Monthly Archives: February 2023

Hacking into a Foscam FI9853EP camera, part 1

Posted on February 26, 2023 by Rink

I have a Foscam FI9853EP, which was introduced in 2014 and has long since been obsoleted. One of the things that stands out, is that all firmware is encrypted: I was curious: what could be in the firmware that needs … Continue reading →

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Behind the magic of magic_enum

Posted on February 12, 2023 by Rink

Recently, a coworker pointed me towards a C++17 library to convert enumeration values to strings and vice versa. The library called magic_enum (https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum) and it indeed feels like magic. I was immediately curious: how did they pull this off? The … Continue reading →

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On NetWare 3.x password hashing

Posted on February 3, 2023 by Rink

Way back when, I was involved in trying to obtain passwords for a Novell NetWare 3.12 server. I won’t go into details here, suffice to say that the topic has always interested me – sufficiently to return to it 30-ish … Continue reading →

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