Detroit Become Human is a game developed by Quantic Dream which gives the player multiple choices throughout the game. According to the choices you make, the game changes its course and changes direction. Each choice that a player makes has its own set of consequences that you live with throughout the game.

It took the script writer and director about 2 years to plot this game. The developers even visited Detroit, Michigan to research the setting and cast hundreds of actors from LA, London and Paris before starting the development and animation.

There are 3 main characters that would play in this game- Connor, Kara and Markus.

The game trailers are freaking EPIC!!!. The visuals are stunning, characters are realistic to the next level and the soundtrack is very carefully planted throughout the game.

Check the game trailer out below. (Use your headphones, watch in HD – Trust me, you wont regret it). The game trailer is one of the intense trailers that I have ever come across and has a vibe of Heavy Rain and Deus EX Mankind Divided.

Game Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4nYRnBr874

Screenshots:

For those who are interested in the soundtrack. Check them out below:

What are your thoughts on the game trailer? Have you played it yet? Feel free to leave a comment down below.

Happy Gaming!

Image Credits: Game Tyrant, variety, Playstation

Linux / Redhat, Technology

How to get real time currency exchange rates in your Linux terminal

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This a tutorial on how to get real time currency exchange rates directly from your Linux terminal (+ lots of screenshots).

Requirements:

-A computer ( *facepalm* 😛 )
-Any Linux/Windows machine with curl installed.
-Free account with openexchangerates.org

We will be using the “curl” utility to perform the API requests which usually comes pre-installed in most Linux systems.

In case, yours does not have it installed, you can install it using the following:

[You can run “apt install curl” for Ubuntu based systems, or “yum install curl” for RHEL/CentOS/Fedora based systems or “dnf install curl” for newer Fedora systems.]

Step 1: Sign up for a free account in openexchange. You can use the below link:

https://openexchangerates.org/signup/free

I would suggest to create an account with a new password that you have never used before.

[Note: The free account has restrictions but should be sufficient to get latest conversion rates with base currency set as USD. With the free account we cannot change the base currency. This means with the free account you can translate 1USD to any other currency. I will create a different tutorial describing another method to get ]

Step 2: Get your APP ID

-Once you sign up for the account, you would receive an email with a verification email which will have your “APP ID”. Below is a screenshot:

You would need to get this ID when performing the API call.

-Alternatively, once you have signed up you get your API key once you login to your account. Below is a screenshot:

Step 3: Get exchange rates:

-Open your terminal and run the following command:

curl -X GET https://openexchangerates.org/api/latest.json?app_id=enteryourAPIKEYhere

Enter your app ID after “=”. For example, if your APP ID is 1234, them you would run the following:

curl -X GET https://openexchangerates.org/api/latest.json?app_id=1234

Below is a sample output which displays the different currencies and its conversion values.

You would notice the output is in JSON format which has values in keypairs. (For example: the “currency name”: “value”.)

The data that is pulled is in realtime and it also displays the “timestamp” for which the currency converstions are in linux EPOC time.

Additional Information:

To know the current EPOC time in your system, you can command “date +%s” in your terminal. This is the number of seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC.

For simplicity, If you are looking to convert USD to a particular currency, you can simply grep the output with the currency you need to convert to.

For example: If you convert 1 USD to INR, you can simply grep the currency name to filter out the output.

curl -s -X GET https://openexchangerates.org/api/latest.json?app_id=1234 | grep INR

Below is a screenshot of the outputs.

Thats it folks! Hope this helps! If you liked this tutorial, leave a comment down below and follow to get future updates ! 🙂

Hacking, Linux / Redhat

Spectre Vulnerability Proof of Concept

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You must have heard the tech industry has been blowing up about Spectre and Meltdown for the past week. Here is a POC for Spectre that you can run in your Server/PC to check if you are vulnerable.

-Open up your Linux terminal and run the following:

mkdir exploit
cd exploit
git clone https://github.com/crozone/SpectrePoC.git
cd SpectrePoC

[Note: You would need packages gcc, make, build-essential to test the exploit. You could use “sudo apt-get install gcc make git build-essential -y” to install the packages.]

[Optional: Review the spectre.c file and optionally modify the character string.

