Tech Help

 Windows 11:  That required upgrade you can't perform     I have a lot of issues with using windows, apple, or red hat, and it's mostly because I grew up believing that people shouldn't have to pay to use a computer they already paid for. One time physical purchase, should be an all inclusive package. Sadly, thats not how the world works these days. Now days, your phone apps update every day, your phone updates every week, your computer updates every tuesday and at random, all of them enforce reboots or risk crashing the respective systems, blah. It's all pretty horrible. Now we have Windows 11 out for a while, with even high-end gaming computers that were purchased just before it's release, unable to run windows 11 on it.     If this was just a "my hardware isn't good enough" for it, I guess I could see that. ya know, service purchase with updates and all this garbage, fine. But in some cases, like mine, I have a windows 10 PC waiting to upgrade becau...

Bug hunting, threat hunting... license hunting?      Found myself doing some weird hunting, not finding anything special, but it was fun to keep some skills up. To start with, I was spending some time digging through some github repos using a tool called trufflehog . This is a secrets detection tool thats used specifically to determine if secrets have been leaked in code repos. It's really good for finding leaked passwords, apikeys, session tokens, etc... In my case, I was searching and stumbled across a result I wasn't too sure about. It was a .DS_Store file. These files are often left behind by Apple Mac OS when accessing specific filesystems ( you can find details on why this is a thing with a quick google ).  The main idea however, is that for support of specific systems, mac used a metadata caching mechanism, mostly filenames. Sometimes when finding these files, you can extract data from them in order to identify other files you should try to access. The file th...