Category Archives: Articles

Commentaries, rants, and papers written by psych0tik staff members

brainfuck and insomnia

Posted on March 22, 2011 by richo

I couldn’t sleep, so naturally I wrote a brainfuck interpreter. Actually, if you want to get technical I wrote this a while ago. I spent about 2 days on it, and in the end just could not get the bastard … Continue reading →

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Taking back your mobile phone

Posted on March 8, 2011 by samurai

Remember 10 years ago when you were happy if your phone had the Snake game[0] or a color screen?  Now we’ve got all sorts of smart phones loaded with applications, media and functionality.  Recent news has shown these apps aren’t … Continue reading →

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The IPocalypse has come. But don’t panic… yet.

Posted on February 28, 2011 by CarbonLifeForm

A meta tutorial of IPv6. Links to all the information you’ll need to adapt to the next generation Internet Protocol. Continue reading →

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A “hacker” Christmas carol

Posted on December 23, 2010 by samurai

Tired of singing the regular 12 days of Christmas? Then this year as you’re stuck doing the rounds, try and slip this one into the mix: The 12 hacker days of Christmas – brought to you by Hollywood.  Movie references … Continue reading →

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Odd bugs and the case of an aging database

Posted on August 29, 2010 by samurai

I was doing some troubleshooting recently trying to fix some issues reported in the Captcha of a registration system. The Captcha wasn’t always properly displaying and wouldn’t recognize valid code entries intermittently. After tracing some of the PHP to find … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on IPv6 Firewalling

Posted on August 9, 2010 by CarbonLifeForm

It is the on-coming storm. We’ve all heard about it; it’s big, scary, and new. Public IP addresses for all and tearing down those NAT-PT barriers excites and worries many. IPv6 is coming but it’s not as frightening as it’s … Continue reading →

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