[Optional: You can change the string between the double quotes. I have changed to the one below for this test]

-Finally, compile and run the exploit:

gcc -o spectre spectre.c
./spectre

If you see the output which contains the characters that was stored in the *secret variable, then you are vulnerable to this exploit.Below is a sample output which indicates that the system is vulnerable to the Spectre vulnerability.

Code + Output Screenshot[Please click on the below image and open in a new tab/enarlge for better viewing]: Here, you can see the data (top to bottom in the red box) was read from a address space which the program was actually not allowed to read from.

Output:

Details of test system:

Kernel Version: 4.10.0-38-generic
Distro: Linux Mint 18.3 Sylvia – 64 bit
CPU Details:
Model: i7-4610M
cache size: 4096 KB
fpu: yes
fpu_execution: yes
clflush_size: 64
cache_alignment: 64
address sizes: 39 bits physical, 48 bits virtual

All credits go to the researchers who discovered and reported this issue => Jan Horn and Paul Kocher (along with Daniel Genkin, Daniel Gruss, Werner Haas, Mike Hamburg,Moritz Lipp, Stefan Mangard, Thomas Prescher, Michael Schwarz and Yuval Yarom).

A white paper on the exploit can be downloaded by clicking here.

If you liked this article, click on the ‘Like” button and Subscribe to my blog to get future updates. Cheers!

Sources, Credits & References:

Erik August
crozone github
Google Project Zero
SpectreAttack

Personal

Its 2018! Happy New Year

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Happy new year to all my loyal folks. Hope you have a great year ahead.

Regards,

ΞXΤЯΞМΞ

Personal

Merry Christmas

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Its the time of miracles. Merry Christmas to all!!

merry xmas

Every sincere prayer would be heard.

God Bless you and your family. *hugs*

Kali Linux / Pentesting, Technology

Kali Linux slow update fix + Screenshots

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After installing Kali Linux and running apt-get update if you notice slow downloads, then you could try the following to fix the issue:

Open Terminal and type the following:

vi /etc/apt/sources.list

Your sources file may look like the one below (Notice the highlighted box that indicates http):

Now, change the text (indicated in the box) from http to repo. So, after making the changes to your mirror list(sources file), it should look like the one below:

Save and close the file.

Now, run the following to verify the download speeds from the new mirrors:

apt-get clean all
apt-get update

You should notice considerable difference in running updates. Do let me know in the comments section below if this worked.

Cheers!

Regards,
ΞXΤЯ3МΞ

Source: Kali Forums – inkbird

DIY, Mobiles, Personal

DIY Honor 4C earpiece and Screen replacement

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Finally, fixed my phone’s screen and broken earpiece. This is a continuation of my previous post (Disassembling my Honor 4C ) where I dismantled my old bae – Honor 4c and this is my first DIY phone repair.

Here is the repair log:

So, I bought the display and the touch screen digitizer from ebay and it got shipped in a week.

While trying to replace the screen, I accidentally damaged the earpiece (located on the top of the phone) as I pulled it out the wrong way.

The red rectangle shown below is the location of the earpiece(next to the secondary camera):

Well, that didn’t go as planned 🙁

Then, I did weeks of research trying to source the earpiece for the Honor 4c online but the earpiece was not available anywhere. Finally, I found it on aliexpress for $4.53 (Link) which was a good deal (including shipping from China).

I got the earpiece delivered in 1 month. It was actually pretty fast shipping considering it was shipped from another country and cleared customs in my country which usually takes a long time. Infact, this is my first item that I purchased from China and from aliexpress.

Dismantled the phone (again), fixed the earpiece, and mounted the display. And here comes the moment of truth!!!

Booot was successful.

Tested primary and secondary camera, wifi and earpiece and it was all back to normal. 🙂

Yaayyyy!!!

Well, this project had its ups and downs, took long to complete but am am happy that I completed it.

Regards,

ΞXΤЯ3МΞ

Linux / Redhat, Technology

How to check if a partition is primary in CentOS+Screenshots

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This is a guide on how to check if a partition is primary in centos or not? Use the following command:

# parted /dev/sda print

Alternative:

# cfdisk /dev/sda

As shown above, the field under “Part Type” would suggest if that partition is Primary/Secondary.

To exit out of the cfdisk menu, use your arrow keys and move the selection to “Quit” and hit Enter in your keyboard.

