xarkes' blog
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Replacing a toggle switch with a transistor
Aug 8, 2024Replacing a pysical toggle switch into an automated solution in order to make a SATA to USB adapter ...

Bitwarden code review
Jun 30, 2024An analysis of Bitwarden's desktop client source code in an attempt to understand its encryption mec...

Coding and watching a series on one screen
Jun 2, 2024This is my setup on how to have a translucid text editor on top of a video in order to code and watc...

Avoiding TLS certificate leakage with Nginx
Mar 6, 2024Having a Nginx configuration file with `server_name _;` is not enough for it to match any not suppor...

Pwn2Own Austin 2021 - Defeating the Netgear R6700v3
Apr 3, 2022A writeup on how we got remote code execution on the Netgear R6700v3 during Pwn2Own.

SSTIC 2021 - Challenge writeup
Jun 8, 2021A writeup of the famous SSTIC challenge (edition 2021) written in French.
Fetching GitHub pull requests with git
Jun 2, 2021How can one fetch a pull request from GitHub in order to test it and make sure everything works as e...

DEFCON quals 2021 - Exploit for dummies challenge writeup
May 10, 2021Writeup for the "Exploit for dummies" challenge of DEFCON qualifiers 2021 featuring gdb, ELF craftin...

FCSC 2021 - The Offenders reverse engineering challenge writeup
May 3, 2021Writeup of "The Offenders" challenge from FCSC 2021, emulating Windows Defender using mpclient and d...

Making an in-game Lineage 2 Bot
Dec 30, 2020How to make a Lineage 2 Bot? This blogpost explains how I made a quick bot for Lineage 2 Classic, wr...

SSTIC 2020 - Challenge writeup
Jun 12, 2020A solution to the famous SSTIC challenge (edition 2020) written in French.
Advent 2019 - Genetic Mutation challenge writeup (First Blood)
Dec 26, 2019Using a nice trick to quickly solve the "Genetic Mutation" challenge of Over The Wire's advent calen...
Hack.lu 2019 - Baby Kernel 2 challenge writeup
Dec 9, 2019Writeup of the challenge "Baby Kernel 2" from Hack.lu 2019 Capture The Flag event. How to get root w...