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27 Jun, 2008

Wardriving Lahore

Posted by: sharjeel In: Security

Ever wondered how many access points are there in your city? Last week I did an interesting thing: Wardriving in my city Lahore.
Wardriving is act of searching for WiFi wirless networks on the go using laptop or other mobile devices. It is legal in most parts of the world but ethically it comes under gray [...]

01 May, 2008

Security by obscurity works best sometimes

Posted by: sharjeel In: Security

When I was graduating from FAST-NU, I designed a web based system in PHP/MySQL for collecting data for Yearbook of our batch. Each student of our batch was given a username and password using which s/he could enter the personal data, make comments about friends, give nicknames and other such features.
At that time there was [...]

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