Jameson Lopp

Providing security and privacy consulting isn't always theoretical fun and games. Sometimes clients come to you during periods of distress and you have to play the role of therapist as well.

Discord just filed to IPO. Surely this won't have any negative consequences for its users. 😬

If you ever accidentally delete a disk partition and need to quickly undo, "testdisk" is a very powerful utility that works on multiple operating systems. Ironically, I deleted a partition while using "ntfsfix" to try to unset the "dirty bit" on an NTFS partition that Linux refused to mount. Turns out if you give the root device as a parameter rather than the specific device partition, "ntfsfix" will just wipe all of the partitions without warning! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Everybody wants to fuck around. Nobody wants to find out.