In order to remain available for students, regardless of the current CoVid-19 situation at Ecole Polytechnique, I will be maintaining regular, virtual, office hours, by way of WebEx. I will try to make myself available, on weekdays at the following…
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This morning, Jean-Charles from Cisco France stopped by Ecole Polytechnique, to give a master-class on Cybersecurity for our 2nd year students. It’s always entertaining when Jean-Charles is lecturing — as well as frightening, when in 2019 we’re reminded of both…
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… where the 2nd year engineering students developed and demonstrated a multi-player, Tron-inspired, on-line game. Good job gals and guys …
This evening, students at Ecole Polytechnique organize “Point Gamma 2017” – a gigantic party for students and others, with music, entertainment, – and, according to the flyer, something special this year…. I cannot help but wonder if this is related…
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…and yet, somehow so attractive … Windows 98 Wrist Watch
Some months back, a student at Ecole Polytechnique came to me asking for help with an Arduino shield, that he’d acquired on Amazon: a “LCD Kuman 1602 v3”. The shield is a clever little combination of a 2 lines /…
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Leo Gaspard, X14-student at Ecole Polytechnique, presenting his findings from a 2 month part-time security analysis of LoRAWAN: several interesting finding, notably that the gateway-server communication (an otherwise proprietary protocol) exposes various internal data structures, including path names – as…
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A neat little man-in-the-middle attack demonstration by Alexis Thual and Victor Quach: it works by redirecting traffic (to their site) and recording passwords before re-redirecting to the original site. So far so good….except…..the recorded passwords were available on a public…
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Polytechnique students Armand Boschin, Vincent Billaut and Adrian Valente presenting their MODAL: MAC flooding, to trick a switch into behaving as a hub – all that, to enable various forms of DNS hi-jacking. It is incredibly sympathetic when pretty much the…
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Polytechnique students Leo Viallon & Antoine Colin presenting their MODAL project: IP-over SMS. Why? Because small MTUs and long propagation delays mare for a fun challenge. Nice proof-of-concept demonstration, but gee, the round-trip-time … and sadly, no IPv6.