I gotta admit, I was a system("PAUSE"); user in the past. It all stopped when one of my online friends told me to stop using it. He didn’t gave me the exact reason though, but I trusted him. And yeah, while doing some research on this piece of code, turns out, it’s really not a good practice.
When I learned C, 3 years ago, I’m using scanf(); as a way of reading input. It’s very handy for me, because you can specify the format of your input, and it reads input from stdin. However, there’s a sad fact about this function, it’s vulnerable to buffer overflow.
I miss coding simple programs like this. I want to regain it, but I think I still need a lot of practice. Anyway, I just coded a simple single-threaded port scanner for windows. It accepts input of an IP Address, Starting Port, and Ending Port. It’s very simple and light. I’ll just post this here for some enlightenment. I used the Winsock Library by the way. Compiled in MSVC++. Here we go!
At last, after so many months, I decided to get back to coding. And since my old HDD died, I re-coded my Google Search Script, making it more secure by putting SSL/TLS (HTTPS). Basically, this script just searches Google using your provided string, and returning the results based on the number of results you want on your provided file name. It sounds confusing, even for me. Anyway, here’s the code:
Whenever we browse the web, we usually start with Google, searching stuff, then to our favorite social networking websites like Facebook and Twitter. But what we do not know is, with our default browsing preferences, our personal input is unsecured.
Most of the public networks (commonly school networks) blocks social networking websites, file sharing servers, etc. Most of the methods they use are domain-name check and DNS blocking. To bypass domain name check, I have some possible solutions (Note: these will not work in all public networks)
