Adam Caudill

News

2023-09

• Whose CVE Is It Anyway? Sep 14

2022-12

• Twitter Becomes a Walled Garden Dec 18

2022-07

• On Art, Heritage, Nazis, & 3D Scanners Jul 5

2022-06

• Logseq: My External Brain Jun 5

2022-01

• Death, Cancer, and Missed Chances Jan 10

2021-11

• Trojan Source and Why It Matters Nov 2

2021-10

• Generating Content Stats for Hugo Oct 4

2021-09

• Hugo & Content-Based Related Content Sep 6

2021-08

• 1Password 8 Early Access: Security, Comments, & FAQs Aug 14
• On Apple, Privacy, and Device Control Aug 10

2021-06

• LinkedIn: The Breach That Isn’t but Is Jun 30

2021-05

• Best Practices vs Inane Practices May 18

2020-12

• Proposal: Association of Security Researchers Dec 23
• The (Questionable) Future of YAWAST Dec 7

2020-04

• Book Review: Active Measures Apr 24

2020-03

• Checklist: Starting a Security Consulting Firm Mar 27

2020-01

• YAWAST: News & Mission Jan 5

2019-04

• YAWAST v0.7 Released Apr 19

2019-03

• TLS: 64bit-ish Serial Numbers & Mass Revocation Mar 10

2017-05

• 30 Days of Brave May 2

2017-04

• Confide, Screenshots, and Imaginary Threats Apr 22
• Shadow Brokers, Equation Group, Oh My… Apr 14
• YAWAST 0.5 Released Apr 5

2016-09

• TLS Certificates from the Top Million Sites Sep 23
• Ruby + GCM Nonce Reuse: When your language sets you up to fail… Sep 19
• Testing for SWEET32 with YAWAST Sep 16

2016-08

• Developers: Placing Trust in Strangers Aug 17

2016-05

• Seamless Phishing May 22

2016-03

• Crypto Crisis: Fear over Freedom Mar 13

2016-01

• Rance, Goodbye Friend Jan 8
• 2015: Year In Review Jan 1

2015-12

• Battle Fronts in the Crypto War Dec 27
• on Unfair Judgement Dec 27
• Juniper, Backdoors, and Code Reviews Dec 22
• Much ado about Juniper Dec 18
• The Door to Nowhere Dec 12

2015-05

• Making BSides Knoxville May 18

2015-03

• On the Underhanded Crypto Contest Mar 8

2015-01

• 2014: Year In Review Jan 2

2014-12

• Orwellian Justice Dec 3

2014-11

• Speaking at SC Magazine Congress Nov 23

2014-10

• On The Ethics of BadUSB Oct 3

2014-08

• IETF Action on Secure Email Aug 25
• SMIMP at the DEFCON Crypto Village Aug 16

2014-07

• On Strong Identity Management Jul 27
• Jumping through hoops… Jul 23

2014-03

• Security By Buzzword – Why I don’t support Ensafer Mar 23
• HTTP Considered Harmful – The Need For Negative Feedback Mar 15

2013-09

• Making Android NSA-Proof Sep 7

2013-08

• Is moving offshore really crazy? Aug 27

2013-07

• Cryptocat: What is the measure… Jul 16
• Do one thing right… Jul 4

2013-05

• DEFCAD & Freedom of Information May 11

2013-04

• The WikiLeaks We Deserve Apr 29
• 1Password, PBKDF2, & Implementation Flaws Apr 16
• Linode: Another Breach Notification Gone Wrong Apr 13
• Security Done Wrong: Leaky FTP Server Apr 5

2013-03

• Evernote: Doing it (mostly) right Mar 2

2012-09

• WordPress: Don’t trust that update Sep 6

2012-07

• Yahoo’s Associated Content Hacked? Jul 12

2012-06

• Assange, Ecuador, and the Cyberarmy Jun 20
• Monitor iPhone HTTP(S) Traffic with Fiddler Jun 10
• LinkedIn: A little common sense Jun 6

2012-05

• MiniPwner May 13
• Gpg4win & IDEA May 13
• Detecting .NET 4.0 Remotely May 8
• A month with DuckDuckGo May 2

2012-04

• Absolute Deniability Apr 29
• HP Folio 13 Apr 23
• Moving to Octopress Apr 13
• QuickPacket Hosting Apr 5

