Inlined vs Non-inlined C++

In various programming languages, it is possible to inline code. For example, with C++, one can use design patterns or keywords like extern...

Stuff

Lately, I've been tightening my own personal feedback loops. And working out. I've also been thinking about how sometimes it can be ...

A Taxonomy of Communicative Modes

While lurking on the internet, I stumbled across a post from 2019 by @literalbanana on Twitter/X outlining different modes of communication....

Using Reflection in Go

Have you ever been writing Go and needed to quickly find all the possible functions or fields you can use with a particular instance of a ca...

Knowledge vs Information

One way to conceptualize the difference between knowledge and information is this: knowledge involves some metric of computational difficult...

DMARC

Lately I've overheard some people discussing email spoofing with regard to organizations that don't implement DMARC. Namely, "A...

Enumerating TLS Certificates with jq and Bash

Doubling back to share some more notes about web application security adjacent stuff. This is a bash script for reconnaissance that uses som...

Using Bash to Sort IPs by Subnet Uniqueness

This is a helpful Bash script to parse IP addresses by the uniqueness of their subnets. This can be quite helpful in various scenarios.

Binary, IPv4, and Subnets

The IPv4 protocol which we broadly (but not totally) use today rests on an addressing system that was designed in the 1970s and formally pub...

The Etymology of 'Deadline'

The word 'deadline' has a popular etymology story around 19th century prison culture. The explanation of the meaning behind the word...

Using Csharp to Enumerate Processes

In previous posts, I covered how to observe process information in Windbg by starting a debugging session and dumping the Proccess Environme...

Walking the EPROCESS Structure with Windbg

In a previous blog post, I covered how when a process is loaded, it is assigned a Process Environment Block (PEB) and Thread Environment Bl...

Tradeoffs of PInvoke and Marshaling

Today I learned that PInvoke and marshaling have more tradeoffs than I naively considered. In terms of performance engineering, PInvoke and ...