anecdote@shelter:/whoami

identity

> name: anecdote
> os: arch (i use arch btw)
> mission: break the surface

current state

  • reverse engineering binaries for sport and understanding
  • writing exploits that exist only to teach themselves
  • reading kernel source instead of documentation
  • tracing syscalls until the abstraction peels off
  • fuzzing things that were never meant to be fuzzed

interests

  • binary analysis — static, dynamic, everything in between
  • vulnerability research at the hardware/software boundary
  • operating system internals and privilege models
  • the archaeology of abandoned firmware and forgotten specs
  • anything that lives below the abstraction you were handed

beliefs

  • low-level is not dead — it's deliberately obscured
  • every abstraction is a lie told for convenience
  • the most honest code is the code no one reads
  • if you're not breaking something, you're decorating the cage
  • understand the machine, not the metaphor

contact

gpg public key

-----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----
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=LdQe
-----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-----