This is the personal webpage of David Cannings. I work in IT security, my hobbies are varied and include coding, reverse engineering, playing the drums, board games and electronics.
The site is updated very infrequently, most technical work is now done for my current employer.
All opinions stated on this site are my own.
Google recently announced the release of Magika, an “AI-powered file-type identification system”. I tested this on a corpus of nearly 125k files to see how it fared.
I have updated my GPG key, revoking ID 0x35076cbaa663a704
and replacing it with 0x57974c5b48a00d9b
(find it on keyservers).