Source: Link

As always stay Happy! Happy Blogging! 🙂

ΞXΤЯ3МΞ

Mobiles, Technology

Disassembling my Honor 4C

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I dropped my phone while running to work and the screen broke due to the impact. I have been using this phone for a very long time (since 13th June 2015) and I dint want to let go (probably due to sentimental value). Most people would just throw the old one away and get a new one but honestly I didn’t really feel the need to get a new one. As of now, I will wait and see. Maybe eventually I might get a new one (Honor 8 Pro maybe?) but I don’t know. So I thought I would keep it with me, give it time, learn and fix it myself even thought I have no clue what I am doing. LOL! May be this whole repair thing is a bad idea and might fail, but its definitely worth a shot.

Here is the picture of the broken screen 🙁

This is the first time ever that I am taking apart a phone completely so pardon me for any mistakes. I had completed dissembling this phone a while back but just didnt get the time to post about it due to work.

So, I googled for weeks on tutorials on stuff like how to open up this phone, the tools you need and stuff like that.

So, I bought a mobile repair kit which basically has a few screwdrivers, 2 x guitar strum looking things, 2 plastic crowbars and a suction cup. Here is a picture of the kit:

So, first thing I did was to remove the back shell.

So, this is how the back portion looks after removing the back shell.

So, I started off by removing the screws near the battery and then the outer ones. Attaching a picture for their location for reference:

It took me a while to figure out that there under the “Torn invalid” sticker, there is a star screw hidden underneath it. Attaching a picture for reference below:

Now, we can gently take out the blue casing. This is what looks like once we remove the blue casing on the Honor 4c.

My baby is so pretttyyy on the inside!! 🙂 😛

To remove the battery, I had to remove the two screws on the right side of the battery as shown in the red box below:

Now to pop the battery out, I had to lift and disconnect the battery connector as show below.

After disconnecting the battery cable, I was able to remove the battery by simply lifting the battery up.

So, this is how the battery looks like:

After the removing the battery, disconnect/pull the below cable.

Then disconnect the below two cables.

Now, we can separate the motherboard from the phone.

This is what my Honor 4c motherboard looks like.

This is what the backside of the display looks like:(which has the Frame which holds the Display and the Touch Screen Digitizer).

So, I was able to disassemble my phone successfully! Wohoo!! 🙂 I know this is not a big deal for most people but its a big deal to me. I honestly didn’t think I could make it this far as I was alone in this learning journey. I am glad that I gained some knowledge on dissembling phones which is something I had never done before. I did make a video with audio instructions on the whole disassembly process but I am not sure I should upload it to my youtube channel or not. Lemme know what you think below in the comments section.

Do you think its worth repairing this and having it fixed? If you were in my shoes, would you hold on to your old phone?

Leave your comments in the comment section down below. I would love to hear what you have to say.

As always stay happy! 🙂

Happy blogging!

Regards,
ΞXΤЯ3МΞ

Mobiles, Technology

Nokia 3310 refresh will be re-launched this month at MWC 2017

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Nokia is set to re-launch the iconic Nokia 3310 this month. It was one of the best phones back in 2000 & was built like a TANK! Remember the epic snake game? 🙂 The snake game that came pre-installed in this phone was so popular that you can even downloaded and play it today on your Android/Apple phones.

The phone is set to be launched at about $62 (USD) and will be revealed in MWC 2017 which is happening this month. If you are wondering, didn’t Nokia stop selling phones? Well, it was sold to another Finnish company “HMD Global” that bought rights to the “Nokia” brand.

Personally, I would love to get hands on one of these, wouldn’t you? Daymm, it would feel so retro! 🙂

Here are few hilarious memes about the indestructible Nokia 3310 that will get you laughing hard.

Do leave a like and subscribe if you liked this article. Feel free to drop a comment on what you think about this phone. Cheers!

Source: Independent.co.uk

Image sources & Credits: quora.com , phonearena.com

Tech Antidote

Detroit: Become Human – The Game of Choices

How to get real time currency exchange rates in your Linux terminal

Spectre Vulnerability Proof of Concept

Its 2018! Happy New Year

Merry Christmas

Kali Linux slow update fix + Screenshots

DIY Honor 4C earpiece and Screen replacement

How to check if a partition is primary in CentOS+Screenshots

Disassembling my Honor 4C

Nokia 3310 refresh will be re-launched this month at MWC 2017

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