2012-03

• My 5 minutes of infamy Mar 31
• CCSRCH v1.0.7 Mar 1

2012-01

• IIN (BIN) Database Jan 26
• CCSRCH v1.0.5 Jan 14
• SOPA Is Inevitable Jan 7

2011-10

• Masking Credit Cards for PCI Oct 20
• Why Cringely is wrong about Java Oct 15

2011-07

• Pen-Testing Silverlight+RIA with SoapUI Jul 6

2011-06

• A brief look at the latest @LulzSec release Jun 17

2011-05

• bbPress 2.0 (beta-1) released! May 21
• Happy 20th birthday Visual Basic! May 21
• VB6: Not so open source May 20
• Errors on ‘gem install mysql2’ May 16
• Facebook Scams May 15
• Microsoft & Skype: PR Failure? May 11

2011-04

• Hosting Change Apr 11

2011-03

• TED: Stuxnet: a preview of future wars Mar 29
• …and thanks for the fish (Twitter v. Developers) Mar 12
• bbPress & WordPress 3.1 (Registration Issues) Mar 6

2011-02

• Need a cheap phone charger quick? Buy a Tracfone. Feb 11

2011-01

• Rails 3 & Dreamhost PS Jan 28
• Google Chrome and H.264 Jan 12
• Thoughts on the iPad, from an Apple hater Jan 2

2010-12

• Rosen Shingle Creek Dec 19
• Buying a MacBook from CowBoom.com Dec 5
• WikiLeaks Biggest Problem: Julian Assange Dec 1
• Being Fair Dec 1
• Thinking before you speak Dec 1

2010-08

• Christopher Adam Caudill – 6lbs, 7oz – Born 8/2/2010 Aug 6

2010-07

• State of the (virus) art… Jul 30
• Am I doing too much? Jul 24

2010-06

• on Hiring Jun 19
• Upgrading Windows 7 Pro VL Jun 19

2010-04

• Android & Windows 7 64bit Apr 19

2010-02

• Secure Password Storage Feb 1

2009-12

• bbPress: Is the end near? Dec 16
• Leaving GoDaddy Dec 15

2009-10

• Cancel GoDaddy’s Domain Privacy Oct 3

2009-07

• GetSatisfaction: Is it worth it? Jul 19
• Start-up Tools: Open Atrium Jul 18
• Start-up Tools: Microsoft BizSpark Jul 18
• Silverlight 3 Tools Available Jul 9

2009-06

• Lumix DMC-FZ8 & Infrared Jun 21
• Avatars – Why roll your own? Jun 19
• Start-up Tools & Services Jun 19
• Remember The Milk Jun 14
• Switching hosts, again. Jun 13

2008-12

• Programmers are Expensive Dec 21
• Dell Mini 9 Spacebar / Keyboard Issues Dec 15
• Working Late, Again Dec 8
• Dell Mini Keyboard Issues Dec 7

2008-11

• Is this thing on? Nov 16

2007-10

• Switching to Gmail, Again Oct 9

2007-08

• Backups with JungleDisk Aug 28
• Well, looks like I was wrong… Aug 26

2007-05

• Another one bites the dust… May 28
• A bit behind… May 28

2007-04

• So Ends The River of Schwag Apr 16

2007-03

• Under the Weather Mar 23
• Windows Vista User Experience Guidelines Mar 2

2007-02

• WordPress 2.1.1 Feb 21
• .NET Reflector v5 Released Feb 21
• Vista & ReadyBoost Feb 14
• From Outlook, to Gmail, to The Bat! Feb 7
• OpenDNS Feb 3

2007-01

• ASP.NET AJAX Jan 26
• Xceed DataGrid for WPF Released – Free Jan 26
• Still running Windows 2000? Jan 26
• Task Management with Tasks Jan 21
• Microsoft Mice: Another Reason to Love Them Jan 21
• Visual Studio PowerToy Pack Installer Jan 21
• WordPress 2.1 RC1 Jan 18
• Burning ISOs in Vista Jan 18
• WordPress 2.0.7 & Upgrading to 2.1 (Beta 2) Jan 16
• WordPress 2.0.7 & 2.0.8 Jan 12
• Crash Course in WPF Jan 12
• IE Developer Toolbar Jan 11
• Microsoft PageRank? Jan 6
• WordPress 2.0.6 Jan 6
• Building a Windows PowerToy Jan 5

2006-12

• IIf() May Get a Dose of Legitimacy Dec 31
• Assertiveness for Software Developers Dec 24
• Holiday Schwag Dec 23
• OpenID: ID of The Future? Dec 22
• Starting in WPF? Dec 21
• Spam & Gmail Dec 20
• Buying a Car Dec 20
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Dec 18
• Things You Shouldn’t Worry About Dec 18
• Yes, I am alive! Dec 18

2006-11

• Want a free copy of Vista? Nov 29
• The Optimus Ghost-town Nov 28
• Fiddler2 – Now Available Nov 26
• Installing Vista Nov 18
• Vista Available via MSDN Nov 17
• Power Users, Rejoice! Nov 15
• Microsoft Office 2007 Pro Available via MSDN Nov 13
• Monkey Powered Search Engine Nov 11
• Like Power Toys? Nov 11
• .NET Framework 3.0 Released! Nov 9
• What Motivates Developers? Nov 6
• Is Vista Gold? Nov 5

