I’m doing a small talk at #teardown2026 this saturday about some past projects of mine www.crowdsupply.com/teardown/por...
Picked up the cookbook (Dishoom) shortly before starting the novel (Midnight Children) without realizing Mumbai is central to both. House smells amazing. I used to pair music to books but from now on I’m always pairing my cooking.
to get ahold of one, you have to order a light with 660nm photo red emitters from intl-outdoor.com, then email hank with your order number and tell him you want 720nm far red instead. mine's a D4V2 because it was cheap but any that have the 660nm option should work.
The hell is GhidraLite? Somebody is having fun , wonder what it serves you if you visit from a different OS. Bad google.
Did anyone get you this air quality monitor as a gift? I wanted to have it log the data, but didn’t quite trust it with internet access. I dug around a bit, got a root shell and untethered it. Read the writeup: https://blog.29b.net/dispatches/cgs2_decloud/
You get a lot of those happy new year email that you ignore , but this one from WHOI is just amazing https://www.whoi.edu/campaign/why-the-ocean/
Did anyone get you this air quality monitor as a gift? I wanted to have it log the data, but didn’t quite trust it with internet access. I dug around a bit, got a root shell and untethered it. Read the writeup: https://blog.29b.net/dispatches/cgs2_decloud/
Attended a darkroom workshop recently. Analog photoshop. Slightly different technique each time to get the desired effect.
Designed slim filters for Fuji GF670 that you can leave on the camera when folded. https://blog.29b.net/dispatches/gf670_filters/
Sigh, a domain hosting a small website for the last 20 years expired. I've forgotten about it for so long that it actually brought up some fun memories. Cheers to all the folks around it, wherever you are!
Attending USENIX Security for the first timehow do academic conferences work? In Seattle till Sunday.
A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything
Join us for a deep dive into how Cisco Talos uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in the AsIO3.sys driver powering ASUS Armory Crate: blog.talosintelligence.com/decrement-by...
Building a Debugger is now officially released! It guides you through building a whole native x64 debugger from scratch, dispelling all the magic and teaching you a ton about operating systems as it goes. Even if you don't care about building a debugger, you can read it to your cat.
[Blog Post] New high-level API in LIEF that allows the creation of DWARF files. Additionally, I present two plugins designed to export program information from Ghidra and BinaryNinja into a DWARF file. lief.re/blog/2025-05... (Bonus: DWARF file detailing my reverse engineering work on DroidGuard)
DWARF as a Shared Reverse Engineering Format
This blog post introduces a new API in LIEF to create DWARF files
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Sebastião Salgado died, most amazing photographer among other things. Go find and watch “Salt of the Earth” https://youtu.be/aQ-My45meeo?si=hRPjKaG0zmNO9BUs
Haven't seen this on Bluesky yet: S&P 2027 will take place in Montreal, Canada!
Collaborative reverse engineering is hard not because the tools aren’t right, but because it’s difficult for you to transfer knowledge and insights gained while reverse engineering. Structs and function names are important but connecting the dots is crucial. How do you do this effectively?
Did you know that you can get archived audio lectures from Internet Archive as podcasts in whatever podcatcher you use? Like https://archive.org/details/the-real-world-of-technology
Utterly disappointing, not at all what i expected by the title! Doesn’t even acknowledge prior works of Discordians! It’s all about SRE and making complex chaotic systems more resilient to failure. With a bunch of first-hand experience from big corps who have their shit together!
Digital vs film X-ray . Film offers higher resolution and better dynamic range with the same settings, but slightly longer exposure time (and more tedious image acquisition). Comes in handy when it comes to tiny electronics. Images of an Abbott Lingo continuous glucose monitor.
Unrestrict the restricted mode for USB on iPhone. A first analysis @citizenlab.ca #CVE-2025-24200 👉 blog.quarkslab.com/first-analys...
Crazy day at work and I don’t care that I’ve posted this before; I need cheering up. So here’s a mosaic of a rabbit driving a chariot pulled by ducks. Good day to you all.
Almost forgot about this. Found a funny bug in CUPS ecosystem, but we wanted to cut developers some slack after all the drama a couple of months ago https://blog.talosintelligence.com/small-praise-for-modern-compilers-a-case-of-ubuntu-printing-vulnerability-that-wasnt/
Small praise for modern compilers - A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t
During an earlier investigation of the macOS printing subsystem, IPP-USB protocol caught our attention. We decided to take a look at how other operating systems handle the same functionality.
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I’m RE early boot code of this device. It has a factory testing/debug mode triggered by holding a button combo while powering it on. I see the code, but don’t have an exact memory map to find the correct button sequence! And there's 12 buttons, too much for brute force...
https://youtu.be/A1gxy11d0N0?si=dBt4hjrX5hCG3Y6j my favorite weather man
Finished Watt’s “Echopraxia” and watched Herzog’s “Theater Of Thought “ in the same day and have a hard time distinguishing which theme about consciousness was covered in which. Recommend both.