CIA 2010 covert communication websites "Mass Deface III" pastebin Updated 2025-07-16
pastebin.com/CTXnhjeS dated mega early on Sep 30th, 2012 by CYBERTAZIEX.
This source was found by Oleg Shakirov.
This pastebin contained a few new hits, in addition to some pre-existing ones. Most of the hits them seem to be linked to the IP 72.34.53.174, which presumably is a major part of the fingerprint found by CYBERTAZIEX, though unsurprisingly methodology is unclear. As documented, the domains appear to be linked to a "Condor hosting" provider, but it is hard to find any information about it online.
From the title, it would seem that someone hacked into Condor and defaced all of its sites, including unknowingly some CIA ones which is LOL.
Ciro Santilli checked every single non-subdomain domain in the list.
Other files under the same account: pastebin.com/u/cybertaziex did not seem of interest.
The author's real name appears to be Deni Suwandi: twitter.com/denz_999 from Indonesia, but all accounts appear to be inactive, otherwise we'd ping him to ask for more info about the list.
www.zone-h.com lists some of the domains. They also seem to have intended to have snapshots of the defaces but we can't see them which is sad:
- www.zone-h.com/mirror/id/18994983 Inspecting the source we see an image zonehmirrors.org/defaced/2013/01/14/vypconsulting.com//tmp/sejeal.jpg "Sejeal" "Memorial of Gaza Martyrs". Sejeal defacements are mentioned e.g. at:
- www.zone-h.com/mirror/id/18410811 inspecting source we find: zonehmirrors.org/defaced/2012/09/30/ambrisbooks.com/ which lists the team:
Mathematical Sciences masters course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
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Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/mathematics-and-computer-science
A mixed cross department course with the Mathematical Institute of the University of Oxford.. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MMathCompSci. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
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Ciro Santilli's hardware Backpacks Updated 2025-07-16
2024-04: got two backpacks "for free" with the Lenovo reward points from buying the Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen4 amd, not bad, that was already cheap and now I got some extra swag:The sport backpack has a fatal flaw: no strap to hold laptop in place, wo it just tumbles back and forth as you walk.
- Lenovo Select Targus 16" Sport Backpack: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/cases-and-bags/backpacks/gx41l44751
- Lenovo Select Targus 16" Mobile Elite Backpack: www.lenovo.com/gb/en/p/accessories-and-software/cases-and-bags/backpacks/gx41l44752. Measured weight: 1070 g
FFmpeg video synthesis Updated 2025-07-16
Video with a solid color:
- 2 second white video:Also add some audio:
ffplay -autoexit -f lavfi -i 'color=white:640x480:d=3,format=rgb24,trim=end=2'TODO how to ffplay the video + audio directly?ffmpeg -lavfi "color=white:640x480:d=3,format=rgb24,trim=end=2[v];sine=f=1000:d=2[a]" -map '[a]' -map '[v]' out.mkv-mapdoes not seem to work unfortunately. - 2 second white followed by 2 second black video:
ffplay -autoexit -f lavfi -i 'color=white:640x480:d=3,format=rgb24,trim=end=2[a];color=black:640x480:d=3,format=rgb24,trim=end=2[b];[a][b]concat=n=2:v=1:a=0' - bibliography:
Display count in seconds on the video:
- black text on white background. Start from 0 and count up to 2:
ffplay -autoexit -f lavfi -i " color=white:480x480:d=3, format=rgb24, drawtext= fontcolor=black: fontsize=600: text='%{eif\:t\:d}': x=(w-text_w)/2: y=(h-text_h)/2 " - count 0 to 2 with one different sine wave per count:
ffmpeg -lavfi " color=white:480x480:d=3, format=rgb24, drawtext= fontcolor=black: fontsize=600: text='%{eif\:t\:d}': x=(w-text_w)/2: y=(h-text_h)/2[v]; sine=f=500:d=1[a1]; sine=f=1000:d=1[a2]; sine=f=2000:d=1[a3]; [a1][a2][a3]concat=n=3:v=0:a=1[a]; " -map '[v]' -map '[a]' count.mkv - bibliography:
Bibliography:
- ffmpeg.org//ffmpeg-filters.html#Video-Sources main section of the documentation listing various video generators
- stackoverflow.com/questions/11640458/how-can-i-generate-a-video-file-directly-from-an-ffmpeg-filter-with-no-actual-in generically asking how to generate the video without an input video
Ciro Santilli's hardware Monitors Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's hardware P14s cannot dual monitor on Wayland Updated 2025-07-16
Asked:
On Ubuntu 23.10, under Settings > Displays, Mirror works, but "Join" does not allow to Apply with message:Works on X Window System, it is a Wayland bug.
