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DC33 Aerospace Village 2024 ADSB Badge Maps The Aerospace badge uses PBF files, not PNG. This is kind of nice becuase the time to compils won’t be very long at from one vector to a split vector file format. The Village recommends using https://github.com/systemed/tilemaker for this purpose. We will be following theirn INSTALL.md instructions, but specifically for Docker. Installing on ParrotOS, there were some issues with Lua and the default config.json file in use. Using Docker was not awful at all. ...

DefCon 33 CloudCTF The DefCon 33 CloudCTF was put on by the Cloud Village, the website was here. The format for the flags this year was FLAG-{FLAGEX4MP1Efor7hecha1l3nge69EEcF} Category: Forensics Classified Registry The system was wiped, scrubbed clean down to the metal. Yet one container kept running, untouched, like a whisper in a forgotten corner. Some believe H3X N0V4 was testing more than defenses—maybe they were testing curiosity. https://storage.googleapis.com/classified-registry/index.html Opening the URL presented a very cool web page where arrow keys were needed to unlock classified intel. ...

KeyCloak x509 Authentication As a frequent user of multiple forms of IDs such as Smart Cards for Organizations, ECA certificates to validate a personal ideantity, and government IDs such as CACs and PIVs, I want to get smart on how certificate authentication can work. Getting Started With any project, the first step is to learn how others have done it. Over at DoD Platform1 a KeyCloak prototype exists which includes x509 flows, custom theming, and custom modules to register/update x509 certificates to a user identity in KeyCloak. ...

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2024 CTF Hello! This is my writeup of the wonderful challenges from the ControlPlane team this year at KubeCon. It was a ton of fun and is encouraged for folks of all experience levels. All you need is a laptop, CNCF Slack, a web browser, and some basic linux tools available (ssh + docker). For a beautiful blog writeup with screenshots and color coding, go here! https://www.skybound.link/2024/11/kubecon-na-2024-ctf-writeup/ ...

Flash WP50NB40 to become a 4K Drive Thank you to dododge.net for helping and teaching me all his wisdom!!! <3 Introduction Want to use an LG BluRay drive as a 4k drive? Look below! Hardware: LG Electronics LG BDXL Drive (WP50NB40) The full guide from MakeMKV files is available on MakeMKV forums Check the “SVC CODE” on the label on the bottom of the drive. If it’s NB52 then it needs to be flashed three times as seen in the following steps: ...

Pentoo on Steam Deck Installation Notes If using Rufus, remember to use “MBR”, not “GPT” scheme (SteamDeck limitation, not Pentoo) Display Orientations Change screen orientation in current boot: xrandr -o right Orient touch screen in current boot: xinput set-prop "FTS3528:00 2808:1015" --type=float "Coordinate Transformation Matrix" 0 1 0 -1 0 1 0 0 1 Look for FTS3528:00, for me it was the last item under “Virtual core pointer” Core Transformation explained https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/InputCoordinateTransformation ...

Description These are steps taken to help enable a SteamDeck for use in conferencing where a modern web browser, Zoom, and a Smart Card are required. Setup user password If no user level password has been set yet, configure one now. By default, there is no password passwd https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/tdggrm/comment/i0kaskz/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3 Switch Firefox to community maintained Firefox as provided in SteamOS is locked down and limited on execution. For enabling use with Smart Card libraries, a version installed and managed at the OS level (outside of a jail or sandbox) is required. Allow Read-Write filesystem Set filesystem to read-write so packages can be installed sudo steamos-readonly disable https://www.reddit.com/r/SteamDeck/comments/t6w9at/how_to_get_rid_of_read_only_filesystem_folders/ ...

I want to use OpenOCD but it is unsupported on my version of BusPirate. http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Bus_Pirate#JTAG_and_OpenOCD I’m running 5.10 which is disabled for OpenOCD. https://stackoverflow.com/a/61823037 sudo dpkg –add-architecture i386 sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install libc6:i386 libncurses5:i386 libstdc++6:i386 Follow Build instructions http://dangerousprototypes.com/docs/Compile_the_Bus_Pirate_firmware My bootloader is 4.3 which is within version 4.x so I don’t need to update bootloader cd Bus_Pirate/package/BPv3-firmware/ chmod +x (if you didn’t install i386 arch you’ll get command not found error message, file pirate-loader_lnx to see it’s a i386 file) ...