Random Thoughts: Android launchers (home screens)
I have used Cover and Aviate but could not stay with either and am back to Nova (which offer static screen of apps).
Technology, books, travel, and linguistics
I have used Cover and Aviate but could not stay with either and am back to Nova (which offer static screen of apps).
A short summary of bitcoin Electronic money is all about ledger (transactions) which tells who sent money to whom, in standard financial system, central/federal/reserve bank (different nations have different names for these) and by extension, financial institutions are “trusted” to […]
Background A security company reverse engineered Snapchat’s android client and found all the api endpoints (source). Bigger issue: The published proof of concept of using “find friends” feature to find whether a phone number is registered on Snapchat or not, […]
The book Winners take all is a collection of interesting insights into how companies in the high tech sector succeed and fail. The book was written in 2006 (pre-iPhone era) so it’s interesting to see how some companies mentioned by the author […]
This blog post is a HOWTO guide for using github while collaborating during hackathons. It does not cover git in detail.
This blog post contains a collection of small tips for engineers migrating from GNU/Linux to Mac OS X for software development. Note: In another post, I wrote about why there is a dearth of a good GNU/Linux laptop.
Some experience with adb and fastboot preferred (they are part of android SDK)
For the past one month or so, I am looking around for a good personal laptop running GNU/Linux. I was looking for something similar to my current Mac Book Pro My constraints were following Intel processor – 2.4 GHz or better […]
A lot of work is happening in academia and industry on tools to perform dynamic analysis, static analysis, and reverse engineering of android apps. An updated list of the tools can be seen at https://github.com/ashishb/android-security-awesome.
Just completed reading “The Tangled web: A guide to securing modern applications” by Michael Zalewski. The book is surprisingly small given the amount of information it covers about the interaction of web browsers, websites, and client-side web technologies. The book […]