using Brutalist

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Generating Large Password Dictionaries Using Brutalist

Brutalist is a cross-platform Python3+ based command line tool that can be used to generate very large word dictionaries based on minimal input. It can take a single word like “password” and generate up to 13,198,680 combinations using common special character substitutions and suffixes, and up to all possible 3-digit numerical suffixes with all variations of special characters appended. It is a highly-specialized tool, which should be a regular go-to in the tool belt of all red teamers and pentesters.

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Enabling Full Disk Encryption on Legacy MBR BIOS with LVM on LUKS and GRUB Bootloader

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Enabling Full Disk Encryption on Legacy MBR BIOS with LVM on LUKS and GRUB Bootloader

This was obviously somewhat of an edge case, but I’m sure it will apply to many other users out there, and I hope it finds them well. This was one particular case where the Arch Wiki was a little shady and left me figuring out a lot of stuff on my own — as is the case for any Arch user — which is one of the reasons we punish ourselves by using it in the first place. That being said, this method should work with minimal tweaks for just about any OS, because the main things being modified here are the underlying disk formats, partitions, kernel, and bootloader. Everything else is left untouched.

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