The Official FSU Re-fill cup at Null Disquisition

The Official FSU Re-fill cup

Busy times. Been busting ass to keep up with everything this semester – teaching assistantship, classes, thesis, not to mention my new(ish) job at Loud3r. Had a few interesting things happen latetly that I felt warranted an update. To enumerate: I hacked some kid’s Facebook account, wrote an HTML scraper to get the latest Naruto Shippüden episodes from Dattebayo, got my code working for my thesis, and did my final edits on my first real academic paper.

Facebook failure:

I was sitting in the class I TA for (along with my cohort Billzebub), I was sniffing the wifi traffic (like you do) and took a look at the pcap dump that was captured. Amongst the garbage was some request/response headers for Facebook. Being the curious little monkey I am, I fire up Firefox and copy/paste all the cookie information into my session (using Web Developer 2 extension). I head over to facebook.com and low and behold, I am Matt Whatshisname. Full access too, not just a temporary hiccup in the login system. After resisting messing with stuff and/or snooping, I clear my cookies and sit back in awe. Awe at how ridiculous it is that the Facebook login system is so exposed and broken.

I tried to replicate the cookie spoof for some pics for this post, but apperently one or more of the cookies are time-sensitive.

Edit: Hack successfully reproduced! Epic fail!!

http://skitch.com/mumrah/7gcg/his-name-is-robert-paulson

http://skitch.com/mumrah/7gcj/full-access

More Naruto Shenanigans:

No need to waste time about how I did it, here’s a link that pretty much explains it all. Naruto Shippüden XML feed.

Thesis:

After going back and forth with my professor for weeks not getting anywhere, I sit him down and start at the beginning and force him to work through all the details with me. 4 hours later we have some functioning code. Obligatory photos to follow. The above picture demonstrates the orthogonality and normalization of the eigenvectors (meaning we finally have the parition function correct as well as the normalization criterion). The following three pictures are just the first three eigenvectors.