As I near the completion of my undergraduate degree in computer science and await an acceptance letter from Georgia Tech’s OMSCS program (hopefully), I find myself faced with a lot of free time. I’ve been working in healthcare information technology for the past 10 months. The most obvious pivot at this point is to combine…
Month: April 2024
Privilege Escalation with Quick Assist
The inability to perform actions requiring administrator privileges is a big limitation of Windows Quick Assist remote desktop. This is especially true in a business environment where your users should never have administrator privileges. The reason for this is User Account Control (UAC) security policies. UAC allows users to sign in using a standard user…
Diffie-Hellman Key Exchange
In 1976, Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman wrote a paper describing a cryptographic technique to exchange a shared secret publicly. Here’s a link to the original paper. It is an interesting historical moment that has shaped the internet and modern computing as we know it. It is definitely worth a read. I’ll also link a…
Merging .txt / .csv / .tsv files
If you have a collection of tab or comma delimited files that you want to combine or merge into one document, you can use the CMD TYPE command: type *.txt > mergedfile.txt The TYPE command displays the contents of one or more text files to the console. This will work as long as each file…
2024 New York International Auto Show
A few pictures from the 2024 New York International Auto Show