It’s highly annoying when you are trying to read or download something at a
client site only to be denied by their proxy. Luckily there’s a way around
it that normally works, and here’s how to set it up in OS X or Linux. 1

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The problem with learning Vim is not that it’s hard to do—it’s that you
have to keep doing it.

This guide will break that cycle, ensuring this is the last time you
will learn it. There are dozens of Vim references online,…

Many believe the discussion of free will is pointless. This is usually
because one believes it’s been settled (for the religious who believe God
gave it to us) or because one believes it doesn’t matter (for the secular
types who …

Many are confused by the terms decompiler and disassembler. As
with most confusion of this type, most just use the words interchangeably.
Don’t do that; they are not the same.

A decompiler takes one from a bin…

I saw the most extraordinary thing yesterday during lunch.

It was a CNN piece on a Libyan man who was fighting against Ghaddafi’s
forces. He and his friends were trying to get into some government barracks
and he realized they had no …

We’ve heard a thousand such analogies, and they generally suck. Perhaps this
one will suck slightly less.

Getting right to it, the iPhone experience is like a porsche. The Android
experience is like a Winnebago.

The …

If you use Burp a good bit you’ve likely run into the question of what
precisely the various Intruder Payload Methods do. Specifically, what are
the differences between them? To refresh the memory, they are Sniper,
Battering Ram,…

I think there are two primary levels of awareness possible for modern
humans.

There are those who don’t think about why they want what they want, and
there are those that do. I am not speaking, of course, about why one pref…

I recently decided to give Xobni for GMail a try. It does some wicked
integration between your Google contacts, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.
Basically, the idea is unification of contact information so that you’re
getting a more complet…

I am often asked how I handle handle security while using social networks.
This post serves as my answer in image and bullet form.

I make a strong, explicit distinction between private and public
mediums, …