I publish zines and rage against machines. Reverse engineer. Matthew 7:7-8. Researcher @JHUAPL (personal acct). Præparate Ad Conscendit. Baseball crank.

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Joined June 2017
TFW: you're reversing a part of #crypto history (the Mark I) with a piece of crypto history himself Mr. @WhitfieldDiffie...at @cryptmf Crypto History Symposium 2013.
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In the interest of saving myself time during the talk-selection and speaker dry-run process for @ReverseConf, here’s a thread I hope people share to improve their presentations. You can absolutely use LLMs to help, but don’t blindly let them do everything. The list:
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wth is hugging face ... sounds inappropriate
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it is the year of our Lord two thousand twenty and six...and I have finally acquired a smartphone. Please applaud.
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winning defcon ctf in 2026 feels like catching the last chopper out of nam
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Whenever I’m tempted to get FOMO (or the past tense version) for Defcon I sniff my armpit while yelling “MAKE A HOLE”…instant cure.
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#defcon is like check out the MaritimeEmbeddedPurpleTeam village, it’s next to the FruitPackingSecurity village and the HackingForPeanuts village…
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Somebody want to hook me up with some dead tree @phrack from #defcon? 🙏
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#defcon kids should be like how to acquire and put on deodorant, how to take a shower twice a day if you need it, etc.
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Don’t really have @defcon #fomo … seeing posts here in 75 degrees and it doesn’t smell like Jabba’s neck rolls is 👌
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Just hanging out listening to @BrettHollander and the @Orioles on the radio smoking a cigar…me and a Great Horned Owl that sounds like a squirrel having a seizure…
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Hey uhh long shot But i own the original engineering copy of the intel 8080 rubylith mask I need to get it restored Anyone know the right guy?
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Hazy…I don’t #BlameCanada but I do blame @colinoflynn … it’s probably his fault somehow… 😆
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reversing on a budget 😎
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Had to take a break from reverse engineering to see some super heavy steam-powered forward engineering…
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I made a fresh binary release of MaskRomTool. In the past year, some annoying bugs have been fixed and yara-x support has been included. Supports Windows and macOS on ARM64 and x86_64, but don't expect support for Intel Macs to last very long.
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The 2026 Baltimore Orioles are not a source of joy
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Finished the latest hacking project🥳 A deep look inside of the AOHi 280W USB Desktop charger ended up in a replacing Custom firmware^^ 🎬Here: youtu.be/1UGUZloDsPU Source code: github.com/atc1441/AOHi_280W… Fun challenge to 95% replicate the firmware and add extra features to it
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Excellent @reconmtl lecture by @joegrand and @LennertWo on glitching into STM32 chips in RDP2 with high reliability. Currently sitting at 100% yield of customer data recovery, without bricking or erasing a single target that mattered.
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Time for the @reconmtl FOMO...or whatever the correct term is beyond fear - deep sadness at missing out...
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#reconmtl has a badge this year?? I thought that was like a thing...like we all have our own hardware to hack 😆
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