Pointers Are Complicated, or: What's in a Byte?
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2018/07/24/pointers-and-bytes.html
Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2020/12/14/provenance.html
Pointers Are Complicated III, or: Pointer-integer casts exposed
https://www.ralfj.de/blog/2022/04/11/provenance-exposed.html
Why are some people obsessed about reading the right way?
āYouāre wasting your time if youāre not reading the classicsā or āreading should be about sucking the marrow of the vast body literatureā or āreading is about retaining informationā
None of it is true. People read because they like reading. Maybe they like stories. Maybe they like words. Maybe they are learning something obscure. There are millions of different reasons or ways to read. Donāt let pedants steal your joy or soul.
Malimite is an iOS decompiler designed to help researchers analyze and decode IPA files https://github.com/LaurieWired/Malimite
Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9
I'll just leave this here for the real programmers.
Forward thinking was just the thing that made Multics what it is today.
ā Erik Quanstrom
Santa brought new a blog post!
Handling Arbitrarily Nested Structures with #BurpSuite
https://blog.silentsignal.eu/2024/12/06/custom-decoder-for-burp/
The competition compromises your C2 infrastructure and operator workstations.
"a longstanding campaign orchestrated by the Russian-based threat actor known as 'Secret Blizzard' (also referred to as Turla). This group has successfully infiltrated 33 separate command-and-control (C2) nodes used by Pakistani-based actor, 'Storm-0156.'"
https://blog.lumen.com/snowblind-the-invisible-hand-of-secret-blizzard/
@bagder @swapgs I highly recommend clicking through the demo at https://www.hackerone.com/hai-your-hackerone-ai-copilot
It's really really bad, even for the low bar of AI slop. It recommends using `X-XSS-Protection` (which is not a thing anymore), claims that calling `dangerouslySetInnerHTML` breaks the principle of least privilege, and then in a report about an SQL dump being publicly available it explains said dump by describing how a CREATE TABLE works without even catching on the fact that it's an export of the database in SQL format.
If the demo they present this with is so hilariously bad, I can only imagine what the real product is like.