Changes Cannot be Applied. This could be due to hardware limitations.
Display manager Updated 2025-07-16
Check which you you have:Tested on Ubuntu 23.10 I see:which means I have GNOME Display Manager.
systemctl status display-manager.service● gdm.service - GNOME Display Manager
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/gdm.service; static)
Active: active (running) since Sun 2023-12-24 10:34:50 GMT; 23min ago
Process: 1827 ExecStartPre=/usr/share/gdm/generate-config (code=exited, status=0/SUCCESS)
Main PID: 1850 (gdm3)
Tasks: 4 (limit: 71817)
Memory: 6.8M
CPU: 119ms
CGroup: /system.slice/gdm.service
└─1850 /usr/sbin/gdm3 Ciro Santilli's hardware WD10EADS-42P6B0 Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro's
nc HTTP test server Updated 2025-07-16As per stackoverflow.com/a/52351480/895245 our standard test setup is:
while true; do
resp=$"$(date): hello\n"
len="$(printf '%s' "$resp" | wc -c)"
printf "HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\nContent-Length: $len\r\n\r\n${resp}\n" | nc -Nl 8000
done Cryptocurrency swapper Updated 2025-07-16
It is basically the same as buying and selling from exchanges for fiat, except that you only get fiat.
Swappers are in general able to receive send coins from any address, including self custody addresses.
Centralized swappers were a good way to workaround the endless Monero bans from exchanges circa 2024, e.g. x.com/cirosantilli/status/1771900725649371240 as they effectively serve as proxies for exchanges that are still legal in other countries.
They will eventually have to ban Monero of course, and then the only way left will be decentralized exchanges.
This leads to a scenario where the only effective way to ban Monero is to also ban all other cryptocurrencies. The question is if countries will go that far or not.
Craig Steven Wright is the Billy Mitchell of Bitcoin Updated 2025-07-16
Billy Mitchell comes strongly to mind!They even look similarly fraudulent.
Ripples by ripples Updated 2025-07-16
A Baidu Baike page: baike.baidu.hk/item/層層水瀾/12386243 mentions that the score was published in 1970 by Tao Yimo (陶一陌) in a eponymous score book.
Computer data storage hardware Updated 2025-07-16
Ciro Santilli's hardware P14s benchmark Updated 2025-12-25
glmark2 -b build:duration=3:model=horse~22K
Ubuntu 24.10: 13 kFPS. Hmm not sure why so much lower than before.
Computer Science and Philosophy course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science-and-philosophy
A mixed cross department course with the philosophy department. Its corresponding masters is known as Oxford MCompSciPhil. The handbook is together with the computer science one: Section "Computer science course of the University of Oxford".
Computer science and philosophy masters course of the University of Oxford Updated 2025-07-16
Public landing page: www.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate/courses/course-listing/computer-science-and-philosophy
Corresponding undergrad: Computer Science and Philosophy course of the University of Oxford.
Miner message Updated 2025-07-16
This is opposed to messages that may be left by non miners during transactions.
Miner messages are therefore of course much harder to control on established blockchains, as they basically require consensus in a mining pool to set. Most of them are just ads for the mining pool itself.
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