Why 0xBADCAB1E?
Recently I changed the name of my blog to: 0xBADCAB1E (it will be reachable over 0xbadcab1e.lu soon too)
So, why did I chose this name?
I picked this name because I found it a good characterization of my life/hobbies:
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* It is hexadecimal, quite a lot of things I do at the moment are expressed in hex, for example in cryptography which is part of my everyday life. All in all the hexadecimal system is quite present in computer sciences, and I like it!
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* 0xBADCAB1E is an error code:“0xBADCAB1E (“bad cable”) Error Code returned to the Microsoft eVC debugger when connection is severed to the debugger”[1] Windows debugger, em, interesting, this might show my penchant for opensource software and show my need to disassemble things to find out how they work.
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* CAB1E is hexspeak[1] for cable which is English for “Kabel”. As Kabel has been my nick for several years now, this fits perfectly.
- * BAD: Well, I don’t consider myself as a being a bad person. So I guess this part of the name will stay the mystery
Maybe I’ll find a good explanation for this some day.
During my last “critical infrastructures” lectures I was researching some information about attacks on the Web-Of-Trust as I am digging in this subject at the moment, of course, I’m considering the security aspect of it. Maybe this Web-Of-Trust model is exactly the candidate I’m searching for to show people how important trust is in IT as finally, everything relies on this simple principe of trust…
So during this research I came across the 0xDEADBEEF attack, searching for further information about that topic I saw some pages dedicated to hexspeak. Thats how I came to this new name, which sounds better than that boring “Kabel’s Blog” I used before.
So I hope you like it as much as I do Since this hexadecimal name has only a length of 8 chars it makes it ideal for some further usage, more on this on one of my next blog posts.
Best regards,
Kabel
