Author: Michael Meade
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What programming means to me!
A little about me As a kid, I idolized Thomas Edison; I thought he was such a cool person and read everything I could about him. I actually live in Schenectady, a city where Edison once lived, which is nicknamed “The Electric City.” There was even a temporary museum there featuring his inventions. This was…
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CTF-Pal
Origin Story During the weekend I sometimes participate in CTFs as a way to learn new skills and keep my skills sharp. During those CTF’s I usually start out the challenge with running strings commands, the file command, open it with Ghrida, etc. I thought it would be cool to make a program that can…
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Enabling Bridge mode on Ubuntu WSL
I noticed that I was unable to access the same network that my host pc was on when using Ubuntu WSL. I could not ping my 192.168.0.1 host which was my IP that given to my Window’s machine. This was causing a problem when I was working on a project. I performed some Googling and…
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0xfun CTF 2026
This CTF was very fun, I worked on it on a Friday night. I did not realize that it ended on Saturday. I thought it was going to end Sunday. The challenges were fun and challenging, I thought I had more time to work on them. Shell This challenge was worth 50 points. The following…
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NexHunt CTF 2025
If you want to read the write up from one of my other writeups from a CTF please see this link. Blank Challenge The challenge category is reverse and is worth 100 points. The snippet below shows information about the file. I used the file command to get this information. It shows that the file…
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HeroCTF v7 2025
Please check out my other write up for a CTF named GlacierCTF. Tomcat Challenge The image above shows the file tree of the files that was given to us for this challenge. When visiting the site for this challenge, the page showed the default page for TomCat . I clicked one of the buttons to…
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Taking a Look at Ruby Gems
Origin Story. I decided to take some of my projects and publish the gems on Rubygems with my awesome username of Banksy. For those who do not know, gems are like Python’s packages. They make it easy to run code. To access the gem, simply add ‘require “gem_name” ‘ to the top of the file,…
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GlacierCTF 2025 Challenge
Please check out my other posted related to CTF, the name of the article is UTCFT 2025 CTF Challenge Write-Up. The GlacierCTF was hosted by ISEC Institute @ TU Graz aka LosFuzzys. They did a great job hosting this CTF, there was no issues with the CTF. None of the challenges went down during the…
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How to Safely Download Files
Check out this article about how to safety limit information about your kids on social media. Introduction Downloading files is necessary for tasks to be completed while on the computer. However, it is also the most dangerous, as it often opens the door for unknown software to access your computer. Your computer is not only…
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A guide in achieving perfect Email security.
Please check out my other blog post named “A guide on being safe on your phone.“ Nowadays, everyone has at least one email. Email security is really important; it is the gate to all your other accounts. Most sites require you to enter an email to sign up for the site. This makes emails a…