Editors Note: a follow up post that provides code to use this technique without pyflag has been combined with this one I've been a bit busy recently as I'm preparing to move across the world to the US to work at a small Internet company in the SF Bay Area. In the mean time though my current employer has been kind enough to let me contribute back some of the code we have written for…
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I was going through the pages of an old defunct blog of mine and I saw this image and thought that I would repost it for old times sake. This is one of my proudest computer gaming moments of all time (from October 2009).
Read more →Talloc is an excellent memory management system for C that provides hierarchical memory pools with other cool tricks like destructors. It's written by Tridge for Samba and I really like it. If you are writing a complex system in C you could do worse than to replace your calls to malloc with calls to talloc. So that's talloc, but the thing you really should know about talloc is right there at the bottom of the project page. In particular: when…
Read more →I've ported some of my old projects over to git and uploaded them to github. A much better solution than hosting raw source files on my web server! The projects that have been ported: talklikewarren - A twitter bot that posts things that sound like Warren Ellis. fakemiddleman - A twitter bot that posts things that sound like The Middleman. hottest100 - A python script that created a live music video channel out of The Triple…
Read more →I'm releasing the code and docs that I wrote during my Xbox 360 research. py360 is a FUSE filesystem driver and associated file parsers for reading Xbox 360 hard drives. It is designed to aid forensic examination of the Xbox 360. The main components are a FUSE file system for mounting the XTAF file system and a set of python classes for parsing the the STFS, XDBF and Account block file formats and the XTAF file system.
Read more →My research activity is coming to a head and I thought I'd let you all know how it is going. My early explorations were plagued by a plethora of hardware and software failures. The Xbox 360 thoughtfully provided to me by my University had a damaged hard drive which took me longer than it should to diagnose because I had to eliminate my procedure and imaging equipment as possible sources of errors. My setup is a…
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