Author: Michael Meade
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DefCon 34
Introduction This was the second DEF CON I have ever attended. This year I met with a college friend and hung out with him during the day. Also this year, unlike last year, I actually attended more than one talk. We stayed in the same hotel, which was really nice because it was a short…
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Notes
This is where I will write notes about different topics. Note that information included in this “cheatsheet” could have change after it was added to the cheatsheet. I will do my best to keep it updated. Tools cURL cURL is very useful. You make requests to any site. You can make other request using different…
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Meet Moss: The Helper
Hello, meet Moss! Moss stands for nothing; it’s just a cool name from the British TV show The IT Crowd. You can check other versions or more about the project by visiting here. This tool helps me at work. I decided to share some of it in the hope that it could make other people’s…
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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,…