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 on this particular discussion and I have tried to outline those points below. A large number of people have talked about this talk in various manners so i would not like to do that again but rather point you to this and this.
There was a time when I used to refer to this to almost anyone of my fellow colleagues in the information security industry that this is a must read / watch and look at what he is talking about: It made so much sense. However, I have stopped doing that now or rather i have started to caveat it a lot before i ask people to go through it.
There are some points about that talk which I kept missing:
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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 might not be the standard names.
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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 blog post documents the entire journey along with the solution I am using right now its limitations.
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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 you take a prolonged rest you need to start from step 0. before we run we need to walk, before we walk we need to crawl. Step 0: We have rewrote our full website and a new website is now live. no visual change but the backend is now a static site.
— Code Vigilant (@CodeVigilant) March 7, 2021
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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 to learn. But guess what I have not even posted 100 blog posts in total. Averaging around 7 blog posts a year. Not even making it to post once a month. However, when I look around at my contemporaries, people have made massive blog empires and what not. Sometimes I used to sit back and wonder what exactly is the reason for such difference in dynamics.
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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 difference in final OVA Size. I think it’s time I document the entire set here:
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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 years of it 2015-2017 I maintained a github repository which I am opensourcing today. This repository contains collection of resources I gathered for my students.
I am opensourcing the content in the hopes that it will benefit someone starting in Android Security.
Feel free to suggest changes, submit pull requests with updated content and improvements.
Repository is available at https://github.com/anantshri/Android_Security
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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 socially present at all. I have also always wondered how the information security industry started and proliferated in India.