Anant Shrivastava's Blog – My journey into the world of Technology

OSINT on Decentralised / Federated Softwares (Mastodon, Pixelfed and more)

Decentralized federated social medium (aka fediverse) is the talk of the town especially with the twitter drama that’s unfolding right now. To know more about fediverse softwares https://fediverse.party/en/miscellaneous/ is the best list of softwares. I was curious about OSINT activities that are possible with this ecosystem. I have been spending some time exploring mastodon, pixelfed …

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Individual Contributors in corporate world: my observations

In this article I would like to explore the idea of Individual contributors and various notes and references I was able to collect so far. Continuing my observations from Richard Hamming’s “You and Your Research” . There is a section where a specific personality defect is explained termed “ego assertion“.

Cybersecurity: Passion or Profession

This blog post takes notes from an excellent talk by “Richard Hamming” called “You and Your research” full transcript here. Its interesting how some talks leave a mark and you derive your own conclusions and way forward when you spend enough time thinking about the topic. Over a period of time my thought’s have changed …

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Semgrep: scanning unusual extensions

Last few months I have been spending time with semgrep tool. As much as it has features its still a growing tool and does needs a bit of handholding. Here I will quickly explain how to hack the base code of semgrep to make it work against your specific language even though input file extension …

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My experiments with Game Capture Card

I have been playing on my Nintendo switch for a long time now and have thought about recording my gameplay for reference. Past few days I have been reading about how to do game streaming and / or recording. I found a lot of interesting things and a simplified way to achieve my goal. This …

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Re-launching Codevigilant

So i talked about relaunching a project using Hugo in my last blog post. today I’m happy to announce that we have relaunched CodeVigilant. This project took a lot of my time and efforts, but I was not alone in the efforts, Aarushi Koolwal helped me with the entire process. I have read somewhere if …

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Posting regularly on blog: WordPress or hugo does the tooling matters?

I have been running this blog since 2007 19 July 2007 to be precise, during this long timeframe the blog has seen its own life-cycle. Started on shared hosting to moving on my server to moving from one type of WordPress instance to another. During this entire time, it has been a massively rewarding experience …

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VM Size reduction tips for OVA distribution

In my many years of exploring Linux systems and building Android Tamer, OVA export has always been a fun challenge. Everyone distribute VM’s in OVA format as it is easy to import in both VMWare and Virtual box systems. Over the period I have relied on various smallish tweaks that eventually lead to a largish …

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Public release: Android Security Repository

I wanted to celebrate this new year by giving something back to the community and so i am making my old Android Security Course content public. I used to run android security training which started with basics of android and evolved to pin pointed android pentesters specific pain point solving course. for the last 3 …

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Introducing Hacking Archives of India

It’s been slightly more than 10 years that I have spent in the information security domain. Information Security is mostly assumed to be a very small and tightly connected community. However in these 10 years I have learned there are many persona’s active in the current industry, some very vocal, some very active yet not …

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