Posts from November 2018

• PTV PA noises

  29 November 2018 (updated 11 May 2019) | public transport ptv victoria metro trains yarra trams cdc ventura | Comment

  Trains

  Platform announcements

  • Good afternoon customers. Your next service to depart from platform 1 will be the 12:02 City Loop, stopping all stations to Caulfield, running express from Caulfield to South Yarra, then stopping all stations to Flinders Street, via the City Loop. Your next

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• VEC forms from the 2018 Victorian state election

  26 November 2018 | elections politics victoria victorian electoral commission creative commons | Comment

  This is a collection of paper forms used by the VEC at the 2018 Victorian state election, recreated by me from images shown in the Election Official Manual and Voting Centre Manager Guide.

  Form	Description	Links
  P442	Account of Declaration Ballot Papers	PDF SVG

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• Investigating an early-2010s gaming DRM system: Part 1

  16 November 2018 (updated 11 December 2018) | copyright drm reverse engineering encryption cryptography security | Comment

  Background

  This post concerns a DRM system used in a PC gaming platform introduced in the early 2010s. The particular DRM system is not relevant and will not be identified, but will be familiar to many.

  One function of the DRM system is to require… »