Scraping By (securemsg; dosl7_common; window[“bobcmn”]; window[“blobfp”])

If you are here, you’ve probably been frustrated trying to run your web scraping tool on some site and instead of receiving the proper content, you’ve been given a bunch of obscured javascript courtesy of F5 Networks. There have been several people facing this same problem on Stack Overflow, so I thought I would explain exactly what’s going … Read more

How the Google Pixel prevents Year 2038 Vulnerabilities

The year 2038 problem is a Y2K bug of the programming world. On January 19th of 2038, the 32 bit unix timestamp will be unable to count forward any further and will instead interpret future time to take place starting in 1901 (I guess time travel will be discovered in 2038 for many devices).  As reported … Read more