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  • What Your Browser Gives Away

    What Your Browser Gives Away

    Ever wonder what information websites get from your browser? At first glance, you might think it’s just basic stuff, like a return address, but it’s much more complicated than it seems. In this article, we’ll go over what sites can see about your device and why they would need this data. Note: You can check…

  • NFC Card Emulation

    NFC Card Emulation

    NFC and RFID are widespread technologies commonly used in services like contactless payments, item scanning, and security keycards. Over the years many technologies using NFC have been reverse engineered or hacked, resulting in tools like the proxmark or flipper zero. NXP, one of the big keycard manufacturers, has had multiple generations of their Mifare security cards…

  • ElevenLabs vs Self Hosted TTS

    ElevenLabs vs Self Hosted TTS

    TTS, or text to speech, has been around for a while now. But only recently has the quality and accuracy become similar to real human speech. ElevenLabs, an online TTS service, has become famous for being used to replicate the voices of popular figures with frightening accuracy. In this article, we’ll be pitting it up…