The official blog of the republic of Kivirstan

All my ramblings go here pretty much (RSS is currently broken, it shall be fixed soon bismillah 🙏)

PyInstaller demonstrating compiling a .py into a .exe/.ELF

Investigating PyInstaller Malware In Bulk

Infostealers, malware and Python. A recipe for disaster impacting skids that don't know better.

Fuzzing 98,000 Random Spring Boot Servers For AWS S3 Keys

Why leaving heapdump endpoints exposed can lead to disastrous consequences.

IBM ThinkPads on the Libreboot GRUB menu

Librebooting, ThinkPads And Intel ME Hell

How Intel ME works and why we need to reconsider our perspective on what spyware truly means.

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