Shakedko's place

How to test IoT devices with k3s by controlling their bandwidth using Burp Suite

In this post I explain how to sniff, control requests and simulate internet behaviour on an IoT device with k3s installed.

chatbot

My First Chat Bot Experience

I am going to tell my story about my first chat bot experience. This is not a coding post but rather an ongoing journey that I want to share!

Golang

Golang "The system cannot find the path specified" (on Windows)

In the last few weeks I have been working on a small bot/crawler project. Basically, I had to communicate with Wikimedia's API to get a large portion of information and images. One of my client's requirements was to ensure that the filename contains information about the downloaded image, such

android

Writing An Android Portrait Camera App

Description Recently I have worked on a custom camera Android project at CNature. The project had 4 main requirements: The camera has to work in portrait mode even if the phone is on landscape mode. The camera has to be on the entire screen on any Android device. The final

Facebook

How To Write A Privacy Oriented API When Using SSO

Description I have been noticing that many applications tend to skip some important points while writing their APIs. In this post I will try to discuss some of those points. Exposure & Privacy Usually, when we write APIs, we use a common data structure in order to be able to

Hinge

Hinge Privacy Issues

Hinge allows people to see their users' private information. This post explains what it exposed and how I found it

Security

Couchsurfing Privacy Issues

Couchsurfing allows people to see their users' private information. This post talks about what it exposed and how I found it.

jiralockfile

Maps VS Slices VS Arrays

Description While working on the Gomobiledetect package I have been facing some interesting performance issues such as caching the compiled regex rules and changing the maps to slices(expandable arrays on runtime) or arrays(fixed size) - depends on the situation. Today I want to talk about the performance improvement

Development

Passing Vagrant Command Line Parameters

Description I have been looking for a simple way to pass parameters to Vagrant while specifying their names and without hurting Vagrant's own parameters. I have seen few different suggested solutions including using ENV\ARGV. I have chosen to use the library GetoptLong Suggested Solution The suggested solution is pretty

TicTacToe MinMax

Serving static files with Go

Description Lately I am trying to work on different projects while making sure that frontend and backend can work without any dependency. Having working with this approach I can work on backend without having any frontend files in the same repository and vice versa. One of the things that needs

Tinder

Tinder Privacy Issues

How I found critical privacy Issues with Tinder and was able to match with every Tinder user I wanted.

jira

JIRA cannot start its required plugins

Desription Once in awhile JIRA might crash. When JIRA crashes, it won't remove the "JIRA lock" and then it will be impossible to use it. One of the reasons that this problem might happen is due the lack of time that JIRA has to run its required plugins.

MySQL

MySQL Split String Function Fix (split_str)

Splitting MySQL strings with split_str and multibyte delimiters.

eclipse

Configure Zend Debugger

Using a debugger is very important while writing code. Lets see how to do that with PHP and Zend Debugger: Install Eclipse or Zend Studio. If you have installed Eclipse, you should install two more things: PDT - PHP Development Tools Zend Debugger After extracting everything, search for ZendDebugger.so's

bit data type

PHP: Insert or update MySQL BIT(1) field

How to insert or update a MySQL bit field with PHP

MinMax algo

PHP Tic-Tac-Toe MinMax algorithm implementation

I got an assignment creating a Tic-Tac-Toe game base on PHP. The task required that the player won't be able to win the game, meaning either the computer wins or it ends in a draw.