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Archive for August, 2009

How to properly get date / time in a batch file

Monday, August 10th, 2009

This is something that I should have posted a long time ago. Sadly though, with things like PowerShell out now, old school batch files are quickly becoming extinct, even for hardened batchers like myself. However I still find myself using batch files of some sort from time to time, and often times I need to […]

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Posted in Server Management | 3 Comments »

Crappy data validation strikes again

Crappy data validation strikes again

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

A few months ago I had a little rant about validation, and how developers had to be more thoughtful and less presumptuous. Lately I’ve had another data validation issue crop up that is even more annoying. My credit card expired recently and as usual the bank sent a new card out. I thought it was […]

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Reverse engineering the crypto in an RFID tag

Reverse engineering the crypto in an RFID tag

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

This was posted on RFID Toys a little over six months ago, but I was just cleaning files from my cluttered laptop and re-discovered this gem. These guys over at the University of Virginia reverse engineered an RFID tag by physically shaving down the chip to reveal transistor layer after transistor layer, taking images of […]

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