2006-10

• Starting a Business? Oct 31
• Vertical Column Indicator for Visual Studio Oct 31
• Site Updates Oct 30
• Optimus: First Sign of Life Oct 28
• Internet Explorer 7 Released Oct 19
• Startup Mistakes Oct 17
• bbPress Released Oct 15
• Final Vista Public Beta Released Oct 7
• Not a good idea… Oct 6

2006-09

• A look into Vista Sep 27
• EventArgs: No need to pass a new Instance Sep 25
• Make XP Pretty Sep 23
• VB.NET 2005 Interop Toolkit Sep 21
• Running RegEdit as SYSTEM Sep 17
• FireFox Toys: ErrorZilla Sep 17
• Kill CapsLock! Sep 16
• Detailed CSS Changes in IE7 Sep 4
• XML Notepad 2006 Sep 3

2006-08

• Hosting Woes and Down Time Aug 9
• VB.NET 2005 Performance Issues Aug 8

2006-07

• WordPress 2.0.4 Jul 30
• Useful Notepad Tip Jul 8
• In Comes The Schwag Jul 7
• Another must-read for ISV’s Jul 4

2006-06

• Looking for a better calculator? Jun 30
• Demise of The WWW Jun 17
• Of Victory and Pair Programming Jun 17
• Google Spreadsheets Jun 6
• Blue Hole Waterfall Jun 4
• Data Theft: It’s happened again Jun 2
• WordPress Update Jun 2

2006-05

• Valleyschwag Delivers May 31
• Responsibility meets Marketing May 28
• MaskedTextBox Madness May 27
• Internet Explorer 7+ May 27
• Happy (Belated) Birthday VB! May 27
• The Schwag Has Shipped May 27
• Web Developer Toolbar & Menu for Opera May 17
• Extreme Simplicity May 15
• Valleyschwag May 11

2006-04

• What A Surprise! Apr 25
• PowerEdge 2500 Apr 20
• USQL: Unified SQL Editor Apr 17
• Wink 2.0 Apr 15
• First Impression: Google Calendar Apr 13
• Better late than never… Apr 13
• Best Job In The US: Software Engineer Apr 13
• Development Abstraction Apr 11
• IE7: Of Time & Standards Apr 10
• Rebuilding My Network Apr 9
• Microsoft Virtual Server: Free Apr 9
• VB: The dumbing of a Great Language Apr 2

2006-03

• Look who’s blogging now… Mar 31
• Advanced .NET Programming Mar 30
• 1TB File Server, $500 Mar 29
• MCTS Mar 25
• Server Move Mar 25
• Move to Outlook Mar 23
• ISO 17799 Mar 19
• Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 -Free Mar 18
• End on an Era Mar 18
• Where’s the service? Mar 18
• Common Sense Email Mar 11
• WordPress Update Mar 11
• The Magician Mar 9
• New Windows XP Theme Mar 8

2006-02

• How IT Projects Really Work Feb 27
• It’s Official – IE7 is cool Feb 26
• evalTray Update Feb 26
• Starting Over Feb 25

2005-11

• Glue & Reuse Nov 9

2005-10

• Visual Studio 2005 Released! Oct 27
• Internet Explorer 7 (Beta 1) Oct 24

2005-09

• OpenIRCNet (RandomIRC) Link Policy Draft Sep 28
• 4HowTo reaches 30,000 & vArticles dev.2 Sep 26
• vArticles Sep 26
• Back From New York Sep 23

2005-03

• Still using AWStats? Mar 2
• ExVB.com Online! Mar 2
• phpBB 2.0.13 released – dumb*ss coders strike again Mar 2

2005-02

• Suicide Bomb Kills 125 Feb 28
• Random User-Agent in VB.NET Feb 28

2004-12

• Why would somebody do that to Eric? Dec 22
• My greatest work! Dec 18
• ZipSight 2004.1 Released Dec 18

2003-11

• Simple INI API Nov 27
• Get CPU Speed Nov 27
• Get Default Mail Client Nov 27
• Simple String Hashing Nov 25
• APISettings Nov 17
• Conexant (formerly Rockwell) Softmodem HSF Modem Nov 11

2003-10

• IsOnline Oct 31
• PageSource Oct 31
• SetFocusByCaption Oct 31
• Register ActiveX & TypeLibs Oct 26
• XP-Style Controls In Visual Basic 6 Oct 25
• CloseApp Oct 23

2003-09

• The SWEBS Project & The SWEBS Control Center Sep 20