What is bitflu?

A nice little BitTorrent client i wrote some years ago.

Bitflu even got its own homepage.

GNUpod has moved to gnu.org

See here

The Economist provides a nice Android Application, however: the cache contents (saved on the sd-card by the application) are ’encrypted’ for some silly reason.

Analyzing the data

The ’encrypted’ data is stored at /your/phone/com.economist/library/$date, let us have a look at some cached files:

$ hexdump -C 20110813_AMC392.gif|head -5
00000000  c7 c9 c6 b8 b9 e1 ac 81  b5 81 77 80 80 95 8e 87  |Ƹ.w.....|
00000010  99 93 8b a2 9c 95 a7 a2  9c ae aa a4 b5 b1 ac bc  |........|
00000020  b9 b4 ae da ec ad e5 fa  c4 bd ba f0 8c 80 f4 93  |..Ľ.....|
00000030  80 f6 9a 80 f8 9d 81 fa  a1 85 fc a5 89 fc a8 8d  |........|
00000040  f4 ad 97 fd ab 91 fc b3  9d e8 b7 a9 c2 c0 bc db  |..跩....|

hmm.. doesn’t look like a GIF, let’s try some other file…